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In terms of the national emergencies act, it was something passed by congress. they gave this power away in 1976. they did away with the emergency declarations and started them anew. we are up to 31 at this point, maybe 32 including the one today. the point here is that congress gave up this power. then they passed other statutes that enabled the president to shift funds around based upon an emergency he declared. to the extent this is -- to the extent this -- the president has declared a national emergency today, emergency is defined by the president of the united states. there is no constitu...

It faster is the emergent portion. i don't think that hurts him when they end up in court on this thing. in terms of the national emergencies act, it was something passed by congress. they gave this power away in 1976. they did away with the emergency declarations and started them anew. we are up to 31 at this point, maybe 32 including the one today. the point here is that congress gave up this power. then they passed other statutes that enabled the president to shift funds around based upon an emergency he declared. to the extent this is -- to the extent this -- the president has declared a n...

It is wrong. it is just a lie. it's all a lie. eric: as for top two democrats vowing to use, quote, every remedy to oppose the president trump emergency declaration for the southern border. house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer saying they are ready to take their case to congress, the courts, and to the public. so what's going to happen judy miller is here at the institute for policy research, and plitter prize winning journalist and author. so judy there are like 59 national emergency declarations. that have been announced by presidents, 31 still in effect but cr...

So this one being declared by the president yesterday officially, how is it different? >> well, most of these states of emergency or declarations of emergency are about foreign adversaries and freezing property, cutting off trade or exports, that kind of thing. in other words, if an illegitimate government takes over a country, we want to allow the dictatorship to seize assets in the united states, things like that. we asked the white house yesterday could they name a time when these emergency declarations were used to shift funds around the way the president talks about. they named two exampl...

Lawyers to defend this move in court. historically, presidents make emergency declarations for a wide variety of reasons, often emergencies that aren't life or death situations. it is extremely unusual for a president to declare an emergency and then talk about how that declaration is going to affect his 2020 re-elect and to a stream of consciousness on the political impact of the decision that he's making and in addition to that, essentially to say repeatedly that the emergency for which he was declaring a declaration wasn't actually an emergency. he's making things harder for his lawyers eve...