A deal by friday, President Trump keeping up the political pressure on them to give him Border Security and a wall. The president will be in el paso, texas, for a big campaignstyle rally and earlier today at the white house, an afternoon meeting with Law Enforcement officers. In a predeparture meeting with local sheriffs, six from border states, President Trump ripped the democrats for wanting to cut the number of spaces i. C. E. Has for detaining Illegal Immigrants, many of them illegals. Not only do they want to give us money for the wall, they dont want to give a space to detain murderers, criminals, drug dealers, human smugglers. Speak with the president is out range that democratic countries are insisting on cutting the number of i. C. E. Beds to detain people already in the country to 16,250. Democrats want to cut i. C. E. They take out ms13 and others by the thousands and they want to cut i. C. E. We are not going to let that happen. President trump read new statistics from last
Explicitly rejected funding for the particular project that the president is advocating. And in saying just the other day that he didnt really need to do this, he just wanted to do it because it would help things go faster, hes pretty much daring the court to strike this down. All i know is this is a serious situation. This is crisis. Look at the drug problem, the Human Trafficking problem, the Gang Violence problem. Thats why we need to the Border Security wall, and thats what the president is committed to making sure happens. Sarah westwood in West Palm Beach florida, not far from where the president is spending the weekends. What is the white house saying about all these challenges in court and in congress. Reporter well, the white house is saying that they are prepared to fight legal battles against these expected challengers from capitol hill and courts of law. White house aides knew these battles would be almost inevitable since they started focusing on the National Emergency dec
Defense and d. O. D. To build this wall that is a Campaign Promise i think is really wrong priorities and i think its harmful to the country. Certainly expansive Authority Congress has given past president s. This president has the same authority. I wish he wouldnt use it in this case but i understand his frustration. We should take action to disapprove of this excessive use of executive power and make it clear the article 1 branch, the congress, is going to jealously defend our right to be the body that decides on federal spending. He could choose to ignore the crisis and emergency as others have. Thats not what he is going to do. Heather Griff Jenkins live in washington griff, the white house is facing these challenges on multiple fronts. That is the latest . The white house is digging in for a major fight. It will be coming from every angle. Democrats are unified in their belief that the president has grossly overstepped his authority in this National Emergency declaration. And when
The report says the president asked then acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker if a u. S. Attorney who has supported mr. Trump in the past could take over the federal investigation into michael cohen. Whitaker rebuffed the request and that attorney that the president wanted had already recused himself. Meantime the former acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe is raising some serious questions about how the russia investigation started. Listen to him last night with anderson cooper. Do you still believe the president should could be a rus asset . I believe its possible. Thats why we started our investigation and im really anxious to see where director mueller concludes that. Mccabe also says the president is undermining u. S. Intelligence services. Its the latest in a string of accusations raising some serious concerns. Lets start there this hour. Just more extraordinary statements and revelations coming from Andrew Mccabe as he is out promoting his book. He goes to this issue that he st
Setting here should be met with unease and dismay by the republicans. Paul lets bring in Editorial Board member kim straw straws m. You made Campaign Promises about building a wallnd dont wt have much to show for it right now. Just using the own administrations data, illegal crossings are at the lowest level in decades, sinc since the 1970s. Yes, there are problems on the border. We need a better asylum policy, we need no more judges adjudicag claims and so forth. There are places where a wall could be an effective deterrent on the border. Whether this rises to the level of a National Emergency, i dont see the argument there. Paul do you think hell be sued . He will definitely be sued. That was promised before the words left his mouth. Paul so kyle, but the president says look, other president s have declared National Emergencies for even lesser urgent matters. Is that going to matter as this proceeds in the courts . I dont think it will. One of the if you look at the law, what hes goi