ton, growing outrage over president trump s decision to defort $3.6 billion in manipulator funds to build the border waum. democrats weighing in on the campaign trail. he is saying he is going to take resources from our military family s and their children s schools to build his vanity project called a wall, which by the way will never get built. this is beyond the scope of his power. it should be reversed. katlyn collins outfront. how is the white house reacting to the criticism, which by the way we are showing 2020 candidates but there were many republican was senate republicans were also very angry. and that s who the white house is keeping an eye on. they haven t said anything publicly yet but behind the scenes i m told the white house is paying attention to the feedback they are getting not just from 2020 candidates but
border waum wall. the list of states considering suing the president keeps growing and growing. i believe we have one that s ready been filed. all right. a lot of criticism for this legally. what is your contngz was the aclu s contention of the legality of the emergency declaration? president trump s declaration is a bogus emergency and patently illegal. it flies in the face of the rule of law,chucks and balances that congress has imposed on the president and that s why we ll be in court next week to challenge it. he s invoking powers under a law congress passed saying in the case of anmergence he can use funds for military construction
the president has made clear, a border waum, border fence, border structure of some kind, is basically mandatory for him to sign off on any deal to reopen the government, so where does that leave things? well, at this point, lawmakers on capitol hill say they re looking into next week. they re looking into 2019, they re looking into the moment on january 3, where democrats retake control of the house, for the first action of any kind, legislatively, to try and reopen the government. here s the catch. that action doesn t necessarily portend a reopening of the government. nancy pelosi the incoming speaker has made clear, she will move several funding proposals to reopen the government, ticking them over to the senate. but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has made clear he is not willing to move forward on anything regardless of what house democrats send over until he knows the president will sign. it ability president has made clear, what the democrats are going to send from the ho
this is the washington post s take on this. they write, mcconnell is home in kentucky. the senator s spokes american don stewart says it is up to president trump and democrats to come up with the deal to end the stalemate over funding for trump s border waum. in other words, in mcconnell s view, it is not on him. congressman, he was initially in favor of this continuing resolution, the senate did pass it before it went to a quick death in the house. should the majority leader be a little bit more involved in this process and be a little bit more proactive in helping to find a solution? let me first say this. i think if anybody owns this shutdown, it s the president. the party making the demand, the policy demand, is the one that usually owns the shutdown. so i think to a certain extent, mitch mcconnell has more or less, he did his job over a week ago, when he and schumer, they came up with a continuing resolution, to keep the government funded through february 8. they did what they
patrol custody in the past month. and his first comment on their desk is to blame democrats who haven t voted in the past for his immigration priorities. now this tweet comes as the president is alone at the white house, and increasingly frustrated at his inability to get funding for his promised border waum. he s canceled plans to travel down to his estate in west palm beach, florida, over the new year, as the shutdown rages on. and he is continuously blaming democrats for allowing the government to remain partially shuttered despite saying a few weeks ago he would be proud to own any government shutdown. this comes as the budget director mick mulvaney saying democrats have not been invited to the white house to continue those talks and mulvaney says the white house is simply waiting for a counter-offer from democrats at this point. recall that vice president mike pence went to capitol hill a week ago with an offer of support for a $2.5 billion border security package plus wall fundin