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So there are dozens of national emergencies in effect right now, so why would the president's potential declaration of a border emergency be different? john avlon joins us with the reality check. sir. >> guys, what we've got here is history making incomp teps. a self-inflicted shutdown officially tied for the long northwest american history that will almost certainly take the record tomorrow. president trump's boxed in and it looks like he'll use a declaration of a math national emergency as an off-ramp. is this really an emergency. >> jimmy carter first tried out these powers during the irani...