there s going to be a tremendous backlash to that as well. sam stein, anyone who knows anything about the way the army core of engineers, the defense department spends money, does construction, building things, especially things that require permits, which a lot of their stuff doesn t if it s being done in combat zones, say in afghanistan sure. if you re trying to build something in texas and you are the defense department, you are a minimum, if you re completely unobstructed by the political process or by courts, you re a minimum of over a year away from a shovel hitting any dirt anywhere in texas on the border to build this wall. yeah, absolutely. and that s not even mentioning the fact that you are probably usurping and taking the eminent domain land from private ranchers who don t want anything to do with this. you re talking about not just one legal fight but many, many legal fights spanning across numerous jurisdictions. and all of this, of course, is not to mention tha
backlash to that as well. sam stein, anyone who knows anything about the way the army core of engineers, the defense department spends money, does construction, building things, especially things that require permits, which a lot of their stuff doesn t if it s being done in combat zones, say in afghanistan sure. if you re trying to build something in texas and you are the defense department, you are a minimum, if you re completely unobstructed by the political process or by courts, you re a minimum of over a year away from a shovel hitting any dirt anywhere in texas on the border to build this wall. yeah, absolutely. and that s not even mentioning the fact that you are probably usurping and taking the eminent domain land from private ranchers who don t want anything to do with this. you re talking about not just one legal fight but many, many legal fights spanning across numerous jurisdictions. and all of this, of course, is not to mention that we were promised at the very be
branded. part of that goes to the army core of engineers. part of that has been done. when the president continues to throw out inaccuracies or make things up, it also takes away from not only are we injecting the political, but also it makes it hard to do a compromise or some back to someone who is not using facts. definitely is. i mean, the president is prone to inflating numbers and to bluster about how much he has done, even in situations where he can t. this is definitely one of those. but this just of goes it is a parallel to what is going on the last couple of weeks, general attempts to keep the government open, which is the president changes his mind and says whatever is on his mind. that can alter from day-to-day. so if you are actually talking about hard numbers that the president is, you know, having to agree to, that becomes more difficult than to be somebody who fudges them all the time. also, if he is going to take
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resources. one this is approved, my office will get that information to you. i also spoke with the president yesterday. he committed to provide any federal assistance florida may need. we have declared an emergency in 35 counties. this allows us to be able to quickly respond to this disaster. yesterday i announced a closure of state offices in the 35 counties currently under our emergency order. i have spoken to fema administrator brock long several times and the team is here providing federal assistance. that includes experts from homeland security, the epa, the department of defense, health and human services and the army core of engineers. at my direction, the state emergency operations center is fully activated. this means the state emergency response team is on 24 hour response. we are 100% focussed on