look if harry truman could nationalize steel interest rate during wartime, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency and build multimillion dollar wall on the border. martha: played out in 1952 when harry truman was president in u.s. steel workers tried to go on strike in the midst of the korean war. truman declared a national emergency that nationalize the american steel industry. really a matter of national security. he hoped that would keep the mills up and running but the supreme court struck him down saying only congress has the authority to seize private property, not the president. did this set of president that could stop president trump? 20 me judge janet napolitano and there s a lot of thinking on this but you say no? he can t do it. the president and the united states cannot do this. the emergency power that truman attempted to use did a couple of things, it seized private
president. and what concerns me is that he is going down the path once again, because we saw him do this with the travel ban, of trying to use his broad national security exec i hautive authori in an bus sif way. and the conversation over the weekend between sarah sanders and fox news chris wallace i think proves that the point you are making. and we ll play that for you in a bit if you missed it. but let me play this, as we are talking about national emergency, let s look through the nation s history. and adam schiff put this way. if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border. so that is a nonstarter. so if president truman couldn t do it in wartime, how can this president? what are other examples with previous presidents who have declared a national emergency? well, there is other
back in june. we have a lot to discuss. let s begin with lauren fox live on capitol hill with the shutdown i guess negotiations. reporter: good morning, john. trump administration trying to respond to democratic criticism this morning laying out their list demands and playing fast and loose with facts about terrorism trying to make their case for the wall. president trump standing firm on his demand for $5.7 billion for a border wall. again, insisting that he s considering funding the wall through executive action. i may declare a national emergency dependent on what s going to happen over the next few days. reporter: declaring a national emergency could allow the president to bypass congress and use military funding to build the wall. but democrats insist this move would be challenged in court. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during war time, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall
we should get done and there is a way to get done, out of the trillions of dollars being spent, the democrats in the house and senate can find $5 billion more, right, to put aside here. this isn t hard to get done. a compromise can be reached. there needs to be something put forward on the table. the democrats need to send principals, not staffers, to meetings with the vice president. this cannot be simply one hand clapping, as you heard the chief of staff earlier in the show look, we re showed up, we re ready to go, we need principals to negotiate, not staffers. and i think that can be done. a deal can be done. it needs to be worked out for the american people. patty, congresswoman, rather, speaker pelosi has said this is a moral issue. they re not going to give money for the border wall because it s immoral. well, look, experts all across the country have said that a wall is not effective. you know, there are many other things that we can do to prevent illegal border crossings, w
with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and one of the things that mulvaney and i were talking about was the deliberations about the president potentially fund the border wall. what do you make of that? what do you think? i make of that really threatening talk from the president that he doesn t have the power to execute. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border, so that s a nonstarter. and i think that what the president needs to do more than anything else, he s painted himself into a corner on this thing, is figure out how he unpaints himself from that corner. we need to reopen the government. we need to put people back to work. and i think senator jones was making a very important point, which is really something that i m very focused on as well, and that is, we can t allow this continual process that was really modernized by the te