AN IMMORALITY, THE QUESTION BECOMES HOW MUCH LONGER CAN
McCONNELL LEAVE TO THE PRESIDENT
TO END THE STANDOFF.
FOR WHERE WE STAND NOW, JOINING
ME IS KELLY OWE’DONNELL WHO I HO
HAS HAD 20 SECONDS TO DIE GHES
EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING DIGEST EVERYTHING THAT HANDLED.
AND ALSO GARRETT HAAKE.
KELLY, THE PRESIDENT CONFIRMED
THAT HE TOLD CONGRESS ALLEGE
LEADERS THAT THE SHUTDOWN COULD
LAST FOR MONTHS.ALLEGE
LEADERS THAT THE SHUTDOWN COULD
LAST FOR MONTHS.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
>> IT IS ALSO STRIKING THAT HE
SORT OF SUFGTDED THAT THE WEEK E
WEEKEND WORKING GROUP MIGHT BE
SUCK SETFUL
SUCK SETFUL SUCCESSFUL THAT IT WOULDN’T LAST
THAT LONG.
THAT LONG. AFTER SAYING HE WANTED A
CONGRESS CREATE WALL, THAT HAS
EVOLVED TO SOMETHING THAT YOU
CAN SEE THROUGH, SLAT, FENCING,
A VARIETY OF THINGS.
NOW EMBRACING THE IDEA OF A
STEEL STRUCTURE THAT WOULD BE
USED AS A BORDER BARRIER,
CLAIMING THAT THAT MIGHT BE MORE
PALATABLE FOR DEMOCRATS.
HERE IS THE PRESIDENT TALKING
ABOUT THAT AS AN OPTION.
>> OUR STEEL INDUSTRY HAS COME
ROARING BACK.
ROARING BACK. AND THAT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY.
I THINK THAT WE’LL HAVE TO BUILD
A STEEL WALL AS OPPOSED TO
CONCRETE.
CONCRETE. WE HAVE STEEL COMPANIES AGAIN.
>> AND THE OTHER THING THAT
REALLY STANDS OUT TO ME NOW AND
SOMETHING THAT I THINK THIS WE
WILL BE TALKING ABOUT A LOT EVEN
AFTER THIS WILD GIVE AND TAKE
WITH REPORTERS, THE PRESIDENT
ACKNOWLEDGED THAT BELIEVES THAT
HE HAS THE POWER UNDER THE
CONSTITUTION TO DECLARE A
NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCY THAT
WOULD THEN ALLOW HIM TO UTILIZE
THE MILITARY TO BUILD THIS WALL.
HE WAS ASKED ABOUT THAT, HE SAID
HE DOES BELIEVE HE HAS IN A
POWERPOW --
POWERPOW -- THAT POWER.
THAT POWER. HE SAID THAT HE COULD USE IT,
HAS NOT ABSOLUTELY SAID THAT HE
WOULD USE IT.
AND THE TYPICAL PROCESS IS
APPROPRIATION FROM CONGRESS FOR
THIS.
THIS. SO THIS WOULD BE A NOVEL
APPROACH TO THE PRESIDENT’S USE
OF POWER.
OF POWER. NOW, THE CONSTITUTION GIVES THE
PRESIDENT A LOT OF POWER WHEN IT
COMES TO NATIONAL SECURITY.
SO THEN THE QUESTION WOULD BE
HOW DO YOU DEFINE THAT.
SO IN TERMS OF WAR OR ATTACK OR
SOME OTHER KIND OF CATACLYSMIC
EMERGENCY, WHERE A COMMANDER IN
CHIEF WOULD EXCERPT THAT POWER.
HE IS SAYING THAT THE SOUTHERN
BORDER WHICH WAS A CAMPAIGN
PROMISE, NOT TO SAY THAT HE
DIDN’T BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE
APPROPRIATE THING TO DO, THAT IS
HIS AGENDA ITEM, TO NOW SAY THAT
THAT RISES TO THE LEVEL OF A
NATIONAL EMERGENCY, THAT IS
SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT
FLOATED THAT I THINK WILL GET A
LOT OF DISCUSSION IN THE DAYS TO
COME ABOUT WHAT WOULD THE LIMITS
OF THAT POWER BE.
IT WOULD LIKELY BE CHALLENGED IN
COURT I WOULD IMAGINE.
>> AND I SEE A LOT OF THINGS
THROUGH THE LENSES OF AN
ECONOMIC JOURNALIST.
ECONOMIC JOURNALIST. AND I CANNOT SEE A
DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED HOUSE
WHO DID NOT WANT TO FUND THE
WALL THE NORMAL WAY AGREEING TO
FUND IT AS A MILITARY EXERCISE.
>> NO, I CAN’T FATHOM THAT HIM
EITHER.
EITHER. THAT LAST HOUR WAS
EXTRAORDINARY.
EXTRAORDINARY. FALSE 450D SHOODS AND
MISREPRESENTATIONS.
MISREPRESENTATIONS. WHAT I’VE HEARD FROM
CONGRESSIONAL LEADER SS, HERE’S
WHERE I THINK THIS WE ARE.
THERE WILL BE THIS WORKING GROUP
OVER THE WEEKEND, MEMBERS OF
STAFF FROM VARIOUS CONGRESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIP WHO ARE INVOLVED IN
THESE NEGOTIATIONS, STAFF FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE TRYING TO SEE
WHAT IF ANY AGREEMENT THEY CAN
COME UP WITH.
ALTHOUGH IT IS HARD TO SEE HOW
THEY GET THERE BECAUSE IT IS
ALSO MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE
DISAGREEMENT HERE CAME DOWN TO
THE FACT THAT DEMOCRATS SAY THEY
DON’T WANT TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE
PRESIDENT ON THE BORDER SECURITY
PORTION OF THIS WALL WHILE THE
GOVERNMENT IS STILL CLOSED.