made. if people don t like that, they can address it. this is where he s getting the funding. $1.3 billion approved by congress. $3.6 billion from the military construction budget. $2.5 billion from the defense department s drug interdiction program. $600 million from another military fund. he seemed to dance around the answer when asked about using dod funds. gabby, does the president have the right to use these funds? that s the big legal question here, craig. of course, it s whether or not president trump can reallocate money from one agency to another, or use it to build sort of a pet project of his. that s why the white house has had such a difficult time defending this, as steven miller said yesterday. he points to previous examples of emergency declarations, but none of those involve the president of the united states basically moving money around in order to fund a project like a
global warming and climate change are accelerating. the crisis is getting more dire. we need to begin working as a country in a way with our allies that deals with this planetary threat. reporter: craig, that s an answer that kamala harris also gave to me when i asked her about this issue. as you can see, cory booker behind me. let s see if we can get a question to him. senator booker, we re live on msnbc. he s into talking with the voters. worth a shot. if we get anything, we ll send it to you. ali vitalli, i love that you tried to scream a question. vaughn in iowa. as democrats jockey for position in the 2020 primary, the biggest name in the party quietly giving advice behind the scenes, playing a king maker role of sorts. according to the new york times, president barack obama has counselled more than a dozen declare ord lid or likely to an
all white evangelicals supported president trump. he knows that he s going to have to get at least that, craig, in 2020 if he wants to win re-election. we ll see what he does. in terms of courting evangelicals on some of these issues you mentioned on the screen before i came on, you know, the issue of abortion. you can bet that they re going to be pushing that even further. speaking with one of the president s unofficial faith advisers, recently, he was saying this issue of late-term, up to the moment of birth adoption, they not only see it as a morally right issue, but they also see it as a winning issue for this president in 2020. he ll continue to hit hard on a lot of these issues, craig. how do evangelicals support the trump policies along our border, a policy that blocks entry to poor, hungry, abused migrants seeking a better life. how do they square that with
josh? what happened? well, craig, this happened about a decade ago, after heather nauert had her first child. hired a nanny who was foreign-born, in the u.s. legally, but not authorized to work in the u.s. and didn t pay taxes on the income she was getting for working as a nanny. heather nauert later discovered that. her and her husband repaid those taxes retroactively. now that she has been under this intense scrutiny heading into confirmation for u.n. ambassador role, as announced late last year by president trump, this came up. officials tell nbc that heather nauert voluntarily disclosed that this had happened. wanted to bring it to president s attention, knowing that it d likely come up. it was an issue. ultimately, as her process dragged out, without an official word from the president to the senate that he was nominating her, she decided enough is enough for her family and decided to pull out of the
discussion of the 25th amendment was simply rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. president trump firing back in a tweet this morning. wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting fbi director andrew mccabe. he was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more rod r jeff sessions, another beauty, looked like they were planning a very illegal act and got caught. nbc news chief correspondent pete williams joins me now. what have we heard from the doj about this? let s start with the president s tweet, craig. first of all, they weren t caught in this. this has all come from andrew mccabe. remember, this isn t the first time we ve heard this. the new york times reported this last fall.