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I would just note, the president has been making the case that there's a national emergency for the past several weeks during the shutdown, and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said, here, you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. and so, when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea that there might be an attack on the country or a natural disaster and that the congress would not have time to react to that, the president ought to be able to spend money to react to things like that, between appropriations seaso...

The core of what will happen in court, and the numbers are going to be the numbers. it is not a political statement by donald trump. >> nancy pelosi said during the shutdown a wall, this is a quote, a wall is an immorality between countries. democrats many of them supported $1.375 billion for another barrier. so is a fence less immorality to democrats? >> there are security reasons why parts of the border have fences, and most of that 1.3 or portion of it is going to go to repair those fences, repair those barriers. >> but there will be 55 miles of extended border, new barrier. >> yeah, you ha...

Some misleading facts about the border wall even as you mentioned he undercut the leverage he might have in court by suggesting this is not a national in which at all, this is voluntary. something he did not have to do, but he chose to do after lawmakers did not come close to giving him $5.7 billion that lawmakers did not give him for his wall. he was facing pressure from both sides of the aisle to sign a spending package that lawmakers in congress put together for him. they provided $1.375 billion for his wall, that's far less, even in half of what he had requested. if the president was facin...

Environmental permitting needed for all types of construction projects. i think the point, though, is that all of that stuff has to start with funding appropriations that authorize more work to be done. and that's sort of where we are now. that's not eunique to the federl government. that's how every state and municipality operates. >> the point is they have not appropriated the money for the miles for the levee wall. and he's not able to spend the $1.375 billion this year, why do they need extra money, joseph? that's what i'm saying. is he looking at a big number to impress his base? >> no, w...

Acted as if he's above the law and does not deserve leniency. meanwhile, prosecutors have revealed for the first time that they have evidence that roger stone communicated directly with wikileaks. prosecutors do not say what was in the communications between wikileaks and stone. we joined by republican commentator, joseph, welcome back to the show. >> good morning, victor. >> let's start here with this emergency declare for building the wall. the president said among many things during that news conference in the rose garden, i didn't need to do this. does not undermine the argument that this ...