The State Department. Putting iran on notice, is this trumps new red line . Hi, erin. Definitely being presented as a hard line on iran. Maybe somewhat blurry one at this point. But the white house is saying that it is dedicated to Holding Iran Accountable after this latest Missile Launch. And it is considering a whole range of options in a response and, yes, that does include a military one. A tough line on iran at the white house today. As to have day, we are officially putting iran on notice. Reporter National Security adviser Michael Flynn offering a cryptic warning after iran tested another Ballistic Missile sunday. The Obama Administration failed to respond adequately to tehrans malign actions including weapons transfers, support for terrorism, and other violations of international norms. Reporter the new administration making its clear it believes the Missile Launch violated a u. N. Resolution. Flynns comments today follow
its missile program. But prior tests have gone down with
made in 24 hours. dana: but who s counting, really? peter doocy, thank you. reporter: they are. dana: a coalition of 16 states are suing to block the president s plan to use emergency power to spend billions on a border wall. the facts prove donald trump is acting outside the law. all of us believe it would be harmful for our citizens to have more than $8 billion taken away from the projects and services that we expect our taxpayer dollars to be used for. dana: bret , courts have a way of getting beyond the rhetoric and into the actual details. we remember what happened with the travel ban. initial one was withdrawn, replaced and upheld in the court. how do you see this going? the president might have this right in that rose garden appearance where he did that sing songy answer of potentially what s going to happen with his national emergency. it s going to go to the 9th circuit.
and factual case for his actions. there s a statement which could undermine the case. there s the tone of the whole thing. listen to this moment the president acknowledging the legal obstacles ahead. the order is signed. i will sign the final papers as soon as i get into the oval office. and we will have a national emergency. we will then be sued. they will sue us in the ninth circuit. even though it shouldn t be there. we will possibly get a bad ruling. then we will get another bad ruling. then we will end up in the supreme court. hopefully, we will get a fair shake and we will win in the supreme court just like the band. they sued us in the ninth circuit and we lost and we lost in the appellate division. we went to the supreme court and we won. kind of sing-songy. jim acosta tried to pin the president down on the facts. he joins us now. jim, the president certainly did not like being pressed by the facts today.
listen to this moment the president acknowledging the legal obstacles ahead. the order is signed. i will sign the final papers as soon as i get into the oval office. we will have a national emergency. we will then be sued. they will sue us in the ninth circuit. even though it shouldn t be there. we will possibly get a bad ruling. then we will get another bad ruling. then we will end up in the supreme court. hopefully, we will get a fair shake and we will win in the supreme court just like the band. they sued us in the ninth circuit and we lost and in the appellate division. we went to the supreme court and we won. kind of sing songy. jim acosta tried to pin the president down on the facts. he joins us now. jim, the president certainly did not like being pressed by the facts today. no. it was a truth emergency out
emergency declared. president trump just as he signs the deal that congress reaches on border security announces he is going around congress to get more money for a wall. a lot to digest. let s go to cnn political reporter. what stuck out to you? reporter: a lot of ways what we heard from this president is what we heard all along, the idea that there is danger coming from the southern border, this idea that there is all of this trafficking that is going on that this border wall will prevent. he is circumventing congress. he has a sing songy way of talking about what is ahead in terms of courts blocking it. so they are certainly anticipating that. he was upbeat. you compare the press conference with the one before where he had to say that he would reopen the government and go to this process of a conference