department of justice, doesn't make any sense. as it relates to any such offer the president said that he was basically going to put the bridge act in his proposal. the bridge act is 1.8 million people, not 700,000. once again, even what he does is not what he does and this is part of the problem of negotiating. >> we had marc short on. he's been involved in a lot of legislative negotiations. he said in his view the president is going to declare a national emergency to get out of this. >> there's no question in my mind yoi believe this does not rise to a national emergency. we just had a meeting, senate finance democrats had a meeting with the head of customs and border protection. had more people coming over the northern border who were potentially on the terrorist watch list than the southern