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Ben sasse s of the world, rand paul, rob portman just got added to vote yes. you wouldn t expect these names, so is there a certain senator who is surprising you the most and who else are you really going to be watching for? well, brooke, i m not surprised by any of the names you mentioned. i m really, frankly, shocked that there are not more republican members of congress who aren t voting for this resolution. really? there is an emergency. the emergency is the presidential assault on congress s power of the purse authority under article 1 of the constitution. that is the emergency. as far as i can tell, the loyalty here is to the constitution, not to the president. the president is taking defense dollars, military construction dollars and moving them for a nondefense purpose. that breaks the law. there s all sorts of problems with this thing. i wrote the military construction bill before i left congress, so i know a little bit about this. if you re a senator and you re going to ....
This is not president trump sitting down and making stuff up this is what the professionals tell us we need. these are the top 10 sites that we need a barrier to protect the border and the total cost is 5.7 you take the 1.375 out of that, what congress gave him and you go into the military construction bill, you go into other pieces of legislation, you move money around, and you build-out the wall of the barrier. that s where he s going to get the money from. some from here and some from there and the national emergency declaration has been used 50 times. obama sent troops to the border. bush 43 sent troops to the border. trump is sending troops to the border. what s the difference between sending a soldier, to the border to sure up the border than having a soldier, build a barrier while they re there is all the legal authority he needs and i hope the republicans will stand behind him. this is a defining issue in our party. maria: well is this a defining issue also for 2020? ....
Opposing party to have this authority because of the things people can do. if you are going to get upset about an executive order what do you do when someone declares a state of emergency over policy disputes. charlie dent, republicans have been very public not just during the obama term but in the weeks and days leading up to this decision ma we that we exp 14 minutes declaring a national emergency here. the big question is will they put their money where their mouth is in effect. do you believe republicans will join democrats in a resolution to block a national emergency declaration? jim, they better block this. this is simply beyond the pale. it is outrageous. it breaks the law. i was the guy who wrote the military construction bill for the appropriations committee before i left congress, got it through committee. by the way, usually annually there is somewhere between $8 billion to $12 billion for military construction projects around the world. ....
This. congressman, i come to you because you wrote the military construction bill that is the focus here. and the president in talking about it today from the rose garden says when the projects that have been discussed when it comes to military construction, this big pot of money that they are moving and redirecting, he says those projects don t seem too important to me. can yo read you a quote? he talked to the generals. the project didn t sound too important to me. this was the president s budget request brought to him by his generals and the secretary of defense. these are very important projects. he said this doesn t sound like this is a very small amount, $3.5 billion. the military construction budget, that would be about 35%. he is going to take that. he says we have rebuilt the ....
absolutely he ll pay a price. what do you think that looks like? i think he is accurate. this is the way the process is supposed to work. if the president wants to reprogram money from the disaster relief fund to border security, that would require a sign off by the chair of the house appropriations committee and the subcommittee chair they would have to sign off on this. they are not going to sign off on it. i think that the president would be setting up a real crisis if he were to move this money without congressional approval. i was the one who wrote that military construction bill, taking money from a defense purpose for a nondefense purpose is a violation of the law. that money is firewalled. the department of defense has ....