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MSNBC MTP Daily September 5, 2019 21:40:00

have complete focus to the american people and not foreign powers and governments. >> the president went to court to defend his right to use the national emergency act the way he's using it, on moving money away from the pentagon for these projects. are you at all concerned this will become presidential precedent? if you are, is there any thought of try iing to pass a law that would at least stop the ability to do this even if it ends up curtailing the ability of a democratic president for declaring a national emergency for climate change? >> absolutely. we've never had a president who has abused the emergency act in this way. in other words, to override the express direction of congress not to spend money, in this case on the wall, by reprogramming money from other lawfully appropriated purposes. so, we basically gave him a red light on spending tens of billions of dollars on the wall. >> right. >> he took it as a green light and started channeling money

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