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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency today. It’s the latest installment in his controversial “Build the wall!” series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:25.6

The order is signed and I'll sign the final papers as soon as I get into the Oval Office and we will have a national emergency and we will then be sued.

0:38.6

They will sue us in the ninth circuit even though it shouldn't be there.

0:42.6

We will possibly get a bad ruling and then we'll get another bad ruling and we'll end up in the Supreme Court and hopefully we'll get a fair shake and we'll win in the Supreme Court just like the band.

0:54.6

They sued us in the ninth circuit and we lost and then we lost in the Appellate Division and then we went to the Supreme Court and we won.

1:03.6

And it was very interesting because yesterday they were talking about the band because we have a band it's very helpful.

1:11.6

The

1:12.6

night circuit fair shake Supreme Court just like the band.

1:26.6

Lizo Vox we're having an emergency it's official is that exactly how it's going to go.

1:46.6

That's pretty much how it's going to go. He nailed it.

1:49.6

He did. He declared the emergency and he's going to face a ton of lawsuits in response to it.

1:54.6

The president has been hinting at this for a while now what took so long. Why did he declare a state of emergency on Friday, February 15th?

2:02.6

A major reason for the delay is that Republicans aren't particularly in support of this and I think if he had had his party behind him, he might have done it sooner.

2:12.6

So what exactly does he get from declaring this national emergency?

2:18.6

The national emergency is very broad. It basically gives president the ability to say something is threatening our national security.

2:24.6

We need to do something about it and it gives them the authority to do a wide array of things.

2:30.6

In this case, Trump wants to use it to redirect funding that's already been allocated to military construction projects and some other DOD resources in order to fund the construction of his border wall.

2:43.6

Do we know exactly where the money is coming from or is it just general defense slush fundee stuff?

2:48.6

It's coming from a couple of different places. He wants to get roughly $6.5 billion in total from three main buckets of funding.

2:58.6

One of them is the Treasury's Drug Forfeiture Program and he's trying to get $600 million from that.

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