option first and make sure to get congress behind it. he had been critical of barack obama acting by executive fiat. but here you have president trump putting extension of daca for three years on the take. something democrats have called for for a long time. and, in fact, they are not supporting it, even though they previously supported it. they supported a barrier before. they are not supporting that as well. that s why mercedes schlapp says the president may have to go and act alone. it s clear that congress, we re not getting to a solution there. so, yes, the president is seriously considering other options. that includes declaring a national emergency. obviously he is looking into these legal options. that is something he can do. people say it will get tied up in the court system. democrats aren t going to want this but eventually could end up in the supreme court. steve: we have been telling you here for a couple of weeks that apparently there are other efforts behind the scenes
staying with the issue and making sure that he planted himself on an issue that is a real issue to anybody objectively looking at it, there were crisis conditions at the border. you want to say it s a national emergency, however you want to describe them. there s a big problem down ther there. he is highlighting it, and he s got his opposition on defense. so he is in the game and he s got a chance to win. which i, frankly, i didn t think a couple of weeks ago that he did. harris: so, this idea of executive fiat to do something he has used it two or three other times already in his presidency. i don t know if people realize that, but he has. not on issues having to do with the border. former president obama use it several times as well. we know one of the method of immigration it was daca. where to resend the legality of that? how will that you get challenge in the courts if you were to do something by executive order? i think it s a terrible way to run the government, and unc
harris: breaking news this hour as we continue to watch what is unfolding inside the white house before the president meets again today for a third meeting with democrats, republicans, 2 shut down the shut down. and reopen government. can they get the type of national security protection that we all need customer it can be agree on then? the president come as we showed you moments ago, made some border comments right off the top of a bill signing that he has going on right now in front of reporters. then, the bill signing on that antihuman trafficking legislation. and he will talk about that, then, the q&a. back and forth with reporters. as soon as we can bring you the questions, the answers, and the delving in deeper on the issue of the wall. and reopen government all of it. we will bring it to you live from inside the white house. among the comments that are coming to us, the president says he could still do this by executive fiat if you wanted to.
harris: so, it s happening. the president meeting with senate republicans on capitol hill and, as the g.o.p. policy lunches going on, there is a new reaction to his primetime speech last night. he made his case for the border wall. the president did not declare a state of emergency, but did say today that he has the absolute power to do so. then, would act without congress by executive fiat. democrats are accusing the president of fearmongering. i think the president did a terrific job at laying out both what the nature of the crisis, but humanity humanitarian natil secured crisis you saw chuck schumer nancy pelosi and ross and i try to see in what s happening here. this could be resolved in a 45-minute meeting. i think the american people want it resolved. i think he made a speech
because congress won t pass the law he wants them to pass, won t give him the funding for the wall he wants to build, he s just going to go and do it on his own. that s exactly what he tried to do with this asylum ban that we sued him over, right? congress passes a law says you can seek asylum anywhere, between points of entry, at points of entry. he said no, i m going to ban you. again, women, kids, people seeking protection, people being persecuted, we re going to slam the door shut on you unless you wait in line for months at these refugee camps, right? he tried to do that. we stopped him. we sued him in court. we got a rule stopping him. it s the same problem with this emergency idea. the idea that you can just ignore what congress is doing and just go around them by enacting things by executive fiat. yeah, i m glad that at least for now he hasn t tried yet again to kind of circumvent our