legislative branch. one concern is they have what they refer to as article one powers. it s their constitutional duty to be the ones who decide how money is spent. it seems like that s washington speak for congress is in charge of the purse. they don t want to give that up. they re worried that the president is getting in their way. the other thing that they re very worried about is the precedent that this sets for future presidents. so one thing that keeps coming up is that pass presidents use this emergency declaration for 9/11 and the swine flu. and noncontroversial. nobody disagreed those were energies. yes. emergencies that had to have additional moneys spent where congress couldn t act fast enough. this is not that. there is a concern that a future president maybe a democrat could say that climate change is a national energy. we ve heard democrats raise that. the other thing is the idea that the president as our first read team points out, stepped on a bunch of mine f
legal ground, a shame that it had to come to this. eric: the other 60 times don t have to do with this where congress already made decision on something. it was designed to give the president emergency power when congress couldn t act, do you see this as critics are saying violation of the separation of the legislative and executive bodies? no. i don t see it that way although that s an argument that can be made, congress couldn t agree to do something, doesn t mean that the president doesn t have authority to act. if congress had past the law that said you can t do this and the president did it anyway, that s a constitutional crisis. eric: what about the congress power of the purse, congress has the power of the purse and critics are saying that the president is trying to grab power from the executive branch? i don t see it that way, the
was daca. it s because congress couldn t act and because congress didn t act that he went ahead and did it. something he thought was important. exactly what donald trump is doing. republicans could override the president here on this issue of the shutdown. they could have come out, looking like the heroes, the republicans in congress, if the president were to veto the spending bill and it comes back to congress and they overrule that. they could have. that would take a lot of what does that tell you, though, about the control this president has over the party? a lot. the president has a lot of control over the party. and, more importantly, it s the president controlling the party but it s the president s base aligning with their base. meaning, republicans in kentucky, mitch mcconnell s home state, support the president and they re also the people mitch mcconnell is relying on for
some horrific things and crossing a red line in the sand that your former boss red line in the sand and which was crossed andner responded to and this president will with a bigger hammer this time. do you want to respond? i would say the pick for national security adviser john bolton did not want military action and congress couldn t act on it and people out there advocating against it. there was a lot of politics involved. i think on jake s show i said the targeted military action in syria, there are many people i worked with in national security team that didn t speak out against them. in fact, supported them last year. it doesn t have to be a partisan thing you went farther to your credit. you said you wish president obama had done that. sure. and then i think many other people also said that. but i think there is a difference. it doesn t have to be either/or. military action is a very serious issue and you have to have a more nuanced answer when you go to the podium. n
chairman of the fed. whose idea was this or did the president decide to give the dual mogzs to director mulvaney? look, the president felt he was the right person to lead this agency and he made the decision. i don t think there s more to it than that. fred? thank you, sarah. as far as reforms to the agency, the house has the act and no action on that senate. does the administration see this as an opportunity to push congressional reform to the agency? look, this is director mulvaney s first day. we re going to let him get settled in before we start announcing new policy, but when we do, we ll certainly keep you guys posted. anita. sorry. i ll try to jump around to save time. the other day the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the issue of the d.r.e.a.m.ers would not be in the spending bill and we re reaching the end of the year now and i m wondering that the president said he would take this back up if congress couldn t act and negotiations