days, everything from health care to climate change or whatever. it is a it s like it would be a short-term solution with profound long-term consequences. it s not the way it was supposed to work. president proposes, congress disposes and you take votes. if someone loses in the normal world we used to live in, you cut a deal. you re right, the next president, democrat or republican, or donald trump for another term. i didn t get my way, it s an emergency. here s what s dangerous. he says he ll get to that point at some point. his lawyer is with him today, the secretary of the army are with him today. those are the people who would be most affected if he decided to declare an emergency and take money from the pentagon. what he is trying to do is get the democrats to blink. the question is, will this work? there is no reason why we can t come to a deal. but you have another side that doesn t care about border security. the democrats, which i ve been saying all along, they don t
kaitlan collins live at the white house. julie pace with the associated press, paul kane with the washington post, kerry with bloomberg. the more they declare a crisis, the more justification they have of a crisis. if i keep saying powerball, do i win the powerball? you can t win if you dont pl don t play. sorry, but they re preparing the paperwork, which is what they re supposed to do if your boss says it s a distinct possibility. most members of congress, even if they support the wall, don t want it to happen because it s an assertion of public authority, the president saying i m going around you. but is it? given what we heard yesterday from the democratic leaders, is it the only visible offramp at the moment? it certainly looks like it is if the president s condition here is if we can t make a deal,
i don t want to say 100% because maybe something else comes up. if we don t make a deal, it would be very surprising to me that i did not declare a national emergency and just fund it through the various mechanisms. that s the president. cnn s kaitlyn collins at the white house. the president saying maybe, maybe, maybe. we understand the white house is doing the research to get him to that point. they re getting ready for the president to take that maybe to a yes, that he s going to declare a national emergency. right now that is still uncertain. they are preparing the legal justification for the president to do so since it s widely assumed if he does declare a national emergency on the border, it will certainly face a court battle. that legal strategy and legal justification they are prepping right now includes a legal defense, because they do assume that is something it could come down to, and that legal defense comes to something you ve seen in recent days, which is not only the
democrats to blink. i find china, frankly, in many ways to be far more honorable than crying chuck and nancy. i really do. i think that china is actually much easier to deal with than the opposition party. and we begin there with the president headed to the border this hour as both he and the democrats look much more interested in making points, not deals. talks to end the government shutdown have evaporated, that with the president s bye bye, closing the door on the latest attempt to break the border impasse. nancy pelosi calls it a temper tantrum of the president unwilling to make a deal. republican lawmakers are suggesting democrats are the unreasonable ones. the buck stops with everybody. they could solve this problem in literally 15 minutes. we could be back. we could have border security.
who answers to his base and their tweets, is going to accept a deal that gives ann coulter, fox news, rush limbaugh. it s not clear that the president wants to sign a deal to relieve people of daca ever. last year and at the end of the year, trump s base revolted and said we didn t support you to have you fold to some democrats and moderate republicans on something like daca, even though daca is extremely popular, coming up with protection for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. i don t think there is any reason to believe that same base wouldn t have a massive outcry, even if they were given a wall. it s smart and it s factual, and a whole bunch of democrats in 2006 voted for a wall. why won t you vote for a wall now? the reporter stood with the wall behind him.