jedediah: many in media, though, sticking to their talking points [laughter] pete: do democrats give the media the talking points jedediah: i know, where does it begin? trump s make believe crisis is untethered from truth and reality. the quote says there is no crisis and yo justification to specifically and surgically contravene the will of congress which just weighed and dismissed mr. trump s demand for $5.7 billion to build a border wall, opting instead to grant him $1.375 billion. it s just amazing, the selective outrage. because it s trump, now there has to be massive outrage. this will be their campaign talking point for 2020, that he declared a national emergency, he has no appreciation for the separation of powers even though his ability to do that is guaranteed by congress, but that will be what they run with. griff: pete s got in a competing newspaper jedediah: there you go. pete: one that is often failing,
meadows and a number of members of the house freedom kocaucus w have been dissatisfied with the $1.375 billion spending bill passed. they were the catalyst for what led to the government shutdown for 35 days. now, i think he s making a case there. obviously there s going to be a ton of democratic pushback. i m not sure that republicans could have gotten a much better deal for the border wall given the loss to the house. they lost a lot of their leverage. did you see this narrative being part of the administration s argument when it eventually goes to court? sure sorry sure. and go to court it will. of course, there s a cavalcade of lawsuits that are going to be facing the president from special interest groups, nonprofits, likely from different states around the country, led by california. at least at this point. one question, too, is whether there will be enough republicans to also give the president trouble here. of course, democrats are aghast at this and say they re goi
i would just note, the president has been making the case that there s a national emergency for the past several weeks during the shutdown, and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said, here, you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. and so, when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea that there might be an attack on the country or a natural disaster and that the congress would not have time to react to that, the president ought to be able to spend money to react to things like that, between appropriations seasons. in this case he made that case for an emergency. congress denied him the funds he sought, that $5.7 billion, so, he s going to take existing appropriations to try to get done what he wants to do. i think you re going to see, i know you re going to see, an aggressive effort to fight him in the courts. there s going to be a fight in congress. and we ll have to see where the legal lines are here,
the core of what will happen in court, and the numbers are going to be the numbers. it is not a political statement by donald trump. nancy pelosi said during the shutdown a wall, this is a quote, a wall is an immorality between countries. democrats many of them supported $1.375 billion for another barrier. so is a fence less immorality to democrats? there are security reasons why parts of the border have fences, and most of that 1.3 or portion of it is going to go to repair those fences, repair those barriers. but there will be 55 miles of extended border, new barrier. yeah, you had that already, you have portions of that 55 or whatever the number is that have fencing for security. this is new barrier covering the border. is that i mmoral? it is immoral, the idea to put up a wall to block people, black and brown people from the southern border to lock them out
some misleading facts about the border wall even as you mentioned he undercut the leverage he might have in court by suggesting this is not a national in which at all, this is voluntary. something he did not have to do, but he chose to do after lawmakers did not come close to giving him $5.7 billion that lawmakers did not give him for his wall. he was facing pressure from both sides of the aisle to sign a spending package that lawmakers in congress put together for him. they provided $1.375 billion for his wall, that s far less, even in half of what he had requested. if the president was facing a conservative backlash or considering signing that deal, as many saw that as capitulation, as the president caving. it was even less than he could have gotten before the shutdown. the president expressing his dissatisfaction with that and went ahead and signed it and