really argue that they could really lose something big. on the one hand, the government could lose all of its contracts without even talking about constructioning the wall. on the other hand, there is really grave and environmental damage that could happen if the wall goes forward temporarily. as i discussed already, if they discuss it and later on the court says, oh, yeah, you didn t have a right to build this wall, take it down, who s going to take it down. any time you have a case like this and two competing injunctions, each court wanting one to awe lot it or another to stay, you re going to have both sides unhappy. how did the politics play? it was a 5-4 split down the line. how political was this. it s hard to say. if you look at the actual order, it s only three pages. part of it is justice brier s separate opinion, which isn t
we have breaking news this morning. in a late friday filing the supreme court clearing the way for the trump aed ministration to use $2.5 billion of the defense money to build part of a planned wall alomgs tng the u.s./mexico border. the $2.5 billion would come from the defense department s counterdrug money and build some 100 miles of wall. let s go to the white house to nbc s viqueira. good morning. tell us about the reaction here. certainly the president is crowing about this. they were out of session, but this was an emergency brought to them by the administration that said they needed a decision because this option was going to go away. and, jo, the president called this, you have to say back in february, on the 15th of february. you remember after the end of that record-long shutdown the president declaring a national
emergency, his intention to spend $8 billion on the wall without congressional approval. it was met with lawsuits including from the aclu and the sierra club, suing about this $2.5 billion that the president wanted to spend on the drug interdiction money. the supreme court saying last night those groups do not have standing. the spending, the 2.85 that the president wants to spend can go forward. it s about 100 miles of new fencing replacing old fencing. meanwhile here s the president s tweet last night after too decision was announced. wow, big victory on the wall. the united states supreme court overturns the court injunction.
litigated. so it s not truly an ultimate win, but in a sense it s a win because while we re waiting for this case to get resolved, the government gets the win in that it can commence building. it sing are interesting. justice brier filed a consent. one of the greatest lines he has is just in parentheses. if we allow the government go ahead and build this wall and later on they lose, what money are they going to use to take down this wall? so they don t say. it s something that will have to be considered going forward. that consideration plus the fact there s still some legal battles ahead. but what are the rest of the legal battles coming down the pike here? for the border wall. yes. this case is going to be litigated going forward at the supreme court. and the challenge for the court here in granting or not granting the stay is that each side would