the suit is filed in the liberal ninth circuit where judges have already ruled against the president in nine major cases. it seeks an injunction to stop the president from building a barrier at the border while the case is argued. it calls the emergency declaration, quote, unconstitutional and unlawful and the states must protect their residents, natural resources and economic interests from the president s flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers, principles. responsibility to determine where our taxpayer dollars go is congress s responsibility. donald trump cannot u surp that obligation and privilege. he is trying to do that. the president says the 1976 law allows him to build the wall because there is a national security risk but he also said, likely to be used against him, the situation is not an emergency. president trump: it s an
country that we stop. but it s very hard to stop. a wall would be very easy. i think that we will be very successful in court. it s clear. and the people that say we create precedent. well, we have 56 or a lot of times, that s creating precedent. and many of those are far less important than having a border. i go now to cnn white house correspondent abby phillip at the white house. now that this national emergency has been signed, what happens next? ana, now the real fight begins. the white house has been expecting there will be some legal challenges to this. the president eluded to that today. he even suggested that he expected to lose, at least initially in some of these court battles. that s because democrats have been saying that this is both about whether or not there is a national emergency. and whether or not the president is trying to usurp power that s granted in the constitution to congress to appropriate money
embraced the illiberalism of the trump era. this is a small r republican form of government. we re a madisonian democracy. the president is not the maximum leader. he s not a king, he s not an emperor and when we look around the world, where are the places that we see leaders declaring national emergencies to u surp power from other institutions? turkey with erdogan, russia with putin, saudi arabia. you don t see this in healthy liberal democracies and so the entire premise of this national emergency is dubious to say the least. it will almost certainly be hammered into the grounds of federal court. but the idea that the president of the united states would
with her only opportunity. to challenge it would be to bring down the entire fbi. to my shock and horror, they tried to do just that. in the face of silence from people in this building. melissa: white house press secretary sarah sanders responding on twitter, calling him a shameless fraud. today, saying that they threw fbi protocol out the windows for one window, and one reason only because it was the trump administration. they thought they could come and they thought they could get away with it. we are arguing that he was certainly ambushed, and that the fbi, that we know had clear political bias we have seen that time and time again one thing we are 100% sure on is that the president made the right decision in firing james comey. melissa: meantime, the joint house panel is also expected to interview former obama attorney general loretta lynch as early as tomorrow. it judge, i will ask you it seems like james comey loves to go and stand in front of a camera and talk a
dagen: to bring it back home, people say that they are doing is, the democrats argue that they are doing it to prove sabre what the president has said and to keep the focus off them a molar investigation. harris: last word, lee said. lisa: the judge is right in a sense of mccarthy or scalise trying to win and in order to be speaker the house. so perhaps they are angling for something else to give their votes to kevin mccarthy. harris: i know that you loved what lisa said, because she started with the judge is right. president trump has arrived in iowa, looking at the roundtable of the workforce development. we will cover this. it comes a day after he secured an agreement to cool down the escalating trade dispute with the european union. if that matters to a whole lot of people in iowa and throughout