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Into the country illicitly, and how do you deal with that and there are definitely immigration problems and the question is, is the president doing something to make it worse or something to make it better and that's the -- that's the debate that's going on. >> just that she's there, and she's fallen out of favor with the president. now she's on his side making the case that it is a true national emergency in the context of this, we know that the senate within days is going to join the house and saying no, mr. president, we disagree. >> right. she has won back the favor of president trump by h...

It for national security purposes. when he said i would like to use it for national security purposes it seems appropriate and would be on solid legal footing with regard to that. i hope the president continues on this course. again. i think he's on solid legal footing. beyond the legal determination here there is a political calculation as well. it's the right one. the american people are waiting to see if there is the first president republican or democrat to address a crisis at the border that resulted in immigration problems in the country. from drug and human trafficking. an opioid epidem...

The president? >> reporter: i suspect he ends up dedlaring a national maermgs. i don't think that's a terrific solution for him or he has the legal basis to do so. and once he has that i'm sure it'll be challenged in court and probably successfully. but he's painting himself into a corner and not giving himself many options here. >> the returns in the polls is not a majority of americans do not favor donald trump declaring a national emergency for this. >> there's good reason for that. it's because there is no national emergency on the southwest border. immigration is at it an all-time low. wh...

That's misguided and it hurt him the first time. it's devastating the second time if he does it and that helps seal his defeat in 2020, but more importantly, i think democrats are taking a stand on what immigration problems we really have. i think he and other republicans have to understand the most illegal drugs in this country come through legal ports of entry. that's why we have to give a shout out to our border patrol agents. >> that's why they want the x-ray. >> and that's why we -- and exactly. you went to the border and many people have been examining this issue. that's why we need to m...

Gang bangers. when you have that difference of opinion, you have nancy pelosi saying walls are immoral. >> why does that make punishing workers okay? >> if i may. >> silence was deafening, niger. >> the question was to me. >> why would that make punishing workers okay? >> it doesn't. i won't engage in that sensationalistic. the rant whent on. the president of the united states shouldn't use 800,000 people who work extremely hard. many border patrol agents and coast guard. every day the u.s. attorneys. who work hard to enforce the laws as pawns. it's misguided. it hurt him the first time. it's ...