>> i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn't need to do this but i'd rather do it much faster. >> i didn't need to do this. how does that justify a national emergency? >> well, the president was saying that like past presidents he could choose to ignore this crisis, choose to ignore this emergency as others have, but that's not what he's going to do. >> as a former white house press secretary was steven miller effective in that answer? >> no, because that's not at all what the president said. what the president did undercut his legal position. he basically said that this isn't a crisis but i just didn't get what i wanted from congress and that's not what other presidents have used the presidential authority that they were given. they're saying the president was trying to fulfill a campaign promise. it's not. in the campaign it was i'm going to build a wall and mexico is