off the declaration. pick from the pile of money you have now. >> that's been done before. my understanding is president bush pulled one of these declarations. it has never been used in this way. senator paul made a point earlier i heard where congress voted for a certain amount of money and then a president coming in and saying i understand that but i want to do something differently. he has authorities to be able to use existing congressional authorized funds rather than going to the emergency. and the emergency just supplements what he is planning to use, some of the for tour funds and dod funds. let's use more of those and fund the border priorities and get moving on protecting the southern border. >> bill: here is the president yesterday making his case. >> president trump: we fight wars 6,000 miles away. we spend billions of dollars but we don't control our own border. hard working people pay the price for lack of border patrol and security. >> bill: let's see where the