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Courts. >> absolutely. >> now, when the president talks about taking money away from disaster relief funding, and that is under consideration right now, can you explain what impact that would have on your district? >> it would be terribly, terribly serious, the disaster recovery money that was allocated last spring in the appropriation process is absolutely necessary to shore up the levies in the sacramento region. and for one of our communities that has 35 foot levies all around it within moments of a break in the levies that entire community of 14,000 people would be inundated in water that ...

Billion plus right now. as for the president's idea of going around congress and declaring a national emergency in order to build the wall, lawmakers speaking out today seem to be against that regardless of their political party. >> nobody wants him to invoke it, and i don't believe the president wants to invoke it. >> this would be a terrible use of department of defense dollars. >> i don't think the president has that authority. >> he could, and that gives him more power. but what i'd like to see, us do it through the congress, through the appropriation process. do it right. because most of ...

You can control from anywhere on any device. and it protects you with 24/7 professional monitoring. i guess we're sleeping here tonight. xfinity home. simple. easy. awesome. call, go online or demo in an xfinity store today. maria: welcome back we're back with alabama senator richard shelby and senator you've been in the thick of all of these talks to potentially get this government back open. is there another way the president sees to fund the wall just to get the government open in the process? >> i believe the president has got a lot more power to defend this country as a commander-in-chief...

Pretty much ordinary funding exercise, as you know, chuck, we resumed the ordinary appropriation process and as a result we have a very small sliver of the government that's unresolved in the shutdown mode. everybody gets paid. i think it gets resolved quickly and completely taking away focus from where it should be on a very, very strong economy and some really good economic news generally. >> well, but i got to ask you. i would tend to agree with what you said except the president decided no to the go down this path. the president decided to up end things. you had three shutdowns this year. ...

Wall. after 40 years of talk it is time for action. fix the border once and for all now. limited time lawmakers return. are we heading for partial government shutdown? >> i hope not. the republicans control the house, senate and white house. i hope they don't shut the government down. last time we had an appropriation process it works well. it was bipartisan. the president was not involved. we were able to reach consensus and find common ground with our republican colleagues. that moved forward. i hope we can do it again but the republicans control the house, senate and white house so they wil...