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Authority on this? where do you believe he has the authority and the constitution on this? >> from what i can see it comes from a number of different pieces of legislation. the national emergency act. there are other pockets of money that give him the authority for example the department of defense to fight drugs. i mean, obviously putting up better barriers is part of the effort to combat that flow of heroin, for example, thats poisoning our cities. so, no, listen, this is a real problem. its w...

>> do you share the concern that other conservatives have if this is allowed to become precedent where a president is thwarted by a congress that he disagreed with that he can end run congress and declare a national emergency to take appropriated money and spend it anywhere, climate change, gun, you name it. >> absolutely, i share those concerns which is why well take a careful look at what hes doing here in this instance, but again, i have to stress, this president has been thwarted in his atte...

The better way to have this solved would be for the democrats to support when they supported in the past and give this president funding for better barriers which we need. we need to secure our border and we need to fix our horribly broken legal and illegal immigration system and hopefully after this impasse now is over in terms of funding the government we can sit down on a bipartisan basis and start solving these problems and fix our systems. >> isnt this an issue then for the president, and i...

That firsthand in a visit to nogales, arizona, the largest border town in the state that has a fence. >> reporter: the arizona-mexico border, 373 miles of treacherous terrain. one giant barrier. from the mountainous natural barriers in the east to man made razor wire in the center and barren desert out west. deadly mountainous terrain like this has already claimed nearly 3,000 lives in the last 20 years. every tuesday you do this? >> year round. even when the temperatures 110 degrees. >> reporte...

>> if you could, would you take the wall downer. >> >> translato >>. >> absolutely. >> do you think if there was a referendum in this city it would pass? >> i do. >> would you take wall town that is currently up in the california border? >> im not prepared to say that. i think in many respects its appropriate in certain areas, its inappropriate in other areas. thats my opposition to 2,000 milds in the wilderers, but at these major points of entry, i think appropriate. i believe in border securit...

The core of what will happen in court, and the numbers are going to be the numbers. it is not a political statement by donald trump. >> nancy pelosi said during the shutdown a wall, this is a quote, a wall is an immorality between countries. democrats many of them supported $1.375 billion for another barrier. so is a fence less immorality to democrats? >> there are security reasons why parts of the border have fences, and most of that 1.3 or portion of it is going to go to repair those fences, r...

Instead of congress. theres no time for ordinary course. most of the legislation deals with congress power. his declaring an emergency that congress just dealt with is not so compelling. this is about politics at the end of the day, not law. listen. >> i think that i just want to get it done faster. thats all. >> here is his problem. it was just done. thats what that signing was about. he signed into law what congress did on same matter. its not about need or speed. its about preference. another...

That claim by the president is simply false. and one more he really likes to make is how much drug traffic is coming in over that open land out there where will is no big, where there is no big barriers. >> a majority of the big drug loads dont go through ports of entry, they cant go through ports of entry, you cant take big loads because we have people, very capable people, the border patrol working. >> and we dont know what they mean by big. big dollars? most of the drugs come through the offi...

It was just done. thats what that signing was about. he signed into law what congress did on same matter. its not about need or speed. its about preference. another point against declaring an emergency. theres this. >> i have other alternatives if have i to. i will use those if i have to. we want to go through the system. my threshold will be if i cant make a deal with people that are unreasonable. >> making physical barriers the priority when every problem you want to combat is better addressed...

Appropriated money to build physical barriers. this year, congress appropriates money to build physical barriers. they have approved barriers. this is something said yes to. >> that cuts against an emergency. >> the president gets to make the determination as to whether this is an emergency. >> you laid the framework for why it isnt an emergency. this is a good first blow. see what the lawsuits say. we will take it up at that point. thank you. be well. did the president just create an emergenc...