the price. here's how white house press secretary sarah sanders, here's how she tried to square that circle. >> an merge or not an emergency. you can't have half an emergency. >> you're missing the point. it is not just an emergency. it's a crisis at the border, but the national security and a humanitarian crisis but there's a process in which the president wants to exhaust all options primarily doing what we feel is the best one, which is a legislative fix. but if congress doesn't do their job, then the president will be forced to make up for all of their shortcomings. >> well, the white house has yet to offer credible evidence that what's happening at the border is an emergency let alone a very special kind of emergency, the kind with no urgency, that somehow demands no immediate action, none, perhaps beyond threatening the livelihood of people who bore the brunt of it the last time around again. more now on the congressional panel that president trump is depending on to get him out of this mess but that he's also