president s national emergency. let s say it passes the house which is very likely and let s say it passes the senate, but it doesn t pass congress with a veto proof majority, what was this all about then? i believe that we are at a constitutional crisis. our forefathers wrote a constitution that had a very strong system of checks and balances. i have talked to a lot of republicans. i don t know how many will end up voting with us today so i don t know if it will be veto proof. i think that this is the first test that has many members soul searching about what our role is and what our function is. i do believe there are enough votes people may not have publically said it. the question is can they override the veto? i don t know anybody republican or democrat that doesn t care about national security in this country, how we keep us safe is a legitimate discussion.
congress that is becoming this week s thorn in the side of the white house, henry quar piled on. these will be 500 miles away from the border that which makes it even worse when you re so close and you can t take air force one down to the border. last night i got calls saying who are the local leaders. certainly not the local leaders from the border. and by the way it in about an hour, administration officials will be facing questions on the border crisis. as well as this new spending request. fema administrator, among the witness at the senate homeland security committee hearing speaking to. and speaking of that, senator coburn of oklahoma joined me a few moments ago it talk about what he wants to hear from those witnesses today.about what he wants to hear from those witnesses today.
house reacting. thoir respon their response is either we didn t see it coming or it s much worse than we anticipated. responses that leave the impression they don t have their arms ash tround the government they run. is this a new normal or is it unique to obama s presidency? that s just one layer to the story. another layer is congress and its inability to legislate and its preference to politicize any issue. pointed out yesterday republicans should support the latest emergency question as well as the gang of eight legislation. that is probably dead for the remainder of the presidency. so this is congress crisis, too. hard to imagine either party wants this legislation staring them in the face after labor
the risk of them not offering anything back to the president as far as aid is concerned for deal with this crisis? there s a serious risk here. one is that republicans are not reacting with appropriate urgency to a massive political problem. they lost the hispanic vote by 40 points. that s a political crisis. but there is also a real moral risk of looking lying you re blaming children, displaced children, instead of the administration and coyotes. republicans really need to balance this. but we do have a divided government. and obama s not particularly good at appealing to either republicans in congress who have been alienated in many negotiations, but also not been good at that, and many democrats in congress don t think he s particularly good at dealing with the congress. it s not a strength. he s not a linden johnson figure when it comes to influencing a difficult congressional environment. i have to say one thing, eric
immediately opposed did suggest they may insist on some spending cuts to either offset the bill or frankly bring the price tag down itself. michael steele said the speaker still supports deploying the national guard to provide humanitarian sport. asked whether will he believes the funding request will pass, marco rubio saying no, given the mood here in washington, i don t have confidence it will happen. talk about a nightmare for republicans if this thing doesn t pass congress. endangered red state democrats have been very quiet about the border crisis. but members from border states are speaking out. yesterday arizona democrat ron barber saying it is way past time for the federal government to get serious about securing the border. it is unacceptable that it has taken a massive humanitarian crisis in which tens of thousands of children have entered our country illegally to get the president and washington to take notice and act. and this morning, a member of