shutdown and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea there might be an attack on country or natural disaster and the congress would not have time to react to that. the president ought to be able to spend money to react to things like that between appropriations seasons. in this case he made that case for an emergency. congress denied him the funds that he caught and now he s going to go ahead and take existing appropriations to try to get done what he wants to do. i think you ll see, i know you ll see an aggressive effort to fight him in the courts. there s going to be a fight in congress. we ll have to see where the legal lines are here. obviously, the president and the congress agree that this isn t an emergency. there wasn t an emergency as he said in the rose garden today.
congress. we ll have to see where the legal lines are here. obviously, the president and the congress agree that this isn t an emergency. there wasn t an emergency as he said in the rose garden today. john talks about fight in congress. it s fair to ask because we have become a little frosty and cynical on this topic over the past two years. what are they really likely to do? i think it s fair to say that there will be some republicans who join democrats in voting for this resolution. there is some concern about the breach of executive power. they are overstepping what congress was meant to do. that being said, the president would be likely to veto such a resolution and a lot harder to get a two-thirds majority to overturn that. did trump misplay the timing here among other things.
can t get along with everybody. we can t always sign executive orders. that s not the way our founders set up this country. you understand that. that s not part of the deal. the executive orders and i guess he says take us to court unfive years some judge will make the a determination. it s wrong. i will terminate every single illegal obama executive order. i will restore constitutional law to the country. i think certain he could be impeached. something i ve been hearing from democrats is if president trump is going to saw i have the power to declare an emergency, i m going to say the border is an emergency and then i m going to take munnau thoney appropria x taking it to y and that holds up,en the why can t the
information about her was w released even though she was not indicted. bill barr and the justice department will be left with the question we have investigated all of these people. we have indictment against so far indictments or guilty pleas against 34 people. can the public learn their names? can they learn what we found about them? that s the issue that bill barr is confronting now. this is the starting panel we could so easily fill the hour without thinking about it. they have lives and families. we have other topics. they ll have to accept our thanks. coming up, president trump s rambling rose garden address to declare a emergency that he went onto admit as emergencies go isn t that urgent or necessary. ncht la later, we ll ask a retired
the election. that prompted former acting u.s. solicitor general to post this. we quote, trump just said i didn t need to do this but i d rather do it much faster. whatever a national emergency may be, that s not it. that quote is going right in the lawsuit. earlier today former u.s. attorney joyce vance agreed the president s own words just right there in an instant will likely mean big trouble for the president. here we have the president himself saying it s not a national emergency. every lawyer will pick up on that and trump may think they will go to the nineth circuit, the most liberal circuit in the country, there will be cases there but there s one case in progress on the texas border, that s in the fifth circuit, one of the conservative circuits that exist in the deep south. i expect they will succeed there as well. the president will have only