a letter demanding lower funding for america's border enforcement. in other words, it is virtuous to protect others, it is wrong tous protect ourselves and our n children. what is the name for that attitude? self-hatred would be one. should people who hate the country be in charge of it? douglas mcgregor is a retired u.s. army colonel who has worked to defend the country, author of the book "margin of victory," he joins us tonight. colonel, thank you very much for coming on. do you think it's wise for the president to declare a national emergency to secure the border? 30 absolutely, without question. if you've got 30 million illegal residents inside your country, who violated your borders, disregarded the rule of law, you've got a national emergency. we've had this for many years. it's the case. secondly, only the president can address this. he has the constitutional authority to doss so. what he needs is an executive order modeled on what i have written and i think it is now widely appreciated inside the fox news community, that