Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190105:00:09:00
>> well, it's a mistake for the president to declare this a national emergency. he ought to be collaborating with members of congress to focus on smart border security measures. he's obsessed with the wall. members of congress, democrats and republicans alike, are very focused on border security, and what we can do to ensure that our borders are sound, that they're protected, and so forth. but this obsession with the wall isn't helping anybody, and frankly, holding 800,000 federal employees hostage to this idea of a wall is not really smart leadership on the part of the president. that's why d...