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It for other purposes. if a democratic president did that, you probably would be irate, right? >> im the commissioner of cbp. reprogramming funds, that happens under every presidency. it happened in the obama administration, the bush administration. reprogramming funds. right now if were in the middle of a national emergency where we need additional funds to effectively deal with that, were going to reprogram funds to do that. it happens every -- under every single administration. >> neil: even ...

To go to the floor today. and he does expect it to pass. now, that will still mean there has to be negotiations between the senate and the house to come up with a final package. that is standard business around here. but there are differences. and the differences really do reflect some of the kind of ideas that the two parties have. and you can see that. they want additional money for the department of defense. they want to have congressional notice of full of two days before anybody can go to t...

Gone or from disaster funds, that would be another thing that you would have votes challenging him. >> and there are hmms that really oppose this idea of reprogramming funds. >> marco rubio and rick scott both fought hard. they have not gotten into the partisan politics of puerto rico. >> and this is why on so many levels this policy is problematic and i think democrats are going to challenge it. i mean there are appropriations authority, a constitutional authority, and they will have a lot of r...

Bar. can he do this, scott. is that legal or constitutional? >> well, he can certainly try to do it, lets just say that. obviously the congress would have to appropriate the dollars, even if he declared a national emergency, but he would meet legal challenges. if he dipped into the d.o.d. budget where there were funds that were unallocated but there or if he tried reprogramming funds, he could try to do that. w we dont know how much is this that fund. he would face an almost immediate legal chal...

There continues. cnn chief national correspondent john king is here to break it all down for us. so john, were talking reprog m reprogrammireprogra reprogramming funds. the administration is putting a hold on aid to egypt without having to say it, like theyre acting like its a coup without having to make the significant declaration. whats the effect here do you think? >> what theyre trying to do here, kate, ive just been having an e-mail exchange with a couple administration officials is to spli...