to mexico. it s bad for the u.s. and better mexico. the mexican economy in a recession, it sends people pouring across our border and that s what we don t want to happen. harris: on thomas homan s comments, it kind of folds right in. what he is saying if you want to avoid some of the humanitarian crisis you ve got to then deal with this in-country. can you process these claims where these people live? i don t know what kind of aid he would have to put in place for that, but that is just another option on the table. melissa: a major legal victory for the trump administration in the battle over the border wall. a district court judge in washington, d.c., tossing a lawsuit from house democrats. they sought to block the president from using emergency powers to reallocate federal funds to help pay for wall construction. the judge writing, this is a case about whether one chamber of congress has the constitutional means to constrict conscript the judiciary and a political turf war wit
is going to veto that, even if, for example, it were to pass congress, right? that is the line from the white house at the moment. what they re trying to figure out behind the scenes is could senate republicans have a supplemental piece of legislation that gives republicans an out, even if they formally oppose the president s declaration, can they do something to support board rder funding, support the border wall? can they figure this out politically and ledge lgislatil. so those up in a red or purple state feel comfortable with moving forward in 2020. this is all about the wall and the fight over the wall. garrett put it, i think, as it s the red cape waving in front of not just the president s face but in front of democrats. from my sources in the west wing, they re down for a fight, spoiling for one. they are. this is a perfect tool to have the fight. it is not just about laying out the president s priorities. it is very much about 2020. donald trump is gearing up to make the
fact that he hasn t given up his fight over the border wall. publicly, white house officials say they think they win on the merits. they think this wall constitutes good policy. privately though, they say it is good politics. the president needs to energize his base and his base of conservative commentators who the president, we know, cares so much about. here are some of the other highlights in the budget request. $8.6 billion in wall funding. it calls for eliminating the deficit in 15 years, not the customary 10 years. he has the positive growth estimates that calls for slashing most domestic funding. these are deeper cuts than any administration has ever planned, according to the omb. they re going to cut domestic funding while boosting defense spending. you also see some olive branches in there, too. more money for infrastructure pending and a blueprint to bring down the cost of prescription drug prices. now, earlier, larry kudlow, the president s economic adviser, was asked about
northam since saturday. like everyone else in the state is waiting to hear what comes next. jon and sandra. sandra: garrett, thank you. jon: ahead of his state of the union address president trump suggesting a national emergency declaration could be his last option in the battle over the border wall. the president also doubling down on his criticism of nancy pelosi in a pre-super bowl interview calling her very bad for our country. president trump: the democrats frankly will be doing this country a tremendous disservice. nancy pelosi is doing a very, very great disservice to our country and i think she has to get on the ball because we will have a wall. it s being built anyway. jon: kevin corke is live at the white house for us right now. the idea is simple, that is to instruct and to tell the speaker and the congress and for that matter the american people that the american story
up and running after five weeks. the clock is reset in the battle over the border wall. president trump gave in. backed down. backed down at least for now. end of the shutdown widely seen now at pointless. what was actually accomplished i would say absolutely nothing. this is just the next step in the negotiation. i give president trump a lot of credit. people will be surprised how much this white house is willing to do. i don t think shutdown s a good leverage. shutdowns are noit great politics. never good policy, ever. no one wants a government shutdown. is the president prepared to shut down the government again in three weeks yeah. let s turn to the arrest of roger stone. that blockbuster indictment of roger stone. another member of the trump campaign s orbit. all the stuff happening with roger steen doesn t have