justice and the fbi. and bill barr is going to be exceptional. you need someone exceptional because it has to be cleaned out. what has gone on there for years has been terrible. you look at bruce ohr and his wife who worked for gps fusion and they are the ones that did this phony report, the fake dossier. boy, it s a hornets nest. i think that bill is going to do a great job. sean: one last question. immigration. you saw the vote of the house, my some republicans, but it doesn t look like president trump: i will be fine. sean: you will veto it, it won t be overwritten. i understand that there is about 23 million, all the other things that will be used for border security. president trump: president for you sean: how much will you be able to have? the 1.375 president trump: first of all, we ll be building over 200 miles of all. i will call us while as opposed or slats. they said, can you call it slats or barriers, and we played the
this is not president trump sitting down and making stuff up this is what the professionals tell us we need. these are the top 10 sites that we need a barrier to protect the border and the total cost is 5.7 you take the 1.375 out of that, what congress gave him and you go into the military construction bill, you go into other pieces of legislation, you move money around, and you build-out the wall of the barrier. that s where he s going to get the money from. some from here and some from there and the national emergency declaration has been used 50 times. obama sent troops to the border. bush 43 sent troops to the border. trump is sending troops to the border. what s the difference between sending a soldier, to the border to sure up the border than having a soldier, build a barrier while they re there is all the legal authority he needs and i hope the republicans will stand behind him. this is a defining issue in our party. maria: well is this a defining issue also for 2020?
he blew it. last june a bipartisan vote appropriated 1.6 billion and he turned that down. insisted on 5.7 and shut down the government for 35 days and got 1.375. less money. now he is declaring a national emergency. he doesn t need to do that. he should take the 1.375, half of the money he will be using he could get without a national emergency. just reprogramming authority that nobody contests. he could have $4.5 billion for the wall now without a national emergency. heather: where does he get the additional money? half of the additional money is reprogramming authority the president has. drug enforcement agency and dod drug enforcement money. it comes to $4.5 billion if you combine it with the 1.38 from congress. he could have 4.5 billion, a billion less than he asked congress for right now without a national emergency and then start building the wall and in
mexico is supposed to pay for. he s got 1.375 billi$1.375 bille appropriations bill. none of it is supposed to be for the wall. it s explicit. he s going to try to take 3.6 billion for military construction. another $2.5 billion from the drug interdiction program. then he s going to swipe $600 million from the treasury department drug forfeitture fund. are we to believe in the republican white house, defense department money doesn t matter? whatever that money was intended for isn t important? he s going to build a wall and put his name on it? it s another use of congress power. congress designated that money for a reason. in a remark, he said it doesn t seem that important to me. i want to go back to the primary
and find the difference between 1.375 and 5.7 through executive action. he has all the legal authority in the world to do this. senator lindsey graham, a close ally of the president has been urging the president to do this because he didn t think they d find a legislative solution, they found a legg legislative solution. it s a procedural nerds dream to go through what could happen next, i ll spare everyone that. but the question for senate republicans, they have 53. this is a problem. and fundamentally, assuming the house goes forward with this and passes it, the senate is going to have to take it up and republicans have to go on the board where they stand with this. the procedural nerd part says what if the senate passes it, the president vetoes it, but does the president want to get into that kind of conflict? i think the real question is, is mitch mcconnell going to try to attempt to convince republicans not to do what he believes is