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Said in 21 days, president trump is moving forward, building the wall with or without democrats. the only outstanding question is whether democrats want something or not. the art of compromise and art of negotiation, is this the right starting point? >> i don't know. maybe because frankly depends what an emergency declaration would look like in terms of whether it is legal. if it is legal, there are a lot of emergency declarations before. i support building a border barrier. i don't think it needs to be sea to shining sea. it is imperative for democrats to say we have things we want. how can w...

The military involved to build the wall? >> there are emergency powers that allow the president to sort of move funds around within the department of defense. but there are other requirements that have to be met. >> quite likely. in terms of a timeline for national emergency declarations. is there a limits or have we seen a national emergency last for quite some time. >> it was declared in 1979 in the immediate after math of the iranian hostage crisis. it is still a national emergency legally speaking. that's the oldest emergency that's in the books. we do have 31 state of emergencies that are...

The point there, but he referenced finland and said finland has lots of forests but they don't have destructive fires like this and suggested that california needs to do a better job when it comes to thinning its forests. but, look, his experts have pointed out the devastating, the deadly fires that we've seen ravage the california coast have nothing to do with issues of forest management. it has to do with an historic drought and with heavy winds. by talking about this issue of forest management, the president doesn't have to talk about climate change. environmentalists make the point he's us...

Anticipating a natural disaster was something that craig was a master at. i don't know brock long, but his reputation was generally good. now, at the presidential political level, and i'll include the cabinet level in this, it's important to promptly consider disaster declarations, emergency declarations, put them in place, put the federal funding in place, but really to show empathy and to show the american public in the face of a disaster that the u.s. government cares. and showing up, simply showing up in a disaster situation, which i did a number of times and i was in office, can go a long...

So coordinating the prepositioning of resources, anticipating a natural disaster was something that craig was a master at. i don't know brock long, but his reputation was generally good. now, at the presidential political level, and i'll include the cabinet level in this, it's important to promptly consider disaster declarations, emergency declarations, put them in place, put the federal funding in place, but really to show empathy and to show the american public in the face of a disaster that the u.s. government cares. and showing up, simply showing up in a disaster situation, which i did a n...