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Breath, i didn t have to do it. the president doesn t have the votes in congress to do what he wants to do and threw see him just moments after declaring that national emergency yesterday afternoon absconding aboard air force one to mar-a-lago where he ll be playing golf. this is far from over. it s unclear how much the president is actually going to be redirecting those military funds. will it be 2 billion, 8 billion, everybody sort of waiting to see exactly what he wants to do. again, that could be far down the road. yesterday in the rose garden there was blame to pass around from president trump to former speaker of the house paul ryan. check out this interchange between our own kelly o. and the president. i ll tell you i m very disappointed at certain people, particular one for not having pushed this faster. are you referring to speaker ....
Apparently mr. trump watching all of this play out on television. kelly o donnell is standing by for us. kelly o., what s the president saying about all of this? reporter: well, craig, the president has his own schedule today, and we re not getting much in the way of any reaction as it s playing out. however, the president did tell reporters in the oval office yesterday that whitaker is a good man and he would testify in a powerful and authentic way being truthful. he would not get into the issue of whether or not there would be a subpoena battle. so those were his remarks yesterday. today we are also watching how the president is looking at kind of the more predictable lane for him to be critical, and that s on the larger issues of the special counsel investigation. he is pointing out on his twitter feed that richard burr, the republican member of the senate intelligence committee has talked about there was no ....
Believes he did nothing wrong, he and his campaign did nothing wrong. obviously there have been a string of indictments on a variety of matters that are still playing out. craig. kelly o donnell, 1600 pennsylvania avenue. kelly o., do stand by for me if you can. a bit of clarification from garrett haake as we go back to the hill. we re waiting for the members to return from the votes. garrett, what more do we know about the votes and do we have a timetable regarding when these members are going to return to the committee room? reporter: craig, this is the general business of the house today. they re voting on a bill about veterans access to child care. that s the main vote. what has gummed up the works a little bit, a long delay, a long remembrance for john dingell, the long-time committee chairman of the house dnc, energy and commerce committee up here on capitol hill. there was a moment of silence, several speeches on the floor. he was a revered figure up here. that moment of sil ....
He were to become governor of virginia. kelly o. from west palm beach. thank you. joining me, atima o mara, elected member of the democratic national committee from virginia. you re the perfect person to talk about this. you have virginia all over your resume. yes, i do. let s get into this. first and most notably, you were involved with ralph northam s campaign for governor. so this racist photo, was it a surprise for you, and do you feel betrayed in any way? well, yes. i mean, to start off, what happened i think just to kind of take you back a little bit, what sort of happened friday night when this news sort of broke, was you know, i m very, very glad, one, for having unlimited text messaging and phone call services. wow, yes. because everybody in virginia, especially involved in politics, especially black virginians involved in politics were calling each other, trying to figure out what happened. like many folks, i had not been paid staff, but i had been a surrogate on ....
Attached to the campaign and others, george papadopoulos and so forth. roger stone was attached to the trump campaign in 2015 well ahead of the prominent time for the president trump campaign but remained a loose and informal adviser. so the notion that this is somehow not connected to the campaign really doesn t make sense and what the president was saying there but it s also notable he is deferring to the attorney general, at least at this point, about how much the public will know about the findings when robert mueller is done. alex. kelly o., thank you so much from florida. joining me now, journalist laura basset and dana milbank, columnist with the washington post, a welcome to you both. dana, your overall impression from this wide-ranging interview. ? what stood out to you? it s hard to pick something that stands out because bumping from topic to top tick president has a tendency to say one eye-raising thing after another. ....