Replacement Fencing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Administration taking money from the disaster relief as a storm barrels towards puerto rico? >> it's not a slush fund for policies that they can't get congress to pay for. this literally the administration taking money from actual crisis programs to fund a crisis of its own making, which is its remain in mexico policy and the extra burden that's created needlessly. >> phil, the rush to finish this border wall, it is a crisis of the president's own making. he promises to deliver this wall over and over throughout the campaign. president trump has promised, again, as you pointed out, 500 miles, ...

There to prevent people from trying to cross. but, you know, on the campaign trail, politically, anderson, this hands the president a big talking point because now he can tell his supporters that he promised in 2016 on the trail he would build the wall and that the wall is being built even if a lot of these funds are going toward replacement fencing, anderson? >> pamela brown, thanks very much. more on the legal and political dimensions. joining us is elliott williams in the obama administration and the senior spokesperson on the 2016 clinton campaign and scott jennings former assistant to geo...

The wall continued to be built with funds we should note that some of them will go toward replacing, as well. >> replacement fencing which is all that's been build or that's been done so far with just -- they have been characterizing it as a new wall but replacing existing fencing. >> yeah, that's right. the president tries to frame it certainly most of it has been this replacement fencing. the president argues that this is all about protection because the fencing was crumbling and needed to be replace for the there to be a secure barrier there to prevent people from trying to cross. but, you ...

The purse and that the president didn't have this authority the groups argued violated the law but today the supreme court said the government showed that these groups. challenging it didn't have sufficient standing. the government did a good job showing that and so this is a big win for the president. this is not over yet. it can play out in the lower courts. the wall continued to be built with funds we should note that some of them will go toward replacing, as well. >> replacement fencing which is all that's been build or that's been done so far with just -- they have been characterizing it ...

The rule of law. this is a significant supreme court ruling along ideological lines in the president's favor. it is not a permanent ruling. this can still play out in the lower courts, but certainly it hands the president a big win on the campaign trail because now he can taut to his supporters that he's following through on his 2016 campaign programs, that his wall is being built. we should note that these funds that are being used will go also towards replacement fencing along with building new walls. all of this happened after the president directed funds from the pentagon to be used for th...