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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting March 14, 2019

Mitt romney, pat toomey of pennsylvania, rob portman of ohio, roger wicker of mississippi, marco rubio of florida and row blount of missouri. All voicing against the president along with every democrat. It is a strong bipartisan rebuke of President Trumps plan. Congress has overturned the National Emergency declaration that would have provided funding for the president s proposed border wall. He asked the house for the house said no. Then he declared a National Emergency. Now congress has said no again. But next, the promises he will veto. We have team fox coverage. John roberts reporting from the white house. Mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. Mike . There were attempts by some Senate Republicans to cut a deal with the president to see if they could limit future national emergencies. Sources say they were noter into where the president stood in some of these proposals offered to him. So heres why utah senator mitt romney was a no today. Im voting in favor of the resolution. Its not about the balance of power. Its not about the president or Border Security. I support Border Security. I support the construction of a border barrier. In terms of republicans, supporting the president on this issue, Florida Senate eric scott explained why he understands or says why he understands the president s frustration. The president didnt like this process. He tried to get funding done. He offered other things. He offered to do something with daca and its pure hatred of the president. They dont want the president to have a win. The truth is, americans need a win. Thom tillis was originally against it. It changed his vote today. Hes up for reelection next year in a battleground state. What did we hear from democrats on this . You heard the Senate Democratic leader making a case that the president s action here is unconstitutional. The framers Gave Congress the power of the purse. Its probably our greatest power. Now the president is claiming that power for himself under the guise of an Emergency Declaration to get around the congress that repeatedly would not authorize his demand for a border wall. Colorado Democrat Michael bennett picked apart the president s language on the issue. Your president is saying he needs a National Emergency to build a wall . It is preposterous. It is a joke. Democrats appear to be enjoying forcing President Trump to use his veto power for the first time, shep. Shepard the president billed todays vote in stark terms. A vote with him is a vote for Border Security. A vote against him was a vote against Border Security. The truth is both sides they want Border Security but they disagree on how to best accomplish the goal. Further, of course, this issue of the Emergency Declaration itself is front and center as outlined in the constitution, theres a separation of powers in america. The house of representatives is granted the power of the Purse Strings. Democrats insist the president s emergency is no emergency at all but an attempt to build the wall for which the funding was denied . John roberts live on the north lawn. John . Good afternoon, shep. The president and the white house were twisting arms hard trying to stem the bleeding here. Its not as bad as the worst Case Scenario but it was bad when you have 12 republican senators defecting. The president offering up to change the president ial Emergency Powers act in the future. He said he needed the money now. As you heard mitt romney say, this was not about building a border barrier. This was about the constitutionality of who controls the Purse Strings. So this bill sometime in the next few hour to few days and he will for the very first time use the veto pen. Its not sure if it will go back for a override vote. Nancy pelosi has not committed to that. Shes probably 40 votes shy of overturns it. Based on the senate vote, theres not the 67 votes to kill it or restore it in the senate either. The president meantime plans to keep building miles of new border barrier near the southern border. In the new budget, hes asked for 8. 7 billion to build the wall. The president insisting this morn as he sat with irelands Prime Minister that a lot of wall is being build now. A lot of wall going up. I dont know if you see it or want to see it. Theres a lot of wall and a lot of contracts being let out for additional many, many miles of wall. Were going to have hundreds of miles of wall up fairly soon. There has been a sharp uptick in the number of people apprehended this year. The president said the system is at a breaking point. Listen here. Theyre apprehending, call it whatever you like to use, but theyre apprehending thousands and thousands of people a month. Were catching them and were keeping them. Were not doing release. Al some point we have to do some releases because we dont have the bed space, we dont have the room and we dont have the funds to build new space. The president also said that were seeing record numbers of people apprehended at the border, which is not a factual statement. The numbers that we saw last month in february, 76,000 do represent a 11year high but theyre well off the record, which was set in modern times going from 2000 all the way to 2018, the high point, shep, was this march of 2000 when 220,000 people were apprehended at the border. Were not there but were at an 11year high. And the claim of new wall, that is just inaccurate as well. Anything that is being build is from previous allocations and nothing new because its not been approved. It is. Liken it to you have a car. Its a 67 dodge. You have a new car but you didnt get two cars. Theyre just replacing existing wall with new border barrier. But its different. In some case it was just landing matt fencing. Now theyre putting up the new wall. The fence is new but youre not going to get more distance out of it. He will get more out of the appropriations from congress that hes doing even without the money from the Emergency Declaration. Thanks, john. Lets get to chris wallace, host of fox news sunday. He laid this out starkly, chris. He said you with me or against me here. He had 12 defectors. I guess different defectors had different reasons. Id say this is more of a procedural or constitutional issue than a policy issue as you heard in mike emanuels report, a number of these people support building a border wall. They dont support the idea of a National Emergency. Just to make it clear, theres a National Emergencys act passed by congress in 1976 and dozens of emergencies that have been declared by various president s for various purposes. Theres never been one where a president went to congress, asked for money, rejected by congress and used Emergency Powers to get the money. Thats what sets this one apart from all the others. Thats why you have a number of republican senators say i support the wall but i dont support this idea of violating article 1 of the constitution, which gives congress, not the president , congress the power of the purse. Shepard in the past, chris, when republicans have gone against his wishes, he has enacted retribution in one way or another. What might these individual senators expect from him, if anything . I dont think very much given the fact that theres so many. Theres 12. The other thing worth noting, this isnt the first time this year this has happened. In february 46 republican senators sided with democrats to vote against the president s decision at that point to make a very quick pullout of all u. S. Troops from syria. The president had to recourse. Hes keeping 400 troops. Yesterday, seven republican senators voted against the president with democrats to create a majority to pull all u. S. Troops, all aid for the saudi effort in yemen. The third time in 1 1 2 months when republican senators have provided a majority with strong democratic support to vote against the president s policy. Its a political defeat for the president and a practical sense it wont be because as john as mike pointed out, he will veto the resolution of disapproval if congress doesnt have the votes to override. The house may not even take a vote because theres so many moderates that this would be a difficult vote in red or purple districts and they dont want to be seen voting against the president s wall. So nancy pelosi may not even bring this up. Shepard which is the place where weve been reporting for months that we expected to be at this point, that is, he declares his emergency on the coast or on the border there and its tied up in lawsuits and nothing happens. Well have to see. We havent had a ruling of the court out west in the ninth circuit staying thents emergency order. Clearly it looks now like after the president s veto this will no longer be in congress and go to the courts. Well see what a judge decides. Shepard politically there, does that give the president something . Will he say heading into 2020, you saw i did everything i could do. I did everything all the way down to a veto. I tried to get your wall. Build the wall, build the wall. Couldnt get it done. Absolutely, this is one of the run articles of fate between President Trump and his base support in 2016. How many tied did we hear him say were going to build the wall . Yeah, he said mexico would pay for it. Clearly they arent. At least he can say first of all, he will build new wall with the money appropriated by congress and the money he will repurpose. Even if hes blocked in the National Emergency and he builds i think john said 77 miles of new wall, at least he can say look, i have done everything i could. I took it to congress, i vetoed when they disapproved my National Emergency declaration. Ive done everything i could and lord know as democrat wouldnt. Thats the argument he makes. Shepard real quickly. Looks like there were five that were going to vote against him here. Getting to 12 wasnt as john roberts the worst case, but if any of those individuals, do you see one who is making a statement on some other level or is this all about the constitution says the house controls the Purse Strings and sir, mr. President respectfully you do not . Is anyone saying more than that . I dont think so. Maybe some of the more moderate people like susan collins, Lisa Murkowski potentially. This in a sense was an easy vote for some republicans because they didnt have to buck the president s policy and say we dont agree with you on building the border wall. This is about the separation of powers, constitution and worth standing up for our own institution against what we see as you overreaching and deciding to declare a National Emergency. Shepard well see if we hear from the president. Wouldnt be out of character. Thanks, chris. Good to see you. Congratulations. Can i say quickly you got a big award . Real quickly, i want to say a very distinguished man came up and said i want to congratulate you for being the second person that beat shep smith verbally on a routine basis. He said who are you . Im benton smith. Im sheps older brother. I get it on a regular basis. He did. Except when we played basketball and he came after me with a butcher knife. We were children. That was different. He said verbally. He didnt talk about culinary instruments. Hes on a boat on the way to mexico with the kids. Maybe he can stay there. I dont mean to cause a family feud. You knew. Its your mission in life. Maybe a little. Thanks, chris. Good to see you. 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This on the heels of the rebuke from the senate on his Emergency Declaration at the border with mexico. Largely on procedural matters. The house controls the purse. They told him know. He declared a National Emergency. They told him no. They dont have enough votes to override the veto so the president will veto. Thats the word from the president. I said a little while ago, maybe well get something from the president. I was thinking something on camera. There you go. Twitter provides. Theres another name on the list of Democratic Candidates for the 2020 election. His name is beto orourke. The former democratic congressman from texas officially entering the race this morning. He joins a crowded room. Theres a lot of them. Were still waiting to hear from the former Vice President , joe biden. Lets get to mike tobin on the campaign trail, about 170 miles in iowa at burlington. He had a meet and greet at a coffee house. Hi, mike. 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