you can feel the tension even as you re driving up here. a lot of protesters holding signs, saying they want the children to be free. this is certainly going to be a dramatic day and visit for elizabeth warren just hours ahead of her debate performance. poppy and jim? mj lee there, thanks so much. going to be an interesting night tonight. let s discuss all the implications. cnn political analyst and national political correspondent for the new york times, alex burns, and cnn political commentator joe trippe. good morning to you. debating can be good for candidates. carr there are pitfalls, right. think of rick perry. famously could not name the three agencies he was going to knock down or the rubio/christie exchange. high stakes either in the positive or negative direction for candidates tonight. absolutely.
challenging the constitutionality of the declaration and land owners are expected to bring cases to protect their land from the government seizing it once it comes time to actually start building the wall. there could be significant delays before the truch administration is able to access any of the roughly $6 billion in additional federal funds trump was hoping to unlock with his emergency declaration. ana? sarah westwood, thank you. joe trippe, tara, right before the president signed the declaration, he said this. i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn t need to do this but i would rather do it much faster. so here is how stephen miller defended that comment today. i didn t need to do this. how does that justify a national emergency? what the president was saying
immigrants who have murdered them, talk to parents whose kids have been sexually assaulted because of illegal immigrants, or i.c.e. agents. it s not something is to scoff at. you re deflecting. ben and tara are examples of the divide within the republican party over the president declaring the national emergency. we know democrats hey, guys? we can t hear anything anybody if everybody is talking at once. joe, go ahead. look, the two years where they had everything wasn t an emergency. they could have tried to address it. they didn t. they did try. the democrats offer dead shall. you have to have votes. ben, you were the one who didn t anybody to interrupt you. please don t interrupt me. but you ben, no. it s still to say they didn t try, they did try for two years. that s a lie. they did try. and democrats refused to work with republican. the lie is that when
legislation or some changes and that s his test. whenever you hear reality e show, canada doesn t think it s a reality show and i don t think daca recipients think it s a reality show and people who pay taxes don t think it s take reality show either. that s not what this is about i think joe will agree with me, we ve worked in government offices or campaigns where a lot of these conflicts take place in private. i flipped over tables arguing against one way or the other on campaigns. but when a decision was made inside the room, everyone on the campaign or that government office then executed publicly and with a certain level of discipline. that doesn t happen in the white house. what happens is it when these decisions are made and the losing side or winning side, they go out and publicly air what the differences and grievances were. so that s where the it goes from creative tension to chaos. absolutely. that s what s going on here, the fight continues outside the oval
adviser and joe trippe. steve, you re looking at more than a week of this scandal. it seems at this point that john kelly being fired resigning is a real possibility. is that something that will help republicans politically or is it really too late to fully clean this up at this point? no, i don t think it s too late to clean up this mess. i think we need to hear from the president himself. he needs to come out and show real empathy for all victims of domestic abuse but specifically for the victims of rob porter to say they were taking them seriously and mistakes made in the process and who made those mistakes and there have to be consequences. i greatly respect john kelly, i don t want to see him go, i think he s been a big part of the success of the administration. that s the biggest problem here politically speaking, the fact for a week and eight days i