sandra: you are looking live on capitol hill. the centcom commander testifying now at the senate armed services hearing. these are opening statements likely he will face questions on border security and u.s. involvement in yemen. this is the united states central command hearing on capitol hill right now. we ll continue to monitor this for you. any news from that we ll bring to you. bill: another alert. president trump reacting only moments ago as thousands of asylum seekers set to arrive at the southern border hours after the pentagon announced that thousands of troops could be deployed there and will be. the president tweeted tremendous numbers of people coming through mexico in the hopes of flooding our southern border. we ve sent additional military. we ll build a human wall if necessary. if we had a real wall it would be a non-event. griff jenkins is live from the
cases will likely be heard in covington, kentucky, a heavily catholic community where there is overwhelming support for the covington kids. sandra. sandra: we ll continue to follow all that. thank you. bill: 28 past. matter of hours now president trump delivers the state of the union. will he declare a national emergency eventually to build the border wall? a lot of republicans not urging him to go that way. so what is the next play? what happens next? sandra: a bill to protect babies who survive abortion fails in the senate. we ll have more on that for you. bill: back to the border in a moment. intensifying by the day. thousands of migrants expected to arrive at the southern border. a live report as the police came out in force on the southern side of the border. a report on that coming up in mexico. president trump: this really is an invasion of our country by human traffickers. you need a physical barrier, you need a wall. anybody that says you don t, they are just playing
getting too weedy the president could have all this overturned by congress before it even gets to the courts. so that s why this whole thing is, as you heard senator shell by discuss, the preference of the republicans is to go through the legislative process. sandra: lindsey graham said it s a defining moment for his presidency and we know that he is urging his fellow republicans to stand behind the president on this. here is his message. the president has all the power in the world to, as commander-in-chief to secure the border. president obama sent troops to the border. what s the difference between 3700 people going down to the border to deal with a caravan coming our way and while they re there erecting barriers where it makes sense? if the democrats won t give him but a dollar for the wall and we cut his legs out from under him as commander-in-chief, what is he to do? it is a strong message there. even your former boss, mitch
something that doesn t say wall but both sides can claim victory as you heard from the congresswoman. sandra: ahead of tonight and any news the president may make on the immigration and border security battle, lindsey graham had this message to the republican party. listen. to every republican, if you don t stand behind this president, we re not going to stand behind you when it comes to the wall. this is the defining moment of his presidency. sandra: he made it clear where he stands ahead of the address tonight. yeah. it is going to be interesting dynamics. the national emergency, what that fosters within his own party. that s what lindsey graham is talking about there. i think that the imagery tonight, there will be guests from democrats who will be air traffic controllers, who worked all throughout the shutdown. and they are going to make that
supposed to appropriate money and sit down and do it. sandra: josh collins joins us now. ahead of the state of the union address tonight you hear skepticism from members of the president s own party on declaring a national emergency to get the wall. so we re left wondering what the president s next move will be. to be clear, there is an awful lot of broad support for the border wall. negotiations republicans have been in unison supporting the president s agenda. speaker pelosi has something else in mind. the discussion is about this emergency declaration. i think if you ve seen some of the reporting on this, the point is that the congress still has a point of view that they can exercise if the president does declare an emergency. unfortunately it is a really complicated process that the senate cannot block and what happens is it s something called the congressional review act. akin to that. a motion of disapproval without