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The argument, you gave me $1.4 billion last fiscal year, why can't you give me at least that much money this next fiscal year and help me build an additional 55 miles of border wall. it will be a tough argument i think for those in congress who voted against this legislation to say well, we're not going to give it to you this year because we gave something to you last year and that's going to be the argument i think the white house will make when the fiscal year begins, october 1st of this year. eric: quickly you predict basically that despite this, despite the controversy and the lawsuits, th...

Veto it. he's going to say stop it. that's right. >> and then they have the ability to go through the appropriation process. that process to review him to take back those funds to cut-off his avenue of funding. he can go to court and any number of people also may have standing in the courts that's going to lose their property and imminent domain to any number of agency who are affected. there are a lot of tools out there for democrats to use and the president was not contempt just to get beaten and not being able to cut a deal. now he's going to get beaten on the floor and in courts and be bea...

This may be the next crisis that is coming, democrats i have talked to, they are split on this next step of if the president goes around congress to get more money for the wall. if you declare a national emergency to the side because that would face a legal challenge, if it was looking for pots of money through an executive order, some say it is something the legislative branch would have to deal with. i want you to listen to this threat levelled yesterday if the president went that route. >> ft president goes over and overrides the appropriation process by moving significant amounts of money ...

Apr apr aprop praelted mope on their own. one of the primary ways they could do that, a 1986 law. and then take the civil works projects, many of which are related to flood agencies across america. hopefully that will not happeha that will set off immediate lawsuits along the way. there's another way, follow the constitution. our tax is to levy taxtaxes. that's one of our tasks. the other is how to spend the tax money, the appropriation process. the president's responsibility is to tell us what is needed and make a decision about whether it's this and that or how much for each one.

Some of it they just have to notify congress they're doing. other pockets they have to actually request permission from congress. so i think they'll take the steps of least resistance first, find the money they might have where they only have to notify us or maybe don't even have to. >> yarmouth is correct on the technical details. however, there's this thing called we don't vacate the field. if the president goes over and overrides the appropriation process by moving significant amounts of money from one program to another, there is a thing called we'll see you tomorrow, mr. president. you're...