may be another? well, i hadn t counted up how many tweets there were, thank you for doing the math. i guess you are welcome. i don t know. but the fact that they came in between one hard week, i mean, let s not forget, thesfrom was forced to do his first veto of the firm, although he cast that as a victory, it s clear he s on different terrain. he obviously doesn t have republicans in control in the house and many senate democrats seem willing to buck him. not only on the issue that caused the veto, many caused him on this yemen vote. the mueller report hung over last week, this week. he was alone in the white house for two days straight. the only time he left was to go to church for an hour yesterday
welcome to the broadcast the often quoted, seldom seen around here, andrew desiderio. point of information, just said he signed a veto. technically the veto is the sending back of a piece of legislation to congress. kind of the absence of a signature. having cleared that up, trump said he didn t really have to twist any republican arms. what s the truth? that is not exactly what happened over the past few days. he has been making a lot of phone calls to republican senators. he s been calling mitch mcconnell regularly. in his pleas asking them to vote with him, he s been making a personal pitch. i ll credit my colleagues or competitors at the washington post with reporting this out that they asked him to explain the constitutional reasons for this. he made it all about him. he said this could hurt you politically if you don t vote with me. vote with me. it was about him as is most things with trump.
head against the wall for the past three years, this was a week to calm you. what on earth could you mean by something like that? well, you just laid out three headlines that a lot of us who have a feeling that james madison is ultimately more and kind of proto totalitarianism that this will work out. you had in the yemen vote. you can t get the house of representatives to agree on when to go to lunch. so to get 420 of them agreeing on anything is truly historic in this era and the border wall to have 12 republicans cross the aisle is an interesting data point in this idea that, in fact, when the chips are truly down, there are people of conscious who are going to go on record who will not worry so much about the much vaunted base and will do the right thing. i think you saw that in three cases this week.
they re doing what they have to do. look, i put no pressure on anybody. i actually said i could have gotten some of them to come along. i said i want you to vote your heart. do what you want to do. i m not putting any pressure. i ll let them know when there s pressure. i told them that. i said when i need your vote, i m going to let you know. i didn t need the vote because we all knew it was going to be a veto and they won t be able to override. we ll do a fact check on those last comments just ahead. trump is correct about an override. late today speaker pelosi announced the house would vote on march 26th to try to override the veto but it s not expected to pass. along with that veto trump set a more veiled political message, among the people standing around the president in the oval it was unusual to spot his new attorney general william barr. he made sure to broadcast the government s position on any future challenges to his boss emergency declaration.
for the 2020 re-elect this may be a chance to say i m trying to clean up washington and look at these republicans, they re standing in my way. andrew, to that last point, what will this usher in? are we going to see people kind of remaining in the ben sass mode of sound and fury and furrowed brow, but go ahead and vote with the president at the end of the day, kind of the flake model or will we see people finding courage in the corners of congress? well, i think this week alone you had this vote on the national emergency disapproval. you had a vote in the senate cutting off u.s. support for the saudi led coalition. in house you had the 420-0 vote on basically endorsing this idea of making the mueller report public. we saw this morning the president tweeted he doesn t think there should be a mueller report. so just this week alone we had three very prominent examples of republicans starting to sort of warm up to bucking trump more often. you mentioned senator flake. i know senator t