of wall. via lot of money and i built a lot of wall. it would have been nice to have gotten done. laura: sarah, you mentioned this being settled in the courts. do you think he set himself up for a legal battle that he could lose? >> i certainly thinke think the president hasn't helped his case. the fact that they had two years of a united republican government in the u.s. house, the senate and the white house and chose not to do this, also i think hurts his case. he didn't help himself by effectively telling the american people yesterday this isn't an emergency and he doesn't have to do this. laura: go ahead, john. >> sarah's not wrong. i don't think the president helped himself here. that's not i don't think what the courts are going to be deciding. the courts are going to be deciding whether or not the president has authority to declare an emergency action here. that's what it is. i don't think it's going to come down to whether or not he thinks he could expedite something. it's is this in the president's authority to do so. i think the courts are going to agree with it. here's the deal. it those be done and it's