he would never be able to finish it because any future appropriation congress would never allow any money to ever go to any emergency. we would certainly put a firewall, if you will, around that. and jennifer, even the best case scenario on the trump view of the world, this wall is not going to get built in what is now basically less than two years left on this presidency and there wouldn t even be the first marks in the ground anywhere until donald trump had just months left in office. there s never going this wall is never going to happen. and it s just a question of what are we going to go through between now and the final realization that it s never going to happen. that s right. remember, they are still fighting in texas over appropriations made in 2006 for additional fencing in texas. and as we speak, republicans,
civil rights moment, it s a moral test that the republican party is tragically failing. everybody knows that donald trump isn t telling the truth, and everybody pretends not everybody, but almost everybody pretends that he is telling the truth. it s what donald trump sort of forces you to choose between your own dignity and some sort of political allegiance. and part of this is it makes a rational discussion about border security impossible because as the congressman said it s all circus theater. i think there s a good argument to be made for more border security. i think there s a rational argument to be made for a wall. but none of that sort of can be discussed and talked about with this cacophony of complete untruth. and congressman swalwell, let s consider for a moment what would happen if the president did declare this emergency. i believe the courts would stop it as quickly as they stopped
and nobody builds walls better than me. believe me. and i build them very inexpensively. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. yes! yes! that was the paid audience that donald trump hired for his campaign announcement. so they weren t as enthusiastic. they didn t know that the wall was supposed to be a big cheer line. but you saw what happened to it during the campaign. it got cheers every time donald trump said it. and mexico will pay for the wall became a campaign chant, led by donald trump. that big lie, mexico will pay for the wall, was carried into the trump presidency, and it immediately became a problem for president trump in his first conversation as president with the president of mexico on the telephone. donald trump begged the president of mexico to stop saying mexico would not pay for the wall. and now donald trump himself is
the trump political career. president barack obama was born in the united states, period. couldn t you just see how that felt for donald trump? that was one of those days for donald trump, when he had to do that. today was one of those days. so now the chants of mexico will pay for the wall will never be heard again. when during the campaign i would say mexico s going to pay for it, obviously i never said this and i never meant they re going to write out a check. and it only got worse from there. when your when i say mexico excuse me. when i say mexico s going to pay for the wall, do you think they re going to write a check
president, i mean, it is really remarkable that he s asserting this emergency power because i think if he asserts it i don t think there s any choice but for the democrats to begin impeachment proceedings, and i think indeed joined by a lot of republicans too at the end of the day. i m beginning to think maybe trump wants to be impeached. i mean, that s the only way to really make sense of what this is about because you re dealing with a president who has effectively no agenda left. his agenda is, as best i can tell, twitter and the wall. and the wall isn t working out for him. and this is a president who frankly acts like a snowflake. i mean, he s a guy who claims to be the victim all the time and an impeachment proceeding of course would allow him to make that cry even more. but as a matter of law, as a matter of policy this is a very, very damaging thing for the country and indeed i think to donald trump. what would invoing the national emergency add to momentum for impeachment an