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Democrats have said already they are going to initiate the process of doing a joint resolution that could, in theory, stop the president if it passed the house, passed the senate. the president vetoed it and they efforted to override. you can imagine the spectacle. there will be a number of lawsuits. the state of california, the governor last night said, bring it on, see you in court. organizations saying theyll sue on behalf of governments in texas which is a red state, as we know. you will see...

Its nice to see you guys come together and make something happen for the rest of us but now youre presented with a new challenge. do you believe that legally you could stop this president? >> we definitely can. one way is legislatively and representative castro of texas has introduced, and im a co-sponsor, a joint resolution to put the national emergency off and to say that its not proper and congress can do that through joint resolution. it can also be challenged in court and i feel sure that t...

Its not something that we need in this enconstant in a winstan would stop a crisis in this incident. that would be an argument and there is authority for the move and every president since the passage of the act has declared at least one and none has ever been challenged in court but thats about to change. section 5 of the law says congress can shut this down. how? democrats as you were hearing from congress, they can pass a joint resolution. the senate has to conduct a floor vote within 15 days...

Keep the promise. i will declare a national emergency. that will allow me to build more fencing. now, that will probably be announced tomorrow. when the president signs this bill that they just passed. but what promise is he going to keep? he broke the core promise that mexico would pay for it. you have the can he do it and should he do it. lets deal with that. democrats like steve cohen said they are going to try to stop him. the house judiciary committee member joins us now. congressman, welco...

Well it sets a precedent and undermine something thats at the core of american democracy which is the separation of powers ok so obviously the democrats are against this or where his own republicans well third theyre divided i think if it came to a joint resolution or they would be the only way of thwarting donald trumps plans in the final analysis ultimately. the republicans will probably line up and rally behind behind trump also because he has the final veto on this and so he could veto any j...

Congress and getting the work of the american people done here. >> so, specifically, what are you going to do? youre going to file some lawsuits? is that whats going to happen once the president declares a national emergency or uses his executive authority to go ahead and move money around? >> i believe a lawsuit will be filed in the courts and also here in congress, in the house, we will likely file a joint resolution to negate or terminate his declaration and hopefully take a vote on that. i b...

Senator rubio and senator blount have said they would not support the president in declaring a national emergency. as you know, we could invoke section five of the national emergency act and congress could pass a joint resolution to overturn t it would require a veto-proof majority but the question is whether senator rubio and blount and others would stick to what they said they would do. >> senator graham has already said he supports a national emergency i guess the reality of it is, are you wi...

Capitol hill. a test from the speaker. >> the house and senate will have to pass a joint resolution to allow the president to speak on january 29th as the president is demanding. so him just saying that he will come does not necessarily mean that the actual state of the union will take place. in fact, john, i am told that in a closed-door meeting this morning nancy pelosi told her members and advised them not to bring their family members to washington next week. that was viewed by people in the...

Maria butinas. the special counsel is looking at this carefully. probably not a coincidence that around the same time russia did the same things, she was conducting her activities and infiltrating at a high level. >> interesting, joel. thank you so much for your insights. appreciate it. i want to turn to capitol hill. similar to how they handled russia sanctions, we are poised to see lawmakers rebuke another trump policy, this time on saudi arabia. senior congressional correspond ept manu raju i...

What we were talking about earlier. jim sciutto reporting the anthrax scare we lived through many years ago. he was involved with those investigations. and mr. beady, thank you for joining us. what does your experience inform you to in terms of what theyre going to be doing now? >> well, i would like to share with you the intelligence officer perspective of this, which raises two important questions. but first, just to follow up on something you and brian were saying and something that the gover...