Oval office. The networks are trying to figure whether or not they want to cover it, who should be on, how they will do factchecking. For the president has a great opportunity. Its an important moment. Harris and the nation has an opportunity to hear what his plans are with regard to the shutdown, too. Lets get to the news. The president s address comes with the partial shutdown, the second longest in u. S. History now. The big question hangover tonights speech will the president declare a National Emergency, allowing him to build a border wall without congressional approval . On thursday the president will travel to the southern border to meet with officials they are. A Law Enforcement source telling fox news the location of that visit will be mcallen, texas. Vice president mike pence today says our country is dealing with a bona fide emergency at the border. The president will tackle it head on tonight. Watch. The passion you hear from President Trump, his determination to take this case to the American People, as he wields a in his National Broadcast from the oval office, it comes from this president s deep desire to do his job to protect the American People. We are going to continue to carry that case forward until the democrats in Congress Come to the table and start negotiating. Not just to end the Government Shutdown, but to address what is an undeniable crisis at our southern border. Harris but some democrats, including senator chris coons, are stepping up warning us against the president declaring a National Emergency over the border. Watch. If the president tries to reach out and extend his executive power and tried to get our military to build a border while declaring this a National Security emergency, i think you will face a significant and likely successful challenge in court. Harris you set us up a little bit off the tippy top, congressman, about where exactly we are in the conversation. How the networks handle things, factchecking. Jason yeah, they have never treated a president like this. The idea that they would slow down the feed so they can do realtime factchecking. You have the incoming chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler, saying he anticipates the president is going to flat out lied. Again, i think they are overplaying their hand. Love the president go out there. He needs to not be political, he just needs to state the facts and talk about the human toll and human cost and Human Trafficking thats going on. The drugs coming across the border i think if he stays on that script, looks everybody in the eye from the oval office, he will be highly successful. Harris you drill down to what he would say, according to you, that will be helpful. We will get to the other matter. I just want to touch on it with you. Kennedy, what does the present need to do tonight just in terms of shoring up the public view that he is in control of this Government Shutdown he said he would take the responsibility for . Kennedy you need to do a couple things. When it comes to the border and what he sees is most problematic, he really needs to lay out facts. He is talking to an audience and we were talking about this before the show started who is not always politically engaged and not reading every headline and every story. For people out there who are normally watching primetime sitcoms and other programs, they need to know what is happening and how it affects them. He also needs to demonstrate that he does care a lot about the federal workers who arent getting paychecks right now, and also show how he plans to bring that to a terminus. Because he is meeting with the kind of resistance right now, and nonnegotiation with democrats, that is making that very, very difficult. He needs to do two things a very logical, datadriven expo nation of what the crisis is on the border and how he sees it, but also something more emotional and empathetic in terms of the workers who are melissa that to key point you made, the idea that its a different audience than is normally talking about this issue. For folks watching at home right now, they are not necessarily people they are going to be talking to tonight. He is trying to reach out to folks who may not couldnt be completely decided this issue. He sang its not racist, its not about putting a wall up, its about establishing a border, having security, and laying the foundation for the country. Harris its Interest Income of the timing of this. The next round of paychecks that will be if we dont figure this out. By some estimations, its too late already to get those thursday or friday checks out at this point. The issue now is the shutdown. With regard to it melissa is saying about the border at and l of that, it might have been better to do the speech after. But the time will allow for that. Lisa i think this is a pivotal time for him to speak to americans. Often, americans only get one side of the story from the Mainstream Media. They often do the sad stories of migrants, why they are trying to come to the United States, and the other side is the illegality of it and the problem that arises with that. That story is not told. I think President Trump has done a good job changing the dynamic of the way illegal immigration is discussed read he did this since the inception of his campaign, in which he made illegal immigration and issue. He also did a pilot industrys of it when he was at the state of the union and told the story of the two young girls killed at the hands of ms13, and most recently we have the person who died at the hands of an illegal immigrant in california. Telling those stories is important, as well. Change you made a mix of that, as there is also this other sidl immigration thats not so good. Aside that we dont want here in the United States. Harris do you think the president would look at that executive order in terms of what he sees at the border this week, and that emergency, as something that would be longlasting . Or do you think that what the democrats are asking is to pass these six preparations bills and we can take time to get to the 5. 7 billion for the wall . Do you think they will get back to that . No, congress always does the kind of things. Harris so its almost as permanent as the daca that obama put in place . Jason the time it will take to go through the legal system, i think the president has broad viability here. Remember, president obama, in his final year of his administration, spent in appropriations more than 300 billion that was not authorized by congress. So there is some precedent out there. Harris that is with regard to operations in the field of jason all across the board. Most apartments and agencies actually spend money that was not authorized by congress, but was appropriated. So, can you change the appropriation and shift money between accounts . You can do that. It happens all the time. Thats why you had adam smith, the incoming chairman of the house the pentagon, essentially, the military side of the equation saying that he can do this. Melissa what you think is the president s best option right now . Jason i dont think he should pull the trigger yet. I thickets out there, there should be a Good National discussion, but this is the opportunity to speak to millions of american, and im glad the networks are going to allow the democrats to come out there they should. Let them make their case on why they think the border wall is immoral. Why they have already built 600 miles of it, but the 601st mile is really something we should never, ever do. Let them make that case. Harris twice as much as the 234 the president is looking to build next. So youre going to tear the rest down . If you are politically opposed to a wall, do you take on the rest, too . Jason that the absurdity of it. Melissa here we go. Meantime, lots of attention from some of the president s critics in the media when it comes to tonights primetime address. Something the president doesnt deserve, a primetime slot. Also suggesting that networks should factcheck in real time his speech. Here Senior Analyst and former White House Press secretary, joe lockhart. If i were an executive, which i am not come i wouldnt put this on life. I would have them do the address, look at her and find out whats true and whats not, or say give me the text in advance. You have a president trying to create hysteria for his own political purposes, not to protect the murky people. Melissa some critics also pointing to a 2014 address by president obama on immigration. The broadcast networks did not carry it because reportedly felt it was overtly political and fell during the november sweeps. Probably that one. The administration did not officially request the time, it just floated there deeded to executors. Mean time, nancy posey and Chuck Schumer in the statement saying they need to combat what they predict will be a speech by trump full of malice and misinformation. As he mentioned, they are now slated to deliver a joint which will reportedly be carried by all the major networks. I think whats interesting about this the last time there was, i think, a rebuttal to the president in prime time was when president obama came out and made his pitch on health care. To which, at the time, i was one of the people who said he was lying. Although we didnt use that word at the time because we were more polite. When he said if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, premiums will go down for each family by 1250 per family per year, this is going to drive down costs, which come at the time, if you can do math you know it was a lie. He said that in order to sell it. The other side came on and rebutted that. I wonder if they considered at that time factchecking him. Lisa they probably didnt. It just demonstrates the fact that this president is treated differently than previous president s. We also see that just in in the statistics, the negative Media Coverage toward President Trump versus president obama. You are right, president obama did lie to us repeatedly regarding obamacare. Let the democrats respond. How is it any different than nbc or msnbc, or cnn a prosperous coverage of the president every single night anyways . Its literally no different. I think democrats are a little worried about what President Trump is going to say tonight. We should really focus on in addition to the illegality is also the fairness aspect of it as well. People are trying to break the law, cut the line. Its unfair. I think the majority of americans believe in the rule of law, and basic fairness. I think President Trump should talk about how the rule of law is being repeatedly railroaded by people who are trying to come here illegally. Melissa its important not to conflate immigration and illegal immigration. Because thats what a lot on the left and the Mainstream Media are doing, saying that folks who want a wall are against all immigrants. Its not the case. Kennedy we are also conflate a good and bad. People who come here with good intentions, and people who want to come here to hurt us industry our freedom. We cant have that second half in the country. There is no one with rational bones in their body who would disagree with that statement. I think whats interesting here is the amount of power that is concentrated in the executive branch. Thats not the fault of President Trump. There are a lot of Congressional Democrats who are to blame for that, because when it was there office, they had no problem with the executive orders. And there were no problem with republicans going through the court system. Its not just a conflation between illegal immigration and immigration, its also immigration versus border security. Congress is not taking care of its part, which is immigration. Im not hammering on that point. Im not hearing Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi talk about the legislation of alternatives and the road map they have to fix the immigration system. Part of the reason its a National Security crisis is because people dont know exactly whats happening. If you remember come aboard apprehensions went way down when the president was inaugurated. Thats because people who were coming up from Central America and latin america, they assumed that the border was close. Then they heard that catch and release was back on. Then they feared we were such hardliners they would be able to get to the country at all, and thats what you have this. Harris part of what candidate he is saying is so true when it comes the democrats really laying out the alternatives. I will tell you why. If there point is we will pass the six a preparations bills and get 90 of the government up and running, as democrats were saying if they do that on the hill and republicans in the senate go along with this and its all peachy keen, they promised to go back and revisit the president s wall and the money spent. At least thats out there. We dont know what it all really looks like if we dont know what the alternatives are. I would say this, with regard to tonights speech and you talk about ben rhodes back in the day with obama, knowing who the friendly media way. They didnt actually have to make a pitch to get on the networks. They were shocked when some of them didnt. Only univision did, in the speech you are mentioning on health care. It was immigration, 2014. They were shocked when that didnt happen. Its a little distant disingeno compare that to today, because it was kind of already in the works at the networks. They didnt. But that was how it was. The other thing, too, is we will sometimes get embargoed remarks from president s and senators. But we dont normally seek those, so we can factcheck them realtime because its our job to do anyway. Jason and it takes time to do with the right way. Harris exactly. Jason a fascinating part of this , im proud that thee out there broadcasting as they should. I think its good that they will put up nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer. But they have a challenge to try and define because they havent yet what is security . If its not a border fence, if its opposite of what the Border Patrol is telling us they want, what are they going to offer . To say we are going to do drones, but when you listen to the actual Border Patrol agents who say we apprehended 60,000 people in november and we are going to have to deal with on that trajectory nearly 750,000 people, and by the way, we only catch one out of every two people who comes across, there is a crisis there. Okay, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer try to explain to us how you would you security if you wont do with the Border Patrol is telling us they need to have done. Harris joe they also have to look at this idea that the white house has talked about, with the danger of terrorists coming across the board . We dont have the same protections on our northern border, and we know that the terrorists are coming across that. Melissa they make fun of that part. They say thats not a real crisis. The president is making that up, across a seven border. 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