Page 44 - Emergency Declarations News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Right now 16 states are suing the trump administration to stop the president from using a national emergency declaration to reallocate congressional money so he can fund his desired border wall. joining me now is the attorney general for one of those states. thanks for taking the time with us this morning. >> jim, it's great to be with you. >> one argument you hear from the president is that under the national emergency act of the law of the land some 59 emergency declarations have been made by presidents, what in your case is the difference between this national emergency declaration and prev...

About a national emergency. it's a sort of a complicated not most well-defined thing in america. it's part of a whole lot of different laws, but one of the things danny said is federal law contains to real guidance on whether the validity or definition of a national emergency turns on a president's honest belief that it exists. nor do emergency declarations turn on how long the situation existed prior to the declaration." so the problem is, i think we had 58 emergency declarations. >> 58 or 59. yeah. >> 58 or 59. of which some 30 or 31 are still in place. how do you deal with something that's ...

>> bill: happy president's day to you from the white house this morning. move on.org has protests planned across the nation including one right across from the white house. the attorney general from california, the civil liberties union are lining up to file lawsuits against the president's emergency declaration when they return from their week off this week. it is a recess. members of congress on the democratic side planning to introduce legislation to block the emergency declaration as well. listen to adam schiff the chairman of the house intelligence committee said yesterday. >> this is the...

Made. if people don't like that, they can address it. >> this is where he's getting the funding. $1.3 billion approved by congress. $3.6 billion from the military construction budget. $2.5 billion from the defense department's drug interdiction program. $600 million from another military fund. he seemed to dance around the answer when asked about using dod funds. gabby, does the president have the right to use these funds? >> that's the big legal question here, craig. of course, it's whether or not president trump can reallocate money from one agency to another, or use it to build sort of a pe...

No. it was a down payment moving forward. i believe at the end of the day, the wall is going to be built, not sea to shining sea but 200 miles. mike vaccaro joining us from the white house. good morning to you. what are you hearing? >> good morning to you or i should say good afternoon. as we know the president absconded to palm beach and mar-a-lago hours after glaring that national emergency. it fell to his senior adviser stephen miller to support and defend it on the morning shows. quite a contentious exchange on one show. he defended national emergency, justified it as consistent with 1976 ...