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WASHINGTON — Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) joined Pamela Brown on CNN’s The Situation Room today to discuss President Trump’s historic action to achieve peace for Ukraine, judges legislating from the bench and encroaching on the President’s Article II powers, and Republicans’ America First agenda.

Click here or above to watch Whip Emmer on CNN’s The Situation Room.

Whip Emmer on the President Trump’s actions toward peace for Ukraine:

“The thing that you left out in that was that, literally within the last hour or two, there was a prisoner exchange going on between the Russians and the Ukrainians. This is the first movement towards peace, I would argue, that we‘ve seen since this war broke out. And hopefully what‘s going to happen here is exactly what President Trump said he was going to do: get them both to the table and help them reach an agreement that can bring peace back to the region.”

“I think you‘ve got a master negotiator as a world leader who‘s actually trying to facilitate this mediated discussion. Where that leads, Pamela, we‘ll have to see…I‘m no fan of Putin, but I think at the end of the day, getting him to the table and having this discussion again, it‘s the first step towards peace that we have seen in this conflict since it started. I‘m very hopeful that there‘s a path that they‘re going to be able to get it done so the Ukrainian people can get back to living as opposed to fighting.”

Whip Emmer on judges encroaching on the President’s constitutional authorities and the separation of powers:

“When it comes to the impeachment issue, you already know you need 67 senators. And after Chuck Schumer‘s humiliation last week, I don‘t think he‘s going to go down that road any time soon when it comes to this issue. The big issue is that 77 million people voted for Donald Trump, and they voted for him to get these criminals out of our country, to make sure that we‘re safe and secure in our communities. He‘s trying to honor that. As far as working with the legal system, I think Justice Breyer said it best. When you have a disagreement, you‘ll resolve it through the courts.”

“There are 77 million Americans who elected [President Trump] to do exactly what he‘s doing. And you know what? There‘s a lot of Americans who are very frustrated with judges who appear to be legislating from the bench instead of applying the law to the facts that are presented.”

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