And, and the president wanted to sign and, and was going to sign an emergency declaration and use the emergency powers of the president to shift funding to the border wall. I came up with a different legal theory that would let him build the border wall, let him build every penny of the border wall 100%, but not do it through an emergency declaration. And my concern was, look, if you create the precedent for doing this, the next Democrat president, the next. (36:26–36:36)
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Asserts that Ted Cruz proposed an alternative legal method to fund the border wall without an emergency declaration.
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