Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas Newsroom With Bill Hemmer And Sandra Smith 20190215

It is a crisis. One way he can help solve it. It is hard to make a rational case for an Emergency Declaration. The border has never been as safe and secure as it is now. Bill where to next . Reaction from the hill and the white house. Kevin, lets begin with the white house. One hour from now what will we hear . Expect the president to recognize that there is Political Risk from both ends of the political spectrum. As he has shown previously he is willing to accept that risk and tell the American People why now is the act to do something about the Ongoing National security and humanitarian crisis along our southern border. The president tries to lay out not just the reason for doing this but how he intends to secure our border. 8 billion is what he hopes to claim. This money is listed in order from least likely to be contested in the courts to most likely. 601 million from the drug for tour fund. 2. 5 p billion from the dod drug interdiction program. 2. 2 billion reprogrammed from dod2019 appropriation. And another 3. 5 billion from the dods military construction budget. Now, it is important to note this does not include any Disaster Relief money nor the 1. 375 billion in the bill that weve talked about since yesterday on capitol hill when lawmakers decided to come together and create an opportunity to fund the government. It is also important to point this out. White house officials tell us they expect it to end up in the courts. The idea is if he is hoping to claim 8 billion, maybe 4 or 4 1 2 billion doesnt get challenged it would give him a good start. Bill whats the Justice Department saying about possible litigation next . Yeah. The doj has warned the white house they should expect it to end up in the courts. To be sure understand the white house has been preparing for this to end up in the courts. I think youve heard a number of lawmakers suggest that this has to be fleshed out but also important to point this out. Congress gave the president Broad Authority and his ability to declare a National Emergency so thats the real fight we expect to come down the line in court. But above all else how many president ial executive orders have been overturned by the courts and then sustained by the Supreme Court . Thats what the white house is banking on here. I dont think its a big number. Theyre hoping it doesnt add one this time. 10 00 a. M. Rose garden. Well be here for you. Bill 57 minutes and counting. Thank you for that. Sandra important to note there are dozens of National Emergencies currently in effect. Here are a few. President carter blocked iranian Government Property after 52 americans were held hostage in tehran in 1979. President clinton prohibited transactions with terrorists who threaten to disrupt the middle east Peace Process in 1995. President bush blocking property and transactions with persons who commit, threaten or support terrorism after the 9 11 terror attacks of 2011. Mr. Obama blocking property of Trans National criminal organizations in 2011. Last year President Trump imposed certain sanctions in the event of foreign interference in a United States election. Now to capitol hill as lawmakers react to the spending bill and the president s decision to take executive action. Elson barber is live in washington a big morning. Two Different Things going on. The funding bill and the all but certain Emergency Declaration. The latter of those two seem to be ruffling the most feathers on capitol hill this morning. Democratic governors say theyll take legal action. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says democrats are currently exploring all of their options. I may. Thats an option. Well review our options. Let us respect what the committee will do and then walked away from it. We wont review our options, well be prepared to respond appropriately to it. A lot of republicans are siding with the president here. Some say that they want to wait and see exactly how those funds would be transferred and where they are going to come from. I have just had an opportunity to speak with President Trump and i would say to all my colleagues he is prepared to sign the bill. He will also be issuing a National Emergency declaration at the same time. Ive been very clear on my concerns about the president declaring this as an emergency in ways that havent been done before. And thats still my view. Lets see what he tries to do and how he tries to do it and well see where we go from there. Other republicans say theyre concerned. Senator marco rubio said todays National Emergency is Border Security but a future president may use it to impose the green new deal. He would wait and see. Skeptical it will be something he can support. As for Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell he went on to say he supports the president s decision to move ahead with this National Emergency declaration. Thats something that he was not saying just a couple weeks ago. Youll remember he initially advised the president and said publicly he didnt think this would be a good idea. Sandra were live in washington bill Immediate Reaction from a man who lives through this. A Border Patrol agent and Vice President of the National Border council live in new york with us. Based on what were hearing, do you approve . Support the border wall, something thats needed. In the area of operations. We have 170 miles of border and 0 border walls. We get drugs and a lot of people coming across. Bill we expect him to announce a National Emergency and take more money from it. What are the pros against the cons in such a decision. In the ryo grand valley one section of the border we apprehended people coming across. Our resources were full with those aliens and the drugs are pouring in. The pros is well save american lives and stop the drugs and criminals from coming across. Bill do you see a down side . No down side when it comes to safety of the American People and the safety of the children coming across there is no down side. Bill 2018 on screen now number of apprehensions at the border up 397,000. Have to go back to 2016 to get a number that high. Why is that happening at that level . Were encouraging illegal aliens to come into this country and children to make the trek by allowing them to catch and release and stay in this country and allowing to continue the have the loopholes in the law. Things will get worse if they dont change the law. Look at the border bill. There is language that continues to encourage children to be smuggled into this country just like in 2014 under the Obama Administration. Bill what is the language that you cite . It says these people will be shielded. Sponsors will not be subject to immigration enforcement. Anybody in the house of an uncode alien children will not be subject to immigration enforcement. Those Family Members will not be arrested, will not be proceedings and record checks. Bill why would republicans agree to Something Like that in the bill if it leads to what you are describing . We dont understand. We know the conferees met for three weeks. Why they came up with this decision we dont understand. They did not listen to the Border Security experts on the wall or immigration. Bill you mentioned laredo. Is there a wall there . Zero walls. How is the level of crime . You run across the border in texas we have very Dangerous Drug Cartel that conducts human and drug smuggling to include human trafficking. We only have two miles of river roads in that area out of the 170 miles of border that we have in laredo only. If you get what youre looking for, what would it take to accomplish the mission. President trumps will to make sure he declares an Emergency Declaration to make sure we build the wall but also take care of other aspects of Border Security including employee retention. Right now Border Patrol agents were undermanned by 2,000. The congressmen arent talking about it. It is not in the bill. Bill thats a half measure in your view. Of course. Bill if they go forward and get the money in a perfect word for laredo based onier perspective what needs to be done. Physical barriers, infrastructure, technology and manpower and Border Patrol retention. We cant keep ahold of this employees. They leave for federal and state jobs elsewhere because of pay pair tee. You look at some other Law Enforcement agencies they receive way more pay than what Border Patrol receives. Bill theyre looking for better jobs and money. Under the Obama Administrations we lost money from cuts. We ask for pay parity with ice. Sandra we have a lot more reaction and analysis coming up as we await President Trump at the top of the hour. Congressman mark meadows supports the president s decision to declare a National Emergency plus former assistant u. S. Attorney Andy Mccarthy will be here to answer all the legal questions behind this move. We know two things. The president is expected to sign the massive spending bill but also expected to declare a National Emergency and then the big question is y mccarthy will be useful for this, what happens next . Bill a lot of reaction coming up here. A big morning. 60 minutes from now well get you to the rose garden. Congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez getting heat from her own party after applauding amazons decision not to set up a plant in new york city. Reverberations across the country politically, financially and more. Sandra reports that joe biden, the former vp, will be running in 2020. So what that means for an already crowded democratic field. Well ask the dnc. They are our guests joining us. Bill you have the Top Republicans demanding answers from former acting f. B. I. Director Andrew Mccabe after the bombshell interview with 60 minutes. Jason chaffetz reacts to that live coming up shortly. Its clearly an attempted the 25th amendment simply is irrelevant. My teeth have always been a very sore spot for me, emotionally, socially. If i wouldve known that i was gonna be 50 times happier. I wouldve gone into aspen dental much sooner. It was a very life changing experience. And it felt like i was me again. Thats when i realized i hadnt been for three years. At aspen dental were all about yes. Like yes to flexible hours and payment options. Yes to free exam and xrays for new patients without insurance. And yes whenever youre ready to get started, we are too. Call 1800aspendental today. Ive gwith the capital onehing. Venture card you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. Not just airline purchases . Everything. Hey, howd you get in here . Crosschecking. Nice. Whats in your wallet. Oh, cmon speak to Andrew Mccabe and the whole crowd about what happened during the 2016 election. Mr. Mueller is doing a very deep dive into Trump Campaign and anything he may have done wrong. My democratic friends dont seem interested in the abuses ive seen. Mr. Horowitz did a good report. No one looked at the fisa report. Ill be doing that. Bill senator Lindsey Graham wants Andrew Mccabe to testify before congress after telling 60 minutes there were discussions about removing President Trump from office under the 25th amendment. Former utah congressman Jason Chaffetz used to be on the oversight committee. He knows it well and in depth. Welcome back to our program here. Let me just remind our viewers what the headlines are from the 60 minutes interview. Mccabe said they wanted to know if if president was an agent of russia and were discussions about the 25th amendment that would involve mike pence the Vice President. He denies that pence ever getting contact on that from poland this think and he thought rosenstein was serious about wearing a wire to see if they could trap the president. What do you believe is significant we need to focus on now from that interview . Mr. Mccabe has been very discredited. He did something that most other federal employees are never able to achieve. He was fired by his colleagues for essentially lying. Lying to congress and lying to his colleagues. And he was dismissed. This is the acting director of the f. B. I. Fired. So his credibility is near zero. He happens to be the second person to publicly back up and corroborate what we had heard evidently the general counsel, who is also in that meeting, general counsel for the f. B. I. Is telling lawmakers behind closed doors that Rod Rosenstein was seriously considering wearing a wire on the president of the United States and so now you have a second person even though he has zero credibility backing up that claim that it was serious, not just a joke. Bill the mccabe piece we played a little bit of this yesterday. Here is more of that now from cbs. I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency. And who might have done so with the aid of the government of russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage. And that was something that troubled me greatly. Bill this really got our ears up yesterday. Some are suggesting that this is old news and it is only out now because he has a book out. Be that what it may, here is Alan Dershowitz with tucker last night talking about a coup. If thats true its clearly an attempted coup detat. The 25th amendment simply is irrelevant. It is not about the most fundamental disagreements or impeach able offenses. Any Justice Department official who even mentioned the 25th amendment in the context of President Trump has committed a grievous offense against the constitution. Bill that may be. I dont know where it goes next. Perhaps you can characterize that. I would imagine because republicans run the senate, they could get mccabe to testify. But i dont believe that will happen in the house because democrats run the house there. Go ahead and tell us whats next. Thats true because the congress is terribly tardy in dealing with this. This came up months ago and they did nothing. Remember, Rod Rosenstein writes a memo. First of all Jeff Sessions the attorney general is totally absent and incompetent and nowhere to be seen. Rod rosenstein writes a recommendation to the president. The president accepts that recommendation. The most bipartisan thing happening in washington, d. C. At the time was the idea that james comey had to go. This nineday period, thats where these shenanigans were happening between the firing of mr. Comey and the appointment of this special prosecutor mr. Mueller. Thats the focus and congress should look at that. The most important players at this point michael horowitz, the Inspector General has been looking at this for more than a year. He did an initial report but he has been looking specifically at fisa abuse and what was going on behind the scenes. He probably has more information than anybody in town. Bill when do we hear from horowitz . I dont know that answer. Lindsey graham mentioned the fisa abuse there. I dont know when we get answers on this but something was amiss deep in the f. B. I. What is your hunch . Who is telling the truth and who is lying . Mr. Mccabe is not telling the truth. No way to believe he has zero credibility. Horowitz probably has the best credibility but probably not from may or june until we hear from him. Congress can do what it wants but the Inspector General more than anyone else. The new attorney general needs to dive into it right now. Bill william barr confirmed yesterday. Jason back with us today. Sandra theyre almost a daily annoyance. Robocalls, are they bombarding your cell phone leaving voice mails in Foreign Languages . How the fcc plans to crack down. The chairman of that agency will join us next on the battle to end those unwanted calls. Liberal congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez applauding amazons decision to cancel plans to build a new headquarters that would have provided potentially thousands of jobs. Now members of her own party are firing back. Look, new york city gave amazon a real opportunity here. All we asked was they be a Good Neighbor and be part of the community. Clearly they werent ready to do that. Its our confident forever plan. 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A small group of politicians putting their narrow political interests above their community and should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity. Really interesting story. The news broke with us yesterday. You can understand on one side if you are giving in 3 billion in tax breaks to a country as big as amazon. When they turn tail and leave and you are like where did all the jobs go . Sandra there is a lot of other cities in this country that would surely welcome amazon. We had the Chicago Tribune editorial piece. Chicago is still here. They would love to have this. Where will they go . Bill my position listening to the democratic may or deblasio. I dont think weve heard the last of amazon. Sandra now to this. The fcc is warning phone companies to get serious about those robocalls threatening to step in if major wireless carriers do not start using a caller i. D. System by the end of the year. After a study found nearly half of the phone calls that you will get this year will be spam. Lets bring in fcc chairman. I think we have everybodys attention. I took an informal poll walking down the hallways here at fox news this morning and this drives everyone nuts these phone calls. What are you doing to crack down on it . Im one of them. I get those calls myself. I dont answer the phone if i dont have the number programmed in my phone. Were going after the scammers, the biggest fines in the fccs history have been put on robocallers and demand the phone industry adopt call you authentication to make sure the phone call wont be placed on your phone unless its from a person who can legitimately call you. Sandra how are they getting our phone numbers in the first place . Part of the problem the Technology Developed to the point its easy to spoof a phone number calling from abroad. You can make it look like you have the same area code and first three numbers of somebody living in a small town in iowa and why were empowering phone companies to drak down and demand they adopt call you a tent indication. Sandra corporate regulation if you dont see change. Thats interesting under a Republican Administration talking about regulating companies on Something Like this. Is that something you are willing to do . This is our top Consumer Protection priority and i hear about it all the time including from members of my own family. The law is clear here. The fcc has the authority to take action to protect consumers to make sure that these robocalls arent bombarding American Consumers. Fraud and waste and abuse. Its a hassle for millions of other americans. Sandra how do the phone Service Companies respond and feel about that . I posted the responses of 14 of the major phone companies on our website. Folks can see it for themselves. Many phone companies are stepping up to the challenge and making plans to meet my deadline of 2019. We hope that the others will catch up. Time is not on the side of the American Consumer who is sick and tired of getting calls all throughout the day. Sandra third party who tracks the phone calls estimates it was almost 50 billion robo phone calls that were made in 2018. That was up 60 yearoveryear. Its a real problem. I know you and your agency are trying to tackle it. Something else i know on your radar, americas fight against huawei. An update there. Something the administration has been very firm on. How are we doing on that . This is the Chinese Telecom giant where you are pushing for their technology not to be used here and abroad. As you point out this administration rightly has made it a priority to secure our communications networks. Fcc shares that priority. We have proposed to ban the use of federal funds to build Broadband Networks in this country using gear from countries or entities determined to be a National Security threat to the United States and why internationally i fully support secretary pompeos call to take great care about the equipment that goes into their networks. It might harm their own security and limit americas ability to cooperate with them on certain security and communications issues. Sandra interesting stuff. Chairman of the fcc. Thank you for coming on. First time on americas newsroom good to have you here. Bill another day, another candidate. The field is getting bigger. Reports suggest joe biden might be next. The dnc reacts to that coming up in a moment. Sandra were 30 minutes away from a major announcement from the rose garden. President trump set to deliver on his border wall promise. Were going to take you there live when he begins. Top of the hour. I dont join with my colleagues in believing that if the president does this, when he does it, he declared he is going to do it, that it will be the end of western order. I dont believe that. The president will be acting to powers given to him by congress. So simple, so good. Get the recipes at walnuts. Org. Its a revolution in sleep. The sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now, from 899, during the ultimate sleep number event. It senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. It even helps with this. So you wake up ready to hit the ground running. Only at a sleep number store. During our president s day weekend special, save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus, 36month financing. Ends monday. Sleep number. Proven quality sleep sandra fox news alert. Were awaiting President Trumps appearance in the rose garden. He is expected to declare a National Emergency. Kamala harris saying its ridiculous. Hawaii congresswoman gabbard said the move would get us closer to a dictatorship. Kirsten gillibrand calls it an abuse of power and massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren says its a temper tantrum from President Trump. Lets bring in sochi. Were not lacking reaction to the president s expected decision to announce a National Emergency this morning. Expect it at the top of the hour. Is your party united in that response . Well, i think our party is united in the response in terms of how a border wall isnt necessarily going to protect our border. I think that what you are hearing right now from democrats is valid. You have a president who is going to declare a National Emergency and go straight to the golf course. If this were a National Emergency he would have done this his first day in office. But instead this is a vanity project and what weve seen from the president. A Campaign Promise and he needs to deliver. Sandra i believe both sides of the aisle asked him to go about it and he didnt get the amount of money that he was initially seeking. It was far less so he has decided to go this route. There are a lot of suggestions out there that this means that your party, if in control of the next presidency, would do the same on gun control for example, nancy pelosi made that suggestion. Is that where we are this morning . Well, our party doesnt throw temper tantrums. Thats not what we do. I think thats what the president is doing. Democrats arent always going to get what they want and you saw this in the last funding bill. What happened in december was that democrats came to the table. They wanted to work on a Border Security bill and the president shut down the government and threw a temper tantrum and right now congress is passing a bill. That they could have passed back in december but didnt because the president threw a fit over the border wall. Sandra it didnt have any funding for the border wall in it. This one does. This one does have funding but we were coming to the table and the president threw his hands up because it didnt have full funding for his wall and whenever you dont get what you want you dont just declare a National Emergency and run off to the golf course. That is not what a president should do. Sandra he said he tried to compromise from democrats and democrats did not work with him. Final thoughts before i move on to the next subject. Thats ridiculous. Sandra will joe biden run . Who knows. Its a personal decision. You have seen democrats jump in. Running for president is one that takes a toll on you and your family and so i think this is a very personal decision for joe biden and if he gets into the race we welcome him to the race because we understand that having a large group of candidates in the field only helps democrats. Sandra who is your best chance at beating donald trump . I think we have a great chance with all of these folks. I think youll have a robust debate starting in june with 12 debates that the dnc will be holding. Democrats have a large field. Thats fantastic for us. That means more people talking about democratic issues. Who knows what will happen . It is too early to tell. I dont think any of us thought that donald trump would be president in 2015. And so i think that the American People will need to decide and were excited to showcase these candidates. Sandra let me ask you about the debates as you just mentioned them, the dnc has announced at least this much that it will limit its first president ial debates to 20 candidates. Thats a lot. Dividing the field over two nights if necessary. And requiring candidates to meet either a fundraising or a polling threshold to participate. Anything else you want to add to that as the field here on your partys side continues to grow . Thats right. I think that what is happening right now is we could have up to 20 candidates in the race but we want to make sure were providing a level Playing Field so that every candidate and their supporters feel like they got a fair shot. You know, we believe that starting the process in june, having 12 debates, 6 in 2019 and 6 in 2020 will be ample time and discussion to talk about the issues. We want these debates to focus on policy issues. We dont want them to focus on hand size like the republican debates did last time around. Whats interesting about our announcement is we arent just focusing on polling for the first two. Were focusing on grassroots fundraising which hasnt been seen before. Sandra final thoughts on this poll. At least well look at this. Dem chances in 2020. Democrats chances of beating donald trump in 2020, 19 say excellent. 36 good, not much 26 . None 13 . As we look at that field growing your final thoughts. A good indicator on whether or not a president can get reelected is his job approval numbers. Those are at an alltime low for donald trump. I dont think he can get beyond the finish line with his current approval rating. You saw in november that democrats were elected in midterm elections by an over whemg amount. There is a mandate there. Donald trump is in trouble and right now the news just broke now he has a challenger former governor of massachusetts. If i were him i would be a little wore eefd about this. Were really excited to share our ideas for the American People and believe whoever our nominee is will beat donald trump. Sandra we appreciate your time this morning. Well watch it all. Seems like were already there. Thank you. Come back. Thank you so much. Bill from chicago now a bit of a confounding story. Police identifying two brothers from nigeria in persons of interest for the attack on the empire actor Jesse Smollett. Where are we now . Police are not confirming this flood of information that came out yesterday dramatically stating the attack on actor Jesse Smollett was staged and with his cooperation. On the same day he went on Good Morning America to say he was very upset with people who werent believing his story. Chicago police picked up the two men who appeared in that grainy security video. They were only persons of interest. No charges, not yet. Multiple outlets reporting that at least one of them was an extra from the show empire and these men staged the attack in cooperation with smollett. Also reporting the persons of interest were picked up at the ohare airport. The police threw cold water on that. A statement came from chicago p. D. Saying we havent found any video documenting the alleged attack, there is also no evidence to state this is a hoax. The alleged victim is being cooperative at this time and continues to be treated as a victim, not a suspect. Now the persons of interest are lawyered up. Interviews will continue with the persons of interest and their lawyer today. Meantime 20th century fox is denying the angle the hoax was staged because smollett was being written out of the show empire. The idea that Jesse Smollett has been or would be written off empire is ridiculous. He remains a core player on this successful series and we continue to stand behind him. A lot of excited reporting yesterday citing Anonymous Sources but the police putting the brakes on. Sandra why is this happening . Charles payne has some answers and will be here to break it down. Bill rose garden in 19 minutes. The new fallout from the former f. B. I. Directors interview on 60 minutes. What leading republicans want to know now. Republican mark meadows will talk about that coming up next live. This interview that what ive seen suggest that mr. Mccabe was hell bent on stopping donald trump not only from becoming president , but trying to make sure he did not stay president. Of the United States mint. 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Republican mark meadows with me now. How are you doing and good morning to you. Good morning, bill. It is great to be with you. Bill what do you want to know about this now . We know an awful lot about mr. Mccabe. I can tell you not only was he fired for lying, but he was part of a process, a covert process within the f. B. I. To continue an investigation on donald trump even before and after the election. So he is not a credible witness but we do need to hear from him again i might add. But this all comes down to one thing, bill. It comes down to eight days in maye. Eight days in may where andy mccabe at others at doj and f. B. I. Wanted to get rid of this president and plotted to do just that. You had the chairman of the judiciary talking about a coup. Normally that has to be military in its format. This would be an administrative coup and we know far too much. Bill Rod Rosenstein says its all untrue and dismissed all of it yesterday. Who do the American People believe . I think you can believe neither one of them. Here is the interesting thing. We know enough of the facts and i take whatever andy mccabe says with a grain of salt because over and over and over again he has given false testimony to some of his f. B. I. People. Thats not congress saying that. That is the commentary within the f. B. I. And d. O. J. Here is the other thing. He is now the third witness to come forward and say that Rod Rosenstein actually did plan to do this. So weve had testimony here on capitol hill from two other witnesses that would suggest what andy mccabe is talking about actually is true. Bill you have thought for some time, sir, that something is rotten inside the f. B. I. Or something is rotten at the top of the f. B. I. This doesnt change your mind clearly. Well, at the top of the f. B. I. Certainly there are things that are rotten and the vast majority of the f. B. I. And d. O. J. Are hard working patriots that really serve this country well. Here is what we also know. Theyre talking about the president being a russian spy . Well, they were saying that when andy mccabe was trying to get a promotion. When bob mueller was trying to become the f. B. I. Director. So if they thought he was a russian spy, why were they trying to get a job with him and a promotion with him . It doesnt add up, bill. We need to get to the bottom of it and hold people accountable. The American People. Your viewers want some people to be held accountable. I for one am not going to yield and give up on this. Bill you know whats happening in the rose garden at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Nancy pelosi said this about the National Emergency. Sandra a democratic president can do that. Democratic president can declare emergencies as well. So the precedent the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the republicans. And, of course, well respond accordingly when we review our options. Bill from what i see you support the president s actions. What about the ramifications or what is next . How do you view the announcement that is forthcoming here . I certainly support the president. I Wish Congress could have done more to help him. When you look at the president having to take these kinds of measures, it is because congress has failed this president and the American People. But for nancy pelosi to suggest that this is setting a precedent, weve had National Emergencies declared prior to this president. If she wants to do away with it ill be glad to work in a bipartisan way. But until then the law of the land allows this president to do what he is about to do. I support him fully. The American People support him. And more importantly, our communities need to be safe and this president is serious about that. Bill well watch it together, sir. Thank you for your time. Mark meadows the republican from north carolina. Thank you sir. Sandra as you both just mentioned a few minutes from now President Trump is expected to announce his next move on Border Security plus Vice President pence arriving in poland paying tribute to Holocaust Victims of the holocaust. More on that coming up next. Okay, paint a picture for me. Uh, well, this will be the kitchen. And wed like to put a fire pit out there, and a dock with a boat, maybe. Why havent you started building . Well, tylers off to college. And moms getting older. And eventually we would like to retire. Yeah, its a lot. But Td Ameritrade can help you build a plan for today and tomorrow. Great. Can you help us pour the foundation too . I think you want a house near the lake, not in it. Come with a goal. Leave with a plan. Td ameritrade. Bill moments away from the president speaking to the American People live from the rose garden. He is expected to declare a National Emergency at our southern border in order to get more funds to build more Border Security. Well bring you the president s remarks live as soon as they begin. Sandra Vice President pence in poland this morning along with the polish president laying a wreath at the wall of death at the Auschwitz Memorial camp. More on the Vice President s trip. Vice president pence paying respects at one of the scenes of the horrors of world war ii. He was at the site of auschwitz which the polish president. The memorial site there in the southern part of poland. The concentration camp where Something Like 1. 1 million jews were murdered by german nazi forces. The first time for the Vice President to visit this site. It is a state museum including it comes a day after pence visited another Holocaust Memorial in warsaw and a day after he attended a conference on the mideast in warsaw at which time the u. S. Was rallying support against iran which he said was a country trying to bring about another holocaust against the israeli state. Pence goes on to a security conference in munich along with other u. S. Officials where he will deal with other current day issues including some troubles that European Countries have with some aspects of Trump Administration foreign policy. Sandra thank you. Bill back to the white house. Cameras now moving into position waiting for the president set to declare a National Emergency at the southern border after a long fight with congress trying to get what he believes is necessary for greater Border Security, the wall, the barrier, however you frame it. The bill was passed overwhelmingly in the senate and in the house on the spending bill which includes some money for Border Security but not close enough to what the president was looking for. So then we expect the political implications the play out momentarily. The legal implications as well. Andy mccarthy will address the legislature side of that. Chris wallace will take on the politics as we roll on moments from now in the rose garden. Come back at the top of the hour here in americas newsroom. If Congress Goes in front of the court and said we want you to stop this the court will say whoa, you gave this authority to the president without many conditions. You gave this money without many limitations. Theres brushing. And theres oralb power brushing. Oralb just cleans better. Even my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. And unlike sonicare, oralb is the First Electric toothbrush brand accepted by the ada. Oralb. Brush like a pro. This round is on me. Hey, can you spot me . Come on in find your place, today, with silver sneakers. Included with Many Medicare plans. Call the number on the screen now or visit getsilversneakers. Com sandra this is a fox news alert. Any moment now President Trump is expected to address the American People and declare a National Emergency at the southern border. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im sandra smith. Bill feel like a friday . Sandra it is. Bill we have a long way to go. Im bill hemmer. Good morning at home on your mobile device, at work. All this going down in the rose garden. Youll see it in a matter of minutes the president expected to sign the spending bill that passed congress yesterday after it cleared the house and senate. Reaction from both sides. Here is a sample of what were picking up. First of all you have to look at what the president s Main Objective is, to keep america safe. Not just a Campaign Promise. Current law blocks the president from building wall in the area. This agreement will remove those limitations but not as much as the president or i would like to see. There are other areas the president can go. The president is running around congress and the power of the purse. Youve heard me say over and over again. Article 1, the legislative branch. Many other powers listed in the constitution and of course the responsibility to have oversight. So the president is doing an end run around that. Bill nancy pelosi there. Now we have reaction across the board. Chris wallace in washington Andy Mccarthy with the legal analysis with john roberts begins this hour from the north lawn. Where are we now . Good morning. Good morning. Things a little bit delayed in the rose garden. We expect the event will start soon. What the president will announce he is signing the appropriation bill that they received late last night and in addition to that he is going to declare a National Emergency. This morning the white house laid out the pots of money that the president will be putting toward border wall constructions. Put it on the screen to follow along. The 1. 375 billion from the dhs appropriation. In addition to that, the president has found some buckets of money elsewhere in the administration. Elsewhere in the government that he can use. 600 million from the treasury. As much as 2. 2 billion rerammed from other areas of the department of defense that section 284 and then this is the one that he needs the Emergency Declaration for. It is section 2808, the military construction budget. The president plans to take 3. 5 to 3. 6 billion from that. Each one of these pots of money comes with a certain amount of risk and there is escalating risk on top of that. The 600 million from treasury is the easy one. They can use it for anything they want. Easy to get money from the drug interdiction program. Moving some of that money may catch the eye of some folks in congress and may invite a legal challenge. Then they absolutely believe that the Emergency Declaration and tapping into the military construction budget will invite a legal challenge and howls of protest from members of congress who want to see that money go to construction on military bases in their district. One thing that the white house is not going to touch. Democrats made a big deal of this over the last few weeks saying the president would tap into Disaster Relief money. They arent touching a dime of Disaster Relief money. They do believe they will end up in court on at least some of this. They think between the dhs appropriation, money thats free and clear theyll end up with 4. 6 billion. They want to get the entire eight. Theyre prepared to go to court to fight this. Bill stand by from the north lawn. Chris wallace, the anchor of fox news sunday. This is something the president has been talking about for three years now from a policy perspective, how does it look today . Well, there is no policy if he cant make it happen. Thats going to be the big question. First of all there will be a fight in congress because under the National Emergencies act of 1976, congress has 15 days to pass a resolution of disapproval. That will almost certainly happen. Simple majority in the house. They will disapprove the president s declaring a National Emergency. Then it will go to the senate. Thats pretty interesting. The senate there are 53 republicans. If all the democrats were to vote for the resolution of disapproval plus just the republicans who are on the record now, about 4 or 5 saying theyre very concerned about this as a potential violation of article 1 of the constitution, which gives congress the power of the purse, you can get a resolution of disapproval on the president s desk. The president can veto that and there is almost no chance that congress would be able to override it. But this would be the first veto by the president since he took office in 2017 on a question of declaring a National Emergency and according to some members of Congress Going around the will of congress. Then there is the whole constitutional and court issue because you know a variety of people. House democrats after he vetoes a resolution of disapproval whether its local officials, private property owners, they will take this to court. As we saw with the travel ban and with the dreamers, usually you can get a Federal District court at least to say that this is unconstitutional. The president is stepping over his powers. Now, in the case of the travel ban the court Supreme Court ended up siding with him 54. This could be tied up in the courts for a long period of time. Sandra well talk more to Andy Mccarthy about that in a moment. Chris, the reaction continues to pour in from capitol hill both sides of the aisle. Democrats firmly against this move or potential move. We havent heard him announce it yet for declaring a National Emergency. Republicans mainly supporting the president but have heard some on the right speaking out against it. Marco rubio has put out a statement. John cornyn has expressed his displeasure with this move by the president. Susan collins, rand paul. There are some on the right who say that they dont want to see this happen. Well, thats right. And i think there are two reasons. First of all, the constitutional issue. Article 1 of the constitution which specifically gives congress the power of the purse and does not say that the president can sit and take any money that congress has approved and repurpose it. If he wants to repurpose some of the amounts john roberts was talking about, he is supposed to go to the chairman and the ranking opposition member of the House Appropriations and Senate Appropriations committee. So first of all the president would be doing this without their approval. In the case of the house they would certainly disapprove that. So youve got that aspect of it. Also there is the question of precedent. Nancy pelosi the House Speaker brought that up yesterday said look, someday there will be a democratic president. What happens if that president says we have a National Emergency with gun violence or Climate Change that republicans will howl about that. You are exactly right. At least five republicans on record. Not saying they would vote for a resolution of disapproval but dont approve what the president is doing. If they go with the democrats, then that will pass the senate as well as the house. Bill what you are describing is a series of variables we dont know how it will play out, chris. Look at it from a political standpoint then. Youll come quickly into an election season and what would be the message from the president as to how he sells the best effort that he could possibly get out of congress on this . Well look, you can be cynical and say that the president fully understands. Supposedly the White House Counsels Office said that this is to declare a National Emergency a high litigation risk which seems to be something of an underat the same time. Clearly this will go to the courts. You could argue what the president figures, even if they block me from the National Emergency, i get whatever money im able to get and at least the 1. 365 that congress has approved and i have certainly demonstrated to my base ive done everything i could possibly do, including declaring a National Emergency, going up against congress, going into the courts, to fight to keep my promise of 2016, which was to build a wall. So it certainly would play well to his base including some members of his base who have come out and said if he signs just the bill that was approved by congress yesterday, that that would be terrible. So he can at least say to them ive done everything i could to get the money for the wall. Sandra want to get nancy pelosi in here ahead of the president s announcement. Here she is. We wont review our options. Well be prepared to respond appropriately to it. Some republicans have unease about it no matter what they say. If the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the American People. Sandra the president is a few minutes away from making that announcement. She is saying its an illusion. If you look at the statistics four times as many people were coming over the border in the year 2000. 1. 6 Million People were apprehended coming across the border in 2000. Last year it was less than 400,000. So the argument could be yes, there certainly is a problem and yes people are coming over the border but it is only a fraction, 25 of how many people were coming over in the year 2000. So what National Emergency . Of course, the president will say its a different group. A lot more families, they are coming from Central America. Under the rules a law passed in 2007 or 8 i believe they arent allowed if theyre from Central America as opposed to mexico to return them right away. The president will make the case its a National Emergency but you can be sure there will be plenty of people on the other side who will say it isnt. Sandra Chris Wallace, thank you. Bill see you sunday, chris. I may see you after the speech. Sandra that would be nice. All right. Great. You can stick around. Well see you after the president s speech from the rose garden. Thank you. Joining us now is Andy Mccarthy former u. S. Attorney and tell us whats next if the president declares a National Emergency. Well, as chris said, whats next is two things. Probably some action in congress but as well as immediately they will be in court. The interesting thing about the resolution of disapproval that chris was just describing is when the National Emergencies act was passed in 1976, the idea was not that congress would do this resolution and then it would go back to the president to determine whether to veto it or not. It was actually initially passed as a legislative veto. That is, the president wasnt supposed to have this unchecked power. The legislature or the congress kept for itself the ability to basically cancel the National Emergency if the president declared it. Now, the Supreme Court in an unrelated matter a few years later invalidated the legislative veto as a matter of constitutional law. But i do think a court looking at this would say number one, when Congress Gave the president this power, it intended for there to be a check. And if the congress were to come back and do the resolution of disapproval, even if the president were to veto it, i think it would be a very powerful element that the court would evaluate in deciding whether to uphold what the president has done or not. Bill john roberts and others working on this. The breakdown of possible funding sources. What is it, 600 million from the Treasury Departments drug for tour program. 2 1 2 billion Defense Department. 3. 5 billion Defense Department military construction budget. If you look at that, some of that money, andy, is considered easy money as they say in washington might blow peoples mind but some of it is more difficult to get to. If you look at john roberts reporting here. If the president wanted 5. 7 billion for Border Security in the southwest, the easy money could total up to 4 1 2 million. That gets you very close. And he could frame it that way while the remainder of the funds remain locked up in litigation. There is a lot right now that you could access apparently according to our reporting so far. Yeah. When john was going through that, bill, the thing that occurred to me was i was thinking about when president obama, as part of the iran deal, made the payment to iran that resulted in the release of the hostages and i cant remember how many, i think it was two or three billion were involved. They managed to find it. I think it was the Judgment Fund which is kind of a slush fund of money that is available for various things that they are able to tap. It just occurred to me as he was running through these different pots of money you just talked about how much easier it is to do this when you go about it quietly. And i think part of the reason that President Trump is going to have much more trouble accessing what would otherwise be easy money is the fact that he so raised the attention of everybody to this with respect to the wall and the funding for it that every penny is going to be looked at here in a more exacting way than it might be if you went about this a little bit more quietly. Sandra i want to run this by you because some of the lawmakers have put out statements about where they stand on the president taking this action. Marco rubio said this, we have a crisis at our southern border he agrees. Todays National Emergency Border Security. A future president may use this same tactic to impose the green new deal. Ill wait to see what statutory or constitutional power the president relies on to justify such a declaration before making any definitive statement but i am skeptical it will be something i can support. He is talking about the precedent that this sets. But that last second to the last sentence stuck with me. Ill wait to see what statutory or constitutional power the president relies on to justify this. So what will you be looking for specifically from the president here in the wording of his statement when he begins a few moments from now . I think senator rubio is right about that. In fact, i was pleased, although not terribly convinced i was waiting to come on. Any time you hear nancy pelosi sound like James Madison is a good day. I think rubio is correct to say here is the problem. The president really shouldnt have this power. This is legislative authority that he is really executing in nature here. But lets wait to see exactly what he does and what the precedent is for how the courts have handled the different provisions he may try to access in order to gather this money together. I think as a matter of general principle, the president shouldnt be allowed to legislate. I dont think the president , other than in dire emergencies like an attack or natural catastrophe, the president shouldnt have this ability to just declare an emergency and start to legislate and move money around. Thats what congress is supposed to do in the system. But when you ultimately make a decision and you are dealing with a concrete set of facts, you have to look at exactly what statutes the president relies on and what the precedents are in interpreting those statutes. Bill hang with us for the next hour or so. What i hear you saying you can characterize it as a split decision. Fair . Well, i guess so. But again we have to see exactly what he does and how. I think this is really weve been talking about this for weeks. I think he is kicking this to the court and everybody will retreat to their corner with their political issue. The democrats will be able to tell their base. He will be able to tell his he tried as hard as he could. Bill some of the funding for the border will go forward so you can make the case that you are getting a more fortified border as you work your way through the courts. Thats how you can characterize the split decision. Well see if thats what we got. Hang on, Andy Mccarthy with us for the next hour or so as we wait on the rose garden. Sandra President Trump taking action. He is expected to announce his plans to protect the American People any minute live from the rose garden. Well take you there as soon as he begins speaking. Bill the selfproclaimed socialist alexandria ocasiocortez applauding the decision by amazon to ditch new york city. They are out at least for now. Now members of her own party are firing back. Charles payne will take us through this hot story coming up shortly. I was flabbergasted. I said why on earth after all the effort weve put in would you simply walk away . Newday va home loan for veterans. It lets you borrow up to 100 percent of your homes value. 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We will see him momentarily and hear together the decision he made. Reporting suggests a National Emergency. After that there could be a legal battle, a split decision. We await the president to come out here. Get a pause right now. Good morning live from new york city, bill hemmer and sandra smith. To all those joining us on the fox news channel. This is live coverage of what we expect will be a National Emergency declaration on behalf of the president. As you join our Coverage Today this is an issue for the president. Been out there for three years now. Sandra, today is about to come to a head. Sandra reaction has been pouring in from capitol hill throughout the night and all morning. Democrats obviously, we had a member of the dnc earlier saying theyre united in their fight against this upcoming announcement by the president to declare a National Emergency to secure the funding to build the wall. Republicans support him mostly. Some have spoken out against this move by the president. Marco rubio, rand paul, Susan Collins among them. The reaction continues to pour in and likely will as soon as the president makes this announcement. Bill john roberts reporting from the white house an hour ago. Senior Administration Official telling him the president will move a billion in currently appropriated what is considered available funds toward construction of a wall. That includes a lot of money from a lot of different areas, 600 million Treasury Department. Billions from the department of defense and then there will be, we expect some sort of court battle and well see how Congress Reacts as well. But there are a lot of variables in play after the president makes his decision. But given the move on behalf of the spending bill yesterday in congress that overwhelmingly passed the senate and in the house after a 35day shutdown that started more than a month ago, it has come to today. Sandra speaker of the house nancy pelosi objecting to this upcoming announcement by the president saying that if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion he wants to convey, think of what a president with different values can do to the American People . This announcement has gotten delayed since the top of the hour, john. Its likely to happen soon. Yeah, we did get a twominute warning 3 1 2 minutes ago here in washington they tend to be more of a suggestion than anything. We expect the president will be coming out very soon. He will announce that he has signed the bill. I dont see a table up there. He wont sign it in front of us and then he will declare a National Emergency. In terms of the money that bill was talking about a second ago, there is only a certain portion of it that requires the declaration of a National Emergency for him to tap into, that is the military construction budget. Section 2808 portion of this money. Thats about 3. 5 billion. They also plan on taking money seized by drug lords among them in the Treasury Department for tour Program Totaling 601 million and the section 284 program drug interdiction run by the department of defense. Other money that will be reprogrammed about 2. 2 billion worth they should get to a total of 2. 5 billion. The president will be coming out in a second. What you are seeing here, i believe, behind me is some of the angel moms that this white house has highlighted many times. People who had loved ones killed by Illegal Immigrants. Back to the money again. The president and the white house believe that the money from the Treasury Department wont invite much of a challenge, if any at all. They think its pretty easy money. The money in the 284 program theyll get pretty easily they believe. As they start to move money award it gets diceier and they believe that tapping into the military construction budget, though the white house is telling us that none of the money they have earmarked is for Critical Infrastructure Construction Projects and it would be much more tailored toward the wall. It will likely involve a Court Challenge. The white house has lawyered this thing in and out for months and they believe they have a very strong stance to make should they go into court. And you can bet they probably will be taken into court in california within the jurisdiction of the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Up until last week when they got a favorable ruling has been unfavorable to the president. Bill a moment ago we saw william barr. He was confirmed as attorney general just yesterday. Talking to Chris Wallace and Andrew Mccarthy about this resolution that could pass in congress and the president could override it. There are some republicans who will disagree with the move. I dont know how strong the opposition is. From your sources at the white house and talking with those in the west wing how do they characterize today as a victory, which is what is anticipated from this announcement . How do they characterize it as a victory, which is what is anticipated here . Sandra how do they characterize the 1. 37 billion bill the Border Security and immigration fight itself. How will they frame it . Now ive got you. The argument theyre using is were in an era of divided government. Democrats controlling the house of representatives. Republicans controlling the senate. And in divided government, you cannot get everything that you are looking for. The president is highlighting as a victory the fact that he got 23 billion in overall Border Security. Though he didnt get what he wanted for the wall. There are also some restrictions within the bill such as where they can and cannot build a wall. The National Butterfly center west of mcallen, texas, for example, they cant characterize as a win and they need to engage in extensive negotiations with local officials in five different areas in texas right on the border there. They cant characterize that as a victory. Ultimately theyll be able to build a wall. We got what we could. Were trying to backfill this as much as we can with the other and lets try to change things around in the 2020 election. Sandra anybodys guess how strong the opposition to this declaration will be when it comes to the house and senate. We have the twominute warning and were waiting on the president. That was five minutes ago. Sandra we await the president here. What about the reaction that we have had so far . There has been a lot of it from capitol hill overnight and into the morning, john. Well, clearly democrats dont like the idea that the president is going to declare an emergency one bit. And organizations like the American Civil Liberties union and others are already sharpening their pencils preparing for the Court Challenge the moment the president comes up here. And announces that he is declaring a National Emergency. There are some republicans who dont believe the president at least the president did not win in terms of getting the money that he wanted for a border wall. The president believes the republicans didnt negotiate hard enough. But it continues this fight. What youll see today is aimed at the president s base to say he is doing everything he can to make good on his central Campaign Promise. Dont forget he is not going to get all this money all at once. The money from the for tour hell get very soon. The money from the 284 program hell get soon but the military construction budget will take time. They needed to request all this money now because it all needs to be authorized in the current fiscal year which ends on september 30th. And then when we hit september 30th they can start this process all over again. So this could be just the very beginning of the president s Battle Royale with congress over moving money around within the government to fund his border wall. Bill i believe the shot we have here it is Mick Mulvaney in the west wing in the oval office there. The measure does include a lot of things that democrats like. The measure for improved for surveillance equipment, more customs agents. Humanitarian aid for detained immigrants. There is a lot in it they can say okay. A lot in the bill they can say the president agrees with democrats that you need more technology, you need to harden up screenings at ports of entry, which is 700 million was allocated for noninvasive screening equipment but he says it only works if you have the border barrier and why he is digging in his heels here and he is demanding money for a border wall. If he cant get the money from congress he will get it some other way. Throughout this bill. I talked to a couple of Administration Officials, there are little handcuffs that are put on much of the appropriations say it cant be used for this or that. No money used for this or that. And i dont know if its an inordinate number compared to other bills. More than 350 times in the bill there is specific instructions that money cannot be moved from this to some other program which is again why the president is going for this money outside of the dhs appropriation. Sandra all right, john roberts. We have await the president at the white house. We are still waiting. He should step out at any moment now. Andy mccarthy you are standing by. If you could weigh in on the moment as we await the president. Well, i think one of the things that i would be interested in how a court will take is the kind of cognitive dissonance thats involved in both signing the Emergency Declaration and signing the spending bill which actually has provisions in it that cut away from our ability to deal with certain aspects of illegal immigration. I think it is very tough for the president to say on the one hand i had to do this because it was an emergency and on the other hand sign a piece of legislation that not only gives him a lot less funding than he wanted but actually cuts down on our ability to detain people who are illegally in the country and actually gives some immunity to people who are in the country illegally who might be in a position to sponsor the incoming Family Members, particularly the minors who are a large part of the reason why we have the crisis the president is citing in the first place. Bill can you take us through the law here and help us understand this . Presently there are 30 National Emergencies in effect. Thats as of the first of february 2019. One which goes back to november 14th, 1979 on behalf of president jimmy carter that blocked iranian Government Property. You go through this list and it is through president clinton and president s bush and it deals with sudan, the balkans, zimbabwe. There are so many more here. The republic of congo. Whats the big deal in declaring a National Emergency when you have so many of these that are still in effect today . Give us the distinction for how we should understand what the beef is this time . Well, the beef this time is political. What you are citing is a big problem that we have in the structure of our government and in constitutional law. The two problems that you have, bill, are number one, congress is very good at declaring emergencies or finding the situations that they think rise to the level of emergencies. Theyre not really good at saying okay, thats over now so lets go back to normal legislation. So you have the law really littered with these emergencies that may have been emergencies at the time but certainly arent 10, 20, 30 years down the road. And then the other problem that you have is a problem that really comes up in various iterations throughout the government, which is that congress is very happy to delegate its authority to legislature whether its the president or the federal bureaucracies, in some instances the kick difficult issues to the courts and let them resolve it. These are all things that congress itself, what we elect them for is to actually wrestle with these things and make decisions. And what you find again and again and again are these means by which they kick their own responsibilities to different components of government. Bill you talk about spending and appropriations. Thats the rub here, the beef as we say. Stand by on that. Sandra thank you, andy. We want to bring in our ateam to americas newsroom, juan williams, fox news political analyst joins us, cheryl casoney and matt gorman from the National Republican congressional committee. Anybodys guess when the president steps out to deliver the address. The white house confirmed matt that he intends to sign the massive border deal and declare a National Emergency. Your thoughts . In the short term it will get messy. In the long term a bit scary. Short term it will get challenged by the courts. Democrats will force a resolution disproving of this. Make its way through the senate. Divide republicans. In the long term it will be scary. I think nancy pelosi alluded to the fact that a democratic president could use it on guns, green new deal, medicare for all. So i think in the long term that could be a bad proposition for republicans. Sandra you are saying scary because of the precedent that it sets. Yes, because of the precedent. Sandra another twominute warning. Cheryl, your thoughts. On the Fox Business Network throughout the morning talking about the money angle of all this and digging into the numbers here. Sure, 8 billion. How that money will be spent is certainly something that investors will want to see. From a market standpoint a lot of this has been kind of noise. The good news is the shutdown was averted and the markets are celebrating that. We needed to get more news out of the u. S. china trade deal and it will pick up next week in washington at the end of the day is taxpayer money going to be spent correctly and go to border cities where you get the most inflow of immigrants . What does it mean for the Healthcare System . E. R. S and hospitals overrun with illegal imgranlts in the rio grande valley, phoenix, tucson. The broader side bar issues, an 8 billion potential barrier being put up between the u. S. And mexico will it save us money long term. Thats a question for everybody. Bill what is it about your guess in chapter 2, what happens next . Hopefully he comes out. Nba game last two minutes. It goes on for a while. The next step is that youll, one, have the challenges on a legal basis to this act. You were talking earlier, bill, about the fact that we have 30 existing National Emergencies but weve never had one involving appropriations, not one is about the president taking the spending powers that authorize for congress away from the congress. Thats what makes this very different. In addition, i think the big news here politically is something matt was talking about. That if you have a resolution of disapproval, that you will split republicans. So you are going to get people who are trying, like senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to support the president. Yesterday senator Mitch Mcconnell the majority leader repeated calls to the president. He thought he had a deal with the president in which it would be limited to signing this bipartisan deal without the emergency. Then he calls back and its times have changed. The president s temper has changed. So you get this deal. But for the members of the republican members of the senate in specific they were feeling look, we got the president to sign the border deal. We can move from there. Well deal with the emergency later. It is almost as if the president had a tantrum and fellow republicans are coping with him at this moment. Sandra did democrats do enough to work with the president . Oh my gosh, look, i dont think there was much doubt that republicans felt that one, they had a deal in december. The deal they had in december had more money for barriers, fencing, whatever you want to call it than what theyve got now. Secondly democrats felt they had given up eptionly with regard to the number of beds available to ice for detention. That they had given money for 55 miles of barrier fencing. Sandra lets hear from matt. This is the best deal theyll get at the time. Nancy pelosi said i wont give you a dollar for a wall. Thats not true right now. They said they wanted to cap the number of beds. Tie the hands of ice. That didnt come to fruition. I think this is the best deal they are going to get right now. Look, this could happen. This will only last until september. We can talk and see how this plays out at the border then. We might need to make a change then. Bill cheryl, in a moment here well find out what he has to say clearly. And then all these variables that weve been talking about for the past two hours will play out in their own time. What is your suggestion when you listen to john roberts, you could go ahead and get a lot of this money right now, which means the process goes forward while some of it could be delayed for two years. Thats the noise i was referencing earlier. Nancy pelosi said they are looking at a challenge. It could end up in the courts. That prolongs the issue. This could be again a speed bump. Thats the side bar, the noise i was talking about earlier. As far as the spending itself. I grew up in the middle of all of this. Ever since i was a child illegal immigration has been an issue. So glad to see its a National Story at the forefront now absolutely. But it has to be smart border control. Not just money being thrown. Look at the rio grande valley. Even john cornyn said that this is a dangerous step that President Trump is taking right now. Bill all three of you thank you and stand by. Here we go in the rose garden and the president. President trump thank you very much, everybody. Before we begin, i would like to say we have a large team of very talented people in china weve had a negotiation going on for about two days. It is going extremely well. Who knows what that means because it only matters if we get it done but we are very much working very closely with china and president xi, who i respect a lot. Very Good Relationship that we have. And we are a lot closer than we ever were in this country with having a real trade deal. Were covering everything. All of the points that people have been talking about for years that said couldnt be done whether it was theft or anything, anything. The unfairness. Weve been losing on average 375 billion a year with china. A lot of people think its 506 billion. Some people think its much more than that. Well be leveling the Playing Field. The tariffs are hurting china very badly. They dont want them and frankly if we can make the deal it would be my honor to remove them. Otherwise we have many billions of dollars pouring into our treasury. Weve never had that before with china. It has been a oneway street. Thats happening. The relationship with china is very good but i think they finally respect our country. They havent respected us for a long time. Not for a long time. The u. K. And the u. S. As you probably have been seeing and hearing, were agreeing to go forward and preserve our trade agreement. You know all of the situation with respect to brexit and the complexity and the problems but we have a very good trading relationship with u. K. And it has just been strengthened further. So with the u. K. Were continuing our trade and we are going to actually be increasing it very substantially as time goes by. We expect the u. K. Will be very, very substantially increased as it relates to trade with the United States. The relationship there also is very good. We have a lot of great announcements having to do with syria and our success with the eradication of the caliphate and that will be announced over the next 24 hours. And many other things. A lot of positive things are going on. Were working on a summit. You know all about the summit. It will be in vietnam, hanoi, and we will be meeting in hanoi. A lot of you will be going, i suspect. I hope we had the same good luck as we had in the first summit. A lot was done in the first summit. No more rockets or missiles going up. No more testing of nuclear. Get back our remains, the remains of our great heroes from the korean war. And we got back our hostages. But we hope we will be very much equally as successful. Im in no rush for speed. We just dont want testing. The sanctions as you know remain. Everything is remaining. China has been helping us and russia has been helping us. And south korea, i think you can say weve been working very closely with south korea, with japan. But china, russia on the border have really been at least partially living up to what they are supposed to be doing and thats okay as per the united nations. So we will have a meeting on the 27th and 28th of february. And i think that will be a very successful and i look forward to seeing chairman kim. We have also established a very Good Relationship, which has never happened between him or his family and the United States. They have really taken advantage of the United States, billions of dollars have been paid to them and we wont let that happen but we think that north korea and chairman kim have a tremendous potential as an economic power. Their location between south korea and russia and china right smack in the middle is phenomenal. And we think they have a great chance for tremendous Economic Prosperity in the future. I look forward to seeing chairman kim in vietnam. Today im announcing several critical actions that my administration is taking to confront a problem that we have right here at home. We fight wars that are 6,000 miles away. Wars we should have never been in in many cases but we dont control our own border. So we are going to confront the National Security crisis on our southern border and we are going to do it one way or the other. We have to do it not because it was a Campaign Promise, which it is. It was one of many, by the way. Not my only one. Were rebuilding the military. Our economy is thriving like never before. You look at other economies, they are doing terribly and were doing great. The market is up tremendously today. Not that thats anything. I will go back in and theyll say the market just went down. But the market is getting close to the new highs that we created. We have all the records. We have every record but we are getting close to that point again where well create new records. Our country is doing very well economically and weve done a lot. One of the things i said i have to do and i want to do is Border Security because we have tremendous amounts of drugs flowing into our country. Much of it coming from the southern border. When you look and when you listen to politicians, in particular certain democrats, they say it all comes through the port of entry, thats wrong. Thats wrong. Thats just a lie. It is all a lie. They say walls dont work. Walls work 100 . Whether its el paso. I really was smiling because the other night i was in el paso. We had a tremendous crowd. And i asked the people, many of whom were from el paso but they came from all over texas. And i asked them i said let me ask you as a crowd, when the wall went up, was it better . You were there, some of you. It was not only better, it was like 100 better. You know what they did . Thats only one example. There are so many examples. In el paso they have close to 2,000 murders right on the other side of the wall. And they had 23 murders. Thats a lot of murders but its not 2,000 murders on the other side of the wall in mexico. Everyone knows walls work. There are better examples from el paso. You take a look almost everywhere. Take a look at israel. They are building another wall. Their wall is 99. 9 effective they tell me. 99. 9 . Thats what it would be with us, too. The only weakness is they go to a wall and then they go around the wall. They go around the wall and in. Okay . Thats what it is, very simple. A big majority of the big drugs, the big drug loads dont go through ports of entry. They cant go through ports of entry. You cant take big loads because we have the Border Patrol, Law Enforcement looking. You cant take human traffic, women and girls. You cant take them through ports of entry. You cant have them tied up in the back seat of a car or truck or a van. They open the door, they look. They cant see three women with tape in their mouth or three women whose hands are tied. They go through areas where you have no wall. Everybody knows that. Nancy knows it, chuck knows it. They all know it. Its all a big lie. A big con game. You dont have to be very smart to know you put up a barrier, the people come in, and thats it, they cant do anything unless they walk left or right and they find an area where there is no barrier and they come into the United States, welcome. Weve detained more people, our Border Agents are doing such incredible work, our military has been incredible. We put up barbed wire. We loaded up with barbed wire. It is very successful. I want to thank our military. Theyve been fantastic. And it is very necessary. Weve broken up two caravans on their way that are just breaking. In the process of breaking up. We have another one that we havent been able to break up yet. Weve been working with mexico much better than ever before. I want to thank the president. I want to thank mexico. They have their own problems. They have the largest number of murders that theyve ever had in their history, almost 40,000 murders. 40,000. They have to straighten that out. I think they will. I just want to thank the president because he has been helping us with these monstrous caravans that have been coming up. We had one that was up to over 15,000 people. It has largely broken up. Others have gotten through. And in tijuana. You have a lot of people staying. If they we didnt have the wall they would have walked through through. One of the things we would save tremendous amount on would be sending the military. If we had a wall we dont need the military. We would have a wall. So im going to be signing a National Emergency and it has been signed many times before. It has been signed by other president s from 1977 or so it gave the president s the power. There has rarely been a problem. They sign it, nobody cares. I guess they werent very exciting. But nobody cares, they sign it for far less important things in some cases, in many cases. Were talking about an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs. We have some of the greatest people i know who have been with me from the beginning of my campaign. The angel moms. Unfortunately we have new angel moms. One incredible woman just showed me her daughter who were talking about got killed in the year of 18. I said i havent seen you before. She said im new. I said thats too bad. Its too bad. It is so sad. Stand up just for a second and show how beautiful your girl was. Thank you. I have such respect for these people. Angel moms, angel dads, angel families. I have Great Respect for these people. These are great people. These are great people. Theyre fighting for their children have that been killed by people illegally in this country. And the press doesnt cover them. They dont want to incredibly. And they arent treated the way they should be. Theyre fighting for other people because they dont want what happened to their children or husband or anybody. We have one young lady whose husband, please, stand up. Your husband was just killed in maryland. Incredible man just killed. Beautiful children wont be seeing their father again. These are brave people. These are people that dont have to be here. They dont have to be doing this. They are doing it for other people. I just want to thank all of you for being here, i really do. I want to thank you incredible people. Last year 70,000 americans were killed at least. I think the number is ridiculously low, by drugs, including meth and heroin and cocaine, fentanyl. One of the things that i did with president xi in china when i met him in argentina at a summit, before i even started talking about the trade. It was a trade meeting. It went very well but before i talked about trade, i talked about something more important. I said listen, we have tremendous amounts of fentanyl coming into our country. Kills tens of thousands of people. I think far more than anybody registers. And i would love you to declare it a lethal drug and put it on your criminal list. Their criminal list is much tougher than ours. Their criminal list a drug dealer gets a thing called the Death Penalty. Our criminal drug dealer gets a thing called how about a fine . When i asked president xi, i said you have a drug problem . No, no, no. I said you have 1. 4 billion people. What do you mean you have no drug problem . No, we dont have a drug problem. I said why . Death penalty. We give Death Penalty to people that sell drugs. End of problem. What do we do . We set up a blue ribbon committees, lovely men and women. They sit around a table and have lunch and eat and they dine and they waste a lot of time. So if we want to get smart, we can get smart. You can end the drug problem. You can end it a lot faster than you think. President xi has agreed to put fentanyl on his list of deadly, deadly drugs. It is a criminal penalty and the penalty is death. So thats frankly one of the things im most excited about in our trade deal if you want to know the truth. Maybe there is no more important point. Well make billions of dollars with the trade deal and it will be great for our country and great for china, i hope. Their market is down close to 40 . Our market is way up. Weve picked up since my election trillions of dollars of worth, trillions, many trillions, and china has lost trillions of dollars. But i want it to be good for china and the United States. Well see what happens. China is coming here next week, by the way. Theyre coming home, the traders, then china is coming here next week and ill be meeting with president xi at some point after that to maybe for some remaining deals well make them directly oneonone ourselves. So were going to be signing today and registering National Emergency and its a great thing to do because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people and it is unacceptable. By signing the National Emergency, something signed many times by other president s, many, many times, president obama. In fact, we may be using one of the National Emergencies that he signed having to do with cartels, criminal cartels. Its a very good emergency he signed and well use parts of it in our dealings on cartels. So that would be a second National Emergency but in that case its already in place. What we really want to do is simple. It is not like its complicated. It is very simple. We want to stop drugs from coming into our country. We want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country. Nobody has done the job that weve ever done. Nobody has done the job weve done on the border. And in a way, what i did by creating such a great economy and if the opposing party got in this economy would be down the tubes. I hear a lot of people say oh, well, but maybe the Previous Administration. Let me tell you, the Previous Administration, it was heading south and it was going fast. We would have been down the tubes. The regulations were strangling our country. Unnecessary regulations. By creating such a Strong Economy you just look at your televisions and see whats going on today its through the roof. What happens is more people want to come. So we have far more people trying to get into our country today than probably weve ever had before. And weve done an incredible job in stopping them but it is a massive number of people. If we had the wall it would be very easy. We would make up for the cost of the wall just in the cost of the fact that i would be able to have fewer people we wouldnt need all of this incredible talent, some of whom are sitting in the first row, you wouldnt need all of this incredible talent. We would get thousands of Law Enforcement people, including Border Patrol, you put them in different areas, have them doing Different Things. Law enforcement and Border Patrol. I want to thank Law Enforcement and i want to thank Border Patrol and ice. Ice is abused by the press and by the democrats. By the way, we are going to be taking care of ice. We talk about the new bill. Well be taking care of ice. They wanted to get rid of ice. And the bill is just the opposite of that. A lot of good things happened. So thats the story. We want to have a safe country. I ran on a very simple slogan, make America Great again. If you are going to have drugs pouring across the border, if you are going to have human traffickers pouring across the border in areas where we have no protection, in areas where we dont have a barrier, then very hard to make America Great again. But weve done a fantastic job. But we havent been given the equipment. We havent been given the walls. And in the bill, by the way, they didnt even fight us on most of the stuff. Ports of entry. We have so much money we dont know what to do with it. I dont know what to do with all the money they are giving us. It is crazy. The only place they dont want to give us much money, 1 billion 375 million sounds like a look but not so much although were putting it to much better use than it used to be. A lot of the past administrations it was easy to get and they didnt build or do what they could have done. It would have been great. It would have been great to have done it earlier. I was a little new to the job, a little new to the profession and we had a little disappointment for the first year and a half. People that should have stepped up did not step up. They didnt step up and they should have. It would have been easy. Not that easy, but it would have been a lot easier. But some people didnt step up. But were stepping up now. So we have a chance of getting close to 8 billion, whether its 8 billion or 2 billion or 1 1 2 billion it will build a lot of wall. Were right now in construction with wall in some of the most important areas and we have renovated a tremendous amount of wall making it just as good as new. Thats where a lot of the money has been spent on renovation. We were restricted to renovating, which is okay, but we will run out of areas we can renovate pretty soon. We need new wall. So i want to thank everybody for being here and i want to thank in particular the angel moms and dads for being here. Thank you very much. We have Great Respect for you. The real country, our real country, the people that really love our country, they love you. So i just want you to know that. I know how hard you fight and i know how hard a fight you are having. I also want to thank all of the Law Enforcement for the job you do. Believe me, our country loves you and respect you greatly and were giving you a lot of surplus, were giving you surplus military equipment, which a lot of people didnt like giving previous to this administration. But hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus equipment and as we get it, as you know we send it down and you have much better protection. But i really appreciate you being here. So the order is signed and i will sign the final papers as soon as i get into the oval office and we will have a National Emergency and we will then be sued and they will sue us in the ninth circuit even though it shouldnt be there. We will possibly get a bad ruling. Another bad ruling and end up in the Supreme Court and hopefully well get a fair shake and win in the Supreme Court. Just like the band, they sued us in the ninth circuit and we lost and lost in the appel yat and lost. We went to the Supreme Court and won. Yesterday they were talking about the ban. It is very helpful, madam secretary. Without the ban we would have a bigger problem. We have a ban on certain areas, certain countries depending on whats going on in the world. And we won but somebody said President Trump lost on the ban. He didnt say we ultimately won at the United States Supreme Court. They dont want to say that or go that far. They were saying how i lost the person sitting right up here. Donald trump lost on the ban. Yeah, i did, and then i lost a second time. You should have said that, too. Then i went to the Supreme Court and i won. Didnt want the take it that far. We won on the ban and other things, too. The probably easiest one to win is on declaring a National Emergency because we are declaring it for virtual invasion purposes, drugs, traffickers, and gangs. One of the things just to finish, we have removed thousands of ms13 gang monsters, thousands. They are out of this country. We take them out by the thousands. And they are monsters. Okay, do you have any questions . John, go ahead. You were prepared. Mr. President , a lot of the money you are saying i was prepared . Prepared for questions. Bill you were prepared for questions. A lot of the money that goes to count toward your 8 billion is money thats being reprogrammed in the d. O. D. Budget. How can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed forto a wall will take away from other technology, other renovations, construction that is desperately needed in our military. President trump we have certain funds being used at the discretion of generals, at the discretion of the military. Some havent been allocated yet. Some of the generals think this is more important. I was speaking to a couple of them and they think it is more important than what they were going to use it for. I wont go into details. Didnt sound too important to me. Plus if you think ive gotten 700 billion for the military in year one. And then last year 716 billion. And were rebuilding our military. But we have a lot and under the Previous Administration our military was depleted. Badly depleted and they werent spending they had a much smaller amount of money. So when i got 700 billion and then 716 billion and this year it will be pretty big, too, because there are few things more important than our military. Im a big deficit believer and all that but before we start focusing on certain things we have to build up our military. It was very badly depleted. Were buying all new jet fighters, missiles, defensive equipment. Well soon have a military like weve never had before but when you think about the kind of numbers you are talking about, so you have 700 billion, 716 billion. When i need 2 billion or 3 billion out of that for a wall, which is a very important instrument, very important for the military because the drugs that pour on. As you know, we have specific rules and regulations where they have drugs and what you can do in order to stop drugs. Thats part of it, too. Were taking a lot of money from that realm also. But when you have that kind of money going into the military this is a very, very small amount that were asking for. Go ahead. Abc. I like abc a little more, not much. Abc, pretty close. What do you say to those including some of your republican allies who say you are violating the constitution with this move and setting a bad precedent that will be abused by possibly democratic president s in the future. Marco rubio mentioned that. President trump not too many people have said that. The courts will determine that. I expect to be sued. I shouldnt be. Very rarely do you get sued when you do a National Emergency. Other people say if you use it for this. What are we using it for . We have to get rid of drugs and gangs and people. Its an invasion. We have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country but its hard to stop. With a wall it would be very easy. I think that we will be very successful in court. I think its clear. And the people that say we create precedent, well, what do you have, 56 many of those are far less important than having a border. You dont have a border, you dont have a country. You know before i got here we fight all over the world to create borders for countries but we dont create a border for our own country. So i think what will happen is sadly well be sued and sadly it will go through a process and happily well win i think. Go ahead. Lets hear it nbc. In the past when president obama tried to use executive action with related to immigration you said it is not the way the country is supposed to be run by executive order. You are supposed to go through congress and make a deal. You concede you were unable to make the deal you promised in the past and the deal you end up now with congress is less than what you could have had before the 35day shut down. President trump i went through congress. I made a deal. I got almost 1. 4 billion when i wasnt supposed to get 1. Not 1. I got 1. 4 billion but im not happy with it. I also got billions of dollars for other things, port of entries, lots of Different Things. The purchase of drug equipment. More than we were even requesting. In fact, the primary fight was on the wall. Everything else we have so much. As i said, i dont know what to do with it we have so much money. But on the wall they skimped. So i was successful in that sense but i want to do it faster. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didnt need to do this but i would rather do it much faster. I dont have to do it for the election. Ive already done a lot of wall for the election in 2020. The only reason were up here talking about this is because of the election. They want to try to win an election and this is one of the ways they think they can win is by obstruction and a lot of other nonsense. And i think that i just want to get it done faster, thats all. Okay. Yes, maam, go ahead. Thank you, mr. President. Im from reuters. I wanted to ask about china. Do you feel that enough progress has been made in the talks to head off the increase in tariffs scheduled for march 1 . Well, you are talking to the wrong person. I happen to like tariffs. Were taking in billions of dollars in tariffs from china and our Steel Industry is an example. We taxed dumped steel. Much of it comes from china, at 25 . Our Steel Industry are building plants all over the United States. A beautiful thing. From a defensive standpoint you need steel. You can do without certain industries. Our country cannot do without steel. So i love tariffs but i also love them to negotiate and right now china is paying us billions of dollars a year in tariffs and i havent even started. Here is the thing. If we make a deal, they wont have to pay. It will be a whole different story. They wont be paying that but well have a fair deal. There wont be intellectual property theft, there wont be so many things that have gone on. No other president has done this. We didnt have a deal with china. We had the wto, one of the worst trade deals ever made. Maybe worse than nafta. I think that was just a disaster. Ist was a total disaster for our country. And now we made the usmca which will be a great deal. By the way, the usmca from mexico, the United States, mexico, canadien, thats where the money is coming from indirectly for the wall. And nobody wants to talk about that. Because were saving billions and billions of dollars a year if Congress Approves that deal. Now, they might not want to approve a deal because theyll say one of the things im thinking of doing, this has never been done before. No matter how good a deal i make with china, if they sell me beijing for 1, if they give me 50 of their land and every ship that theyve built over the last two years, which is a lot, and they give them to me free, the democrats will say what a lousy deal. Thats a terrible deal. Like zte i got more than a billion penalty in a short period of time and the democrats said oh, should have got more. When i made that deal i said this is incredible. I got over a billion penalty plus they had to change their board of directors, they had to change their top management. But they had to pay over a billion dollars. I said what a deal. Took like a week. And the democrats didnt even know there was a problem with zt. Im the one that fined them and settled it. Over a billion dollar. President xi called me. It would be important to him if they could get a deal. And in a short period of time. The democrats went out and said oh, they should have done better. So what im thinking of doing is getting Chuck Schumer, getting nancy pelosi, having them bring two or three of their brilliant representatives and well all go down together and what well do is well negotiate, ill put them in the room and let them speak up because any deal i make the china. It will be better than any deal that anybody ever dreamt possible or i wont have a deal. Very simple. But any deal i make with china schumer will stand up and say oh, it should have been better. It should have been better. And you know what . Thats not acceptable to me. So im thinking about doing something very different. I dont think its ever been done. I dont want to be second guessed. Its politics. Sadly i would probably do the same thing to them, okay . But any deal i make toward the end ill bring schumer at least offer him and pelosi. Ill say please join me on the deal and by the way, i just see our new attorney general is sitting in the front row. Please stand up, bill. Such an easy job hes got. He has the easiest job in government. Thank you and congratulations. It was a great vote yesterday. Thank you very much. In your remarks you said you were too new to politics earlier in your administration when you would have preferred this be done. Is that an admission of how you might be changing on the job and President Trump i am learning. Dont forget not like ive done this for senator came into my office and said ive been running for office 30 years. Ive won seven out of seven. I did lose a couple when i was younger. I said ive won one out of one but i never did politics before. Now i do politics. I will tell you im very disappointed at certain people, particular one for not having pushed this faster. But are you referring to speaker ryan. Lets not talk about it. They should have pushed it faster and harder. And they didnt. They didnt. If they would have, it would have been a little bit better. In the meantime, i built a lot of wall. I have a lot of money and i built a lot of wall but it would have been nice to have gotten done. I would like to see major Immigration Reform and maybe thats something we can all work on, bill, where we all get together and do major Immigration Reform. Not just for a wall, for a barrier, for port of entry, for other things. We have a real problem. We have catch and release. You catch a criminal and you have to release him. We have so many other things. You have chain migration. Where a bad person comes in, brings 22 or 23 or 35 of his Family Members because he has his mother, his grandmother, sister, cousin, uncle. They are all in. You know what happened on the west side highway. That young wise guy drove over and killed eight people and horribly injured nobody talks about that, horribly like loss of legs and arms. Going 60 miles an hour he made a right turn into a park on the west side highway along the hudson river in new york. He had many people brought in because he was in the United States. Its called chain migration. Then you have the lottery. Its a horror show because when countries put people into the lottery, they arent putting you in, they are putting some very bad people in the lottery. It is common sense. If i ran a country and a lottery system of people going into the United States. Im not going to put in my stars, ill put in people i dont want. The lottery system is a disaster. Could you tell us conservative voices helped to shape your views on the National Emergency. President trump sean hannity has been a terrific, terrific supporter of what i do. Not of me. If i changed my views he wouldnt be with me. Rush limbaugh i think he is a great guy. I can speak for three hours without a phone call. Try doing that for three hours he speaks. One of the biggest audiences in the history of the world. This guy is unbelievable. Try speaking for three hours without taking calls. Taking calls is easy. Okay, ill answer this one and that one. He goes for three hours and he has an audience thats fantastic. Wait. They dont decide policy. In fact, if i went opposite they have somebody ann coulter, i hardly know her. Havent spoken to her in way over a year. But the press loves saying ann coulter. If i did speak to her she may be very nice. I dont have the time. I have nothing against her. I like her for one reason. When they asked her right at the beginning who is going to win the election, she said donald trump. And the two people that asked her that question smiled. They said youre kidding . Nope, donald trump. I like her. But she is off the reservation but anybody that knows her understands that. But i havent spoken to her. I dont follow her. I dont talk to her. The press loves to bring up the name ann kol tier. I think she is fine and good. Laura ingraham has been great. Tucker carlson has been great. I have a couple of people on cnn that have been very good. Msnbc the other day did a great report. Where the hell did that come from . I think it was the only one in over a year. So the crazy thing is, i just had, as you know, rasmussen 52 in the polls, my highest poll number and people get what were doing. They get it. They really get it. And im honored by it. Yes, jim a costa. I wonder if you could comment on this disconnect that we seem to have in this country where you are presenting information about what is happening at the border calling it an invasion talking about women with duct tape over their mouths and so on and yet there is a lot of reporting out there and crime data out there, a lot of department of Homeland Security data out there that shows border crossings at a near record low. Thats because of us. Excuse me. President trump there is still massive numbers. It shows undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower levels than nativeborn americans. What do you say President Trump you dont really believe that. Do you really believe that . Take a look at our federal prisons. I believe in facts and statistics. Let me ask you this. What do you say to your critics who say that you are creating a National Emergency . That you are concocting a National Emergency in order to get your wall because you couldnt get it through other ways. President trump do you think im creating something . Ask these incredible women who lost their daughters and sons, okay . Because your question is a very political question because you have an agenda. You are cnn and fake news. You have an agenda. The numbers that you gave are wrong. Take a look at our federal prison population. See how many of them percentagewise are illegal aliens, just see. Go ahead and see. Its a fake question. Yes, go ahead. Can i ask a followup . Thank you, mr. President. Just to follow up on that numbers from your own Border Patrol and government show the amount of Illegal Immigrants are down. There is not violence on the border. And that most President Trump there is not violence on the border . 26 people let me finish the question. President trump two weeks all 26 people were killed in a gun fight a mile away from where i went on the border. I was there, i understand. Thats not the question. Im not forgetting that im asking you to clarify where you get your numbers because most of the dea, Crime Reporting statistics that we see shows drugs are coming across at the ports of entry, illegal immigration a down and the violence is down. So what do you base your facts on . President trump lets go. No, no, you get one. Wait, sit down, sit down. You get one question. I get my numbers from a lot of sources like Homeland Security, primarily. And the numbers that i have from Homeland Security are a sis disaster. The numbers that come out of Homeland Security, for the cost that we spend and the money we lose because of illegal immigration. Billions and billions of dollars a month. Billions of dollars and it is unnecessary. Your own government stats are wrong are you saying . President trump i use many states. You have states that are far worse than the ones i use. I use many stats but i also use Homeland Security. Just a quick followup. President trump please. Thank you. I want to bring you back to china. The other day you gave the possibility that maybe this could slide. Are you eyeing a possible extension 30 days maybe 60 days, where does the march 1 deadline . President trump its a very big deal. It must be the biggest deal ever made if you think trade with china. How big does that get . Although if you look the usmca is right up there. But its very complicated. There are many, many points were bringing up that nobody ever brought up or thought to bring up but theyre very important. We were on the wrong side of every one of them. There is a possibility that i will extend the date. If i do that, if i see were close to a deal or the deal is going in the right direction, i would do that at the same tariffs. I wouldnt increase them. The debt has gone from a shade under 20 trillion and now its over 22 trillion. What are your plans to reverse it . Its all about growth. Before i focus on that. You have to remember president obama put on more debt on this country than every president in the history of our country combined. When i took over we had one man that put on more debt than every other president combined. Combine them all. So you cant be talking about that but i talk about it because i consider it very important. But first i have to straighten out the military. The military was depleted. If we dont have a Strong Military hopefully we wont have to use it because its strong. If we dont str a Strong Military. You dont have to worry about debt. You have bigger problems. Thats why i did the 700 and 716 billion. Growth will straighten it out. You saw last month the trade deficit went way down. Everybody said what happened. What is happening is growth. Before i can focus too much on that a very big expense is military and we have no choice but to straighten out our military. Is growth the only answer . President trump yes maam, go ahead. On north korea, back on the last summit you came out with a general agreement. I was wondering what you thought has been accomplished since the last summit and are we going to be seeing any concrete denuclearization. President trump a lot has been accomplished. When i came into office i met right there in the oval office with president obama. And i sat in those beautiful chairs and we talked. It was supposed to be 15 minutes. It ended up being many times longer than that. I said whats the biggest problem . He said by far north korea. And i dont want to speak for him but i believe he would have gone to war with north korea. I think he was ready to go to war. He told me he was so close to starting a big war with north korea. Where are we now . No missiles, no rockets, no nuclear testing. Weve learned a lot. But much more importantly than all of it. Much more important, much, much more important than that is we have a great relationship. I have a very Good Relationship with kim jongun. I have done the job. Prime minister abe of japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the nobel prize. He said i have nominated you respectfully on behalf of japan. I am asking them to give you the nobel peace prize. I said thank you. Many other people feel that way, too. Ill probably never get it. Thats okay. They gave it to obama. He didnt know what he got it for. He was there for 15 seconds and he got the nobel prize. He said what did i get it for . With me i probably will never get it. But if you look at i had lib province in syria, i stopped the slaughter of perhaps 3 Million People. They dont talk about that. Russia and iran and syria were going to go in and perhaps destroy three Million People in order to get 45,000 terrorists. I heard about it from a woman who had her parents and brothers living there and she said please, please. I thought i said no, it cant happen. What are you talking about . I come home and i read a certain paper where the story was there that they were forming to go into and really do big destruction. I put out a statement that you better not do it. And in all fairness to russia and iran and syria, they didnt attack or they are doing it surgically at least. Saved a lot of people. We do a lot of good work. This administration does a tremendous job and we dont get credit for it. I think the people understand what we do. So Prime Minister abe. It was a fivepage letter. Nobel prize. He sent it to them. You know why . Because he had rocket ships and he had missiles flying over japan and they had alarms going off. You know that. Now all of a sudden they feel good. They feel safe. I did that. And it was a very tough dialogue at the beginning. Fire and fury, total annihilation. My button is bigger than yours. People said trump is crazy. And you know what it ended up being . A very Good Relationship. I like him a lot and he likes me a lot. Nobody else would have done that. The Obama Administration couldnt have done it. They wouldnt have done it number one. Number two, they didnt have the capability to do it. So i just want to thank everybody. I want to wish our new attorney general great luck and speed and enjoy your life. Bill, good luck. Tremendous reputation. I know youll do a great job. Thank you very much and thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you. Sandra youve been listening live to the president from the rose garden at the white house officially declaring a National Emergency to secure the funding for the border wall. I will sign a National Emergency, said the president. Well build a lot of wall. Were going to build it one way or another. Now what follows. Well have continued coverage right here on the fox news channel. Keep it here and thank you to our fox stations for joining us. Well have continued coverage live on fox news channel. Keep it right here. Signing off from new york. Bill as we continue on cable 11 30 here in new york we had a clock of about 50 plus minutes for what has been a tour deforce for the president selling his policies from china, north korea, economy. Critical at this moment is the National Emergency. He said a lot protecting on behalf of ice operations, he was happy about that. Mentioned the dollar figure repeatedly. One time saying whether its 8 billion, 2 billion, it will build a lot of wall. Ultimately he came back to where a lot of our guests have gone a court battle. He referred to the Supreme Court where he believes he will win. Sandra he ended up taking questions for quite some time in the rose garden. Some contentious exchanges. Asked about military funding and how it will affect some of that. He answered that certain military funds were not allocated yet. He spoken to some generals about this and they think this is the more important move that is how he definded that criticism of this move. Bill he talked a lot about the historical nature of National Emergencies. There were at least 30 that are still in place going back to the days of jimmy carter in 1979. The distinction with a lot of those National Emergencies is they didnt reappropriate money, which is the job of congress. Thats where the rub comes in now on the legal fight. Nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer, already responding. Some of the statements were flying when the president was talking. The congress will defend using every remedy available. The president s emerging declaration, if unchecked would fundamentally alter the balance of powers. Thats what were hearing from leading democrats in congress. Sandra they finished that statement by saying the president is not above the law. So lots of criticism as expected. Lets bring in Chris Wallace. Welcome back. You just heard from the president making strongly his case talking about drugs, human trafficking, gangs flowing across our border. You dont have a border, you dont have a country. Were getting it done. What did you think . He is a strong, forceful advocate for his position and you heard him challenged when it was suggested you are making up this crisis and he pointed to the angel moms and dads who have lost loved ones and said tell them that im making this up. So he is making a strong and emotional case and there are millions of americans who will agree with him. On the other hand there are people who one question whether or not its a National Emergency and two, even if they think it is question the idea of whether this is a constitutional overreach. Whether the president has the power to spend money that hasnt been appropriated by congress. The big difference between this and the other declarations of emergency as bill pointed out. Those were specific cases where the president was freezing the funds of somebody or swine flu for 9 11. A debate about building a wall or not for years. Congress either in its wisdom or lack of wisdom didnt give him anything more than this 1. 375 billion and he is saying no, i want more. And that makes it very different. He is going over and above and against the express will of congress. That is going to create a big fight within congress as i mentioned before. Resolution of disapproval and also create a big fight in the courts. Bill make America Great again came back to that theme, chris. His address on that was we have not been given the equipment referring directly to the amount of equipment on the wall to get that funding. My sense is, as i mentioned probably two hours ago, sandra, is that you can declare a split decision on this in the following sense. A lot of the money he is talking about is readily available. A lot of the other will be locked up for some time. You can continue to process to build and that he can sell to those who voted for him on this issue. In that sense its a split decision politically. Right. A split decision in another sense. He made a very good point when he talked about all the money that was appropriated as part of this congressional deal. Forget about a nation until emergency for ice and customs and Border Patrol and he said its more money than i know what to do with. More money than they had even asked for. You can certainly declare victory on that and say we didnt get the money for the wall but in terms of the personnel and of course there have been some democrats on the left wing talked about abolishing ice. For ice and customs and Border Patrol i got more money than i asked for. Sandra some of the initial sound from the president on taking action. First one, guys. President trump today im announcing several critical actions that my administration is taking to confront a problem that we have right here at home. We fight wars that are 6,000 miles away, wars we should have never been in in many cases, but we dont control our own border. So were going to confront the National Security crisis on our southern border and were going to do it one way or the other. We have to do it. Not because it was a Campaign Promise, which it is. It was one of many, by the way. Sandra that was the president right up at the beginning of this News Conference saying he is going to get this done one way or another. Well, he certainly is going to try and he certainly is keeping faith with his supporters in saying i have done everything i could. Gotten as much many as i could out of congress and now do it through other means. He is not the only voice in this as ive said. Congress is going to have a voice in this and also the courts are going to have a voice in this. I also wonder about a couple of comments he made whether his lawyers are going to shake their head. At one point he said i could have done it without this money but i want to do it faster. And i wonder whether that will be used against him that even the president is saying that i didnt need this money right away. The whole 8 billion he is going for. This isnt the end of this. I dont have to tell you. This is just the beginning of all this. Bill chris, there is a saying on wall street, you want to have a meeting and work toward the endgame in your meeting to try to get the deal. He strikes me as a man who is always selling and you think about the opening remarks about china and north korea and the economy and on and on he listed and he loves the verbal sparring with reporters there. As you rightly point out having these angel moms turn around and hold up the pictures of their dead children is a powerful moment. He is always on offense when it comes to his ideas. And again we saw it again today. Quick last comment on that and then well roll. Absolutely. It was interesting. I wondered here declaring a National Emergency, why do you talk about these other things . Youre right. He doesnt know how long the networks are going the stay on and cover it and he is able to sell his policy on north korea, his policy on china, his policy on the economy and now ill get to the wall. You are right. He is a master of brandings, a master at selling. Bill china and south korea are helping us. A big topic coming up. See you on sunday. You bet. Well have Rush Limbaugh on the show. The king of talk radio. His annual appearance on the show. Thanks for being with us today. Bill quick break. Well let you whats going to happen next with Ari Fleischer on deck. Shhhhh new nyquil severe with vicks vapocool. The vaporizing, nightime coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. Your insurance rates skyrocket you could fix it with a pen. How about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead . For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise their rates because of their first accident. Switch and you could save 782 on home and auto insurance. Call for a free quote today. Liberty mutual insurance. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. You can concede you were unable to make the deal you had promised in the past and the deal youre ending up now with congress is less than what you could have had before a 35 day shutdown. President trump i went through congress and made a deal got almost 1. 4 billion when i wasnt supposed to get one dollar. He isnt going to get one dollar. I got 1. 4 billion but im not happy with it. Sandra don kildee. Welcome for being here. I know you heard some or most or all of the president s announcement and he answered a lot of questions there. What happens now . You know, we spent the last two months going through a pretty painful process of trying to come to a bipartisan agreement on how well fund Border Security and other aspects of the government. We did. President may not like it. There are aspects of it that i dont like. But that does not give the president the authority to essentially ignore article 1 of the constitution and say okay, ill take what Congress Gives me but im going to reach into the federal bank account and take money that they have not appropriated for purposes that he decides are important. Look, we can have a legitimate debate about Border Security but i dont think we can debate whether or not the constitution is intended to give congress the right to make appropriations. That is pretty clear. Sandra so the leadership, Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi of your party have already put out a statement. In that statement they call upon our republican colleagues to join us to defend the constitution. They say the president is not above the law. Congress cannot let the president shred the constitution. This is the reaction were seeing from democrats in the wake of the president s announcement. How do you want to see things proceed now . Well, i think clearly democrats are reacting to this. If we look at the comments made by some pretty Senior Republicans in the last few days they share this concern. I think we do have to take a look at what the options might be and defend our prerogatives under the constitution. What form that may take im not sure yet. That will be a real conversation going forward. This is a really clear moment the president decided to reach beyond his authority. I think republicans understand that if this precedent is allowed to stand they should be cautious about what that might mean in the future. For a president who doesnt get his or her way can ignore the law as passed by congress and make decisions not granted to the president under the constitution. It is a pretty dangerous moment for us. Bill in the pending bill they passed in congress, house and senate, there is a lot in there that republicans like. Probably a lot in there that democrats like. I think you agree on that. His challenge on the legal side saying well go to the Supreme Court. I have think the quote was well be sued and we will lose. We will be sued again and lose and take it to the Supreme Court like the travel ban well be victorious. Do you think this is where its headed . I think its likely. The courts were designed for this very purpose to resolve disputes over president ial or Congressional Authority among many other things the courts are intended to do. That may have to be where this decision is made. Bill you agree the immigration issue needs to be addressed, correct . I have been supportive of the efforts to strengthen our border. I have maybe some disagreements with the president how we do that but i supported the budget agreement not just because it avoids a shutdown but i support some of those investments that we agreed to make on the border. What i cant bill such as the barriers. What is the issue sticking for you then. Some on the left are suggesting perhaps some of the wall thats already constructed should be taken down. Youve heard some of that reporting. My view is to defer to the people with expertise on these matters. I understand the president has his view, we have our views. Those views have to be informed by people who really understand Border Security. Even they may disagree but we ought to think about what the experts say. I have heard and heeded some of the concerns by people with really deep expertise that there are parts of our border that clearly will need some barrier, some fencing. But i also want to take advantage of the advanced Technology Available to us and fix the problem. Thats why i think this agreement actually is a good deal. I support it not just because we avoid a shutdown. I think it takes us in the right direction. But i have to admit im really concerned no matter what the issue is when a president decides that they can spend money that congress has not appropriated for them. Thats unprecedented in some ways and i think its really a moment that we ought to stop and pause and think carefully about. Sandra he referenced Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi in this statement in the rose garden saying that they are playing a con game, congressman. They said you put up a barrier and thats it. They cant do anything unless they walk left or right and come into the United States. This is only the beginning as we were just talking about with Chris Wallace. The president ought to be careful of who he accuses of playing con games. Thats hyperbole he should avoid. Sandra dan kildee. Appreciate you coming on the program this morning. Thank you. Bill ari nriefper fleischer is up next. Breaking news on the breaking news coming up next. For me. Can i get a. . Thank you. Book at hilton. Com and get the hilton price match guarantee. Now that for a minute,here or two actually, book at hilton. Com ive got to tell you something. 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From my point of view, i would have defended the emergency if congress had never gotten anything done. An appropriate action. Congress did do its work, they compromised. Not necessarily a good compromise but enough in there. I think he would have been better off reprogramming the funds. Not declaring and emergency. Focus next on whats on the border. The president could have gotten so much good pr out of going to the factories where the technology to catch drugs will be made. Swearing in ceremony for the new judges. Going to the first mile of new wall. The 10th mile and 25th mile of new wall. I would have preferred him to focus on that rather than declare an emergency. Then legally reprogram funds with whatever the law allowed. An emergency once Congress Acts went too far. Sandra what does the challenge look like . The other discussion of the precedent it sets. That seems to be what democrats want to talk about. Well, there is merit to that and one of the reasons i think if congress had failed to do anything i would have declared the emergency and supported the president. Congress did do something. And so the precedent argument is a legitimate argument. I dont want the democrats to call precedent and fund billions of dollars for a Green Initiative thats a waste of money. Im a constitutionalist. I think he could have accomplished what he wanted legally without throwing down the gauntlet and calling it an emergency. From a Communications Point of view. Focus on what he has accomplished rather than go to court. Bill he could still do that. He can make a trip down there be it arizona and california, texas. He can and the swearing in of the judges is a very important. Increase in detention beds very important. He can do all that. He still is going to also be marked now by loss in court here and there and you know as well as i do the press will pay more attention to the losses than the wins. He could have had just wins. Bill when he mention ed winning with the Supreme Court. Do you think he is right . He walked everybody through how it is going to go. Let me say a word about the overall News Conference. Fascinating to watch the whole thing. It encapsulates everything that people love or hate about President Trump. That was such an interesting performance. Antipoliticians performance. He lets it rip. He speaks plain english. He is authentic. I think there is something entertaining and informative and reminder how much people hate politicians and one of the reasons people are drawn to President Trump. Other side of it is he is repetitive, he the loopy. Loves to get into fights with people especially reporters. And this is why he is having a harder time attracting people in the middle because he pushes those norms. It is everything his presidency is. For the people who love him he gave them more to love today. For the people with question marks they continue to have them. This was the Trump Presidency in action. We all saw the pros and cons of it. Sandra anything specific as you watched that . The question and answer portion got pretty heated at times with some of the reporters. Yeah, it did. Thats a good way to fight with the press. The press doesnt cover him fair. Look at how many times president obama waved obamacare deadlines and the press didnt have a fit about it. President obama misused money that wasnt appropriate to pay for obamacare subsidy and recess a. Ments and couldnt do daca and he did the press didnt come down on obama the way they come down on President Trump. He fights with the press. But what i have in mind is when he said ive got more money than i need. They are giving me money i dont know how ill spend it. Who says that . Its fascinating to watch but it undermines your sense of whats the money for . Is this legit . Thats where he is so authentic but it makes you scratch your head why do you need the money then and why did they give it to you . Bill we have so much money we dont know what to do with it. Thats the quote. Ari fleischer. Back to the press conference we all watched a moment ago. You thank you, admiral. So if you need money for your family, call newday usa. Go to newdayusa. Com or call 1855newdayusa need cash . At newday, veteran homeowners can get 54,000 dollars or more to consolidate high rate Credit Card Debt and lower their payments by 600 dollars every month. Go to newdayusa. Com or call 1855newdayusa we want to stop drugs from coming into our country. We want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country. Nobody has done the job that we have ever done. I mean, nobody has done the job is done at the border. The eight aggro morning here at americas newsroom. That was the present a few moments ago officially declaring a National Emergency to secure funding for the portable. Bill we been watching this plant for some time now. About three years, when the cat as he first began. The government shutdown, that lasted for 35 days. We will revisit that. The spending bill was signed and passed by congress yesterday. President indicates that he will sign that now. And we will see, the next wrinkle in the story. But it looks like more money can go to Border Security while the rest of it is going to be sucked on my title before a judge of some sort soon. Sandra thank you for joining us. Its friday. Happy weekend to you. Enjoy it come everybody. Thanks for joining us here at americas newsroom. We will see you back here monday morning, nine to noon. Outnumbered starts right now. Melissa fox news alert, new reaction pouring in after President Trump declares a National Emergency to secure funding to build a border wall and democrats are promising a fight. The president announcing his decision from the rose garden of the white house. He will sign a bipartisan compromise bill to secure border and fund the government. He also says he must go even further. This is outnumbered and im melissa francis. Here today is the host of the evening at it on the Fox Business Network, elizabeth macdonald. Fox news contributor, lisa boothe. Fox news contributor, jessica tarr love in joining us the couch, cohost of fox news fox fox friends, and what makes america