a short time from now, we will see a first in the trump presidency, a veto. and it comes one day after 12 senate republicans broke ranks to condemn the president s national emergency declaration on border security. our abby philip is at the white house. abby, as we know, the white house putting a lot of pressure on republicans on the phone, on twitter, in person, trying to stem the defections, which didn t work as they wanted, although in looking at what we re waiting for a short time from now, it would seem that the president in many ways is actually relishing the chance to break out this veto pen. reporter: well, erica, if president trump had to use his first veto on anything, i think it would be the number one issue for him in his campaign and in his presidency, which is the border wall and border security. and i think that s how the white house is looking at it at this point. this 3:30 event in the oval office is going to be, we ve just learned, along with angel moms, these are t
in the never-trump camp. later endorsed marko rubio and actually wanted to somehow stop trump at the convention. you know, there was kind of a last-ditch effort to hopefully stop him at the convention, which didn t work, so, yes, mr. singer was definitely anti-trump at the time this oppo research was going on. do we know who else was being did they seat this opposition research on? i understand it wasn t just donald trump. that s a good question. the answer is i don t know. they did say tonight that when the free beacon acknowledged after my report that they published an acknowledgement of all of this, they said in the fall of 2015, donald trump was the leading candidate, if you ll remember back then in the republican race. in the fall of 2015, they started this oppo research project with fusion gps looking into what they called multiple republican candidates including
their agenda done. they stayed the course. they would get their agenda they have been waiting for eight years. but that is not working out. do you think this signifies some sort of change in the strategy of republicans? look, i don t know. it might. it might. it is certainly a breach in the wall. what you said is the important part. look, donald trump, without any legislative achievement, without real achievement in his administration thus far has kept his base together. one of the ways he does that attacking a let ses, the media generally launching cultural wars with the nfl and on and on and on. and he does have an agenda that he has been committed to that a lot of republicans sign on to. whether it was getting rid of obamacare, which didn t work, whether it s tax cuts. you go after a guy like corker when you need 52 votes and you