colleagues, senator rubio, said you set that precedent, you re going to get a democratic president some way that says, well, we re going to need to redirect funds on climate change. the best solution is one where congress puts together a funding package for border security, including all three come opponents, that is acceptable to the house, the senate and to the president. that s the best solution. there have been something like 58 emergencies declared under the national emergency act going all the way back to 1979 and president carter. i think 31 of those are still in force, so i think what the president is saying is if we don t compromise and he s put compromise on the table, real compromise, things democrats want, but if we can t get to a good solution, he would be forced to go the national emergency route. chris: congressman cuellar, we have the state of the union speech on tuesday. what will be the response from house democrats in the house chamber on tuesday if the president
the chances of us reaching an agreement are slim but it could happen. i know we can sit down and work at it if we don t get outside pressure. if we can t get compromise and get to a good solution, he would be forced to go the national emergency route. heather: are democrats really willing to come to the table and get over the wall, here to debate washington examiner, commentary writer and former national political director at dnc raúl aguilar. thanks for having me. heather: tiana, should we believe them this time around? if democrats are willing to concede that we need to enforce existing laws, then sure, the idea that we don t need any more support at our southern border is just it s living in a fantasy world. right now we have about 400,000 legal immigrants crossing border each year trying to come into the country, you can debate the
one of your republican colleagues, senator rubio, said you set that precedent, you re going to get a democratic president some way that says, well, we re going to need to redirect funds on climate change. the best solution is one where congress puts together a funding package for border security, including all three come opponents, that is acceptable to the house, the senate and to the president. that s the best solution. there have been something like 58 emergencies declared under the national emergency act going all the way back to 1979 and president carter. i think 31 of those are still in force, so i think what the president is saying is if we don t compromise and he s put compromise on the table, real compromise, things democrats want, but if we can t get to a good solution, he would be forced to go the national emergency route. chris: congressman cuellar, we have the state of the union speech on tuesday. what will be the response from house democrats in the house chamber on t
proper border security, we wouldn t have to work so hard. eric: that of course is president trump declining to rule out another government shutdown in two weeks, while continuing to threaten to declare a national emergency if a deal is not met with democrats to include funding for his border wall. the deadline is february 15th, for the lawmakers to reach an agreement, the deadline getting closer. i think what the president is saying is if we don t compromise, and he s put it on the table, real compromise, things that democrats want, but if we can t get compromise outs of speaker pelosi and get to a good solution, then he would be forced to go to the national emergency route. eric: will he do that? we are joined by an axios reporter. it is 48 hours plus before the state of union and all ears will be on the president if he s going to declare or say he may declare a national emergency. what do you expect we will hear? the president has definitely
what s in my mind? i think there s a good chance that we would have to do that. neil: certainly thinking about it. the president saying national emergency might be the only thing to do that conference committee that s gathered up made of republicans and democrats can t cobble together something by the 15th, the emergency route that would avoid that but also invite a lot of legal challenges, republican senator of north dakota, budget committee member, kevin kramer, always good to have you, thanks for coming back. my pleasure, thanks for having me. neil: if they can t cobble something, he will would have to do something, that s state of the emergency on the border, mitch mcconnell we are told, senator, is very adverse to that and that it could set a dangerous precedent, how do you feel? well, national emergencies have been declared lots of times by presidents. the difference is it doesn t have bipartisan support like previous ones have and i m sure