The National Emergency Isn’t Really Trump’s Fault

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🗓️ 5 March 2019

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President Trump’s national emergency declaration is headed for a showdown. More and more Senate Republicans are peeling away from their caucus to reject it. Sen. Rand Paul says his “political soul” hangs in the balance. But Sen. Mitch McConnell is keeping his opinions to himself. and waiting for Trump’s veto to send the issue to the courts. Why are Republicans leaders supporting what their colleagues call a blatant executive branch power grab? Guest: Slate politics writer Jim Newell. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're talking about the emergency, right?
0:06.2	Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask you to like pump us up a little bit.
0:10.4	Who's ready for Senate procedure?
0:12.5	Ha!
0:13.9	Jim Newell covers Capitol Hill for slate.
0:19.7	What's your headline gonna be?
0:21.7	My headline is gonna be this is exactly what Mitch McConnell was trying to avoid.
0:28.7	What Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been trying to avoid is a parade of senators
0:33.3	having to publicly defend or reject the president's plan to build a border wall using his emergency
0:39.6	powers.
0:41.0	Just the ugly spectacle was what Mitch McConnell was trying to avoid the entire way.
0:46.9	He don't think he actually cares about the precedent being set here or the power of
0:52.8	the person safeguarding that and blah, blah, blah.
0:55.0	He's just worried about it being politically damaging internally.
0:58.6	The turn on cable news and the spectacle.
1:01.0	It's exactly what's playing out.
1:03.5	Enough Republicans have announced they'll vote to block the president's border emergency
1:07.5	that it's virtually guaranteed.
1:09.6	Trump is gonna have to use his veto power to overrule them.
1:12.2	Senator Rand Paul, the Republican, has announced on FoxNews.com that he opposes the president's
1:18.5	declaration.
1:19.5	He'll support that measure to try to block it saying, quote, I would literally lose my
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