World. Im natalie allen. Im George Howell from cnn newsroom. 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. The lawsuits are flying. The u. S. President barely uttered the words National Emergency and the lawyers came out fighting. Members of his own party warned it was a terrible idea. President trump declared a National Emergency days after congress refused his demand for funding. He will face a gauntlet of legal challenges. Cnns jim acosta reports, he may have already sabotaged his own case. Reporter try to take a victory lap after a defeat in congress, President Trump declared a National Emergency to tap into Administration Funds to build a wall. The president may have already undercut his case when he admitted the motivation is to speed things along. I could do the wall over a period of time, i didnt need to do this, but i have to do it faster. I have done a wall for the election. 2020. Reporter more than 1 billion authorized by congress, they are free to secure 8 billion for the wall. The president is still selling the wall claiming most Illegal Drugs coming into the u. S. Come through illegal ports of entry. When you listen to politicians, particular certain democrats, they say it comes through ports of entry. Its wrong. Its a lie. Reporter hyping the threat at the border, making unproven claims of his own. Women and girls. You cant take them through ports of entry tied up in the backseat of a car, a van. They open the door and look. They cant see three women with tape on their mouth or hands tied. The president lashed out when the facts were presented to him. Theres data that shows border crossings at a near record low. Undocumented immigrants excuse me, you dont really believe that stuff. Do you believe that stuff . I believe in facts and statistics. Reporter the president sounded petulant. We will then be sued. They will sue us in the united circuit, even though it shouldnt be there and possibly get a bad ruling, then another bad ruling and well end up in the Supreme Court and hopefully get a fair shake and win. Mr. Trump mimicked china when talki talking about how they punish drug dealers. I asked president xi, do you have a drug problem . No, no, no. You have 1. 4 billion people what do you mean you dont have a drug problem . Why . Death penalty. We give Death Penalty to people that sell drugs. End of problem. Reporter and the president bris l bristled at the notion the media is calling the shots when it comes to policy. Sean hannity has been a terrific, terrific supporter of what i do. Not of me. If i changed my views, he wouldnt be with me. Rush limbaugh, great guy. Ann coulter, i dont know her. I hardly know her. Reporter there are cracks in the wall of conservative support. Our president is an idiot. The president stopped when he asked if he was making up the emergency. The president has bigger things to worry about such as the growing number of republican senators raising concern saying the declaration may be unconstitutional. Jim acosta, cnn, the white house. Much talk everywhere about this by President Trump. Its a risky gamble. If the president prevails, the white house believes he could come up with 8 billion. Its a lot of money. Here is where it would come from. 1. 4 billion comes from Homeland Security appropriations bill. 600 million from the Treasury Department fund. 2. 5 billion from the Defense Department drug intervention and 3. 5 billion from the defense dept military budget. Democrats were demanding to know the legal basis for making such a claim. Democratic congressman, jerry nadler sold chris cuomo moe, when the president said, i didnt need to do this. Those were his words. It weakened his own case. Listen. The lawsuit will say that there is no real emergency. Hell say theres a real emergency. The defense will be that the president decides whether theres an emergency. The court cant look behind that. The president is saying theres no emergency. Thats a body blow in this case. As we mentioned, the first lawsuits have been filed to block the National Emergency. One filed was by the government watchdog group, public citizen. They are representing the Audubon Society and three private landowners in south texas. That is because imminent domain, when the government seizes the private land will be a crucial issue in any border wall construction. Where a wall or barricade will go is currently privately owned. Lets talk more about this with david kats. He is a former u. S. District attorney joining us in los angeles. Thank you for your time. Pleasure to be here. This whole debate. Is this truly a National Emergency or not so much . Lets start with the president s own words. Listen closely to how he answers the question from reporter, Peter Alexander with nbc news. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didnt need to do this, but i would rather do it much faster. So, he didnt need to do this, but wanted to do it much faster. Keep in mind, it took the president five minutes to run through the rage before announcing the National Emergency. These plain spoken words you just heard, legally, how will that play into the challenges that are sure to come . I think the fatal flaw, george, its not an emergency. Everybody can see that. When i was an official in the reagan administration, we had more than twice as many people cross the border and get caught. It was an attractive problem. President reagan had an amnesty and it has gotten better in those years. There are less people crossing the border. Every year, there are less people crossing the border than the previous year. People say the courts are not going to sit there and fine tune whether its an emergency or not. Its not an emergency. People say the Supreme Court and the courts never struck down an emergency. Thats true, under the new act. Theres a famous case in American History where president truman seized the steel mills and that was ruled unconstitutional, 63 by the Supreme Court. Theres lots of precedent. If you break down the legal decision the white house is seeking out, the challenges that are sure to come to the National Emergency declaration. Well, they amended the law in 1976, right after watergate. It was supposed to limit national emergencies. The idea was president nixon abused them. Unfortunately, it doesnt specifically define whats a National Emergency. Its common sense, if its not emergent, not a situation like 9 11 or the ebola scare, if its not an emergency, its not an emergency. If you just cant agree with congress and persuade congress, so you want to snatch more money than congress will give you, thats not an emergency. Now, the breakdown of how President Trump wants to do it is first he has to say, here are the laws hes going to amend. Here are the laws he is going to effect because its a National Emergency. Then, Congress Votes on it. They pass a joint resolution or disavow the emergency. The house can pramply disavow the emergency and go to the senate to act on the joint resolution. Assume 55 senators say its not a National Emergency. It will have passed both houses of congress. President trump will veto it. Then, two thirds of each house of congress would have to override the veto. I dont believe that will happen. The opponents who are 70 of the population dont believe that will happen. Thats why, already, they are going to the ports to get them to join it and eventually stop the spending of money and the exercise of power. Again, there is no true National Emergency. As you point out, it has some republicans both in the house and senate worried. Both ideological conservatives and democrats say this sets a dangerous political and legal precedent. Before the president made this announcement, house speaker, nancy pelosi, warns a democratic president might have the same call, make the same call on a range of issues on Climate Change or gun violence. Listen. Want to talk about a National Emergency . Lets talk about today, the one Year Anniversary of another manifestation, the epidemic of gun violence in america. Thats a National Emergency. Why dont you declare that, mr. President. I wish you would. A democratic president cant do that. Again, many of these house and Senate Republicans have made statements on the record, legally. How could this come back and bite republicans in the future . Well, you know, true conservatives want to conserve the framework of the country and rule of law, which gives power to congress, all the power to congress in allocating funds. It doesnt give the power to the president. Now, no matter what the courts rule, President Trump acclimated the people in the country to expect firm, dramatic action from the president. If theres a democrat, congress has a Republican Congress that wont pass legislation about the gun violence, even today in illinois, we had another outrage who wont do anything about what the planet is suffering with Global Warming, then the president will be expected, a democratic president will be expected by the people to declare a National Emergency and proceed, just as President Trump has with this example. Thats why the conservatives think its a very, very bad example. The question is, will they sur rend tore the president. That was david katz speaking earlier. Well have to see where it ends up. Its going to be weeks, months, who knows. Its uncertain. Moving on to the russia investigation. Special counsel Robert Muellers team says trumps former Campaign Manager deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is 69. Money he earns from ukrainian poll tixs. For more, here is evan perez. Reporter Paul Manafort could spent the rest of his life in prison if a judge follows sentenci sentencing guidelines. They call for 19 1 2 to 24 1 2 years in prison. They convicted the former Campaign Chairman guilty of crimes including tax and bank fraud. Hes turning 70 years old this year. Prosecutors say he shouldnt get a break because of his age. He acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law. He pleaded guilty to federal charges here in washington. A judge voided the plea agreement after ruling manafort lied to investigators and the grand jury during the time he was supposed to be cooperating. A newly released transcript from d. C. Corporate centers on manaforts case. He was manaforts Business Partner in ukraine. Robert mueller says he is a russian spy. Manaforts lawyer tried to push back saying he met with u. S. Diplomats suggesting he was a double agent. During a sealed court hearing, a judge said it doesnt matter. Manafort lied with communications with kilimnik. Kilimnik is the center of the russia investigation. Evan perez, cnn, washington. The special counsels office says they have evidence roger stone had direct communications with wikileaks. Earlier Court Filings only outlined the attempts. Prosecutors say stone wanted information about emails stole by russian hackers. Cnn learned the special counsels Team Interviews press secretary sarah sanders. The subject isnt clear but could have to do with how she posts statements she made. She told cnn, quote, the president urged me like everyone in the administration to fully cooperate. I was happy to voluntarily sit down with them. That might not be completely accurate. A source says the white house did not immediately agree to let muellers team enter. A terrible, horrific mass shooting in the United States. A warehouse employee from the state of illinois was being fired and he went on a rampage in aurora. He killed five fellow workers, wounded five Police Officers and another employee. Here is sarah. Reporter we have heard from the police department, the chief talking about how it wont down, responding to what was an active shooter. We are told the first couple officers to go in were shot. Then more showed up. What they found once they were inside were people who were shot, people who were killed, people who were wounded. A terrible scene inside of this manufacturing business. We should also mention that police say they believe that the shooter did work at this particular manufacturing business. We also heard from a witness telling our sister station here in the chicago area that, indeed, he seemed to be shooting at everyone indiscriminately, but the gun he was using had some sort of green laser it was pointing at people. As you can hear, throughout the night, this scene has been filled with emergency vehicles, whether it be the paramedics or police. We have seen s. W. A. T. Units that have come and gone. Certainly, police will be here for some time. We also saw a chaplin here. All in all, this is a terrible day for those in this neighborhood. This isnt just an area with manufacturing businesses. This is a neighborhood. There are homes here. There are people that have their kids, usually out in the streets. They say this has been a really, really rough day here in aurora, illinois. Sarah sidner, cnn, aurora, illinois. Coming up, the wait is not yet over for voters in nigeria. President ial elections were supposed to take place saturday. They have been postponed. Well go there live. Violence in haiti has protesters with allegations of corruption with the countrys president. We have the latest here on cnn newsroom. Stay with us. Welcome back. A Major Development to tell you about in the Catholic Church abuse scandal. Former cardinal has been kicked out of priesthood. A trial found the disgraced former archbishop guilty of sexually abusing minors. The pope recognized the judgment as definitive meaning it cannot be appealed. He was forced to resign after decades old allegations resurfaced. Sexual abuse involving a teenage alter boy. He maintains he is innocent. Nigerias top Political Parties are condemning Election Officials for postponing the elections. Voters were supposed to head to the polls saturday. At the last minute, they decided to delay it until next week. David has been following the election, the developments. David, the 2015 election was seen as one of the least violent elections there. Thats behind the problem now . Now, people are scratching their heads. In an area here, this was a Primary School where they were going to have the voting today. There are some frustrated election volunteers and officials behind me. You know, they said what time did you hear this was going to be postponed . 2 00 a. M. Are you frustrated now . Yeah. Supporting government. Reporter you are disappointed. Are people worried this might be something other than logistics . Are they worried this might be rigged . Stop protecting him. You are disappointed. Many came overnight. They were with the materials, sleeping in this Primary School, waiting for people to line up in the early hours of the morning. The ballot papers havent arrived. Theres issues. Theres hints from the opposition saying they believe its political, trying to push down the voting levels in keierkey areas. They arent officially complaining, yet. People are calling for calm. These gentlemen will come saturday to try to do it all over again. I have to say, the worry is that as the delays continue, the tension will rise. Natalie . How many people are expected to vote in the country when this election does happen, david . Reporter more than 80 Million People are registered to vote. They obviously travel to places like this and from places like this to go to their home areas. Throughout the country, you werent allowed to drive today. The borders were shut down. People were expected in millions to cast their ballots. Some came to this Primary School to find out when they got here, they werent allowed to vote. You can understand that frustration. People putting their lives on hold to vote. What it could mean for the credibility of this crucial election. Natalie . We thank you for that. Thank you, david. Getting a sense of what people are saying. Showing up, saying no, you cant. The president of haiti is refusing to step down as that nation descends deeper into chaos from violent and by government demonstrations. Several people in haiti have been killed. The u. S. And canada are advising their citizens to get out. We have more about it. Reporter protesters running from tear gas. Clashes with police. Barricades and fires. Stores looted. These are the scenes of anger paralyzing haitis largest cities after a week of deadly unrest. The demonstrators are demanding their president s resignation. Im in this situation because of the haitian president. I cant go to school. Here is the thing. He must go. If not, well burn down this country. Reporter accuseed of corruption, the Administration Remains<