Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190110:17:31:00
And taking appropriated pentagon funds, repurposing them, getting around congress and building a section of a wall? >> i'm dubious that the legal authority will work in this situation. the authority that i've seen most often cited for this potential declaration is a department of defense authority. that law provides for emergency funding and authority to build facilities overseas in a wartime like a detention facility or housing for the u.s. military, overseas, in a wartime or in a declaration of a national emergency. it is never an authority that's been used in this type of situation, in a do...