allegation of these funds. more broadly, this has been a battle legally for the president as his legal team continues to suffer defeat after defeat in the courts. relating to the last story, part of his attitude that he can do what he wants in terms of funding to declare an emergency when he thinks there s an emergency. he doesn t need congress to agree with him. as he sees these issues come out, play out in courts, he is finding that the legal strategy appears to be reckless and weak because they are going to keep losing. the judge said this comes down to a separation of powers. you will remember back in february when the president announced from the rose garden a national emergency there was a sing songy prediction, we ll get a bad ruling, go to the circuit, i don t want to do the whole thing because it went on for more than a minute. the president suggested by the time it reaches the supreme court, they will win.
i m using the letters. this is also a man. there are compilations all over. he said african nations are s-hole countries. these are policies that he s talking about. she is just making a comment in a very excited, you know, she got sworn in, the new congress got sworn in and the president has, it is much more impactful like speakers pelosi said, he said. my policy to speaker pelosi on it was whether or not say it out loud. we have congresswoman maxine waters on this show, she says openly she wants to see donald trump impeached. it s not as if there is a new idea. there are people in the caucus there a while and people there think he should be impeached. people are not interrogating that point. so let s listen to rashida tlaib expanding on the point. she talked about the actual substance of what she said, which is impeachment. take a listen. i think people don t
donald trump. and that s not what our founders had in mind. the president can sign or not, but he should never say i m not even going to put it on the president s desk. take yes for an answer, don t say congress is irrelevant. mitch mcconnell is not even giving donald trump a chance to veto legislation the house passed to reopen the government. virtually the same legislation the senate already unanimously agreed on a few weeks ago. at least two republican senators, cory gardener and susan cory gaard north american and susan collins, are calling for it even if trump doesn t get the wall. the senators are up for re-election next year and not reliable on the whole breaking with the president thing. back with me, jennifer ruben. and we re joined by michael steele, analyst and former chairman of the rnc. mr. chairman yeah. we talked a little bit in the last hour about mitch mcconnell.
well, it is a few year and a brand-new era. democrats control the house, the most diverse congress in history has been sworn in and madam speaker, nancy pelosi, officially took back the gavel on thursday. lots of americans feeling more hopeful amany i d the return to divided government. but probably not one particular guy in washington. donald trump, he s about to enter a whole new world without the protection of house republicans. democratic efforts are already under way to obtain trump tax returns. to take a deeper look into his business dealings and his ties to russia. to bring in potentially corrupt members and former members to testify before congress am hearings. not to mention the possibility of impeachment and, of course, the democrats now also have their own priorities. the green new deal. health care, voting rights, just to name a few. but all of that is currently overshadowed by if government shutdown, now in day 15 with no
speaker pelosi isn t going to say nothing about her freshman, economy congresswoman tlaib inside her move on meeting. i know she wanted to double down, is this the behavior we will find with this new majority party here in the congress? back with meet, me, jennifer reuben and tiffany cross editor of the beat d.c. happy new year. let s talk about this. i did ask speaker pelosi about this it was the thing everybody was talking about. i thought her response to it was very interesting. take a listen to a bit of it. words have weigh a ton and the president has to realize his words weigh a ton, too. some of the words he use have a direct impact on people s lives. my colleagues comments do not have an impact on people s lives. if she were a man, would they be