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The american civil liberties union involved, others who want to say this is the president circumventing the constitutional separation of the branches where the power of the purse, the power to spend the taxpayers money belongs to congress, not the executive. thats one of the big arguments that you have among those who believe that the president is overreaching with his national emergency declaration. that is a power that has been on the books for about 40 years. its original intention was for th...

Resistance budget doing everything they can to undermine the presidents budget. nancy pelosis fingerprints are all over that thing. conservatives would hate what he is about to announce at 10:00 if not for the national emergency which says i have got the prerogative. im going to keep it inside constitutional limits. im going to stay focused on the wall and security of our border. i will find this money a lot of which is confiscated from drugs and from military construction and use it to build th...

There is something to be said, though, isnt there, about this bill being released just last night, all, what is it, 1,600 pages or something. have you even read it all? >> weve gone through the detail. now, lets be clear. most of what is in this budget is information and language that has been in previous budgets. the descriptions of the various programs. there are moments when we get legislation that is so overwhelming and completely misunderstood, like the 2017 tax bill that the republicans ru...

Healed by the democrats and avoid another shutdown that can happen as soon as friday. among other things the new deal allocate $1,000,375,000 for 55 miles of new wall, new fans, whatever you want to call it along the southern border, but now there may be another deal and the president tweeted this moments ago which presented the concept and parameters of the border security deal by richard shelby. looking over all aspects hooked up with lots of money from other sources, we will be getting almost...

Are we getting pressure from both sides now to avoid a deal. >> absolutely not. >> theres going to be people that have strong views about what ought to be included in the appropriations process. we can debate the role of i.c.e. i dont like their policies either. were talking about 20,000 federal employees. hard working federal employees. we dont like the policies. every time we dont like a policy, we ought the change that policy if we have the power to do that. its the same as closing down the g...

>> its, how much do you say are playing out? so how much could his frustration over haas happens in that area boil over and impact any agreement that they would come to. i could see that he could simply transfer that anger over to the appropriations process. it would be a terrible mistake. the president doesnt have great options here. what is he going do? is he going to tell the leaders of the senate not to allow the bill to be brought to the floor ? it would set up another shutdown

To reaching a deal? >> i think they can have an agreement by friday. it has to be signed by friday. i spoke with senator shelby. i told him whatever you come to an agreement on, bipartisan agreement, i will support. i hope the administration could have the same attitude and respect for the appropriations process. i know they can find fwreeagree. >> reporter: do you think the president moved the needle one way or the other last night? do you think he convinced more people a wall is necessary? do ...

Do we think the declaration of a national emergency is pretty much an assumption at this point? >> yes, although were not sure if its going to happen tonight. we dont think that will happen. theyll see this out, congress. theres been a committee thats supposed to come to a compromise on this but the president has already undercut that committee. the president has basically said theres no use in trying. the emergency declaration is really -- its a controversial thing with the presidents own party...

They would be concerned about. there is real concerns about the impact that this could have long term. now, this is not just some moderate republicans who are concerned. some conservatives, everyone from susan collins to ron johnson, a conservative from wisconsin saying there are serious questions about the president considering this option. >> i am concerned about it. i think its a dubious constitutionality. as a member of the senate, i am concerned when any president regardless of party circum...

As a member of the senate i am concerned when any president regardless of party circumvents the appropriations process and repurposes large amounts of money. >> reporter: this could be a division within the republican party, something that leadership doesnt want to expose their conference to. so a lot of concern about the president moving forward with the national emergency. if he doesnt get the wall money he wants from the conference committee. >> democrats have their own rebuttal tonight to th...