very much. president trump also saying that a wall would prevent drugs and criminals from entering the country. at one point the president getting into a testy exchange with jim acosta of cnn. watch. what do you say to your critics who say you are creating a national emergency, that you are concocting a national emergency in order to get your wall? what do you think? do you think i m creating something? ask these incredible women who lost their daughters and their sons, okay. because your question is a very political question cause you have an agenda. you re cnn. you re fake news. you have an agenda. dana: william, so let s start with reaction. how do border cities and they feel about this declaration of a national emergency? reporter: welsh one is a political question, the other is a security question. it s going to depend on the state. most border towns, they have family on both sides, their
and the secret service said don t be ridiculous. nancy pelosi said, you know what, we have the authority here. i invited you. i can disinvite you. we ll only do this when the shutdown is over. today she kind of dismissed it and said this is a housekeeping matter. it s just a matter of housekeeping which, of course, it really isn t. but she was, you know, she was showing that she s in charge. why argue it s a security issue if it s not? if she doesn t want the president there, she can rescind the invitation. she would have been better off arguing politics than the security question. i think she left herself vulnerable for the first time because she came across overall since she s been there as a much tougher customer and a very wiley leader. she could have done it differently. clearly she does not want to give the president a forum to come in there and shoot at them and bang them over the head on
dismissed it and said this is a housekeeping matter. it s just a matter of housekeeping which, of course, it really isn t. but she was, you know, she was showing that she s in charge. why argue it s a security issue if it s not? if she doesn t want the president there, she can rescind the invitation. she would have been better off arguing politics than the security question. i think she left herself vulnerable for the first time because she came across overall since she s been there as a much tougher customer and a very wily leader. i think she could have done it differently. clearly, she does not want to give the president a forum to come in there and shoot at them and bang them over the head on the wall and give them another platform to go at that. he s already had one and is saying, i don t think you deserve a second crack at it and that is, the state of the union does have a hallowed background and it would be unbecoming of the president to give that kind of speech.
shelly, the republican from west virginia, that donald trump won by 42 points calling it useless, what are we doing here? let s debate the security question and reopen the government. they re fed up, i think you re right, you will see more and more of them peel off. danny, i want to ask you a question about a national emergency. the president has threatened if he doesn t get his $5 billion for this border wall he may declare a national emergency. he stopped short of that and didn t do it in his nine minute speech last night. if he does it, if he declares a national emergency, what would be the opposition he would face? what would be the pushback from the courts? fortunately, history gives us a precedent for this? in 1942, the president ordered the secretary of commerce to take over the steel industry and nationalalize it for the ongoing
washington, d.c., and kelly har tongue wi tongue is with the protesters in charlottesville. and brian, what is the scene like there? ryan, we have been saying all day this is the crucial moment when the anti-racists protesters got to lafayette square part and how close to get to the white supremacist protesters and we can show you right now, a because the bulk of the anti-racist protesters are here, and you can get a perspective and our photo journalist harlan schmidt is going to give you that perspective. and harlan, point here across lafayette square a park and you can see the people beyond the police lines across there and under the trees, the handful of opeople, those are the white supremist protesters and maybe this is the best perspective that you will get as to just a crucial security question here. how close were they going to let the protesters where we are get