well, some of them are. i shouldn t say well, a lot of them. there s enough that you hear the crickets. there s enough for the cricket sound to be apt. look, this is why people hate politics. this is one of the big reasons that trump was able to become president, because the level of disaffection is so high, the expectations are so low that when somebody comes in who seems like they re going to be disruptive and they re playing to your outrage and your anger at the system and at these other things that other people are too afraid to talk about, it s not that they re too afraid. they re too smart. they re too subtle. they re too sophisticated. now you ve got a guy who has a shot that should have never had one. they said about obama everything they truly believed in. now they say none of it. i m not crazy about the democrats that threaten to do the same thing, but that s the game. that s the game. well, as an observer of politics because you know i sit here, and you came from a p
democrats on capitol hill vowing to fight president trump s declaration of a national emergency to get the money for his wall. the president undercutting his own argument about an emergency by saying, quote, i didn t need to do this. back with me now, laura coates, max boot. we re joined now by brian care am, who was at the president s event today. was that i mean, when he said that, were you all like, what did he just say? that he didn t need to do it? that means it s not an emergency. brian, let s talk about this. welcome to the conversation. i just want to play this moment from today s presser in the rose garden. you tried to pin the president down on his facts or where he get his information. where he got them. yeah. here s this. i m asking you to clarify where you get your numbers because most of the dea crime reporting statistics that we see
i mean, this is so shocking, don, that republicans were critical of president obama for using his executive authority. they called him a king. they said that he was impinging on the constitution. but president obama never did anything remotely like this where trump is trying to build a wall which has not been funded, has not been appropriated by congress. this is flouting the will of the legislative branch, which under article 1 has the sole authority to appropriate funds, and he s admitting there s no actual emergency. now, it s possible, just possible, he might be able to get away with this legally with a very conservative supreme court and given the very vague language in the 1976 national emergencies act, but this is wrong. we know that this is not an actual emergency, and congress has to step up and show that they actually believe in the constitution, which sadly most of the republicans don t seem to. they seem to believe in donald trump over the united states constitution. go a
president obama for using his executive authority. but president obama never did anything remotely like this where trump is trying to build a wall which has not been funded, has not been appropriated by congress. this is flouting the will of the legislative branch which under article one has the sole authority to appropriate funds, and he s admitting there s no actual emergency. it s possible he might be able to get away with this with the but this is wrong. we know that this is not an actual emergency, and congress has to step up and show that they actually believe in the constitution, which sadly most of the republicans don t seem to. me seem to believe in donald trump over the united states constitution. go ahead, brian. yeah. max says two things that we really need to take a look at. number one, it s the brown-colored people that are come ago cross the border. i ve seen this for a while. the real secret, the dark and scary little secret behind all
politics every night. that s what we ve been doing really since trump took office. but we re not doing the horse race and like the folks in d.c. so i m not really a political reporter, nor a political animal. i know people may think that, but i m not. as an observer, the hypocrisy on the republican side for the last few years, i can t even fathom when it comes to evangelicals and conservatives, when it comes to this president and his past and what he says and what he does, how he treats people, he cheated on his wife, blind eye. if it happened on the democratic side or even the former president, they all freaked out. oh, my gosh, he wore a tan suit, and michelle obama had her arms out. they don t say anything about the current president who, you know, slept with a porn star, lied about it, or even the former first lady. do what you want with your body, who was a model and did semi-nude pictures. that means nothing to them. and then on this thing with this president, who subverts the co