veto which has not put pen to paper yesterday. 12 republican senators voted against this. not being against the border wall, but just on the president circumventing the appropriations process. the president tweeted out i d like to thank all the great republican senators that bravely voted for strong border security, this will help stop crime and drug trafficking. watch when you get back to your state. they will love you more than before. the president said he does have emergency powers to build a border wall and across the administration officials are speaking with one voice about what they say is a crisis on the border. here s the secretary of state mike pompeo. i ve spent a lot of time with my mexican counter parts. this challenge is real. i believe it s a crisis. call it what you will. the challenge of not knowing who
for him. what do you expect to see today and what happens next? he will veto it very quickly and that will be then it will come to the house. it comes to the house first and if we have two thirds of the house vote to override the veto then it goes to the senate and they need two thirds to override. they didn t get two thirds on this vote so they don t have the votes. seems we had 245, they needed 290. they are a long way from overriding the president s veto. i m sure there will be a vote to override. it will not be successful and will not get to the senate and those 12 will not have a chance to change their position to send word to their constituents that they do support what the president is trying to do. heather: we have 30 seconds left, the mueller report not happening today, not going to be
congress and the will of the american people. the new attorney general william barr who is also at the signing ceremony in the oval office today defended the president s emergency declaration by saying this: when you have done from a legal standpoint is solidly grounded in law. from the standpoint of protecting the american people it s imperative. giving fuel to the trump administration s assertion that this is not a manufactured crisis, there is an active emergency at the border. today the washington post reported on a new massive smuggling effort that s been speeding migrants to and across the southern border on buses according to u.s. officials. that s on top of the nearly 300 illegal immigrants arrested in a matter of hours after crossing the border in texas earlier this week. according to u.s. customs and border protection. so now the debate over this emergency declaration heads back to the house where they likely will not have enough votes to override the president s veto
for new zealand to begin to make sense or at least begin to move passed this? it s a tough one. we have never experienced anything like this. we always see terrorism in other parts of the world and sort of very different parts of the world. we never expected to see something like this here. just in the last few moments, we heard that two people are still fighting for their life. one, a 4-year-old child and in critical condition having to be transported to another hospital. shepard: he shot at kids in those mosques. yes, yeah. women, children, all people. shepard: well, our hearts are breaking for you. thanks, michael sergel. thank you. thank you. shepard: we re monitoring breaking news from the white house in the united states where the president is set to issue his first veto since he took office after a stunning rebuke from members of his own party. we ll hear from the fox news
upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines, and if you re pregnant or planning to be. ready to treat differently with a pill? otezla. show more of you. shepard: live at the white house. any moment, we expect the president to issue a veto after the senate voted to end the national emergency he declared to pay for the southern border wall. john roberts reporting live at the white house. john? shep, good afternoon. getting notes from the pool spray in the oval office. the president talked about his conversation with the prime minister of new zealand saying that he expressed his condolences, these places of worship have turned into scenes of horrible killings and he promised the prime minister any assistance the united states can provide. the president talking about the