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also with me is charlie dent, and a cnn political commentator. good to see both of you. so charlie, how much does the white house have to convince the nation, convince congress there is indeed a national emergency after making that declaration in order to get access to the money that they re hoping for? the president has a lot of persuading to do. he has to certainly persuade me. i was the guy who wrote the military appropriations bill before i left congress. and as far as i m concerned this is clear and blatant and flagrant violation of the law. it s a slap in the face to congress. the only violation here is this constitutional crisis he s setting off. the president is essentially going to raid 25% of all military construction funds for this year. mexico is not paying for this wall. military families are. this is coming out of military housing, military schools, military hospitals and health

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