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Mexico is supposed to pay for. hes got 1.375 billi$1.375 bille appropriations bill. none of it is supposed to be for the wall. its explicit. hes going to try to take 3.6 billion for military construction. another $2.5 billion from the drug interdiction program. then hes going to swipe $600 million from the treasury department drug forfeitture fund. are we to believe in the republican white house, defense department money doesnt matter? whatever that money was intended for isnt important? hes goi...

Emergency. and its a great thing to do. because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people and its unacceptable. its very simple. we want to stop drugs from coming into our country. we want to stop criminals and gangs. >> so the big question, where does this $8 billion actually come from? $1.3 billion is included in the government funding bill passed yesterday but the president cant use any of that money for a concrete wall. it can be used for fencing, steel slates, but ...

Y -- give you an idea of what hes doing. $3.5 billion is the defense departments military construction budget. that requires an emergency declaration from the president. the other sources, $2.5 billion is the drug interdiction program. the president doesnt need to declare an emergency for that. $1.375 billion is inside the bill thats coming down from capitol hill. then there is an extraneous $600 million, the treasury departments forfeiture fund. that tells you where the money is coming from. we...

In this country. 2.5 billion will be allocated through the department of defenses drug interdiction program. 2.2 billion of that money will come from reprogrammed areas elsewhere in the dod budget. that could be a point of contention. $3.5 billion will come from the military construction budget. the white house considers the treasury money and money already in the dods drug interdiction money that they can get easily. the reprogrammed money gets more dicey. the money from the military constructi...

The $600 million from treasury is the easy one. they can use it for anything they want. easy to get money from the drug interdiction program. moving some of that money may catch the eye of some folks in congress and may invite a legal challenge. then they absolutely believe that the emergency declaration and tapping into the military construction budget will invite a legal challenge and howls of protest from members of congress who want to see that money go to construction on military bases in t...

She a great guy. >> ann coulter, dont know her, i have not spoken to her, but the press loves saying ann coulter. >> with this national emergency the president will have access to roughly $8 billion to build some of his wall, his wall would cost more than $8 billion to be clear, so what is he diverting from your tax collars? first 1.375 that congress agreed to in a spending bill. the language in there says specifically that money is for fencing and existing barrier technology, $600 million would...