rejected funding for the particular project that the president is advocating and in saying just the other day that he didn't really need to do this, he just wanted to do it because it would help things go faster, he's pretty much daring the court to strike this down. >> he's talking about the legal challenges to the emergency declaration. some have already been filed that even the president predicts will probably need the supreme court's involvement. one of trump's closest advisers says he's not worried. >> will the president veto that which would be the first veto of his presidency? >> obviously the president is going to protect his national emergency declaration and i know that we're out of time but i want to make this point. >> so yes he will veto. >> he's going to protect his national emergency declaration guaranteed. >> sarah westwood is in west palm beach, florida. how do people in the administration plan to fight for the president's plan. >> officials say this emergency declaration was crafted with these expected legal and congressional challenges in mind but these legal battles could delay the ability to access the roughly $6 billion he's hoping to unlock with this emergency declaration. house democrats are already preparing a resolution of disapproval to try to stop the president from using this declaration and it could find support in the senate where some already expressed discomfort that using a declaration might set. although you just heard one of the top add sivisors saying per he could keep it from moving forward. they also plan to investigate the process that lead up to the emergency declaration and there's also other road blocks that this administration could face in court. groups could sue the administration to try to challenge the constitutionality of the emergency declaration and land owners, they are expected to bring cases to try to protect their property once the administration tries to use imminent domain when it comes time to start building the wall. white house officials say they anticipated all of this was a real possibility when the president moved forward with the national emergency declaration but remember that the president was underpressure from allies to at least have the ability to claim that he was pushing for additional federal funds to avoid the perception that he caved when on friday he put his signature on a spending package that provided him less than half of the money he requested for his wall. >> all right. thank you. for more on the fall out, i want to bring in associate editor and columnist for real clear politics, cnn political commentator scott jennings and joe lockheart. he served as white house press secretary under bill clinton. stephen miller acting as a white house spokesman today. he was asked about president trump saying this. >> i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn't need to do this but i'd rather do it much faster. >> i didn't need to do this. how does that justify a national emergency? >> well, the president was saying that like past presidents he could choose to ignore this crisis, choose to ignore this emergency as others have, but that's not what he's going to do. >> as a former white house press secretary was steven miller effective in that answer? >> no, because that's not at all what the president said. what the president did undercut his legal position. he basically said that this isn't a crisis but i just didn't get what i wanted from congress and that's not what other presidents have used the presidential authority that they were given. they're saying the president was trying to fulfill a campaign promise. it's not. in the campaign it was i'm going to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for it. now he's asking the u.s. taxpayers to pay for it so that's a campaign promise broken. illegal immigration levels are at historical lows. this is a manufactured political crisis by a president that's sitting at about 40% job approval and we'll see what the courts do. >> this is how republican congressman jim jordan is justifying the president's emergency declaration. watch. >> can you give me an example of where a president asked for something that congress rejected and the president went ahead and said he would do it anyway? >> this wasn't a rejection because there was some money in this bill. the president said this is such a great problem, i need more money to build more wall and to fulfill the campaign promise that i told the american people i was going to do. >> do you think he speaks for the majority of republican lawmakers on that? >> there is this and the president put republicans in and they're doing a lot of complaining in private. the next couple of days and weeks are going to show that several republicans, unlike jim jordan that's from a very safe republican district and is a freedom caucus leader and urging the president to fight and shut the government down back to last summer on this issue, there's people up for re-election next year for whom this vote is going to be difficult. senators from georgia, texas, iowa, arizona, and it's going to be very difficult for them to say that the constitutionally mandated power of the purse which lies with congress can now be passed on to the executive in a precedent like this which would be set if this is upheld. over the weekend, people began to sort through the projects under military construction to see which ones would have the funds moved away in order to pay for the wall. that's going to be very difficult for republicans in the house and some districts to defend if their projects are being defunded. then you're looking at what we talked about before, imminent domain property along the border in states like texas and arizona that martha mcsally and john cornan are going to have to defend if they come under proposed sections of wall. there's so many political pressure points on this and the next couple of weeks will be very telling to see which republicans can come out and choose their constitutionally mandated separation of powers in the congress and choose president trump because they're afraid of getting challenged in their primaries. >> i know because republicans, scott, were up in arms when president obama used executive powers. some democrats argued this actually takes things a step further because it takes away congress's power of the purse. how can republicans that railed against obama like mike pence or current chief of staff nick mulvaney now go along with this? >> it's a great question because it does seem hypocritical for republicans that spent eight years attacking obama. i can't believe jim jordan couldn't think of the most obvious answer to the question. barrack obama asked them to do something for daca and he used an executive order to go around congress. it happens commonly for presidents to use their executive order and congress not to like it. emergency declare ratiations ar different. the ever expanding power of the presidency which republicans were critical of obama for doing. we'll see what happens in a vote. my suspicion is simple majorities do exist for a disapproval resolution to pass which donald trump would almost certainly veto, but the core number to watch is 34. he needs 34 out of 53 republican senators to stick with him to sustain the veto. so we'll see if he can convince 34. several republican senators expressed disapproval of this but when the rubber hits the road on a veto override vote that's when we'll know if they're willing to break with the president or not. >> we asked marco rubio if he thought there were enough to meet the super majority. he said he didn't know. trump argued in defense of this emergency declaration that he is not the first president to use these powers. we do know president clinton declared a national emergency 17 times in his administration. so how is this different? >> most were natural disasters or threats to the national security of the country. this is a direct confrontation with congress about a constitutional power for how money is appropriated. very simply, how do we spend our money, where do we spend the money and how much? so this is completely different. and you know, i don't think there's much mystery around what the republicans are doing. some of them will vote to disapprove but there aren't 34 republicans in the senate to override this veto because it's a matter of simple political math. donald trump has taken over and reformed the republican party and these guys are all afraid, not of democrats, they're afraid of getting primaried earlier on. senator mcconnell that i think scott worked for, three or four weeks ago said this shouldn't be done, it's wrong. he railed against obama doing it. then he wakes up and says now i'm for it. >> the majority of americans disagree with this move. why does president trump continue to just listen to his base and not the majority of americans? >> that i don't know. because in order to be reelected next year he's going to need more than his political base. he's going to need some of the middle. he had them by 12 points in 2016. he lost them in 2018 and that's a 24 point swing and your base does not make a majority. and will turn out likely a record next year but he seems to think that no matter what happens to the senators next year, if he declares an emergency and continues to remain on offense on the wall, that it will help him win senators in his own party. >> thank you for joining us. nikki haley is proving hard to replace. the president's top pick to fill the position pulled her name from consideration this weekend. a former fox news anchor, she faced controversies involving a nanny she hired and a 2009 fox special she hosted featuring anti-muslim activists. what happened with nauert and who might be next on the list? >> for a long time we have been asking why has heather nauert's nomination not be sent to the senate. where's all the paperwork? 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>> yeah, it's interesting. in a statement to cnn that was released last night, smollett's attorneys wrote as a victim of a hate crime that has cooperated with the investigation he is angered and devastated by reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with. he has now been further victimized by claims that say jussie played a role in his own attack. nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying. so you can see that strong statement from the attorney. you think about this, 12 detectives still currently working this case. now they have the brothers that are talking with them. they have the phone that we have been able to talk about now as well. they put all of this together. they believe the men also by their financial reports purchased the rope. all of this is sort of being a domino effect. they want to talk to jussie again to see where he stands with this investigation and obviously the brothers have been talking so it will be interesting to see what detectives have been able to get to them and what the actor can say against what they say as well. so many twists and turns in this. >> oh, my, where will it go next? 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>> it's different today. things are calm it seems. people waiting to see what the government is going to do. the prime minister speaking on national television saying he wants an investigation into this widespread corruption. specifically this fund. this was venezuelan money given to -- or oil given to countries like haiti. there were billions of dollars over a decade or more that the country was able to make from this. many have gone misspent and misused from that money. part of it going to the president and his company himself. that's why people want him to re-sign. they say they'll settle for nothingless but the last couple of days things have calmed down. there were nine days of protests. that's the longest most sustained period of protest. people were lighting tire fires in the streets. putting rocks out on the streets to create makeshift road blocks and then stopping anybody that came along, perhaps robbing them. it was general lawlessness. they activated the entire police force across the entire country. they have invited and asked all of the schools and universities and public administrations buildings and all the businesses to come back to work tomorrow we will have a better sense of whether haiti is beyond this current crisis and can move on but right now the prime minister seems to be in the place to make that happen. the president we heard from last week saying he will try to move things along. we try to speak to him today and his office did say in the next couple of days they'll do something to alleviate a lot of the pressure and the problems that people are feeling in getting water and food and fuel. cooking fuel and fuel for their cars. so all of that to come. we'll have to see what the hours and days bring. >> all right. thank you. president trump has described undocumented immigrants as criminals, rapists and even as an infestation. so you might be surprised to learn that a new report has found that the trump organization hired dozens of undocumented immigrants. the washington post reporter who broke the story joins us next live in the cnn newsroom. 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>> that's what we found. we met some workers or former workers, undocumented employees of the trump bedminster golf course and they put us in touch with their friends and relatives and former co-workers so we went down to costa rica to find them and it turned out they had worked at the trump golf course since it's inception. and the club opened a couple of years later. all the construction work, the grounds keeping work, much of it was done by undocumented workers from costa rica and other parts of latin america. >> did you find anyone from the trump organization knew they were hiring undocumented immigrants? did donald trump know? >> when you talk to the employees, they'll tell you their managers and their supervisors knew about this. th they told us the application process was not very rigorous. they would go by fake social security cards and green cards in the new jersey town where they lived. they would bring them to the golf course. they would not really be checked and in some cases they got into discussions with their supervisors about these documents, about the fact that they didn't have legal papers to be in the united states. so from their perspective, the trump golf course knew about this. whether it goes up to donald trump himself or eric trump that runs the business day-to-day now, that's something we don't know. >> was there any evidence that the trump organization tried not to hire undocumented immigrants? how do they explain it? >> no, i mean, there are -- there are documented immigrants who work at the golf course. a lot of the managers, even ones from latin america, you know, have documents and there's a tiered system where the supervisors, there's some mistreatment that the undocumented workers alleged particularly early on in the history of the course where they would be working very long hours. they didn't have much to stand on. they conducted a one day strike in about 2007 because they were working without sick pay out in the rain without raincoats. so there's a long history of the course of trying to get more rights and benefits that a legal worker would have. >> i want to remind viewers of what the president said during the state of the union address earlier this month. watch. >> no issue better illustrates the divide between america's working class and america's political class than illegal immigration. tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate it's actually very cruel. >> you decide a little bit of how some of these employees told you they were treated. you quote one person saying they treated us like slaves. was that an across the board sentiment? 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