developing this hour. new details of the legal and political challenges facing the president s national emergency. california s attorney general renewing his promise to sue the president for trying to secure funds congress denied him to build a border wall. xavier va sara has told abc news that mexico, oregon, hawaii and minnesota will be joining california in this lawsuit. definitely and imminently. we are prepared. we knew something like this might happen. and with our sister state partners, we are ready to go. we re confident there are at least 8 billion ways that we can prove harm. also new today, the acting defense secretary on whether he will approve $3.6 billion from military construction projects to build the border wall. that includes figuring out which military projects to defund. you have not determined the specifically a wall is required to meet that national emergency. there have been no
it was a particularly critical moment for him. the president had promised that wall, and was willing to shut the government down for so many weeks because of that. when he finally came to the conclusion that he needed to declare a national emergency, he came out into the rose garden, which is a favorite spot of his to make announcements, and just sort of rambled for a long time before actually get to it about the national emergency. it seemed a little bit back and forth. i wasn t out there that day, i m sure there was a teleprompter, but it didn t appear he was following it. it came across to me for something that would have been and was a critical moment for his presidency not quite as sharp as you might have expected it to be. the washington post, victoria, reported on friday that white house lawyers had repeatedly warned the president of the legal risks of his declaration, the emergency declaration there. they even acknowledged the risk of this failing in court as being high. he
determinations by me. we are following the law. using the rules. and we re not bending the rules. and representative joaquin castro urging all members of congress to support his resolution condemning the president s declaration. white house immigration hard liner steven miller today says the president is prepared to take action if the resolution passes the senate. yes, he will veto? he s going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed. meanwhile, trump allies are rejecting suggestions the president was defeated after the longest government shutdown ever ended without congress approving the $5.7 billion he requested. the president, one, has the authority. yes, it is a crisis and emergency along our border. this is moving it in the right direction. is it as far as i want it to go? no. it was a down payment moving forward. i believe at the end of the day, this wall is going to be built, not sea to shining sea, but
in florida on what is a warm and windy day. and a beautiful way to spend part of the long weekend. while back in washington and on the shows today, the fierce debate plays out over these issues that really do go to the core of some key concepts from the president s side of things, the border wall has been something he s been talking about from the days of candidate trump all the way through his administration. and there are serious questions being raised from different stakeholders, whether it s the state of california, the state of texas, whether it is democrats in congress. and the hard choice for republicans in congress, if there is a measure that s brought forward to disapprove of the president s use of a national emergency under these kinds of circumstances. different, arguably, than when other presidents have used the same power. one of the thinkers behind the scenes, if you will, policy and speech-writing aide to the president, stephen miller, who has long been one of the sharpe
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