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Administration taking money from the disaster relief as a storm barrels towards puerto rico? >> its not a slush fund for policies that they cant get congress to pay for. this literally the administration taking money from actual crisis programs to fund a crisis of its own making, which is its remain in mexico policy and the extra burden thats created needlessly. >> phil, the rush to finish this border wall, it is a crisis of the presidents own making. he promises to deliver this wall over and ov...

There to prevent people from trying to cross. but, you know, on the campaign trail, politically, anderson, this hands the president a big talking point because now he can tell his supporters that he promised in 2016 on the trail he would build the wall and that the wall is being built even if a lot of these funds are going toward replacement fencing, anderson? >> pamela brown, thanks very much. more on the legal and political dimensions. joining us is elliott williams in the obama administration...

The wall continued to be built with funds we should note that some of them will go toward replacing, as well. >> replacement fencing which is all thats been build or thats been done so far with just -- they have been characterizing it as a new wall but replacing existing fencing. >> yeah, thats right. the president tries to frame it certainly most of it has been this replacement fencing. the president argues that this is all about protection because the fencing was crumbling and needed to be rep...

The purse and that the president didnt have this authority the groups argued violated the law but today the supreme court said the government showed that these groups. challenging it didnt have sufficient standing. the government did a good job showing that and so this is a big win for the president. this is not over yet. it can play out in the lower courts. the wall continued to be built with funds we should note that some of them will go toward replacing, as well. >> replacement fencing which ...

The rule of law. this is a significant supreme court ruling along ideological lines in the presidents favor. it is not a permanent ruling. this can still play out in the lower courts, but certainly it hands the president a big win on the campaign trail because now he can taut to his supporters that hes following through on his 2016 campaign programs, that his wall is being built. we should note that these funds that are being used will go also towards replacement fencing along with building new ...

>> it is a moving of some kind of post, don. you can argue the wall doesnt have to be concrete to be a wall and can have a hole or two and still be a wall. trump certainly didnt campaign on replacing fencing like his supporters at rallies were not chanting replace that fence and so this attempt to define wall as replacement fencing is certainly a shifting of the definitions here. >> you point out that this tweet seems like it could be in response to a piece from the washington examiner called tr...

Miles where there was already fencing or other kinds of barriers have had fencing upgraded and for most of the trumps presidency, he is simply asserted that that is his wall, like were building a wall, its going up fast and people like me fact checkers said no, youre replacing fencing. now he starts to make an argument that that replacement fencing should be counted by people like you and i as his wall. >> so hes saying he deserves credit for putting up steel fencing yet he promised -- thats not...

Flagrant moving of the goalpost or fence post? >> it is a moving of some kind of post, don. you can argue the wall doesnt have to be concrete to be a wall and can have a hole or two and still be a wall. trump certainly didnt campaign on replacing fencing like his supporters at rallies were not chanting replace that fence and so this attempt to define wall as replacement fencing is certainly a shifting of the definitions here. >> you point out that this tweet seems like it could be in response to...

Fencing or other kinds of barriers have had fencing upgraded and for most of the trumps presidency, he is simply asserted that that is his wall, like were building a wall, its going up fast and people like me fact checkers said no, youre replacing fencing. now he starts to make an argument that that replacement fencing should be counted by people like you and i as his wall. >> so hes saying he deserves credit for putting up steel fencing yet he promised -- thats not what he promised during the c...

California because he was convinced the state was doing something wrong. it turned out he never ordered fema to do anything of the sort. last fall, trump boasted about a new tax cut that he and republicans in congress had come up with. they were putting the finishing touches on it. they would be unveiled before the election. no one in congress had any idea what anyone was talking about. even white house officials were stating they were mystified. he said, quote, im not going to comment on whethe...