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National emergency declaration. the department of transportation now threatening to cancel federal funding intended to finance a high-speed rail project, as well as reclaim the $2.5 billion already given to the state from the feds. president trump on his twitter today, "california now wants to scale back their already-failed fast train project by substantially shortening the distance so that it no longer goes from l.a. to san francisco. a different deal and record cost overrun trades on the government back the billions of dollars wasted!" jeff paul his life for us in los angeles. jeff? >> harr...

The rail project which is over budget. they are looking at other ways of funding the project. >> bill: thank you, sir, live in southern california today. >> sandra: now to the latest twist in the jussie smollett case. investigators still waiting to have a follow-up conversation with the actor as prosecutors question the two brothers who had been possible suspects. the state's torn recusing herself from the case and now there are new questions about a racist letter that smollett received a week before the alleged attack. matt finn is keeping track of it all for us live in chicago this morning. ...

Coincidence that the administration threat comes 24 hours after california led 16 states in challenging the presidents for dominic farcical national emergency. this is clear political retribution by president trump and we won't sit idly by." this is california's money and we are going to fight for it." governor newsom also addressed the topic during the recent state of the state address. >> abandoning the high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions and billions of dollars. with all due respect, i have no interest in sending back three and a half billion dollars of federal fundi...

Challenging president trump's emergency declaration at the border. california governor gavin newsome in a statement saying that this is no coincidence. he says it's clear political retribution and that its california's money that the state will fight for. governor newsome addressed the topic during the recent state of the state address. >> abandoning the high speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions and billions of dollars. with all due respect, i have no interest in sending back $3.5 billion that was allocated to this project to president donald trump. >> during that same addres...

>> this all happening a day after california challenged the emergency declaration at the border. gavin newsome called in question the timing of this. it's clear that political retribution. kevin mccarthy released a statement calling the rail plan broken and it's time to move on. charles? >> thanks. so the question now, should california have to return this money? your money, by the way. let's can phil wegman, democratic strategist kathy arue and kimberly classic. kimberly, it's federal taxpayer money. gavin newsome more or less admitted that this portion of the rail project was a failed idea. ...