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Ted Cruz: “The president wanted to sign and was going to sign an…”

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Remembering Lindsey Graham: Who he was as a Person & Why he left such an Extraordinary Legacy

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And it was really important. Now, all right, I'll give you another story from. From first term Trump. We were having a dispute about funding the border wall. And, and The president wanted to sign 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. (36:16–36:26)

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Asserts that President Trump intended to use emergency powers to fund the border wall.

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