to build with emergency money. the definition of a wall has gotten caught up in this dynamic between trump and the right-wing media. because it s not clear which one of them, if there were a fight, would be the one to take the base. and the sad part is after throwing out the line about rush limbaugh and sean hannity and ann coulter, ann coulter responded today by saying, look, the only national emergency is that our president is an idiot. i hope that if i called somebody out, they d be nice to me. thanks to both of you. dara lind and christina beltran. thank you. breaking news. special counsel robert mueller s team tells the court they have no objection to paul manafort spending two decades in jail. is that going to change manafort s mind on cooperating? we ll have that next. and later, many republican names have been bandied about as potential primary challengers to donald trump, but today a veteran republican finally took the first official step to challenge donald trump in the
concerned about president s, you know, where his head was at this morning. jennifer rubin, you know what was also there were so many if you have a list of things that were concerning about this morning s comments. one was just the image we showed on tv, the picture of the president walking out as he walked to the mike accompanied by mitch mcconnell. yes. you know, at least he didn t have him on a leash this time. but the behavior of mitch mcconnell i think will go down as one of the most shameful chapters in a very shameful book about the republican party. you ll recall that when this idea came up a few months ago, mitch mcconnell was saying, no, we shouldn t go there, bad idea. of course as soon as the president does it, mitch mcconnell is back on his team and cheering this along. he is cheering the destruction of his own branch of government, the legislative branch. he is destroying the united states senate. and he is setting up a huge battle within the republican party. the se
general because they re so extemporaneous and i think sometimes recklessly unstructured, but this one had me worried. i mean, this time i was really concerned about president s, you know, where his head was at this morning. jennifer rubin, you know what was also there were so many if you have a list of things that were concerning about this morning s comments. one was just the image we showed on tv, the picture of the president walking out as he walked to the mike accompanied by mitch mcconnell. yes. you know, at least he didn t have him on a leash this time. but the behavior of mitch mcconnell i think will go down as one of the most shameful chapters in a very shameful book about the republican party. you ll recall that when this idea came up a few months ago, mitch mcconnell was saying, no, we shouldn t go there, bad idea. of course as soon as the president does it, mitch mcconnell is back on his team and cheering this along. he is cheering the destruction of his own branch of
of them, if there were a fight, would be the one to take the base. and the sad part is after throwing out the line about rush limbaugh and sean hannity and ann coulter, ann coulter responded today by saying, look, the only national emergency is that our president is an idiot. i hope that if i called somebody out, they d be nice to me. thanks to both of you. dara lind and christina beltran. thank you. breaking news. special counsel robert mueller s team tells the court they have no objection to paul manafort spending two decades in jail. is that going to change manafort s mind on cooperating? we ll have that next. and later, many republican names have been bandied about as potential primary challengers to donald trump, but today a veteran republican finally took the first official step to challenge donald trump in the 2020 republican primary. i m mildly obsessed with numbers.
affluent, highly educated districts in the house that are really key battleground districts for republicans. could hurt there. it s interesting because the president does set the agenda. doesn t he? he starts talking about birthright citizenship again, then you ve got republicans talking about how it s, you know, we shouldn t go there, you ve got are the democrats breaking through? i mean, the voice we heard yesterday on this, i guess, most forcefully, was joe biden. let s watch him. i think we re in the battle for the soul of america. propping up immigrants and african-americans is a source of all our problems, the reason you don t have a job or unions don t have as many members is because of those immigrants and those whatever ripping, literally ripping children and infants from the arms of their mothers at the border. playing on the hopelessness and despair of a lot of people where i come from and a lot of you come from. i wonder, does trump s closing arguments anti-immigr