preaches to the choir. the current shutdown over the wall illustrates that perfectly. the chief executive of news mags and friend of president trump told new york times that trump is obsessed about carrying out his campaign promises, to a degree that s unhealthy because it is important to him. however, as real world consequences continue to pile up, cracks within the republican party are starting to show. on friday, colorado republican cory gardner called for the government to be reopened. let s watch. i just want to be super clear here though. you calling to reopen the government now, even if the wall issue isn t entirely solved yet, getting the government reopened now. the reality is the senate appropriations bill has the wallet. yes, let s get the government open, have a bigger fight for the rest of the funding anyway. that was going to happen whether or not you got $5 billion or more. i support getting the $5 billion and more, but let s get the government open. earlier toda
way of managing asylum. but this is not the way you deal with a chronic problem of addiction in america. on this question of the president perhaps declaring a national emergency, and ordering it built, your fellow west pointer senator jack reed democrat rhode island says this the idea that president trump is considering declaring a phony national emergency as a pretext to take billions of dollars away from our troops and defense priorities in order to pay for his wall should alarm all americans. general, do you concur? looks to me like it s flat illegal, it s moving into dictatorial powers. you can t spend money that isn t appropriated by the congress. that s what the constitution says. you can t divert a fighting force, a u.s. department of defense which has tremendous challenges in the global community and use it as a domestic police function.
get their paycheck. we are not giving up. we have to have border security. do you have in mind a safety net for those who need their checks? well, the safety net is going to be having a strong border. many of the people you re discussing, i really believe that they agree with what we re doing. i want to understand how you expect federal workers to last that long without getting a paycheck. if we have to stay out for a very long period of time we re going to do that. and many of those people, maybe even most of those people that really have not been and will not be getting their money in at this moment, those people, in many cases, are the biggest fan of what we re doing. as we reported here last night the budget still may be creating a fracture within the president s party. as republican senators worry now about the shutdown s political and personal damage. today one of those senators spoke out. i just want to be super clear here, though, i mean, you calling to reopen the g
colombia into central america and then get moved in a different manner. so you simply can t deal with the drug issue through the border. the border shouldn t be open. it should be protected. we should we need a better way of managing asylum. but this is not the way you deal with a chronic problem of addiction in america. on this question of the president perhaps declaring a national emergency, and ordering it built, your fellow west pointer senator jack reed democrat rhode island says this the idea that president trump is considering declaring a phony national emergency as a pretext to take billions of dollars away from our troops and defense priorities in order to pay for his wall should alarm all americans. general, do you concur? looks to me like it s flat illegal, it s moving into dictatorial powers. you can t spend money that isn t appropriated by the congress. that s what the constitution says.
illegal, it s moving into dictatorial powers. you can t spend money that isn t appropriated by the congress. that s what the constitution says. you can t divert a fighting force, a u.s. department of defense which has tremendous challenges in the global community and use it as a domestic police function. this is not american values. you know, if we want to enforce the law in the southwest frontier, add more money to customs and border protection. and by the way, we have a problem there. we re not paying these men and women enough for the demanding duties trying to protect our frontiers. so i think the president would be right into transparently illegal activity if he tried to unilaterally direct the pentagon to build a border. thank you for both of your appearances tonight, general barry mccaffrey, always such a pleasure to have you on. coming up, president trump s response to an explicit call for