and yet at the same time another fight was raised on the horizon and that would be over the fact that the president now wants to declare a national emergency circumventing congress and then using that executive action to take money so that he can essentially spend eight billion dollars on a border wall so that is the status now that's what we're waiting for that's what senator mitch mcconnell said that the president would be doing yesterday mitch mcconnell said that he would support president trump in that that in that action but no sooner had he said that than there was all sorts of pushback already from democrats saying that this was unconstitutional that essentially the president was poised to commit what they called a gross abuse of power so what does a national emergency look like who gets to define it.