wasted little time blastig the president s national emergency declaration. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer issued a statement saying the president s unlawful declaration over a crisis that does not exist does great violence to the constitution and makes america less safe, stealing from the urgently needed defense funds for the security of our military and our nation. this is a power grabby a president who has gone outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative parties. just as both parties honored to protect our people, the congress must honor the constitution by defending our system of checks and balances, the president is not above the law. the congress cannot let the president shred the constitution. democratic congressman, david cicilline, joining us from rhode
john: and $8 million to build his border wall, $1.37 billion from the dh appropriations office and $601 million treasure departments and $2.5 billion from the drug interdiction program including $2.2 billion reprogrammed from other areas of the pentagon and $3.6 billion from the military construction budget. senate minority leader chuck schumer and speaker of the house nancy pelosi ripped the president for rating for pentagon budget to build a wall. in a joint treatment saying the president s unlawful declaration of a crisis that does not exist does great violence to the constitution and makes america less safe stealing from urgently needed defense funds for the security of our military and our nation. the president insisted moving the money would not hurt the military. we have certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals and at the discretion of the military. some have not been allocated yet, and some of the generals think that this is more
money drew fire from democrats today. in a joint statement, check schumer and nancy pelosi saying the president s unlawful declaration of a crisis that does not exist as it makes a macula safe. stealing from urgently needed defense funds for the security of the military and our nation. this is plainly a power grab from a president trying to get what he failed to achieve in the legislate process. i did ask the person about transferring money from it military. some he said some generals agreed with him. the west believes that the money from the forfeiture program and existing money in the dod interdiction program will be easy to get, but they will likely run into a buzz saw of criticism and opposition to reprogramming money for the drug interdiction fund and redirecting money from that military construction budget to a wall. the president said he is prepared for the challenge especially if it goes to the
funding the border wall. the bottom line is my position is no. they re unwilling to negotiate? i thought they cared about dreamers and daca. clearly the party of compassion doesn t care about those kids or the safety and security of our nation. they re standing for nothing except hating trump. let not your heart be troubled, i don t think this president is caving n he tweeted this, if the committee of democrats and republicans is not discussing or contemplating a wall or physical barrier, they are wasting their time. the president holds all the cards, he gets no deal, february 15th, i ll give you odds. i m 99% certain that he will lawfully declare a national emergency or just send down the military and start building the wall with defense funds. now many of you in 2016 doubted that donald trump would govern as a conservative. i ve known him well over two decades, and i put it on the line and i said he absolutely
border barrier, saying, the bottom line is, my position is no. okay. they are unwilling to negotiate. i thought they cared about dreamers and daca. clearly the party compassion doesn t care about those kids or their safety and of our nation. they are obviously standing for nothing except eating drum. let not your heart be troubled, as i told you, i don t think this president isou caving in. he tweeted this: if the committee of republicans and democrats now meeting on border security is not discussing or contemplating a wall or physical barrier, they are wasting their time. now the president holds all the guards. he gets no deal, february 15th, i ll give you odds. i mat 99% certain that he will awfully declare a national emergency or just sent on the military and start building into the defense funds. many of you in 2016 doubted that donald trump would govern as a conservative. i ve known him all of her two decades, and i put it on the line then i said that he