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In washington, d.c. at the end of the day these problems will roost and these are real americans put in harms way. >> and it gets to the border wall funding that the president is asking for more funding. i mean, you voted with the president, you stood with the president when it came to the vote on the presidents national emergency declaration. you are now push the president from being able to basically do the same in the future. how do you square those two thing snz. >> first, i recognize the cr...

Declaring a national emergency? >> i am a lawyer. im not a judge. i do have a legal opinion. the president is not exercising any authority that, in my judgment, congress hasnt given him. presidents in the past have used these statutes 60 times. >> but not, as you know, this is a different category where congress is explicitly said, no, were not spending that money. were spending $1.3 billion. and thats republicans and democrats. thats a different category from many of the past emergency declarat...

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Republican yes from them would force the president to have to veto the measure. right now, vice president pence is meeting with senate republicans to shore up support for the president. joining me now, republican congressman jody who sits on the house oversight committee. why do you have to shore up republicans to support a republican president on this? >> thats a good question, harris. i think of the end of the day the issue for many is the separation of powers. which i fully understand. but th...

I think were going to have to evaluate whether this is really the intention of an emergency. is it really an emergency if the president asked the congress to do it and they failed to? thats different than the way this law has been used in the past. >> so you could vote to try to block the president from moving forward with this emergency, you just havent decided yet. is that fair? >> i think thats fair. >> republican senator roy blount discussing his concerns over the presidents emergency declar...

Right now 16 states are suing the trump administration to stop the president from using a national emergency declaration to reallocate congressional money so he can fund his desired border wall. joining me now is the attorney general for one of those states. thanks for taking the time with us this morning. >> jim, its great to be with you. >> one argument you hear from the president is that under the national emergency act of the law of the land some 59 emergency declarations have been made by p...

About a national emergency. its a sort of a complicated not most well-defined thing in america. its part of a whole lot of different laws, but one of the things danny said is federal law contains to real guidance on whether the validity or definition of a national emergency turns on a presidents honest belief that it exists. nor do emergency declarations turn on how long the situation existed prior to the declaration." so the problem is, i think we had 58 emergency declarations. >> 58 or 59. yea...

>> bill: happy presidents day to you from the white house this morning. move on.org has protests planned across the nation including one right across from the white house. the attorney general from california, the civil liberties union are lining up to file lawsuits against the presidents emergency declaration when they return from their week off this week. it is a recess. members of congress on the democratic side planning to introduce legislation to block the emergency declaration as well. lis...

Made. if people dont like that, they can address it. >> this is where hes getting the funding. $1.3 billion approved by congress. $3.6 billion from the military construction budget. $2.5 billion from the defense departments drug interdiction program. $600 million from another military fund. he seemed to dance around the answer when asked about using dod funds. gabby, does the president have the right to use these funds? >> thats the big legal question here, craig. of course, its whether or not p...

No. it was a down payment moving forward. i believe at the end of the day, the wall is going to be built, not sea to shining sea but 200 miles. mike vaccaro joining us from the white house. good morning to you. what are you hearing? >> good morning to you or i should say good afternoon. as we know the president absconded to palm beach and mar-a-lago hours after glaring that national emergency. it fell to his senior adviser stephen miller to support and defend it on the morning shows. quite a con...