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It for other purposes. if a democratic president did that, you probably would be irate, right? >> i'm the commissioner of cbp. reprogramming funds, that happens under every presidency. it happened in the obama administration, the bush administration. reprogramming funds. right now if we're in the middle of a national emergency where we need additional funds to effectively deal with that, we're going to reprogram funds to do that. it happens every -- under every single administration. >> neil: even when they lose it in other means, right? >> absolutely. >> neil: we'll watch it closely. thanks v...

To go to the floor today. and he does expect it to pass. now, that will still mean there has to be negotiations between the senate and the house to come up with a final package. that is standard business around here. but there are differences. and the differences really do reflect some of the kind of ideas that the two parties have. and you can see that. they want additional money for the department of defense. they want to have congressional notice of full of two days before anybody can go to these facilities and additional funding for i.c.e. officers. on the house side, just looking at the s...

Gone or from disaster funds, that would be another thing that you would have votes challenging him. >> and there are hmms that really oppose this idea of reprogramming funds. >> marco rubio and rick scott both fought hard. they have not gotten into the partisan politics of puerto rico. >> and this is why on so many levels this policy is problematic and i think democrats are going to challenge it. i mean there are appropriations authority, a constitutional authority, and they will have a lot of republicans right there with them. not just for fear of an incoming democratic administration, but be...

Bar. can he do this, scott. is that legal or constitutional? >> well, he can certainly try to do it, let's just say that. obviously the congress would have to appropriate the dollars, even if he declared a national emergency, but he would meet legal challenges. if he dipped into the d.o.d. budget where there were funds that were unallocated but there or if he tried reprogramming funds, he could try to do that. w we don't know how much is this that fund. he would face an almost immediate legal challenge, as well as political challenge and he would have to demonstrate why in is a national securi...

There continues. cnn chief national correspondent john king is here to break it all down for us. so john, we're talking reprog m reprogrammireprogra reprogramming funds. the administration is putting a hold on aid to egypt without having to say it, like they're acting like it's a coup without having to make the significant declaration. what's the effect here do you think? >> what they're trying to do here, kate, i've just been having an e-mail exchange with a couple administration officials is to split the difference. inside the administration they're disappointed, outraged at the steps the eg...