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Eastern. right now, heres melissa francis in for harris. >> melissa: fox news alert, the first major legal challenge to president trumps emergency declaration is here. 16 states, led by california, accusing the president of an unconstitutional use of executive power. lets get to "outnumbered overtime." im melissa francis in today for harris faulkner. attorneys general for all parts of the country making their case against the president, denouncing his controversial method to fund the portable. >...

Unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its assigned functions. page after page after page saying a sitting united states president cannot be indicted. now my question is this. if they issue another memo out there at the justice department reversing these memos? no! no. mr. rosenstein, you are the deputy attorney general of united states. youve been overseeing robert mueller. you tell the president of the united states last week that hes not a criminal target...

I dont really enjoy it. ive known him for 30 years. heres the problem. the deputy attorney general is out of control. the president of the united states has his shoulders branch of the wall. as the job of the attorney general to control the deputy attorney general. the attorney general was confirmed by the senate. hes a presidential appointee. this is what our constitution requires. an inferior officer cannot usurp the power of the attorney general as mr. rosenstein has done. im going to tell yo...

Ive known him for 30 years. heres the problem. the deputy attorney general is out of control. the president of the united states has his shoulders pinned to the wall.de its the job of the attorney general to control the deputy attorney general. the deputy attorney general of the united states is usurping the powers of the attorney general! the attorney general was confirmed by the senate! hes a presidential appointee. this is what our constitution requires. an inferior officer cannot usurp the p...

Capacity of the executive branch to perform its assigned functions. page after page after page saying a sitting united states president cannot be indicted! now my question is this! did they issue another memo out there at the justice department. reversing these memos? no! no! mr. rosenstein, you are the deputy attorney general of united states! youve been overseeing robert mueller! you tell the president of the united states last week that hes not a criminal target! damn it! he cant be a crimina...

Upset. as for mr. rosenstein, why did he tell the president that? right now we have seen a lot of tension between the white house and department of justice. maybe mr. rosenstein is trying making to keep the president from making a move that he thinks he might make. which is maybe firing him. that could be one reason. >> sean: unbelievable. >> the president said he wouldnt. that is another thing, we got to go with of the president said, he has no intention right now firing him, they are both stil...

Because of michael flynn. he fired yates because she refused to back an executive order, which is really many people argue those can be legislative authority, ken, and the idea that the executive order was unconstitutional in her mind about the travel ban which ultimately never actually saw full implementation. >> right, which was totally out of line on her part. >> well, let -- that may be your interpretation, but your statement was that the president of the united states in his executive prero...

Steve: dont have a right to get in to our country. >> the issue is not whether or not they have rights. its whether or not the president is following the law. and, look, you know, our judiciary which should be independent, i dont think my brother or you, steve, or any american with good sense would think that the president should be attacking judges personally like he did all weekend. they will make the decision but the president cannot usurp the laws there is a law passed 50 years ago say you c...