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Or are your hands tied? >> in fact, the lawsuits are very, very much about that. the president is threatening to take the $2.5 billion -- actually, $3 billion from the military construction project. i'm the chairman of the committee that oversees that and that's well over a third of the total annual appropriations for military constructions at bases all around the world. some bases that are, frankly, in harm's way in the middle east. so this is a very, very important matter. those projects are not going to go forward. he's also taking over $2 billion from the military's counter drug enforcemen...

Chris: if you want to talk about military constructions, do you know how many times military construction has been invoked as a national emergency? >> that one -- chris: twice. once by george h.w. bush during the middle of the gulf war, and the second time by george w. bush right after 9/11. >> chris, can you name, can you name, can you name one foreign threat in the world today outside this country's borders that currently kills more americans than the threats crossing our southern border? chris: you know, the joy of this is i get to ask you questions -- >> the answer is, no. chris: then answ...

Funds. chris: if you want to talk about military constructions, do you know how many times military construction has been invoked as a national emergency? >> that one -- chris: twice. once by george h.w. bush during the middle of the gulf war, and the second time by george w. bush right after 9/11. >> chris, can you name, can you name, can you name one foreign threat in the world today outside this country's borders that currently kills more americans than the threats crossing our southern border? chris: you know, the joy of this is i get to ask you questions -- >> the answer is, no. chris: th...

Say anything about it. >> talking about military constructions, do you know how many times military construction has been invoked as an emergency? twice, once by george h.w. bush in the middle of the gulf war and the second time right after 9/11. this is hardly comparable to either of these. >> can you name one foreign threat in the world today outside these country's borders than the threats crossing our southern border? >> the joy of this is i get to ask you questions -- >> the answer is no. >> then answer my question. can you name one case where a president has asked congress for money, con...

Invoke a national emergency in many different circumstances, but among them for military construction fronts. that's the point i was making earlier, if he was going to say we can increase the perimeter around a base if bag ram, in syria, nobody would say anything about it. and we have 4,000 troops on the border right now, as a result of that mix, they need to secure those areas they are patrolling. >> military constructions, do you know how many times military instruction has been invoked as a national emergency, twice in once by george h.w. bush during the middle of a gulf war, and the second...