Now, this trip no doubt will give President Trump another chance to show that he will not approve any funding deal in a didnt include money for his border wall. A wall that we know now the president wants made of steel. He stipulated that in a letter to the senate. For more, we turn to pamela brown. And pamela, talk to me first just about addressing the nation tomorrow night and also this visit to the border thursday. Reporter so the president just recently tweeted saying that he will give an address to the nation on the, quote, humanitarian and National Security crisis on our southern border. He said that address will happen tomorrow night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. What is unclear is which networks if any have accepted the white houses request for this primetime address. The president using his bully pulpit to make his case to the American Public for border wall funding. Of course that is the main Sticking Point as this Government Shutdown goes into its third week. It is unusual for the president of the United States to make a primetime address on a partisan issue such as this. Such as a border wall funding. And so we will have to wait and see what exactly will happen, which networks if any have accepted this request. This comes as we are also learning that the president plans to visit the southern border on thursday. The white house says that more details are to come on that. But again, sarah sander, the press secretary, framing this as a National Security issue saying that the president wants to go to the southern border to see those on the front lines of this humanitarian crisis and National Security crisis. Of course all of this happening as there is really an impasse still on this third week of the Government Shutdown in terms of what will both sides come to, what will they agree to. There were these negotiations over the weekend between mike pence and leadership on both sides of tfof the aisle, but so are telling cnn that basically both sides are just sticking to their talking points. But there is a real human impact, these nearly 100 million sorry, 1 million rather i should say federal workers who are impacted by this. Some telling cnn that they are concerned about making ends meet. The president in response to questions about that said that those federal workers will make adjustments. Well talk to one of those workers in a minute. Pamela, thank you. And in talking with this negotiation that went over the weekend and this impasse, Sunlen Serfaty is on capitol hill for us. Where do the negotiations stand . Reporter this new offer isnt going far with democrats up here at all. It is simply put filled with a lot of nonstarters for democrats starting with that number amount, the 5. 78 billion requested by the white house for the steeled barrier, no longer a concrete barrier, at the border wall, including a whole list of other things. Well pull it out screen. 571 million for additional i. C. E. Workers, 563 million for additional Immigration Judges, 211 for Additional Border patrol a littles. Democrats have made it clear that they want the government to be reopened before they even address any sort of Border Security issue. Nancy pelosi will make her move on that again to pass bills not related to the border wall funding, reaping pa iopening re related to the border. But the republicans saying the government will not be reopened before any deal. And so very little if any progress sort of the actual paper statement, opening point if you will, come from the white house on what they want. Thank you. So that is conditioning and tgr white house, but what about the folks this effects . If Congress Wont agree to build the border wall, the president says he may go out on his own to have it done. I may theirqular declare a National Emergency. I think that we will have some serious talks come monday, tuesday, wednesday. With me now, legal analyst cor kerry cordero. She is currentliedy ed ied y ei professor at georgetown. First things first. In terms of a National Emergency, can President Trump even do this, is it legal . A president does have very Broad Authority when it comes to national and Homeland Security and the ability to designate National Emergencies. So there is an act by congress, the National Emergencies act, which provides a process by which the president can make these types of designations. So there is a lawful avenue for him to declare a National Emergency. Okay. And the legalities of this before we dive into this. So if we can just point out, that on friday, the president acknowledged what we had initially heard from leader schumer that the president did indeed say in this meeting that he would keep the Government Shutdown for monthses or even years. How can you declare such a sense of urgency that needs to be built right now if you are willing to wait months or years in a shutdown to get what you want . Well, here is the problem from a National Security perspective. The problem is that the president , this specific president , has a demonstrated history throughout his campaign and his presidency of using National Security as a pretepre to achieve political objectives. Is that dangerous . As a National Security policy professional, i cant begin to tell you how dangerous i think that is. Because it has different effects. One hand, he has the potential to abuse National Security legal authority. So the constitution grants the president and certain acts grant the president these wide latitude of authorities to act in a Real National emergency. A reeal National Security threa. The trouble is there is no information that has been provided in the Public Domain indicating that the border wall, the 5 billion that he wants, actually would achieve a National Security or Homeland Security objective. There is certainly a humanitarian problem. There certainly needs to be more Immigration Judges and there is a whole host of border and immigration security legislation that is likely needed. But the border wall money is a political issue for the president. And what concerns me is that he is going down the path once again, because we saw him do this with the travel ban, of trying to use his broad National Security exec i hautive authori in an bus sif way. And the conversation over the weekend between Sarah Sanders and fox news Chris Wallace i think proves that the point you are making. And well play that for you in a bit if you missed it. But let me play this, as we are talking about National Emergency, lets look through the nations history. And adam schiff put this way. If harry truman couldnt nationalize the Steel Industry during wartime, this president doesnt have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border. So that is a nonstarter. So if president truman couldnt do it in wartime, how can this president . What are other examples with previous president s who have declared a National Emergency . Well, there is other examples. For example for hurricanes and things like that where the president can when the federal government wants to assist local or state governments respond to a specific National Emergency. So the difference is when there is an actual emergency that the president is responding to versus in the current circumstance or i would also again with the travel ban, the president s first attempt to implement the travel ban, where he just orders something. And then what happens, here is how this will play out and i think this is what congressman schiff is getting at, which is that the president if he were to declare a National Emergency, then he would have to report the justification to that for congress. So congress would have an opportunity to take further action. In addition, in this particular circumstance, i think it is likely that it would be lit galtsed similar to the travel ban where there would be challenges to his exercise of his authority. Which has an ironic result which is that at the end of this president s term in office whenever that may be, we may find that his aggressive use of sp executive power will be more limit and he will leave the presidency much weaker than when he found it because there is going to be continued litigation and pushback from the two other branches of government. A great point. You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you very much for coming on. And as we talk about this shutdown here, the impact is hitting so many people including our airports across the skun. Tsa workers are on the job without pay to keep us safe. And some arent quite sure how they are going to make ends meet. I live about a half hour from work. And it will come to a point where you say do i put gas in my car or feed my family. You feel hopeless. And you feel helpless. Im not in washington. I dont have the influence that these people of power have. And we rely on them. We elect them to these positions to get a job done. Hundreds of tsa workers have been calling out sick as the shutdown drags on. The tsa of course insists the impact is minimal, but the air Line Pilots Association which represents 61,000 pilots is warning, quote, the shutdown of Government Agencies is adversely affecting the safety, security and efficiency of our National Air Space system. So with me now, air Traffic Controller, southwest regional Vice President of their air Traffic Controller association. Andrew, a pleasure, sir. Thank you so much for all that you do. Thank you for having me. I was talking to a federal employee on friday who told me that he felt used through this whole prod. It is day 17. How do you feel . Well, the men and women that we represent, nearly 20,000 aviation Safety Professionals, are diligently working through the shutdown to be guardians of our skies. And they have the uncertainty of not knowing when their next pay check is arriving. I mean the shutdown to us is unacceptable and it needs to end. We are talking about our nations airports, right . And this is where your expertise lies. And all these people who you represent, can you help explain to us how detrimental this could be to our security and our safety . First off just the immediate human toll that this shutdown engend engenders. We have Safety Professionals who need to be hyper focused in their work every day and the angst is becoming palpable. They are living with a fear and uncertainty of when their next paycheck is and they are having to have the Difficult Conversations with their families on how they will get through the very tumultuous times. Beyond that, of course that is k3 krush greexcruciating forn terms of the safety issue, what if tsa workers, air Traffic Control folks just decide not to show up to work for a chunk of time because they need to put meals on the table and pay for their childs tuition . What does that mean for all of us . Well, men and women will continue to come to work and perform the Public Service that they need to perform. The more insidious effects are the longer term aspects of the hit where we are already in a critically staffed situation and with the shutdown, the Training Pipeline has been cut short. And there is no relief in sight. Training has stopped. The faa academy in Oklahoma City has been closed. And we will feel the Ripple Effect of the lack of personnel for months if not years to come. Additionally the system works as a very integrated web of technologies and procedures that were currently in development and the modern staigization end have ground to a halt. So we will start seeing future chai changes not manifest in a timely manner. So last question. You know what the air industry is up to. But what is the one thing, day 17, what is the one thing that keeps you up at night overall of this . The one thing that keeps me up at night is dramatic effect on the people of the air Traffic Control system. They are left to drift. They dont know when they are going to be able to be paid and that creates an exception is al amount of consternation, frustration and grief. I cant imagine. We want to keep hearing their stories. Thank you so much to coming on. I appreciate you. Coming up next here, just weeks after President Trump declared victory over isis and u. S. Troops were quote unquote coming back now, National Security adviser general bolton is offering a very different version of how syria is likely to unfold. So who should allies and foreign leaders be listening to . Also 2020 decision time. With his official announcement coming soon, potentially, why the former Vice President sees himself as the partys best hope for dweeefeating this current president and what makes him so skeptical of the other contenders. 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And johns pretty strong on the subject. He is pretty hawkish on everything having to do with the military. In a tweet the president is lasting reports that bolton is contradicting his plans claiming nothing 45s changhas changed, ce will be leaving at a proper face and continuing to fight isis and all else prudent and necessary. So with me now, phil mudd now our cnn counterterrorism analyst. And phil, you hear john bolton, you hear President Trump. My question is, because they are saying two very different things, who should the rest of the world be listening to . I think id be listening to the secretary of state and john bolton right now. It is pretty clear what happened, the same thing that happened with Rex Tillerson when he got sideways with the president. You will call Rex Tillerson was talking about talks with the north koreans and the president said nonsense about talks. And look where we are now with north korea. After saying that he knows more than the generals, the president is now in the position of having the generals and his National Security team walk in and say if we move as quickly as you say we should move, number one, were going to get some of our allies killed in syria and number two, were going to give an opportunity to iran which is something that obviously the president doesnt want to do. He had to listen to people who knew more, that is about it. An