they're coming right through our borders. we have organizations that are completely overwhelmed by that. let's focus on what the real concerns are and address that and pay for that instead of just like over and over. >> republican congressman doug lam born's district will be impacted as well. he says it is unfortunate that it has come to this but the primary job of the commander in chief is to guarantee our national sovereignty, unquote. what do you make of that argument? >> i mean, again, i don't have a problem with the conversation. it's just this idea that the president is redefining his relationship with congress and with the military in a way that just breaks with tradition of how any president of any party has done it. the congress allocates money. that's in the constitution, so the president's continual sort of ignoring of those division of powers to me is the more dangerous piece of this. it's not one specific base, one specific community, it's the precedent it sets. so i understand we all want to