reverse his national emergency declaration to fund the border wall. matt lewis is a senior columnist at the daily beast and a cnn political commentator and alex stewart is a republican strategist and also a cnn political commentator. you wrote an op ed praising the 12 republican senators. you wrote it a rare instance of congress showing it self-to be strong and willing to stand for itself against the executive branch. the vote is going to come up short, why was this so momentous to you? >> first of all, i don't know if democrats would have done this, if president obama did something kind of similar like this with dreamers. where he had said i can't -- i'm not a dictator, i'm not a seizer, i can't just make this sweeping immigration decision. and then you later did it. i don't remember a lot of democrats standing up to him and saying that's wrong, that that's unconstitutional that that went against separation of power.