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Some of this money is going to come from places easy for the president to acquire, the smaller pots, about $600 million from the treasury department's asset forfeiture program. but there are larger pots of money like $3.6 million from the defense budget, another $2.5 billion from drug interdiction programs that the white house is cobbing together and they're going to use that money to adds to the $1.375 billion that congress appropriated in order to build the wall. as i mentioned, some of these pots of money might be uncontroversial but there are going to be complaints from democrats and repub...

And how has this fake crisis turned into a national emergency compared to the other times that this has been used? >> well, don, let's just set aside the fact this is very typical step for an autocrat in a democracy that wants to take it into a dictatorship. we've seen this in other democracies. so let's just set that aside. is he abusing our power? absolutely. as i said the national emergency act was adopted to deal with nixon's abuses of power. and this is exactly what has from an inattention to the law by congress, they've allowed to happen. >> doug, weigh in here. because two years of repu...

For us at the white house. joe. >> reporter: well, john, the good news is there apparently is not going to be another government shutdown and today in the rose garden the president is expected to sign off on at least a couple things. obviously he's going to sign that legislation that's just been passed on capitol hill and he's also going to sign off on executive action up to and i colluding the declaration of a national emergency in order to get his border wall built on the southwest border. that's basically going to be compiling together something like $8 billion from different sources in ord...

His favorite person sph. >> i would gladly let anything bad happen to me in a moment just to save my kids and -- >> now you're getting all -- get out of here. see you later. >> happy valentine's day. >> you as well. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. we've got a lot more on our breaking news to tell you about now. the house finally passing a compromised security bill tonight. a bill the president is expected to sign tomorrow, but he's really not happy about it at all. he's getting only $1.375 billion for his wall, far short of the $5.7 billi $5.7 billion ...

Look, we had a glimpse today before it was stolen by this next chapter in the wall brawl. they came together. left and right did something reasonable. they didn't like it, they weren't happy with the deal but it was better than a shutdown. they did their damn jobs, but now here we go again. tomorrow is going to strt a whole new chapter. >> i've got to go, but can we just put that back up, so chris can see how much love he has for his favorite person? >> i would gladly let anything bad happen to me in a moment just to save my kids and -- >> now you're getting all -- get out of here. see you lat...