The Beat with Ari Melber, Feb. 18, 2019
Duration: 44 Minutes
Discussed Today:
Protests erupt over Trump’s National Emergency 'power grab'
Protesters rally across the country to oppose Trump’s declaration of a National Emergency, something they describe as a power grab at the Southern border. Ari Melber breaks down how new legal challenges to Trump’s National Emergency are emerging from the ACLU and other groups and that Trump’s immigration guru, Stephen Miller, appears to be struggling to find any precedent for Trump’s latest move to fund a border wall. Member of Congress, Jan Schakowsky, tells Ari Melber that Congress may have to consider clarifying the National Emergencies Act to ensure “the President can’t step in and overturn a decision of the Congress”.
Fmr. FBI Chief: DOJ mused recording Trump
Former FBI Acting Director, Andrew McCabe, is speaking for the first time about whether Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed the 25th amendment, telling CBS’ 60 Minutes that Rosenstein was openly “counting votes or possible votes” in the context of ousting Trump. The DOJ has refuted McCabe’s claims and McCabe’s own spokesperson released a statement playing down this reference to “counting votes”. Former Federal Prosecutor, Joyce Vance, tells Ari Melber that the context it’s important to “contemplate how earth-shattering this was for the people inside the Justice Department”.
2020 contender: Trump border wall is a 'wasteful vanity project'
New legal challenges emerge in response to Trump’s declaration of a National Emergency, to secure funding for his border wall. Washington Governor Jay Inslee joins Ari Melber, to break down why he’s considering suing over it, as Washington State has already taken the lead in ten lawsuit against the Trump administration. Gov. Inslee tells Melber the wall is Trump’s “wasteful vanity project”. Gov. Inslee also comments on Amazon’s decision not to build a Headquarters in New York, telling Melber it’s important to “find a way to prevent large corporations from essentially blackmailing local communities by threatening to move if they don’t get these giant tax breaks”.
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