is there anything you can do except continue to do what the soundbites? first of all been in the minority you are only there if you think you re in the minority. it s an attitude. these investigations have gone on. where s it going going to lead to? we ve got our dad. with better crisis at the border. democrats are just mad that donald trump is the president. he is the president for the next two years. he s got the best economy we ve ever had across the demographics. the highest consumer confidence and they just cannot tolerate that. they should worry about their own party with the radicals that have come in. president trump once to take the economic success out for a test drive and see what it gets them on this budget. we have heard for the border wall. here is larry kudlow on that point in them will get your reaction.
country where they came from. we re sending a signal to all over central america if you make it to america, you are going to stay. we re being overwhelmed. we re on track to have 650,000 illegal immigrants apprehended in 2019. it is a crisis. the legal authority, the president is using has been used 50 times. he has the statutory authority given to him by congress to take military construction budget and apply it to an emergency situation. he is on sound, legal footing. i support what he is doing. and i hope the republican party will stand behind him. martha: senator lindsey graham, thank you, sir. always good to see you. thank you. martha: coming up next congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez says that congress should never have authorized any military force after september 11th. senator rand paul, does he agree with that? he s next. but does psoriasis ever get in the way?
to move on unappropriated funds. it seems that the white house was dealing with this as narrowly as possible. that s true, but look at where the money comes from, you can pick your constituency, who will be upset with you. if they ve chosen to raid emergency funds from places like puerto rico, or hurricane recovery in texas, they knew they would have upset those delegations. a lot of this money comes out of the military construction budget. i ve been saying since last week, i wonder what john mccain would be saying about this if he were still here, because appropriators, particularly those who deal with the military, take their jobs very seriously. this money is sent to save and protect lives. and i think the administration swaps one set of problems for another by choosing to upset potentially military hawks, folks who have bases in their communities, folks who might see that military construction money on there as something that would actually benefit their district or state. perh
that he s wrong on this. look, tloohere s a degree of nuance. first of all you can argue over whether or not this is actually an emergency. the real part of this that s clearly illegal, the national emergency statute from 1976 does give the president broad authority to declare an emergency, but when he s going to take money from other agencies, it is very prescriptive about where that money has to go. and the money that he wants to take out of dod, i mean, let s not forget for the moment that even if he could do this, it s still a terrible idea. it is not our top national security priority to build a wall at our southern border that people will go under and over, anyway. taking money out of the department of defense for this purpose makes us less safe. but it s also illegal because the law says that you can only use money from the military construction budget to build something that is going to provide protection for u.s. armed forces. and president trump has made it clear, this wall i
government. he plans to raid nearly 35% of the entire construction budget is going to be diverted without congressional approval. to me, this is a clear violation of congress s article one powers under the constitution. so i am amazed at the i think republicans have to go back on that. these projects were these are requested by the president of the united states and the secretary of defense as essential and the president said he didn t think these were too important. that s not what they told congress. i want to play something that senator graham had to say this week and display this for our viewers. let s just say for a moment that he took some money out of the military construction budget. i d say it s better for the