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Wouldve been better to take the continued resolution from last year and in a page and a half just go ahead and say what lets do what we did last time and transfer funds and build the wall. he wouldve had tens of billions dollars more to do it. instead you have 1600 pages to put limitations on the president that nobody fully understands because nobody could possibly have read it but it was chock full of things to slow the president down. >> i want to get jason on the specifics. youve been there. ...

Wouldve been better to take the continued resolution from last year and in a page and a half just go ahead and say what lets do what we did last time and transfer funds and build the wall. he wouldve had tens of billions dollars more to do it. instead you have 1600 pages to put limitations on the president that nobody fully understands because nobody could possibly have read it but it was chock full of things to slow the president down. >> i want to get jason on the specifics. youve been there. ...

There are limitations in this bill on the number of ice officers they can hire. the limitations on the number of border patrol agents they could hire. i believe the president. [inaudible] >> which he be thinking about. >> the president has to propose a budget in february and the congress needs to vote to pass a budget over the summer so thats in place starting at the end of september. that is the hope. divided government is going to be very difficult to get there. the president is on the right s...

Aired, the part where he says i dont need to do this, why is that critical? >> the presidents words are what creates the national emergency. and once he declares it, that unlocks a number of different, hundreds of different statutory powers available only in times of national emergency. so if the presidents words are that powerful in simply declaring a national emergency, then a court might conclude that so too are the other words that he says in order to determine whether or not this truly is a...

White house special counsel emmitt flood, that the white house initially rejected the request, similar in the way they handled the john kelly -- the former chief of staff interview. this was a change from before. as you may recall, before, white house staffers were voluntarily being interviewed by robert muellers staff. the white house wasnt standing in the way. in this case, there was a change. of course, there was concern about executive privilege and those conversations sarah sanders had with...

As you may recall, before white house staffers were voluntarily being interviewed by robert muellers staff. the white house wasnt standing in the way. in this case, there was a change. of course, there was concern about executive privilege and those conversations sarah sanders had with the president, whether they should be protected. we dont know if there were limitations. i can tell you in talking to sources, sarah sanders, before she would go on the podium, she would talk to president trump. h...

Vice president art delcueto with us. art, you have been there before, on the border. is this a crisis when we lose 70,000 people a year to drug overdoses, 90% of heroin coming across the border, massive increases in fentanyl? >> oh, its definitely a big crisis. not only that, but you start looking at the amount of the individuals that are crossing the border. you talk about the caravans coming across the border. all of those issues. look at the attacks on the border patrol agents defending our n...

Redirectistrictions on the bord. there are less restrictions with this money. in terms of public land, that may be certain areas we cant build with that 1.3-billion dollars. but they are allowing the border patrol agents to priorittize. >> you have $8 billion worth of other money to access from drug blockades? >> thats correct. >> you have returns from the treasury. the $8 billion is he free to spend that or bound by these limitations? >> there are no restrictions to those times of money. includ...

Limitations on some of the agents. it places limitation on law enforcement. >> sean: let me bring in luis for a second. how come hillary clinton, chuck schumer, barack obama, joe biden and pretty much most of the democrats -- i have the tapes. how come they sounded like donald trump a couple of years ago in the second term of barack obama? how come then they wanted a ball, then theyd fund a wall and now its immoral and we cant spend a dollar on the wall? how do you explain the hypocrisy of your ...

Many restrictions to the bordere they could build, et cetera, there are less restrictions with this money. in terms of public land, that may be certain areas we cant build with that 1.3-billion dollars. but they are allowing the border patrol agents to prioritizein te vulnerabilities. that is a beg change from 2018. >> you have $8 billion worth ofr other money to access from drugr blockades? >> thats correct. >> you have returns from the treasury. >> right. >> forfeitures. heres my question, tho...