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That is a legal challenge that is obviously ongoing. i think the question is what can they do right now. and you have to remember that every fall, congress has to fund the government, and specifically democrats are going to tuck in language that says trump cannot make these changes, cannot make these moves. perhaps republicans will go along with it because some of their districts are being affected. and if that is sent to the white house, the question is does he shut down the government and veto such a bill, or does he take it and sort of figure out another way to fund his border wall? >> beca...

Florida, and puerto rico. >> at a time when we're seeing more and more actual disasters not manmade crises, but real crises, the fires that happen in california, we've had multiple storms, big hurricanes, you want to have that big pot of money there to help real people deal with real problems. this is a bad thing, not just for the finances of the country, it's a bad thing for the country itself. people keep telling me it will be great for him to do this because we're going to get out of this situation. it's a get out of jail free card for everybody if he just declares a state of emergency. no....

A saudi law firm paid the hotel thousands of dollars for food and accommodations. -- in part, because of a visit from saudi crown prince. according to a letter obtained by the washington post the hotel's general manager said that he did not stay at the hotel himself. but due to the close relationship, we were able to accommodate many of the travelsers. >> we don't know really very much about his efforts to open other appropriates. we don't know who financed them or if he can restart them down

Limiting appropriates, which you and i have reported on but at the broader level they're saying there isn't a law that requires him to walk away and that means everyone has to play and compete in business, business can be tough, there's all sorts of different advances. those are the type of arguments we would expect them to continue to make. >> ari melber, thank you very much. we want to take a live look just down the road down pennsylvania avenue, a live look at the energy and commerce committee doing what they call markup and what other people call making any changes. and we saw the ways and...

Go after that. there's a big distinction between that and recreational marijuana. when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people. there's a federal law that we need to abide by in terms of the medical -- when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs. there's a big difference between medical marijuana, which states have a -- the states where it's allowed in accordance with the appropriates rider have set forth a process to administer and regulate that usage versus recreat...