5 00 on the east coast and we begin with the escalating challenges to president Trumps National Emergency Declaration. Protesters took to the streets coast to coast monday rallying against the plan to use billions from federal programs mostly from the department of defense to build his border wall. Last night 16 states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Emergency Declaration. Led by California Attorney general Xavier Becerra the states argue the president is using the pretext of a manufactured crisis. Its pretty clear that the president is trying to usurp congresss authority. The president does not have the power of the purse. The president cant decide to shuffle money around once congress has allocated it, thats only for congress to do, otherwise president s for the last 240 years would have been doing the same thing when they dont like where Congress Puts the money, simply because donald trump fabricated a crisis and called it a National Emergency doesnt mean that he can violate th