political vote for freshmen, moderate members to take a vote on that. saying hey, we re going to vote to try to override the president s veto. keep in mind, there s 31 democrats in the house who represent districts that president trump carried. the flip side of that is you could be trying to put pressure on republicans, are they going to stand with the president or not. democrats had unanimity when this move through the house of representatives a couple weeks ago. there were 13 defections on the republican side that voted with the democrats. there were three districts carried by hillary clinton. so you know, nancy pelosi might be trying to say we re going to run through the process here. last time there was a failed override attempt in the house was early 2016. paul ryan tried to move through a veto override on a bill to repeal obamacare that president obama had vetoed. they knew it would be short. paul ryan kept saying we re going to run out the string and go through the process and t
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let s not forget, without this emergency declaration, the president has about $4 billion to build a border barrier. that s good for 70 to 90 miles of border wall depending how far they can stretch a dollar. john? shepard: we re waiting for the ceremony. congress does have the power to override a presidential veto but has been successful only 4% of the time that its tried. it requires 2/3s votes in both the house and the senate, which means 67 votes in the senate. 12 republicans voted with the democrats yesterday to block the president s national emergency. it passed with 59 votes. that is short of the number. could they get more? mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill. hi, mike. shep, we don t expect congressional democrats to let this go. the last time we saw nancy pelosi, she was signing the bill that rejects the president s national emergency declaration this afternoon before it was sent off to the white house.
the president ran through what you might call his greatest hits on immigration, the border, and the wall. and he addressed the 12 senate republicans who indeed did rebuke him yesterday. they were doing what they have to do. and, look, i did i put no pressure on anybody. i actually said i could have gotten some of them to come along. i said vote your heart. do what you want to do. i m not putting any pressure. i ll let them know when there s pressure. and i told them that. when i need your vote, i ll let you know. i didn t need the vote. we all knew it would be a veto and they re not going to be able to override. no mention of the word constitution. we ll get to that later. the reporting from inside the white house suggests otherwise. we re going to get to that in a moment as well. moments after the president s veto, speaker pelosi announced they will try it march 26th. it is expected fail. especially at this moment.
drug forfeiture fund. $2.5 billion from the defense department s drug interdiction program. something under republican criticism as well. $3.5 million from the military construction budget according to the military and veterans affairs sub committee means it could be used for military readiness training centers, f 35s, and hangers. kelly o donnell is joining me now, what s the next move for congress after this? they will try to override the president s veto. president trump will sign for the first time a veto that makes sense because for much of his presidency he had republicans in charge of the house and nat. they were in lock step on many