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In terms of the national emergencies act, it was something passed by congress. they gave this power away in 1976. they did away with the emergency declarations and started them anew. we are up to 31 at this point, maybe 32 including the one today. the point here is that congress gave up this power. then they passed other statutes that enabled the president to shift funds around based upon an emergency he declared. to the extent this is -- to the extent this -- the president has declared a nation...

It faster is the emergent portion. i dont think that hurts him when they end up in court on this thing. in terms of the national emergencies act, it was something passed by congress. they gave this power away in 1976. they did away with the emergency declarations and started them anew. we are up to 31 at this point, maybe 32 including the one today. the point here is that congress gave up this power. then they passed other statutes that enabled the president to shift funds around based upon an e...

It is wrong. it is just a lie. its all a lie. eric: as for top two democrats vowing to use, quote, every remedy to oppose the president trump emergency declaration for the southern border. house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer saying they are ready to take their case to congress, the courts, and to the public. so whats going to happen judy miller is here at the institute for policy research, and plitter prize winning journalist and author. so judy there are like 59 ...

So this one being declared by the president yesterday officially, how is it different? >> well, most of these states of emergency or declarations of emergency are about foreign adversaries and freezing property, cutting off trade or exports, that kind of thing. in other words, if an illegitimate government takes over a country, we want to allow the dictatorship to seize assets in the united states, things like that. we asked the white house yesterday could they name a time when these emergency d...

Lawyers to defend this move in court. historically, presidents make emergency declarations for a wide variety of reasons, often emergencies that arent life or death situations. it is extremely unusual for a president to declare an emergency and then talk about how that declaration is going to affect his 2020 re-elect and to a stream of consciousness on the political impact of the decision that hes making and in addition to that, essentially to say repeatedly that the emergency for which he was d...

The law. lets take this national emergency as an example. the presidents relying on a statute 10 usc 2808 that said you can reallocate military construction funds if the military -- if the situation or emergency requires the military. well if you have that interpretation for this particular situation, you could imagine that interpretation going into a whole host of other situations and so the challenge is when the president -- and any president uses executive authority in such a wide way, in suc...

Appropriations process we dont get to the place where we have these kinds of emergency declarations and so forth. its not the sexiest thing in the world. its congress doing its job and stepping back from separation of powers time and time again. >> one last note because donald trump used to feel this way, very strongly, he, as a deal maker, would never have to rely on the executive overreach that president obama did. here was his tweet. republicans must not allow president obama to subvert the c...

Construction. that is the part that requires the declaration of a national emergency. we have 2.5 billion for drug interdiction, 1.375 billion is in the big spending bill coming over and 600 million from treasury department forfeitures. there is a lot of opposition to this, even some republicans on capitol hill concerned that when the tables get turned another president from the other party could do this in a way they dont like. the other thing, too. i think we have to re-emphasize is there is a...

Important. >> in making his case president trump today pointed to dozens of emergency declarations that never drew the type of player he is receiving. but those declarations were not used as a way to go around congress on appropriations. the president also gave his critics more ammunition today when he seemed to indicate the emergency declaration wasnt necessary. >> i didnt need to do this, but i would rather do it much faster. and i dont have to do it for the election because ive already done a...

Spouting off. >> right. >> even if there is an emergency or that power is allowed, then the question is there are 123 specific laws that must be followed. they need to do this under some legal authority. and the question is, is this, in fact, military spending, for example, is it really the case this is something the military legally can do, especially since hes also signing a budget deal that treats it as a civilian matter and not an emergency. >> right. >> so this will go to the courts. it wil...