conservative media, said this was a garbage compromise, it was awful. next day, once they got indication from the president that he was going to sign it, they said sign it but only if you declare a national emergency. the president seems to have accepted their advice. >> he listens very closely to what some of his conservative allies say on television. in talking to white house sources and allies of the president, he certainly has sort of been waffling on the idea of a national emergency, on declaring that. i talked to a white house source a couple of days ago who said i thought he was going to do it. now i'm not so sure. he knew what the political blowback would be. why didn't you do this before? and it's going to take years to build which is the wall at the bord border. when the white how looked at the numbers, the only way he could get to the $5.7 billion, which is the number he said he needs for the wall, is by declaring