criminals and human trafficking and we have to stop all of those things that a strong wall will stop. the army corp of engineers are fantastic. i think in the end we ll be very successful with the lawsuit. sandra: president trump there saying he has every right to declare a national emergency to build a wall along the southern border. as he faces several legal challenges now for his executive action. time for america s a-team. brad blakeman is here. jeanne zaino political science professor and applied and tim carney the washington examiner and author of the book alienated. we got through that. welcome to you, jeanne, nice to have you here. start us off here. is the president winning on this issue? he may win in the courts. the courts tend to defer to the president when it comes to executive power. he may win. my big problem with all of this
president trump now disputing reports the white house does not have a strategy on the partial government shutdown. that on day 22 of the longest federal closure in u.s. history and counting. the president tweeting i do have a plan on the shutdown, trump saying he might declare a national emergency if congress does not deliver the funding he wants for a border wall. reports also saying the president could direct the army corp of engineers to build a wall by diverting $2.4 billion from disaster relief projects in california and $2.5 billion from puerto rico to pay for the wall as well. meanwhile, 800,000 federal workers missed the first paychecks friday. many of them receiving pay stubs that had a zero. just like the one you see in front of you. mike vicara on capitol hill. and the president hasn t figured this out, let s look over the other way or look at congress. the senate and the house not
since then they have done beach renourishment. so many think the federal government, army corp of engineers and cities and communities get together to pump sand, dredge it in from off the coast on the beach to make for a nicer beach for tourists, but the reality is that the beaches are widened because we have been talking about storm surge. when they pump that water in, it not only elevates the beach by 7 feet but it creates the beach much wider. it has gone from 23 years ago to today from 10 feet to 100 feet. that may be the protection needed with the sand dunes to hold back the storm surge we know is coming. kerry sanders in panama city beach, florida. our thoughts with you and everyone in that town as you brace for the storm. thank you. the exit of ambassador nikki haley sets up another senate confirmation battle. lawmakers have to now okay the next u.n. ambassador. will it look different from what
troops and civilians have been deployed. high water vehicles, helicopters, boats, army corp of engineers restoring power to those who have lost it. can you give us an update on that? in south carolina we re seeing the deployment of national guard, state guard as well. we have thousands of employees from the south carolina department of transportation to emergency responders all waiting for the storm to hit. north carolina has gotten it first. the direction of the storm is heading for south carolina. we re not out of the woods. not even in the woods yet. we have a lot of emergency responders. we have lots of coordination between the national guard and state guard, the governor s office, my office and many other offices on the state and local level preparing for what s coming. they estimate duke power has about four million customers between the two states. they estimate they could see as
with a massive response of troops and supplies. lucas tomlinson is live from the pentagon for us this morning. we re hearing half a million people are currently without power. this is the latest update from the north carolina emergency management. what can the defense department do about that? sandra, the army corp of engineers has pre-positioned over 100 generators to help those who lost power. one of the steps the pentagon took. yesterday the head of u.s. forces in north america outlined other steps. we have surrounded the area with d.o.d. capability that will be critical in hours and days following the storm s impact. part of that response includes roughly 10,000 troops with thousands more ready to be called up. 160 helicopters with search and rescue capability and 240 high water vehicles can drive through flood had streets and cargo planes to deliver