overturned a president s finding of a national emergency precisely because judges and those of us in the public don t have access to all the information a president has. the real question is once a president declares a national emergency of which you said there have been many, many declared by presidents, i would say some in situations far less dire or urgent than this one, for example, like the expiration of export controls has been a national emergency, the real question is what powers should the president have? some are constitutional, defending the country, some are granted to him by congress. so i would say here this is not a question of the president and congress fighting, this is a question where congress long ago gave enormous powers to the president, once a national emergency was declared, there is a provision right here on this point which allows the president to reallocate funds provided by congress for military construction in the event of a national emergency. if congress
those of us in the public don t have access to all the information a president has. the real question is once a president declares a national emergency of which you said there have been many, many declared by presidents, i would say some in situations far less dire or urgent than this one, for example, like the expiration of export controls has been a national emergency, the real question is what powers should the president have? some are constitutional, defending the country, some are granted to him by congress. so i would say here this is not a question of the president and congress fighting, this is a question where congress long ago gave enormous powers to the president, once a national emergency was declared, there is a provision right here on this point which allows the president to reallocate funds provided by congress for military construction in the event of a national emergency. if congress wants to stop it they can stop putting more money into the defense department s purse.
we have a short amount of time. they did come into folks. that s right. we had sst people on the ground at no cost to the state department. they were asked to be extended by the ambassador. someone at the state department turned that down. they were at no charge, 16 officers. so i just wonder what has happened inside to make sure that never happens again? well, several things. not only are we on the path to uply meant all of the ar. about recommendations but we ve gone beyond that. we did immediately do this high-threat assessment using dod assets as well as our own. that had never been done before. we have asked the congress to help us reallocate funds. the senate sfaf us that authority. we don t have it from the house. we can get more marine guards. we can get more diplomatic security guards. we can try to put more money into the maintenance, upgrades, construction that is needed.