national emergency and reposition resources. let s try senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. here he is four years ago. the action he s proposed would ignore the law, would reject the voice of the voters. mitch mcconnell today. i have indicated to him that i m going to prepare i m going to support the national emergency declaration. how about ted cruz, who wrote this about president obama in a very lengthy 2014 op-ed? quote, the president s taste for unilateral action to circumvent congress should concern every citizen regardless of party or ideology. how about today? [ crickets sounding ] he had no comment. crickets, zilch, zippo, nothing. no cause for concern this time, but then again, the president himself has evolved on this issue. now he has used executive action, and this is a very, very dangerous thing that should be
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border wall. that would then go to the house and senate to affirm or to vote against. do you think there are enough votes in the senate to pass, to approve of president trump s national emergency declaration or are enough americans concerned about such a thing whether it s because of the precedent or because it takes away power from the legislative branch? well, we ll have to see what would happen. the president hasn t specifically said he s going to invoke an emergency powers. but he s, under the constitution, he s probably got some rights there. also under the statute that gives speaks to emergency powers. what we d like to do is do it in the appropriation process. we ve shown we can do it. if people leave us alone, if we were tasked senator leahy, my counterpart in the senate, congresswoman loy and granger if the four of us could get to work, tasked by our respective caucuses, we ll get this done
that would then go to the house and senate to affirm or to vote against. do you think there are enough votes in the senate to pass, to approve of president trump s national emergency declaration or are enough americans concerned about such a thing whether it s because of the precedent or because it takes away power from the legislative branch? well, we ll have to see what would happen. the president hasn t specifically said he s going to invoke an emergency powers. but he s, under the constitution, he s probably got some rights there. also under the statute that gives speaks to emergency powers. what we d like to do is do it in the appropriation process. we ve shown we can do it. if people leave us alone, if we were tasked senator leahy, my counterpart in the senate, congresswoman loy and granger if the four of us could get to work, tasked by our respective caucuses, we ll get this done before wednesday night.