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Authority? >> let's break this down. the congress gave the power away. with a national emergency act of 1976, yes white authority and can declare martial law. he can take land and spend money under this act. let's have the house and senate vote and reduce the power. if you roll it back sometime absolutely. right now the president does have the authority. we do have a national beyond the border. the president ran on securing it. by the way, all president trump is doing is enforcing american law. laws that congress passed that we have on the border about immigration. the president and force the ...

Mean, with full knowledge of the risks of an executive overreaching with respect to his -- to foreign policy powers. so i think he wanted to be careful here, appropriately. >> so you voted against the use of force. do you think as the president does that there still has to be the threat of the use of force in order for this to succeed? so how do you square that? >> yeah, i don't ultimately think there has to be the threat of force. but i will acknowledge that it certainly helps to vet. again as i said before, if i was being asked to vote on the threat of force it's different than actually voti...