wall. let s go to the white house. what s the state of play? what is the latest that you are hearing about the president s inclination, his threshold to declare this national emergency? reporter: there is a lot of talk about the president either declaring a national emergency or using some other similar tools to divert money from one part of the government to another to fund the wall. but what is partially driving this in addition to president trump being very interested in doing this is republicans on capitol hill, many of his allies really losing hope in the prospect that the negotiations can produce a compromise. one of those people most vocally urging president trump to go the national emergency route is senator lindsey graham who said this on capitol hill. i have never been more depressed about moving forward than right now. i don t see a pathway forward. somebody is going to get energy to fix this. reporter: a number of
there s a economic impact here. the numbers will get regurgitated. neil: it s a good point. katherine, let me ask you about that. moody s put out a survey saying it s going to slice a little bit off of gdp for this quarter. let me ask you that same issue about how long it drags on. then what? well, let s face it. it won t drag on if the president declare as national state of emergency and funds the wall via that method. the markets will go higher when he does that because it squashes the uncertainty, which the market doesn t care about with regard to the shut down. so when the president decides to go the emergency route, which he will, the issue of the shut down is ended. essential workers have ended. they re getting retroactive people.
yes. there is reporting they are closer to doing that. it s very unclear if that s legal. this is what they appear to be looking at. i want your reaction. fox confirmed the white house directed the army corps of engineers to see if they can divert money to cover wildfires in california, hurricanes in texas, florida and puerto rico, what do you think of that idea? how much lower can you go? it s bad enough he s preventing 800,000 people from getting paychecks tomorrow. most of us live in a world where we actually need our paychecks and that is bad enough but now, he wants to take money from victims of disasters? see, there seems to be no depth to the cruelty of this president, the cruelty on innocent people so that he can get his vanity wall, the person who can stop it is mitch mcconnell. you got lindsey graham who is urging the president to go the emergency route because he like lamar alexander doesn t want to deal with it. it s a strange situation. what is your plan?
there is reporting they are closer to doing that. it s very unclear if that s legal. this is what they appear to be looking at. i want your reaction. fox confirmed the white house directed the army corps of engineers to see if they can divert money to cover wildfires in california, hurricanes in texas, florida and puerto rico, what do you think of that idea? how much lower can you go? it s bad enough he s preventing 800,000 people from getting paychecks tomorrow. most of us live in a world where we actually need our paychecks and that is bad enough but now, he wants to take money from victims of disasters? see, there seems to be no depth to the cruelty of this president, the crewuelty on innocent people so that he can get his vanity wall, the person who can stop it is mitch mcconnell. you got lindsey graham who is urging the president to go the emergency route because he like lamar alexander doesn t want to
this national emergency, if you look at the democrats, instead of stonewalling, wouldn t it be in their best interest to take advantage of some of the sweet things the republicans are offering, daca, pathway to citizenship, why wouldn t they do that? i just got out of a huddle with vice president mike pence, he came over to capitol hill and talked to press over here and he actually shot down the idea of giving an offer for daca in order to get border security. he said that the president believes that that needs to work it s way through the courts and then after that comes through the courts, they believe it ll be ruled unconstitutional. at that point they re willing to make a deal but that takes something off the table so democrats, that s a big issue for democrats. they have not said they re willing to do that but they ve kind of like shown an openness for it and mike pence just took that off the table this afternoon. i was just talking to gloria, if he goes the national emergency