i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn t need to do this but i d rather do it much faster. i didn t need to do this. how does that justify a national emergency? well, the president was saying that like past presidents he could choose to ignore this crisis, choose to ignore this emergency as others have, but that s not what he s going to do. as a former white house press secretary was steven miller effective in that answer? no, because that s not at all what the president said. what the president did undercut his legal position. he basically said that this isn t a crisis but i just didn t get what i wanted from congress and that s not what other presidents have used the presidential authority that they were given. they re saying the president was trying to fulfill a campaign promise. it s not. in the campaign it was i m going to build a wall and mexico is