fund his border wall. now congress had the ability to override his veto, of course, but the question is do they have the votes. i ve been talking to lawmakers for days about this, and they don t think they do have the votes at this point in time. president trump said as much yesterday in the oval office. i was in there with him. he said look, i m going to do a veto and i don t think they have the votes to override the veto. it s going to stand. president trump defiant on this issue. as you and i have been talking about throughout the hour, this is a campaign issue for president trump as well. ali, important to point out he started his remarks by talking about the terror attacks in new zealand. kristen welker, thank you. we will be right back. sten welku we will be right back. d the entire birth. i had great connectivity. his entire platoon was standing next to him. they kept telling me, you gotta push! you gotta push! they all got to meet forest, all together. about 50 of them. and
in this play, but in the short run it would appear the president has the upper hand to take the next steps, but congress will do more and make this an ongoing border battle fight and we re into campaign season and that dove tails for both parties as an issue they want to litigate. march 26th is when the house will vote to override the veto. as we discussion this emergency declaration, i want to step back and analyze it s significance. i want to turn to john mechum been take a look at the vetoes from recent presidents. george w bush had four.
in addition to that chuck schumer said it is his understanding they can bring this back up again in about sixth mont six months. and again to play schoolhouse rock with everyone, the veto the president has this authority, he can overturn it, for president trump this is a speed bump toward his plans to use the money. carving hot dollars that had another purpose and using them for what he considers a national security emergency. once you re at that, the president kind of doesn t say anything else about it. he is fixated on that being his constitutional authority to do this, so expect a few more acts
house and president bush senior never had either. it was more of a weapon of policy not at the very beginning, but it became so under ant you jackson that decided by pushing the presidency to the forefront of the governmental structure he should be able to veto bills based on policy differences. there is a previous understanding that in this particular instance, president is going to say moment rs from now that this veto is about border security and democrats.
critics said that the idea of the wall is roots in anti-immigrant bias. let s bring in kristin welker. presidents have issued vooe t d before, it s not uncommon when a party that controls one part of congress is on the other side. this one has deeper significance to it. this is significant, the president s veto that he will issue has president, this veto s the bill that was passed with republican support in the senate that effectively moves to block his national emergency to go around congress and build his border wall. why is this significant? this is president trump s key campaign promise. this is one of the biggest issues that he ran on. he is getting a lot of pressure from his base to stand firm. we know that he sees it as critical to he reelection.