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And saying it s just another trump headline but put it in context. the president of the united states telling aides it s okay to break the law to build the wall before the 2020 election. if you do, i ll pardon you. has a u.s. president ever egregiously misused the pardon power like this. not the pardon power but i edited ronald reagan diaries at one point he yelled at his national security team i don t care if you end up in leavenworth, prison, i want the hostages out of iran. and that attitude got ronald reagan in a lot of trouble, almost undermined his second term. now you are looking at donald trump telling aides to break the law, i have your back and will pardon you. it immediately demands congressional investigation saying it s a joke is not enough. and this is supposed to be the chief law enforcement officer of the united states. but what you have touched on, what we is that this is about ....
The midterm elections. is the white house convinced that this is pennsylvania positive and workable and helpful message for the president. i think they re convinced it s a helpful message for the president. and i think they lock at the 2018 election as different when you look at the house and things of that nature versus what the president is trying to do to rile up his base. and i think that they look at in idea of immigration as something that they could get people to go and this is what people at the rallies and what his base wants to hear. they want to hear about immigration. they want to hear that he is building the wall. that s why there is concern. it would seem to me that even with the wall not being built, his base is so for him that they would be able to look past that. but for whatever reason the president seems to like at this as weakness or something that he could be hammered on. i guess if you couple that with weakness in the economy i think that s where he is looking a ....
Becoming increasing worried about the potential of there being an economic downturn and what they are going to message for the president to run in 2020. he started looking at other promising going unfulfilled. one his chief promise from the 2016 campaign was nlding this wall on the southern border. they ve been having the meetings here at the white house lately where the president is demanding to know updates what s going on. that s in those conversations where president made the offhanded remarks we re told about promising these pardons. but jim you have to look a lot of it has to do with whether or not the president is going to be re-elected in 2020. . that s what he is keeping an eye on when making compensates like this. capabilities collins always good to have you at the white house and a brief fact check of the president. it s democrats and republicans in congress who did not vote money for the president s wall. outfront now white house reporter for npr. isha roscoe and cnn pres ....
Build the wall what is the response. they say the president is joking when he told aides he would pardon them if they had to break the law in order to get his wall built before the 2020 election. but of course we should note they did not deny that the president made the remarks. remarks he made before to the acting d.h.s. secretary about pardons. but of course our sources are telling us this comes as the president has been expressing in urgent need to get the wall finished by the next election. he has been telling aides essentially his re-election depends on it being built at least part of the wall being built but as you noted no new wall has been built even though the president and his aides insist it has. only existing barrier that was already deteriorating has been replaced. but really what we re told a lot of this talk about pardons if you need to break the law to get the wall built mass to do with is the president is wrd about what accomplishment he is going to run on in 2020. b ....
Promising unkept. what is a bigger promise than donald trump and the wall? and he has come up with a zero in aid. there is no wall. he will be hammered by the democrats for lying to the american people because there couldn t be a wall due to environmental laws, eminent domain. it s trump trying to get ahead of the news cycle in 2020 by trying to put images of an artificial wall up because there isn t one built during his administration. isha, the white house says the president was joking about the pardons. we should note it s not the first time the white house claimed that. here is the response to donald trump asking russia to find hillary clinton s missing emails about telling police officers to be rough with suspects, about calling democrats treasonous for for the standing and applauding during the state of the union speech and about saying he loves wikileaks. what s common about all the answers? have a listen. he was joking at the time. we all know that. i believe he was makin ....