page bill. now to explain we have former kansas secretary of state kris kobach joining us from d.c. chris, how bad would the poison pill have to be for the president not to sign it? well, i can name at least three poison pills that would justify vetoing the bill. steve: okay. we know the democrats have been interested in inserting these pills. you can do it with just a couple of words. the big e. one is when it says 1.375 billion if it says no more than or only 1.375, that would take away the president s authority that exists in other laws to spend defense department money and other money on. steve: to reprogram. right that would take away his reprogramming authority in other areas. another poison pill we know the democrats have been wanting is they want to redefine asylum to say if you suffer from domestic violence or if you suffer from gang violence that qualifies from you asylum. right now that s not the law. if they insert one sentence saying that that suddenly becomes the la
comes to immigration. the president not ruling out the possibility of declaring a national emergency, pointed out that past presidents, bush, obama, and clinton, have declared numerous national emergencies. the president did appear to be clearing a lane, as we ve heard from some other senior advisers at this white house, to reprogram, basically effectively to find money that exists right now and appropriate it toward construction of the wall. he did not rule out altogether signing onto this compromise deal. it s notable, though, that some of the president s sort of television cabinet, as it were, laura ingraham and sean hannity, have already railed on it, describing it as garbage by hannity, a charade by ingraham. among the other moments you ll see in the course of playing these clips for you as soon as we get them turned around, there was a striking moment at the end of his initial remarks before we began asking him questions, the president went out of his way to call out the acting a