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>> it was. and you know, samantha, as the storm approaches, the mainland united states, presumably over this weekend, the trump administration, get this, is diverting $271 million in disaster relief funding, approved by congress, to step up immigration enforcement along the border. is that going to hurt the ability of fema, for example, to do the job? >> well, most likely it will. and while president trump views the federal budget as his campaign fund, he's used his power, or frankly abused it, to finance his pet projects, by reappropriating funds towards things he thinks will sound good on th...

Constitutional law. everything he does is a hypothetical you could put in an exam. everything that he said undermined the idea there is some kind of emergency. in fact, the national emergencies acts requires something more than simply wanting to be more expeditious in building a fake wall. >> i want to read from something that was in "the washington post" about this national emergency act, because everyone is now catching up on it. this is the first time since the national emergencies act became law the court will consider this core question of whether a president can declare a national marria...

Property where there is due process and protections, and we're not going to turn it into some kind of reality show set. obviously, you don't want to see a government building turned into the senate reality show. that wouldn't happen in america. >> never, never. >> never. never say never. >> never. >> here's what i'm going to do. i'm going to fit in a break. my special thanks to john and gene. melissa stays. thanks to each of you. >> coming up, donald trump himself has just now unloaded and given his critics and his legal challengers one of the best arguments against the national emergency, adm...

Matter, apart from what people think about immigration, does it look like a national security emergency to you? >> no, not an emergency. certainly, the border is a matter of national security, but to describe the current situation as an emergency is an utter travesty. and ari, you're the lawyer here. you know that the supreme court is probably going to have to resolve this. and by the way, something i haven't heard people talking about is military lawyers need to be looking at whether ordering the military to use funds allocated for another purpose to build a wall or anything else on the borde...

Doing a thing. more of that today, again, how can i say it fairly? making the case against this being an emergency at his announcement of the emergency. >> i want to do it faster. i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn't need to do this. but i would rather do it much faster. the only reason we're up here talking about this is because of the election. this is one of the ways they think they can possibly win, is by obstruction and a lot of other nonsense. and i think that i just want to get it done faster. that's all. >> will you cite those comments in your court challenge? >> ...