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For a major national defense emergency. this is the third time the program has been activated. previously it was used in the early 1990s and early 2000s during the iraq wars. we have more now on the situation on the ground. chief correspondent stuart ramsay is in kabul and filed this report. >> reporter: there's going to be discussion we know there is a lot of discussion taking place with the taliban. no doubt, it's confirmed, it's happening on the ground at a local level and understand it's happening at a much higher level. they say that you caused this problem in the first place, you didn't ...
Basically overriding the legislative process. >> yeah. yeah. >> the republican party has gotten to the point where they could do exactly what john describes and mitch mcconnell, you know, in the back of his mind, he always wants to have an end game, but for the end game to be the declaration of a national emergency and the transfer of billions of defense department dollars to the wall, for them to think that, okay, we'll do that because the courts will probably throw it out, but the precedent is just horrible. this is a constitutional crisis, and it is just an indication, again, of the price t...
That they can envision involves basically overriding the legislative process. >> yeah. yeah. >> the republican party has gotten to the point where they could do exactly what john describes and mitch mcconnell, you know, in the back of his mind, he always wants to have an end game, but for the end game to be the declaration of a national emergency and the transfer of billions of defense department dollars to the wall, for them to think that, okay, we'll do that because the courts will probably throw it out, but the precedent is just horrible. this is a constitutional crisis, and it is just an i...