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Nor should anybody be happy. because $1.375 billion for a wall is not enough. it's why i have called this bill garbage from the beginning and why the president is now officially as of today declaring the national emergency that he has been telegraphing to the world he is going to do. take a look. >> president trump: so i'm going to be signing a national emergency. what we want to do is simple. it's not complicated. it's simple. we want to stop drugs from coming in the country. we want to stop criminals and gangs from coming in the country. this is invasion of the drugs and the criminals coming...

Witnessing is donald trump doing whatever it takes to fulfill his promises. more importantly, this is about protecting the lives of the american people and securing the country on the borders. many lawmakers, especially the democrats ignored the crisis at the southern border. they say it's manufactured. a month ago, speaker pelosi vowed that congress wouldn't spend more than $1 on a border wall. it's immoral. but turns out she is off. take a look. >> president trump: i went through congress. i made a deal. i got almost $1.4 billion when i wasn't supposed to get one dollar. not one dollar. he i...

Shutdown and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea there might be an attack on country or natural disaster and 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 seasons. in this case he made that case for an emergency. congress denied him the funds that he caught and now he's going to go ahead and take existing appropriations t...

The president did, it would require the senate to take that up, but it is not going to be an easy fight. it is not going to get to the 2/3 necessary in both houses to override the veto, but maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves. go to the up to $8 billion that the president is talking about diverting from other purposes to try to build the wall, the barrier or whatever he is calling it lately. $1.375 billion is in the bill hammered nout the compromise and remember, that is below the amount that the democrats were initially going to offer him. and $3.6 billion for military construction funds ...

Last several weeks during the shutdown and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea there might be an attack on country or natural disaster and 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 seasons. in this case he made that case for an emergency. congress denied him the funds that he caught and now he's going to go ahead and ...