Whether he can actually do that, lawmakers disagree. I may give that really threatening talk from the president that he doesnt have the power to execute. Look, if harry truman couldnt nationalize the Steel Industry during war time, this president doesnt have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the boarder so thats a nonstarter. Unfortunately the short answer is yes. There is a provision in law that says the president can declare an emergency. Both of those guys, democrats, mind you, earlier today in washington Vice President mike pence and other Administration Officials met for a second straight day met with congressional aides, many of them democrats, talking about how to navigate their way out of this. This from the president just a few minutes ago. Vice president mike pence, he writes, a group had a productive meeting with the Schumer Pelosi representatives today. Many details of Border Security were discussed. We are now planning a steel barrie
industrial site. cnn reached out to the white house and the ea, no response. the epa is closed due to a government shutdown. the agency told the new york times it promised to work on a cleanup plan. cnn reached out to the company responsible for the cleanup after acquiring the site. no response there. a spokesman told the company they are working to, quote, help ensure the well-being of residents. now joining us two moms who spoke to the new york times, carrie reinhart whose mom developed brain cancer and died at the tender age of 13 and stephanie davidson who is the stepmom of zane david son, who is in remission because of cancer. carrie, i m so sorry. at what point did that red flag go up that something big was going on here? it went up once there was a local tv report that showed that we were worried about the number of kids and then they started
pump and treat system there is suppose the to be a scrubber filter put on top so when the vol la tiles separate from the water then they re contained. the problem is that scrubber filter was never placed on top of that discharge stack so for decades volatiles such as tce, pce have been placed into the air where residents breathe, our kids breathe. wow. carrie so, no. so you re not satisfied. i m curious what your experience has been in terms of interacting with the current administration on this. working with the epa has been a newer part of our struggle, obviously. we didn t we couldn t get anyone to really move on this for the last three years until we had actual testing done. edison wetlands came in from new jersey and helped fund testing. that s when we were able to prove that these carcinogens