that the national emergency text has actually been on the books but it's course the wall is a key tenant of his campaign pledge he's already looking to twenty twenty he still promises that he's going to build the wall and it seems like this is the only way that he thinks that he's going to be able to achieve them and how the president's for this for this sort of action who gets to decide what a national emergency looks like. right so a national emergency is usually declared in the wake for example of a serious attack or a catastrophe it is something that the president can then decide on himself the text is an explicit about it but you know even republican senator susan collins from maine for example is saying that this likely would not constitute a national emergency trump insists that there is an emergency on the southern border migration experts who have been there say that this is not the case in one thousand nine hundred fifty s. there was a case with the steel mills when they were seized and that went all the way up to