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In washington, d.c. at the end of the day these problems will roost and these are real americans put in harms way. >> and it gets to the border wall funding that the president is asking for more funding. i mean, you voted with the president, you stood with the president when it came to the vote on the president's national emergency declaration. you are now push the president from being able to basically do the same in the future. how do you square those two thing snz. >> first, i recognize the crisis. even going forward under our proposed amendments recognize there will be emergency situations...

Declaring a national emergency? >> i am a lawyer. i'm not a judge. i do have a legal opinion. the president is not exercising any authority that, in my judgment, congress hasn't given him. presidents in the past have used these statutes 60 times. >> but not, as you know, this is a different category where congress is explicitly said, no, we're not spending that money. we're spending $1.3 billion. and that's republicans and democrats. that's a different category from many of the past emergency declarations that you've cited. >> and i suspect the democrats will make that legal argument. i don't ...

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Republican yes from them would force the president to have to veto the measure. right now, vice president pence is meeting with senate republicans to shore up support for the president. joining me now, republican congressman jody who sits on the house oversight committee. why do you have to shore up republicans to support a republican president on this? >> that's a good question, harris. i think of the end of the day the issue for many is the separation of powers. which i fully understand. but that is really a different issue. the reality is that in 1976 congress gave the executive branch the ...

I think we're going to have to evaluate whether this is really the intention of an emergency. is it really an emergency if the president asked the congress to do it and they failed to? that's different than the way this law has been used in the past. >> so you could vote to try to block the president from moving forward with this emergency, you just haven't decided yet. is that fair? >> i think that's fair. >> republican senator roy blount discussing his concerns over the president's emergency declarations over the border wall. in the senate democrats need to pick up four republican votes to p...