sovereign interest in protecting their border. does he have a defense here for not doing what doj told them to do? he has a defense. it will not work. the rivers and harbors act of 1899, before the invention of the out board motor, this is a law that requires a permit from the army corps of engineers for the installation of any structure in navigatable waters. i think you saw some roll of a boat going over the waters, therefore we can check the box for navigatable if a boat is riding on it. more, if the river is subject to the ebb and flow of the tide or feeds into the ocean. these are things that will lead to the conclusion that this is a navigatable water, and if you put a structure in it, the united states government can sue and successfully get you to remove the structure. the idea that texas has a sovereign power, it does, but generally speaking, if something federal overrides or overlaps
and go live your life. head to golo.com now to join the over 2 million people who have found the right way to lose weight and get healthier with golo. welcome back, everybody, the state of texas is received a deadline. the doj sent texas that warning letter last month arguing that the floating barrier meant to stop crossings is not authorized by the u.s. army corps of engineers and violates several laws and prevents humanitarian concerns. in response to the letter, the texas governor tweeted this, mr. president, texas will see you in court. joining me now nbc news homeland security correspondent has more. i think the overarching question is what happens now? back and forth here, where does
yet they are opening an investigation in to you. yeah, they are opening an investigation into me on a saturday, on christmas eve, on the same day that i just released a report about the ties between the fbi and other enforcement agencies and tech platforms, and it was a 3-year-old case and i didn t owe them any money. so all of those factors combine to make the optics of this really strange. you wonder what supervisor would be calling an agent on a saturday and asking him to come into work to open up a case on that day. sandra: to read off the washington times the way they put it, the irs really must have wanted to investigate you, matt taibbi. what s this doing to your life? i mean, this whole twitter files experience has been a roller coaster, eye opening. i think i was a little naive about how willing maybe some of these agencies were to try to
are going to work very hard to make sure that we don t get to that x date. and a quick one, has the president reached out to the governor with the typhoon approaching guam? i don t have any calls to read out. the president has been briefed on the typhoon and is continuing, we are going to continue to look at the impact that the typhoon will certainly have in guam. on monday night the president approved an emergency declaration for guam and ordered federal assistance to supplement territory and local response. federal agencies, including fema, coast guard, u.s. army corps of engineers and the national guard have been deployed and coordinating sandra: we will get back in as she continues to take questions as the looming deadline is out there for the
creeps, yeah. last time i checked there s a lot of construction. there s some video. that is not new york right now! that might be the remnants of superstorm sandy. that is from sandy, yeah. i just wanted to let people know, that s not happening right now. that s from sandy, but there is, you know, no shortage of construction going on in the city as far as i can see. so what are we going to see in the future? what might be done here? you can t imagine that something like this would stop development, especially in a dense place like this, but what we re already seeing, the u.s. army corps of engineers is working on a plan to build seawalls around new york city. they have different scenarios. it s sort of in the public comment phase. they ve got a couple of years to figure out the plan. in my neighborhood, i live in brooklyn, this is dumbo. all this was under water during superstorm sandy. they are now raising, fortifying the east river bank there in case it floods again. this is o