>> something good in your life. i convinced my mom to let me good morning, america. breaking news, president trump set to declare a national emergency this morning over the border wall. bypassing congress in an unprecedented move. now even republicans lashing out over the president's plan. we're live in washington with the latest. also this morning, a major new twist in the jussie smollett case. the two men seen in this surveillance footage brought in for questioning. their homes raided. and now both chicago police and the studio behind "empire" responding to those new reports that it was all a hoax. that monster storm on the move. heavy rain slamming california, sparking mudslides, sweeping away this home as rescue crews race to save those trapped. and now the storm is heading east. also this morning, nine fraternity brothers now facing

charges for a series of horrendous hazing incidents just a year after a pledge died at the same university. abc news exclusive, grammy nominated superstar 21 savage speaking out in his first television interview since being arrested and detained for being in the country illegally. ♪ good to be alive right about now ♪ and good to be alive. the jogger who escaped the jaws of a mountain lion with his bare hands now telling his amazing survival story. good morning, america. great to have you with us on this friday morning. it's also great to have you here, cecilia. >> thank you. it is a busy friday morning. >> it's a very busy friday morning. we're going to begin with that breaking news from washington. looking live at the white house where president trump will sign the border deal to keep the government open but also declare a national emergency in an attempt to bypass congress so he can get funds for his border wall. >> the move already sparking

fierce backlash, not just from democrats but by some in the president's own party. correspondent jonathan karl has the very latest. jon, this is setting the stage for a very nasty showdown between the white house and congress. >> reporter: a showdown with congress and, cecilia, a showdown with the courts. this morning the president plans to announce an end-around around congress, spending billions more on his border wall than congress has approved. this morning president trump plans to declare a national emergency as a way to get billions more in funding for his border wall. >> and it's a big wall. it's a strong wall. you're going to have to be in extremely good shape to get over this one. they would be able to climb mt. everest a lot easier, i think. >> reporter: it's a highly controversial move sure to be challenged in court. but one the president has been telegraphing for weeks. >> we're either going to have a win, or i will declare a

national emergency. >> reporter: a win, he didn't get. congress approving only a fraction of what he wanted for the wall. >> they did a spectacular job. >> reporter: overnight house speaker nancy pelosi and house democrats celebrated the passage of the 1100-page funding bill, averting another shutdown. >> neither democrats or republicans got everything you wanted. >> reporter: abc news has learned the president will declare his plans to spend a total of $8 billion on the wall, even more than he had asked for, in part by declaring the national emergency and shifting billions of dollars from the pentagon's budget. democrats say that would be an abuse of power and set a dangerous new precedent. >> it's not an emergency. what's happening at the border, it's a humanitarian challenge to us. the president has tried to sell a bill of goods. the president is doing an end-around around congress. about the power of the purse. >> reporter: abc news learned the justice department warned the white house that the president's national emergency declaration would almost

certainly be blocked, at least on a temporary basis, by the courts. white house officials, however, tell me they are confident that they would ultimately win this on appeal. cecilia and george. >> okay, jon, hang on there. we want to bring in mary bruce along with you. let me begin with you on some of the political challenges. we've already seen house speaker nancy pelosi say she's going to challenge this. >> reporter: look, george, congress does have the power to up do -- undo this. and this morning, democrats are preparing to try and do just that. they can introduce a resolution to terminate the president's national emergency and given the outcry that we're seeing from democrats it does seem likely it would pass in the house. but that would then put republicans in the senate in a very tricky position, forcing them to go on the record on this. and, george, while republican leadership is now on board, there are members of the president's own party that i've talked to who say this sets a terrible precedent. that it is a mistake.

even saying it is a violation of the constitution. >> but, mary, even if some republicans defect in the senate they're not going to have enough votes to override a veto from president trump. >> reporter: democrats can veto this. if they want to thwart the president from making this move they're going to need enough votes to override that veto, and george, that is a very, very high bar here. >> jon, let's look back at the legal challenges. you were talking about the white house view on that. if congress passes this resolution, the house could sue and they would have standing to sue. and that's just one of many legal challenges that are possible. >> reporter: oh, absolutely, george. the attorney general of california, for instance, xavier becerra, has already said he will go to court to fight it. you will also have certainly challenges coming from those on the border, landowners who are affected by it, even environmental challenges. this will be tied up in the courts from the minute the president signs it. >> that means they could block the construction of the wall for some time as it works its way through the courts, almost certain to go to the supreme court. >> reporter: yes, what the justice department said in their warning is that you are likely

to see at least a temporary injunction stopping this as the court challenges go forward. but remember, george, the president has faced challengeses like this before in his use of executive action, including with the travel ban. and in that case, he ultimately won at the supreme court. >> lots of fights ahead. jon karl, mary bruce, thanks very much. >> thank you, george. now to those fast-moving developments in the jussie smollett case. police have now identified and are questioning those two persons of interest caught on surveillance footage the night jussie said he was attacked. but they're also questioning whether the attack even happened. abc's alex perez is in chicago with the very latest. good morning, alex. >> reporter: hey, there, michael. authorities have been questioning those two men since wednesday. they've known who they are for awhile but waited for them to return from a trip to nigeria to talk to them. overnight investigators on the jussie smollett case telling us they've identified the two people of interest seen on this surveillance image.

police confirming the two men have been brought in for questioning. and one of the men is an actor who appeared on smollett's show "empire." ♪ it's the kind of song that makeses a man love a man ♪ >> reporter: the men were picked up by authorities wednesday at the airport after returning from nigeria. thursday smollett discussing that surveillance image with our robin roberts. >> when that was released i was like, okay, we're getting somewhere. i don't have any doubt in my mind that that's them. never did. >> reporter: police telling abc news that they are investigating whether the two individuals committed the attack or whether the attack happened at all. late thursday, media reports surfaced claiming smollett staged the attack saying his character on fox's "empire" would be written off the show.

and then 20th century television and fox entertainment strongly denying in a statement, the idea that jussie smollett has been or would be written off of "empire" is patently ridiculous. he remains a core player on this very successful series and we continue to stand behind him. police also stating overnight on the record that we have no evidence to support the reporting and the supposed cpd sours are uninformed and inaccurate. >> who the [ bleep ] would make something like this up or add something to it or whatever it may be? i can't even -- i'm an advocate. i respect too much the people, who i am now one of those people, who have been attacked in any way. you do such a disservice when you lie about things like this. >> reporter: phone records provided by the actor police say prove he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the reported attack. authorities raided the home of those two people of interest taking shoes, electronic devices and other items police believe could be key to the

investigation. so far no charges have been filed. and it's important to note those two men that authorities are questioning have not been named suspects in the investigation. guys? >> so many more questions on that case right now. >> turning into a show of its own. >> certainly has. our thanks to alex. we are going to turn now to that major storm on the move, leaving so much destruction in california. powerful rain triggering deadly flash flooding and mudslides forcing thousands to evacuate. and take a look at this. a hillside in lake elsinore giving way taking a wall and the roof right off of that house. our chief national correspondent matt gutman is there with more. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia. we're talking about rain and flooding in biblical pro portions. the flash flood here gouged out about 15 feet of sediment. i'm standing in what had been the backyard of this house. you can see what's left of it here.

that roof still cantilevered over. that atmosphering river wreaking havoc in dozens of communities here in california. this morning, that deadly atmospheric assault on california. so much water coursing down mountains, a waterfall forming gouging out an entire portion of this roadway. in riverside, dozens of people rescued by air and boat from fast-moving waters. this man lifted to safety after being stranded in what had been islands in a dry creekbed. in corona, california, one person rescued from floodwaters did not survive. watch as this car which had been stuck washes away in the rapids in palm desert. in palm springs, the whitewater river swallowing the indian canyon boulevard and a separate channel flooded near the san jacinto mountains. a woman riding on a city bus from oakland to san francisco captured the driver going against protocol driving through floodwaters so high the water seeped in through the doors. nearby in sausalito saturated

ground giving way. listen as a woman cries for help. she's pinned under her home, covered with debris. >> help me. >> i'm here. >> reporter: deputies racing to rescue susan gordon who is miraculously expected to be okay. just want to give you a sense of the nightmare this endless cycle of fire and then rain and flooding evacuations has been for folk here. this is the sixth mandatory evacuation in lake elsinor nerks the last couple of months. officials say they think only about 25% of the residents have left. sparking fears of what is called evacuation fatigue. >> we are certainly wishing them well this morning. okay, matt, thank you. let's head over to ginger. the storm is bringing that rain and snow east this morning. >> it is and we'll see snow and rain in the forecast but first let me show you the pictures out of palm springs. that's the third wettest day on record so this is a big deal out

there. sausalito where you had mudslides, just to give you an idea of where san francisco is at, 112% of their normal. for this water year. so since last fall this is really good for replen iring aquafors. and such but it's really bad when it comes to mudslides. two lows we're watching, this one here in the plains and kind of the desert southwest coming out going to impact from montana to kentucky. and let me show you how and why. st. louis gets the snow this afternoon, so around lunchtime. paducah, louisville gets it tonight. then we see another one slide through. these are more southern, these tracks of these storms. so ohio through pennsylvania. even the mid-atlantic from washington, d.c., to philadelphia on sunday night into monday morning. guys? >> so much is coming. okay, ginger, thanks. we move on now to that hazing scandal at louisiana state university. nine fraternity members were arrested, accused of disturbing crimes against pledges. gio benitez here with the details. good morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, goreorge, goo morning. the school was already in the headlines following the death of

another pledge at another fraternity. and now this morning we are learning about some incredibly disturbing allegations. former fraternity brothers now face serious charges. this morning these nine fraternity brothers are now facing charges in a violent hazing incident at louisiana state university. several form membersf e fraterre accused o criminal hazing, second-degree battery, false imprisonment and other charges. according to police warrants, pledges claim they were told to lie down on broken glass, forced to sit in an ice machine for more than 30 minutes, punched and kicked with steel-toed boots in an incident that allegedly took place last fall. lsu releasing a statement saying, this type of behavior is unacceptable and at complete odds with what we expect from our students. it does not belong at lsu. this latest incident coming just a year after max gruver died pledging a different fraternity at lsu. his family working with the state to enact new strict anti-hazing legislation in louisiana. >> you would think that people

would have heeded that warning that bad things can happen when you -- folks are hazed, but apparently at least by the allegations they're still >> reporter: and in the latest lsu case, the executive director of the fraternity's national chapter says it supports all efforts to hold individuals accountable and eradicate hazing from college campuses. again, that lsu fraternity has now been closed. >> that's a start at least. okay, gio, thanks very much. >> thank you, gio. now to the new fallout over amazon's decision to pull their plans for a new york headquarters. we're now learning more about where those 25,000 jobs will go. abc's stephanie ramos has the latest. good morning, stephanie. >> reporter: hey there, michael. good morning. just across the water behind me that's where amazon's expansive corporate campus would have been built city. but amazon received some serious backlash and essentially why they backed out, receiving some serious backlash from local politicians who questioned why

the company was set to gain $3 billion in government obover time.k now, the company says those technology jobs that were slated for new york offices are going to spread those across the u.s. and canada including chicago, austin, texas, and toronto. now they do have about 5,000 employees spread out across the new york city area. amazon says they'll continue growing those teams. but right now, they say, they do not intend on starting a new search for a new york location. michael? >> all right, thank you, stephanie. a lot of disappointment on both sides. >> it was a huge turnaround and a real surprise to new york too. >> a lot of backlash in that community for that one, too. with nine days to go, let's shift gears, until the oscars some of the biggest names in hollywood are protesting, george clooney, brad pitt, kerry washington, and dozens of others, signing an open letter bashing the academy's decision to hand out some awards during

commercial breaks. who is not here during a commercial break, t.j. holmes breaking it down. >> this is a mess. another backlash at the oscars once again. you're talking about names like scorsese, right? tarantino, current nominees like spike lee, emma stone all signed on to this letter. why are they upset? because we have an open revolt if you will because the academy made a decision this week announcing that they would take four categories out of the live broadcast. they wouldn't present editing, live action short, hair and makeup, and cinematography, the one at the really upset people. these are the ones responsible for filming the doggone thing. we wouldn't see the movie if not for them. so they're taking them out of the live broadcast. this open letter, listen, they said relegating these essential cinematic crafts to lesser status at this ceremony is nothing less than an insult to those of us who have devoted our lives and passions to our chosen profession. so why did the academy do this? they say they're trying to cut down on time. >> speed it up. >> speed it up. it's a historically long broadcast. george can't stay up for four hours. we need a three-hour show.

that's part of the reason but the other reason they keep tweaking the show is because ratings. ratings have been down historically. last year was the lowest rated oscars on record. they're not going to budge. this open letter, they're asking them, you have time to change it. the academy says no. you will still see the speeches so they're going to happen during the commercial breaks. we'll edit them take out the walk to and from stage but still have the discretion to edit the speech if they want to. but it's an insult to some of these people. >> i'll risk displaying more cluelessness here. >> okay, george. >> i understand the problem with taking the cinematography out but this backlash seems like fierce. is it out of proportion? >> i wouldn't say -- it's an open revolt. this is your craft. this is supposed to be a celebration of the arts, not an entertainment show. we're in tv. it's supposed to be entertainment. but for those folks who worked their whole lives to get this moment, to celebrate the arts, we're telling you your work is

not worth being in the live broadcast. >> everybody needs their moment. >> that's all. >> you just had yours. >> thank you. >> we'll go back to ginger with another storm coming to the west. what you got, ginger?e talked s california. you have to know these have been impacting colorado. steamboat springs had 19 feet of snow this season. that is an average of snow every other day. and, yes, there is more to come. where it's still raining and snowing in california, this all moves east and just north of denver where steamboat is, you get more snow, too.

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♪ make me feel like i'm living a teenage dream ♪ >> welcome back to "gma." that's katy perry's hit "teenage dream." and this morning, that dream may be coming true. take a look at the photo she just poed of her love, orlando bloom. that photo sparking a lot of speculation. are they engaged? whoa. we'll have much more of that coming up in "pop news." >> that is a good tease. that's coming up as you said. first the top headlines we're following right now. president trump is set to sign the border deal to keep the government open. but he is also now planning to declare a national emergency to pay for his border wall, attempting to bypass congress in an unprecedented fierce political backlash. legal challenges likely to follow. that deadly storm is on the move. it has already brought heavy

forcing helicopter rescues. and now that system is moving east, while the west prepares for yet another storm. so rough out there. >> it sure is. now to our abc news exclusive. rapper 21 savage speaking out for the first time since his release by i.c.e. the hip-hop artist who was born in england was arrested by immigration authorities for overstaying his visa, held for nine days, forcing him to miss his performance at the grammys. he sat down with abc's linsey davis here with this exclusive interview. good morning, linsey. >> reporter: good morning, george. yes, he was born in england but 21 savage says he is from atlanta. he says it's where he grew up starting in first grade. from the moment he was first detained, his legal team says there's been a lot of misinformation, and less than 24 hours after being released from an i.c.e. detention center, 21 t a rising star in the music industry, 21 savage is considered atlanta rap royalty known for chart-topping hits like "rock star" which features his distinct voice. ♪ living like a rock star >> reporter: a song he was

supposed to perform at this ar' nominated for two awards. >> 21 savage, who should be here tonight. >> reporter: instead of gracing the stage at the premiere event in music, he was being held in an immigration detention center in south georgia. many fans were stunned to learn the rapper was born in britain but lived in atlanta. immigration authorities say he overstayed his visa which expired 13 years ago. >> i don't think the policy is broken. i feel like the way that they enforce the policy is broken. >> reporter: while he was detained, an outpouring of support from some of the biggest names in the music industry. >> share your support. >> reporter: a petition with nearly half a million names to keep him in the u.s. permanently. jay z providing an additional lawyer to aid savage's legal team to get him out of the detention center and keep him in the country. walk us through february 3rd.

a few hours before the super bowl is about to take place here in atlanta and you get pulled over. what happened? >> i don't even know. i was just driving and i just seen guns and blue lights and i was in the back of a car and i was gone. >> they tell you you're under arrest? >> no, they didn't say nothing. they just said, we got savage. >> they said we got savage? >> yeah. >> sounds like this was potentially something they set out to do. this would have been targeted and not just a random traffic stop. >> it was definitely targeted. >> reporter: the 26-year-old whose real name is shayaa bin abraham-joseph says he came to the u.s. with his mom and brothers when he was 7 years old. at a certain point, 2006, your visa expired. >> i didn't know what a visa was. like we was -- i was 7 when i first came here. i knew i wasn't born here. but i didn't know, like, what that meant as far as when i transitioned into an adult, how it was going to affect my life. i wasn't hiding it but i didn't want to get deported so i'm ot going to come out and be like, hey, i wasn't born here. >> reporter: his arrest came

just days after the rapper released his music video "a lot." ♪ how many problems you got, a lot ♪ >> you have a line where you said went through some things but i couldn't imagine my kid stuck at the border. >> right. >> do you feel like you were targeted as a result of that, basically being critical of the immigration system here? >> my lawyers think that. >> what do you think? >> i don't really know. i can't really say. i think i could see why people would think that but i really can't say. >> reporter: the department of homeland security has been aware he's been living here on an expired visa for some time. back in 2017 he applied to become a lawful permanent resident. >> i've been here 20 years, 19 years. my whole -- this is all i know, you know what i'm saying? i don't feel like you should be arrested and put in a place where a murderer would be for just being in the country for too long. >> tell us about what the detention center was like. >> i was like in one room all day. >> by yourself?

>> yeah. >> do you have that concern now that you might be kicked out? >> yeah, but i feel like i've been through so much in my life, like i've learned to embrace the times when i'm down because they always build me up. >> we are in the middle of securing his immigration status to where he is a citizen, but it's very, very complicated and there's a lot of steps we have to go through. >> reporter: his three children, too young to understand the complexities behind why daddy was gone for nine days. >> who the best daddy in the world? >> you. >> what was that moment like yesterday when you got to hug them and see them? >> they started jumping me. >> reporter: on wednesday, 21 savage was released on $100,000 bond. there are a lot of people who don't get a bond who you left still back in the detention center. what's your message to them? >> i feel your pain and i'm going to do everything in my power to try and bring awareness to your pain.

>> reporter: i.c.e. confirms to us that 21 savage was indeed apprehended during a targeted operation with federal and local law enforcement partners. he says his number one priority right now is becoming a u.s. citizen, george. >> okay, thanks. we're joined by one of the members of the legal team brought in by jay z, alex spiro. thank you for joining us. so i.c.e. concedes he was targeted. the question is, was he targeted because of his music? >> yes, and we believe honestly that he was targeted, of course, like they said, and part of the reason we think is because he's both a celebrity. and they can use this as a way to send a message. and also, perhaps, because of his music. >> is this the case that they would normally bring someone who has been here 19, 20 years? >> we don't believe so. there's a lot of things about the case that are curious and troubling. even if you start at the beginning, he's somebody who comes here as a young man, one of the dreamers as they're called. and he comes over here and has a singular offense for

marijuana when he is a college-aged person. that's vacated, sealed. there is no issue. he is getting a visa. he is operating in good faith. he is performing and giving back to his community. he's a son, he's a father, and yet they take this step, this unusual step to arrest him the week before the grammys and not give him bond. and we find the whole thing curious and troubling. >> the big question now is what's next? is he actually vulnerable to deportation? >> he is certainly vulnerable but we're confident and his fans should be confident that he'll be able to repain here. and, you know, we're hoping that that will give some hope to everybody else that fights these issues. >> that's what i want to get to. 21 savage says he wants to send a broader message to educate everyone what's going on. what is the message? >> i think the message is we can't forget about the people that don't have the resources, that don't have the fame to fight for their freedom in both the criminal system and the immigration systems. there's people that are just totally forgotten that exist in these centers and people like jay zrks and he stepped in for

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going on for about two days. it's going extremely well. who knows what that means because it only matters if we get it done, but we're very much working very closely with china and president xi who i respect a lot, very good relationship that we have. we're a lot closer than we ever were in this country with having a real trade deal. we're covering everything, all of the points that people have been talking about for years that said it couldn't be done, whether it was theft or anything, anything, the unfairness. we've been losing on average $375 billion a year with china. a lot of people think it's $506 billion. some people think it's much more than that. we're going to be leveling the playing field. the tariffs are hurting china very badly. they don't want them, and frankly, if we could make the

deal it would be my honor to remove them. otherwise we have many billions of dollars pouring into our treasury. we've never had that before with china. it's been very much a one-way street. so that's happening. and the relationship with china is very good, but i think they finally respect our country. they haven't respected us for a long time, not for a long time. the u.k. and the u.s. as you probably have been seeing and hearing, we're agreeing to go forward and preserve our trade agreement. you know all of the situation with respect to brexit and the complexity and the problems, but we have a very good trading relationship with u.k. and that's just been strengthened further. so with the u.k. we're continuing our trade and we are going to actually be increasing it very substantially as time goes by. we expect that the u.k. will be very, very substantially

eased relates to trade with the unite the relationship there also is very good. we have a lot of great announcements having to do with syria and our success with the eradication of the caliphate, and that will be announced over the next 24 hours and many other things. a lot of positive things are going on. we're working on a summit, and you know all about the summit. it will be in vietnam, hanoi, and we will -- we'll be meeting in hanoi. i think a lot of you will be going, i suspect, and i hope we have the same good luck as we had in the first summit. a lot was done in the first summit. no more rockets going up, no more missiles going up, no more testing of nuclear. get back our remains, the remains of our great heros from the korean war, and we got back

our hostages. but we hope we're going to be very much equally as successful. i'm in no rush for speed. we just don't want testing. the sanctions, as you know, remain. everything is remaining. china has been helping us, and russia has been helping us and south korea i think you can say has been -- we've been working very closely with south korea, with japan, but china, russia on the border have really been at least partially living up to what they're supposed to be doing and that's okay, as per the united nations. so we will have a meeting on the 27th and 28th of february. i think that will be a very successful one and i look forward to seeing chairman kim. we have also established a very good relationship which has never happened between him or his family and the united

states. they have really taken advantage of the united states. billions of dollars has been paid to them and we won't let that happen but we think that north korea and chairman kim have a tremendous potential as an economic force, economic power. their location between south korea and then russia and china, right smack in the middle, is phenomenal, and we think they have a great chance for tremendous economic prosperity in the future. i look forward to seeing chairman kim in vietnam. today i'm announcing several critical actions that my administration is taking to confront a problem that we have right here at home. we fight wars that are 6,000 miles away, wars that we should have never been in in many cases, but we don't control our own border. so we're going to confront the national security crises on our

southern border, and we're going to do it one way or the other. we have to do it, not because it was a campaign promise which it is. it was one of many by the way, not my only one. we're rebuilding the military. our economy is thriving like never before. you look at other economies, they're doing terribly, and we're doing phenomenally. the market is up tremendously today, not that there's anything but -- because i'll go back in and they'll say, oh, the market just went down. but the market is getting close to the new highs that we created. we have all the records. we have every record, but we're getting close to that point again where we'll create new records. so our country is doing very well economically and we've done a lot. but one of the things i said i have to do and i want to do is border security because we have tremendous amounts of drugs flowing into our country. much of it coming from the southern border. when you look and when you

listen to politicians, in particular, certain democrats, they say it all comes through the port of entry. that's wrong. that's wrong. that's just a lie. it's all a lie. they say walls don't work. walls work 100%. whether it's el paso -- i really was smiling because the other night i was in el paso. we had a tremendous crowd, tremendous crowd, and i asked the people, many of whom were from el paso but they came from all over texas. i asked them, i said let me ask you as a crowd, when the wall went up, was it better? you were there, some of you. it was knots only bettenot only like 100% better. you know what they did. but that's only one example. there are so many examples. in el paso they have close to 2,000 murders right on the other side of the wall, and they had 23 murders. that's a lot of murders, but

it's not close to 2,000 murders, right on the other side of the wall in mexico. so everyone knows that walls work and there are better examples than el paso, frankly. you just take a look almost everywhere. take a look at israel. they're building another wall. their wall is 99.9% effective, they told me, 99.9%. that's what it would be with us too. the only weakness is they go to a wall and then they go around the wall. they go around the wall and in, okay? that's what it is, very simple. and a big majority of the big drugs, the big drug loads don't go through ports of entry. they can't go through ports of entry. you can't take big loads because we have people, very capable people, the border patrol, law enforcement looking. you can't take human traffic, women and girls, you can't take them through ports of entry. you can't have them tied up in the back seat of a car or a

truck or a van. they open the door, they look. they can't see three women with tape in their mouth or three women whose hands are tied. they go through areas where you have no wall. everybody knows that. nancy knows it. chuck knows it. they all know it. it's all a big lie. it's a big con game. you don't have to be very smart to know, you put up a barrier, the people come in and that's it, they can't do anything unless they walk left or right and they find an area where there's no barrier and they come into the united states, welcome. we've detained more people. our border agents are doing such incredible work. our military has been incredible. we put up barbed wire on top of certain old walls that were there. we fixed the wall. we loaded it up with barbed wire. it's very successful.

our military has been fantastic and i want to thank them. it's very necessary. we've broken up two caravans that were on their way. they're in the processes of breaking up. we have another one we've been working with mexico much better than ever before. i want to thank the president. i want to thank mexico. they have their own problems. they have the largest number of murders that they've ever had in their history, almost 40,000 murders, 40,000. they got to straighten that out and i think they will, but i just want to thank the president because he's been helping us with these monstrous caravans that have been coming up. we had one that was up to over 15,000 people. it's largely broken up. others have gotten through, and in tijuana, you have a lot of people staying there. if we didn't have the wall up and have the wall secured and strengthened, they would have walked right through. they would be welcomed to the

united states. one of the things we would save just a tremendous amount on would be sending the military. if we had a wall, we don't need the military because we'd have a wall. so i'm going to be signing a national emergency, and it's been signed many times before. it's been signed by other presidents from 1977 or so. it gave the presidents the power. there's rarely been a problem. they sign it, nobody cares. i guess they weren't very exciting. but nobody cares. they sign it for far less important things in some cases, in many cases. we're talking about an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs. we have some of the greatest people i know. they've been with me from the beginning of my campaign, almost from the first week, the angel

moms. unfortunately, we have new angel moms. one incredible woman just showed me her daughter who we were talking about killed in the year of '18. i said i haven't seen you before. she said no, i'm new. i said that's too bad. it's too bad. it's so sad. stand up just for a second. show how beautiful your girl was. thank you. i have such respect for these people. angel moms, angel dads, angel families. i have great respect for these people. these are great people. these are great people. they're fighting for their children that have been killed by people that were illegally in this country. the press doesn't cover them. they don't want to, incredibly. they're not treated the way they should be. they're fighting for other people because they don't want what happened to their children

or husband or anybody. we have one young lady whose husband -- please, stand up. your husband was just killed in maryla maryland. incredible man, just killed. beautiful children, won't be seeing their father again. these are brave people. these are people that they don't have to be here. they don't have to be doing this. they're doing it for other people. so i just want to thank all of you for being here. i really do. i want to thank you incredible people. last year 70,000 americans were killed at least -- i think the number is ridiculously low -- by drugs including meth and heroin and cocaine, fentanyl. one of the things that i did with president xi in china when i met him in argentina at a

summit, before i even started talking about the trade, it was a trade meeting, went very well but before i talked about trade, i talked about something more important. i said listen, we have tremendous amounts of fentanyl coming into our country. kills tens of thousands of people, i think far more than anybody registers. i'd love you to declare it a lethal drug and put it on your criminal list. their criminal list is much tougher than our criminal list. their criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called the death penalty. our criminal list a drug dealer gets a thing called how about a fine. when i asked president xi, i said, do you have a drug problem? no, no, no. i said, you have 1.4 billion people, what do you mean you

have no drug problem? no, we don't have a drug problem. i said why? death penalty. we give death penalty to people that sell drugs, end of problem. what do we do? we set up blue ribbon committees. lovely men and women, they sit around a table. they have lunch, they eat, they dine, and they waste a lot of time. if we want to get smart, we can get smart. you can end the drug problem. you can end it a lot faster than you think. but president xi has agreed to put fentanyl on his list of deadly, deadly drugs and it's a criminal penalty and the penalty is death. that's frankly one of the things i'm most excited about in our trade deal. you want to know the truth, i think maybe there's no more important point. we're going to makes billions of dollars with this trade deal. it's going to be great for our

country and great for china i hope. their market is down close to 40%. our market is way up. we've picked up since my election trillions of dollars of worth, trillions, many trillions. china's lost trillions of dollars. but i want it to be good for china and i want it to be good for the united states and we'll see what happens. china's coming here next week by the way. they're coming home, the traders, and then china is coming here next week. then i'll be meeting with president xi at some point after that to maybe -- for some remaining deals. we'll make them directly, one-on-one, ourselves. so we're going to be signing today and registering national emergency and it's a great thing to do. we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of

people, and it's unacceptable. and by signing the national emergency, something signed many times by other presidents, many, many times -- president obama. in fact, we may be using one of the national emergencies that he signed having to do with cartels, criminal cartels. it's a very good emergency that he signed and we're going to use parts of it in our dealings on cartels. so that would be a second national emergency, but in that case it's already in place. what we really want to doings simil -- do is simple. it's not like it's complicated. it's very simple. we want to stop drugs from coming into our country. we want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country. nobody's done the job that we've ever done. i mean, nobody's done the job that we've done on the border. and in a way, what i did by creating such a great economy and if the opposing party got

in, this economy would be down the tubes. i hear a lot of people say, oh well, maybe the previous administration, let me tell you, the previous administration, it was heading south and it was going fast. we would have been down the tubes. the regulations were strangling our country, unnecessary regulations. by creating such a strong economy -- you just look at your televisions and see what's going on today. it's through the roof. what happens is more people want to come. so we have far more people trying to get into our country today than probably we've ever had before. and we've done an incredible job in stopping them but it's a massive number of people. if we had the wall it would be very easy. we would make up for the cost of the wall just in the cost of the fact that i would be able to have fewer people -- we wouldn't need all of this incredible

talent, some of whom are sitting in the first row, you wouldn't need all of this incredible talent. we would get thousands of law enforcement people including border patrol, you put them in different areas, have them doing different things. law enforcement and border patrol -- and i want to thank law enforcement and i want to thank border patrol and i want to thank i.c.e. i.c.e. is abused by the press and by the democrats. by the way, we're going to be taking care of i.c.e. we talk about the new bill. we're going to be taking care of i.c.e. they wanted to get rid of i.c.e. the bill is just the opposite of that. a lot of good things happened. so, that's the story. we want to have a safe country. i ran on a very simple slogan, make america great again. if you're going to have drugs pouring across the border, if

you're going to have human traffickers pouring across the border in areas where we have no protection, in areas where we don't have a barrier, then it's very hard to make america great again. but we've done a fantastic job, but we haven't been given the equipment. we haven't been given the walls. in the bill by the way, they didn't even fight us on most of the stuff, ports of entry. we have so much money we don't know what to do with it. i don't know what to do with all the money they're giving us. it's crazy. the only place they don't want to give us much money, $1,375,000. sounds like a lot although we're putting it to better use than it used to be. past administrations, they didn't build or do what they

could have done. it would have been great to have done it earlier but i was a little new to the job, a little new to the profession and we had a little disappointment for the first year and a half. people that should have stepped up did not step up. they didn't step up and they should have. it would have been easy. not that easy but it would have been a lot easier. some people didn't step up, but we're stepping up now. we have a chance of getting close to $8 billion. whether it's $8 billion or $2 billion or $1.5 billion, it's going to build a lot of wall. we're getting it done. we're right now in construction with wall in some of the most important areas and we have renovated a tremendous amount of wall making it just as good as new. that's where a lot of the money has been spent on renovation. in fact, we were restricted to renovating which is okay. but we're going to run out of areas that we can renovate pretty soon and we need new

walls. so i want to thank everybody for being here. i want to thank in particular the angel moms and dads for being here. thank you very much. we have great respect for you. the real country, our real country, the people that really love our country, they love you. so i just want you to know that. i know how hard you fight, and i know how hard a fight you're having. i also want to thank all of the law enforcement for the job you do. believe me, our country loves you and they respect you greatly, and we're giving you a lot of surplus. we're giving you surplus military equipment which a lot of people didn't like giving previous to this administration. but hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus equipment and as we get it, as you know, we send it down and you have much better protection. but i really appreciate you being here. so 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 and they will sue us in the ninth circuit even though it shouldn't be there and we will possibly get a bad ruling and then we'll get another bad ruling and then 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 ban. 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. it was very interesting because yesterday they were talking about the ban. we have a ban, it's very helpful. madam secretary, is that right? without the ban we would have a bigger problem. we have a ban on certain areas, certain countries, depending on what's going on in the world. we won, but somebody said president trump lost on the ban. well, he was right, i lost at

the lower court. he didn't say that we ultimately won at the united states supreme court. they don't want to say that. they don't want to go that far. they were saying how i lost, the person sitting right up here. donald trump lost on the ban. yeah, i did. and then i lost a second time. you should have said that too. and then it went to the supreme court and i won. didn't want to take it that far, but we won on the ban and we won on other things too. the probably easiest one to win is on declaring a national emergency because we're declaring it for virtual invasion purposes, drugs, traffickers, and gangs. one of the things, just to finish, we have removed thousands of ms-13 gang monsters, thousands. they're out of this country. we take them out by the thousands, and they are monsters.

okay, do you have any questions? yeah. jon, go ahead. >> you are prepared. mr. president, a lot of the money -- >> were you saying i was prepared? >> with the microphone. prepared for questions. >> i thought you meant i was prepared. i couldn't believe you said that. people don't like saying that. >> you were prepared for questions. >> i am prepared. i'm always prepared. >> a lot of the money that goes towards your $8 billion is money that's being reprogrammed in the dod budget. how can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed to a wall will take away from other technology, other renovations, construction that is desperately needed in our military? >> we had certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals, at the discretion of the military. some of them haven't been allocated yet and some of the generals think that this is more important. i was speaking to a couple of

them. they think this is far more important than what they were going to use it for. i said what were you going to use it for and i won't go into details but it didn't sound too important for me. plus, if you think, i've gotten $700 billion for the military in year one, and then last year $716 billion and we're rebuilding our military but we have a lot. under the previous administration our military was depleted, badly completedeplete they weren't spending -- they had a much smaller amount of money. so when i got $700 billion and then $716 billion and this year it's going to be pretty big too because there's few things more important than our military, you know, i'm a big deficit believer and all of that but before we really start focusing on certain things, we have to build up our military. it was very badly depleted. we're buying all new jet fighters, all new missiles, all

new defense equipment. we have -- we'll soon have a military like we've never had before. but when you think about the kind of numbers you're talking about, you have $700 billion, $716 billion, when i need $2 billion, $3 billion out of that for a wall which is a very important instrument, very important for the military because of the drugs that pour in. as you know, we have specific rules and regulations where they have drugs and what you can do in order to stop drugs, and that's part of it too. we're taking a lot of money from that realm also. but when you have that kind of money going into the military, this is a very, very small amount that we're asking for. go ahead. go ahead, abc. not nbc. i like abc a little bit more, not much. come on, abc. not much. pretty close. >> mr. president, what do you

say to those including some of your republican allies who say that you are violating the constitution with this move and setting a bad precedent that will be abused by possibly democratic presidents in the future? marco rubio has said that. >> not too many people have said that but the courts will determine that. look, i expect to be sued. i shouldn't be sued. very rarely do you get sued when you do a national emergency. and then other people say, if you use it for this, what are we using it for? we've got to get rid of drugs and gangs and people. it's an invasion. we have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country that we stop but it's very hard to stop. with a wall it would be very easy. so i think that we will be very successful in court. i think it's clear. the people that say we create precedent, well, what do you have, 56 or a lot of times, well, that's creating precedent, and many of those are far less important than having a border. you don't have a border, you

don't have a country. we fight -- before i got here, we fight all over the world to create borders for countries but we don't create a border for our own country. so i think what will happen is, sadly, we'll be sued and sadly it will go through a process, and happily, we'll win, i think. go ahead. let's go, let's hear it, nbc. >> thank you, mr. president. in the past when president obama tried to use executive action as it related to immigration, you said the whole concept of executive order, it's not the way the country is supposed to be run. you said you're supposed to go through congress and make a deal. will you concede that you were unable to make the deal that you had promised in the past and that the deal you're ending up with now from congress is less than what you could have had before a 35-day shutdown? >> i went through congress. i made a deal. i got almost $1.4 billion when i

wasn't supposed to get one dollar. not one dollar. he's not going to get one dollar. well, i got $1.4 billion, but i'm not happy with it. i also got billions and billions of dollars for other things, port of entries, lots of different things, the purchase of drug equipment, more than we were even requesting. in fact, the primary fight was on the wall. everything else we have so much, as i said, i don't know what to do with it we have so much money. but on the wall, they skimped. so i was successful in that sense, but i want to do it faster. i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn't need to do this, but i'd rather do it much faster. i don't have to do it for the election. i've already done a lot of wall for the election, 2020. the only reason we're up here talking about this is because of the election, because they want to try and win an election which it looks like they're not going to be able to do. this is one of the ways they

think they can possibly win is by obstruction and a lot of other nonsense. i think that i just want to get it done faster. that's all. okay, yes, ma'am, go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. i'm from reuters. i wanted to ask about china. do you feel that enough progress has been made in the talks to head off the increase in tariffs scheduled for march 1? >> well, you're talking to the wrong person because i happen to like tariffs, okay? we're taking in billions and billions of dollars in tariffs from china, and our steel industry now as an example, we tax dumped steel. much of it comes from china at 25%. our steel industry is so vibrant now again. they're building plants all over the united states. it's a beautiful thing. and from a defensive standpoint and from any standpoint, you need steel. you know, you can do without certain industries. our country cannot do without steel.

so, i love tariffs but i also love them to negotiate, and right now china is paying us billions of dollars a year in tariffs and i haven't even started. here's the thing, if we make a deal, they won't have to pay. you know, it will be a whole different story. they won't be paying that but we'll have a fair deal. there won't be intellectual property theft and so many other things that have gone on. no other president has done this. we didn't have a deal with china. you had the wto, one of the worst trade deals ever made, probably even worse than nafta if that's believable which is hard to believe because i think nafta was just a disaster. it was a total disaster for our country. now we made the usmca which is going to be a great deal. by the way, the usmca from mexico, that's united states, mexico, canada, that's where the money's coming from, not directly but indirectly, for the

wall. nobody wants to talk about that because we're saving billions and billions of dollars a year if congress approves that deal. now, they might not want to approve a deal because they'll say -- one of the things i'm thinking of doing, this has never been doine before, no matter how good a deal i make with china, if they sell me beijing for one dollar, if they give me 50% of their land and every ship that they've built over the last two years which is a lot, and they give them to me free, the democrats will say what a lousy deal. that's a terrible deal. like zte, i got more than a billion dollar penalty in a short period of time and the democrats say should have gotten more. i said this is incredible, i got over a billion dollar penalty plus they had to change the board of directors and top

management, but they had to pay over a billion dollars. i said what a deal. it took like a week, and the s probl whe. tre i'm the one that fined them. i'm the one that settled it. over a billion dollars. president xi called me and he said it would be important to him if they could get a deal, and we made a deal in a short period of time. the democrats went out and said, ah, they should have done better. so what i'm thinking of doing is getting chuck schumer, getting nancy pelosi, having them bring two or three of their brilliant representatives and we'll all go down together and what we'll do is we'll negotiate. i'll put them in the room and let them speak up because any deal i make with china, it's going to be better than any deal that anybody ever dreamt

possible or i'm not going to have a deal. any deal i make with china, schumer is going to stand up and say oh, it should have been better, it should have been better. and you know what, that's not acceptable to me. so i'm thinking about doing something very different. i don't think it's ever been -- i just don't want to be second-guessed but that's not even second-guessed. that's called politics. sadly, i'd probably do the same thing to them, okay? any deal i make, toward the end i'm going to bring schumer, at least offer him, and pelosi and i'm going to say please join me on the deal. by the way, i just see our new attorney general is sitting in the front row. please stand up, bill. such an easy job he's got. he's got the easiest job in government. thank you, and congratulations. that was a great vote yesterday. thank you very much. yes, go ahead. >> in your remarks you said that you were too new to politics earlier in your administration when you would have preferred that this be done.

is that an admission of how you might be changing on the job and -- >> well, i'm learning. i am learning. don't forget, it's not like i've done this for -- a senator came into my office and said i've been running for office for 30 years. i've won 7 out of 7. i did lose a couple when i was younger. i said, well, i've onewon 1 out 1. i'm very disappointed in certain people, a particular one, for not having pushed this faster. >> are you referring to speaker ryan, sir? >> who? >> speaker ryan. >> let's not talk about it. what difference does it make? they should have pushed it faster, they should have pushed it harder but they didn't. if they would have it would have been a little bit better. in the meantime, i built a lot of wall. i have a lot of money and i built a lot of wall but it would have been nice to have gotten done. and i would like to see major immigration reform and maybe

that's something we can all work on, a bill where we all get together and do major immigration reform, not just for a wall, for a barrier, for a port of entry, for other things. we have a real problem. we have catch and release. you catch a criminal and you have to release them. we have so many other things. you have chain migration where a bad person comes in, brings 22 or 23 or 35 of his family members because he has his mother, his grandmother, his sister, his cousin, his uncle, they're all in. you know what happened on the west side highway. that young wise guy drove over and killed 8 people and horribly injured -- nobody talks about that -- horribly like loss of legs and arms. going 60 miles per hour he made a right turn along the west side highway on the hudson river in new york.

he had many people brought in because he was in the united states. it's called chain migration. then you have the lottery. it's a horror show because when countries put people into the lottery, they're not putting you in. they're putting some very bad people in the lottery. it's common sense. if i ran a country and if i have a lottery system of people going to the united states, i'm not going to put in my stars. i'm going to put in people i don't want. the lottery system is a disaster. i'm stuck with it. >> mr. president, could you tell you -- >> it should have never happened. okay. >> could you tell us to what degree some of the outside conservative voices helped to shape your views on this national emergency? >> i'll talk about it. look, sean hannity has been a terrific, terrific supporter of what i do, not of me. if i changed my views, he wouldn't be with me. rush limbaugh, i think he's a great guy. he can speak for three hours without a phone call. try doing that some time. for three hours he speaks.

he's got one of the biggest audiences in the history of the world. this guy is unbelievable. try speaking for three hours without taking calls. taking calls is easy. okay, i'll answer this one, answer that one. he goes for three hours and he's got an audience that's fantastic. wait -- [inaudible] they don't decide policy. they have somebody -- ann coulter, i don't know her. i hardly know her. i haven't spoken to her in way over a year but the press loves saying ann coulter. probably if i did speak to her she would be very nice. i just don't have the time to speak with her. i would speak to her. i have nothing against her. in fact, i like her for one reason. when they asked her right at the beginning who's going to win the election, she said donald trump. and the two people that asked her that question smiled. they said you're kidding, aren't you? nope, donald trump. so i like her, but she's off the

reservation but anybody that knows her understands that. but i haven't spoken to her, i don't follow her, i don't talk to her, but the press loves to bring up the name ann coulter. you know what, i think she's fine, i think she's good but i just don't speak to her. laura has been great, laura ingraham. tucker carlson has been great. i actually have a couple of people on cnn that have been very good. msnbc the other day did a great report on me. i said where the hell did that come from? i think it was the only one in over a year. so, the crazy thing is i just had, as you know, rasmussen, 52% in the polls. it's my highest poll number, and people get what we're doing. they get it. they really get it. and i'm honored by it. yes, jim acosta. >> thank you, mr. president. i wonder if you could comment on this disconnect that we seem to have in this country where you are presenting information about what's happening at the border, calling it an invasion, talking

about women with duct tape over their mouths and so on, and yet there's a lot of reporting out there, a lot of crime data out there, a lot of department of homeland security data out there that shows border crossings at a near record low. >> that's because of us. >> undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower levels than native born americans. what do you say -- >> you don't really believe that stat, do you? do you really believe that stat? take a look at our -- >> i believe in facts and statistics. >> quick, let's go. >> let me ask you this, what do you say to your critics who say that you are creating a national emergency, that you're concocting a national emergency here in order to get your wall because you couldn't get it through other ways? >> what do you think, do you think i'm creating something? ask these incredible women who lost their daughters and their sons, okay? because your question is a very

political question because you have an agenda. you're cnn. you're fake news. you have an agenda. the numbers that you gave are wrong. take a look at our federal prison population. see how many of them, percentage-wise, are illegal aliens. just see. go ahead and see. it's a fake question. yes, go ahead. >> can i ask a followup? >> thank you, mr. president. to follow up on that, unifying crime reporting statistics, numbers from your border patrol, numbers from this government, show that the amount of illegal immigrants are down. there is not violence on the border and that most -- >> there's not violence? >> there's not as much. >> oh really? 26 people killed two weeks ago. 26 people were killed in a gun fight on the border a mile away from where i went. >> i was there. i understand. that's not the question. the question is -- >> do we forget about that? >> no, i'm asking you to clarify where you get your numbers

because most of the dea crime reporting statistics that we see show that drugs are coming across at the ports of entry, that illegal immigration is down and the violence is down. so what do you base your facts on? >> come on, let's go. >> and secondly -- >> no, no, you get one. >> the second question is -- >> wait, sit down. >> could you please answer. >> sit down, you get one question. >> please. >> i get my numbers from a lot of sources like homeland security primarily and the numbers that i have from homeland security are a disaster. you know what else is a disaster, the numbers that come out of homeland security, kirsten, the cost that we spend and the money that we lose because of illegal immigration. billions and billions of dollars a month, billions and billions of dollars and it's unnecessary. >> so your own government stats are wrong are you saying? >> no. i use many stats. >> could you share those stats with us. >> let me tell you, you have stats that are far worse than the ones that i use but i use

many stats. but i also use homeland security. next question. >> just a quick followup -- >> go, please. >> thank you, mr. president. i just want to bring you back to china for a second. the white house put out a statement today talking about the march 1st deadline. the other day though you gave the possibility that maybe this could slide. are you eyeing a possible extension of 30 days, maybe 60 days, or is march 1st the deadline? >> it's a very big deal. i guess you could say it's like -- must be the biggest deal ever made if you think. trade with china, how big does that get? although if you look, the usmca is right up there, but it's very complicated. there are many, many points that we're bringing up that nobody ever brought up or thought to bring up because they're very important because we were on the wrong side of every one of them. there is a possibility that i will extend the date and if i do that, if i see that we're close to a deal or the deal is going in the right direction, i would do that at the same tariffs that

we're charging now. i would not increase the tariffs. >> let me ask you about the debt, sir, because it's gone from a trade under $20 trillion from when you took office. now it's a shade over $22 trillion and heading in the wrong direction. what are your plans to reserve it? >> it's all about growth. >> growth only? >> you have to remember, president obama put on more debt on this country than every president in the history of our country combined. so when i took over, we had one man that put on more debt than every other president combined. combine them all. so you can't be talking about that. but i talk about it because i consider it very important. first i have to straighten out the military. the military was depleted. if we don't have a strong military, thhopefully we won't have to use but you don't have to worry about debt. i have to straighten out the military. that's why i did the 700 and 716

billion. you saw last month the trade deficit went way down. everybody said what happened? what's happening is growth. before i can focus too much on that, a very big expense is military and we have no choice but to straighten out our military. >> is growth the only answer? >> yes, ma'am, go ahead. president trump in the rose garden taking questions on china, on the deficit, but of course the major news of the day is that the president has told the american people that he will sign an emergency -- national emergency order. he came out to the rose garden around 11:00 a.m. this morning but 10:30 was the initial call, coming out shortly after that saying we're going to confront a national security issue on the border, saying i'm going to sign this national emergency. it's been signed many times before of the he talked about previous presidents who have taken this step for far less important things. he talking about an

invasion in our country. he said i would have done it sooner but i was new to politics and this profession. sarah sanders tweeting out this image just a short time ago showing the president before he went out into the rose garden apparently signing this national emergency. we do have reaction quickly coming in from across town, capitol hill, senator schumer, nancy pelosi issuing a statement staying the president's unlawful declaration over a crises that does not exist does great violence to our constitution and makes america less safe. they say stealing from urgently needed defense funds for the security of our military and our nation, they go on to say this is a power grab by a disappointed president. our team is standing by. let's go to mary bruce on the hill for us. mary, this president even acknowledged he will face an immediate fight, not only an illegal fight. he said we'll probably get sued, probably sued again, perhaps this will end up in the supreme court but he also faces a political battle right there on the hill, perhaps a vote in the house and then the senate which

would put republicans in a very interesting position. >> reporter: david, democratic leaders are making very clear that they are going to fight the president on this with everything they have. you mentioned leader pelosi and schumer issuing that statement just a short time ago saying that they're going to defend our constitutional authorities in the congress, in the courts and in the public using every remedy available. we know the democrats are already preparing to introduce a resolution to terminate the president's national emergency given the huge outcry and opposition from democrats that is likely to pass in the house but would put republicans in the senate in a very tricky political position. while republican leadership here is now on board with this move by the president, i have talked with many republicans who are not. they say this is a mistake, that it sets a terrible precedent, even as our jon karl asked the president, they said it violates the constitution. when you look at the big picture the problem is that if this were to pass in the senate and the house, the president could then veto it and the chantsds of lawmakers here having enough

support to override that veto is a very high bar. >> very high bar. he probably would, in fact, veto it which means the true battle could perhaps be in the legal system. i want to bring in terry moran. president himself in 2015 leading up to the 2016 election spoke about president obama and executive orders saying the whole concept of executive order is not the way the country is supposed to be run. you're supposed to make a deal. now he's unhappy with the deal he got from congress, although he pointed out he got a little more than $1 billion. he asked for $5 billion. now he's going to try to bypass congress and get more money. >> reporter: as a candidate, donald trump said the system should work better, we're supposed to hammer out a deal like the framers of the constitution said. as president he realizes it's a lot harder, especially in these polarized political times. now the question for the courts and the country really is do we want presidents who cannot get their way with congress simply declaring a national emergency

under law in order to take money that congress has not appropriated for such purposes as building a wall. no court has looked at a case like this. there are precedents around the edges but this is going to be a brand new way of looking at the presidency for the courts and for the country. >> so again, to put this in context for our viewers joining us for our live coverage, the president in the rose garden at the white house a short time ago telling the american people that he is signing a national emergency. in fact, he's already done so in the oval office. he pointed out that it's been done many times before by previous presidents, alluding to the fight that he will certainly face. there could be a vote in the house. the democrats have the majority there, likely being sent to the senate where republicans hold the majority. if it were to make it all the way to the president's desk he would likely veto that, continuing the fight. then he also said i'll be sued and sued often and perhaps this will go all the way to the supreme court. so he knows the fight that lies

ahead for him, but he continues to push ahead with trying to find other ways for funding for his border wall. we can put it up on the screen, the money and where it comes from. he got $1.3 billion from this spending bill that will avert the government shutdown. the government will stay open but he's going to go around that funding bill to find additional money. $3 billion through executive action through this emergency declaration and $3.5 billion from homeland security and from the pentagon. we'll break down those numbers as this day wears on. he said we're going to confront this national security crises and he's aware of the criticism that this is to fulfill a campaign promise that he said he would build the wall, that mexico would pay for it, but these numbers right here, those are american taxpayer funds, so clearly mexico not paying for it, at least not in the interim. let's go to jon karl right outside the white house. the president has headed back into the oval office. john, sarah sanders tweeting out the image. the president signed this order right before he came out to the

rose garden. he pointed out a number of times he's aware of the political and legal fight head. >> reporter: absolutely. i asked him directly about republicans who have said that they believe that this is violating the constitution. one of those who said that is marco rubio, senator from florida of course. no democrat, no liberal, many others have said that this sets a dangerous precedent that can be used by democratic presidents in the future to do things that they couldn't get passed through congress. but the president is clearly prepared for a legal battle, clearly expects one, and david, i thought it was interesting in his opening remarks there that he expects to lose the initial rounds in court. that's consistent with what i've been told the department of justice has told the white house. they're clearly expecting this will be challenged immediately. they may lose in the lower courts and they are prepared for a battle that will ultimately be fought at the supreme court. >> quick question for you, jon, before we wrap up here. senate majority leader mitch

mcconnell of course had been one of those critics on the republican side against any emergency declaration by the president, though in the last 24 hours he said he would support the president. what's the calculation on his part? >> reporter: the calculation here is that the president was deeply reluctant to sign this spending bill, and what mitch mcconnell and other republicans did not want to see happen was another government shutdown. so they had to give the president something. they had to say, look, sign this bill and we will drop our objections to the idea of a national emergency. but make no mistake, mitch mcconnell made his opinion quite clear on how he views these national emergencies but in this case he felt that what was important ultimately was to prevent another government shutdown. >> our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl right there in the rose garden. our thanks to john, terry moran, mary bruce, our entire team in washington. president trump a short time ago declaring a national emergency, bypassing congress to secure additional funding for his border wall.

he does acknowledge though this will be quite a political and legal fight ahead for him. we'll have much more throughout the day. i hope you'll join us on abc news live and abcnews.com for continuing coverage right now. have great day, i'll see you on "world news tonight." hnolog. you told me swimsuit, ma'am. >> uh-oh. >> technology. what do we have here? >> is mow the time to buy a laptop or a gaming console? >> laptop, what do you guys think? game console. >> okay, gaming console. my man right there is going game. he told me game console. >> i hope there's no cheating going on. let's see. your final answer? try again. oh, man. okay, so gaming console is the best deal that you'll get on them is closer to black friday/cybermonday. because they don't release them as frequently and don't update them as much. you won't see the price change too much but laptops.

here we go. $2800 down to $2400 so it's big savings, $400 on this macbook pro. so our friends at best buy are doing a huge sale on laptops. we won't see this again until back to school time so if you need a laptop now is the time to get it. best buy up to $400 off. dell.com doing $400 off pcs and lenovo.com up to 45% off. best buy price matches. if you find a cheaper laptop, bring it to them and they'll match the price. >> okay. >> okay. here we go. >> we gotta move on to -- >> appliances. so indoor appliances like this refrigerator or outdoor appliances like this grill, what is it going to be, guys? refrigerator versus grill? fridge versus grill. >> you know what, he's going grill. he looked confident and smart. i'm saying grill. >> do the honors, my friend. try again. oh, michael strahan. >> you know what, i need to stop trusting you guys. >> so you'll see the best deal

again on the grill as we get closer to the summer months. that is unfortunately not going to be on sale this weekend but this samsung french door refrigerator from lowe's, originally $1999 on sale for $1199. yeah. $800 savings, at lowe's. they have every appliance you can dream up. having an up to 40% off this weekend as well as sears.com, up to 40% off. so we have some really great deals on appliances. finally -- >> and last but not least, home decor. >> yes. >> so home decor is, okay -- i'm afraid to guess. >> awesome modern couch as well as this beautiful rug. this is a tough one. what do you guys think, couch or rug? look at the prices, almost $3,000 and about $500, what do you think? >> okay, i'm going with the kid. i'm going with the kid in the front row who is missing school. i'm going to go with the rug.

[ bell rings ] >> that's it. michael strahan it was a trick question. they're both on sale, you guys. so this is the great news for all of us here, it is the time -- he was right. he was right no matter what. no matter what you're getting in the home space this weekend, this is the time to do it. west elm is offering up to 40% off and on monday, their premier day, up to 70% off. pottery barn up to 70% off. we love the modern stuff at west elm. saved you a lot of money. i know you got a super bowl ring but you only got one of these right. >> as long as i got that one game right, i'm happy. lori, thank you. lori bergamotto, thanks. lakeshia, happy birthday. coming up, we a sneak peek at "toy

we're back with annie potts, so great in "ghostbusters" and "designing women" and the voice of bo peep in the "toy story" movies. welcome back to "gma." >> thank you. >> you can see. everybody has their popcorn here in the audience because we're about to do something special. an exclusive clip from the new "toy story 4." no one has ever seen it before. first time right here on "gma." let's take a look. >> situation. >> lost toy, side yard. >> billy, go.

raise the blinds. >> they have names. you never toll me that? >> you never asked. >> where is he? >> there. >> how do we reach him? >> operation pull toy. >> slink. >> you got it, woody. >> barbies. ♪ >> go. [ applause ] >> welcome back. so that clip is actually a flashback for bo peep. she's got a new look, new attitude in "toy story." >> yeah. bo's got some tude now. >> when we last saw her, she was trying to choose between woody and buzz. does she choose? >> i think she's made a choice now. i can only reveal so much. it's like -- >> that's a good tease right there.

bo peep has made her choice. and a few weeks ago, most of this is being secret but a few weeks ago tom hanks did post a photo, all of you, looking at the finale, final recording session. now usually, with these animated movies, you all do your scenes alone. but you actually got to do some with tom. >> yes, they don't usually do that. you usually do it alone and kind of odd that way but tom and i got to work together quite a bit on this one. that was not bad. it was not half bad. >> this whole series has been -- has meant so much to so many people for such a long time. it's going to be hard to say good-bye. >> well, who knows? >> oh, okay. >> you know, i was surprised that 4 was coming, but, yeah, it's so beloved. they're -- i mean -- those -- they're priceless, these stories. >> they're so great. is it true your son actually got

you to do it in the first place? >> yes, and this was years ago before they did the first one, my agents had called and said, annie, they're interested in you doing this voice for the first completely computer-animated full-length movie. none of that was interesting to me. not any part of that sentence. and they said, well, they've sent you some shorts. they'd like to you take a look. i was like, yeah, okay, i had a toddler and a teenager and i was doing a series and -- anyway so they called me back, they said, did you look? i was like, ah, i didn't. so i came home from work one day and my 3-year-old had torn open the box they sent. and he grabbed my hand and he said, mommy, mommy, come look. so i went in and he could by that time put the disc in himself. i sat down and watched about two of them and i went, mommy will be right back. i have to make a call. so, that is how it got started. >> he should have gotten a percentage. >> shhh. he's been educated.

he got a percentage. >> okay. we want to introduce you to bo peep. what do you think? >> yes. she's i think blonder and a little more shapely, i think. i must say i think i'm looking very young. >> you're looking very good. >> i'm a little thrilled about that, yeah. >> and we now know she's made her choice or we think she's made her choice, as well. >> shhh. >> thanks for coming in today. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >>l >>let's go to ginger. >> oh, thank you so much. i can't wait to see that movie. my kids, too. how about we do this, do a lot of people feel like you're up to your neck in winter and can't get away, kind of like sniper the dog, yes, in washington state, can't get out of it. well, we've got a little relief, everybody. yes, at least on the east coast we're feeling mild today.

ok aho ewkgh tt you ju s i th mnie h parent company, disney, that's announcing the launch of toys for "star wars: episode ix" and "frozen 2," yes. they're all going to hit the we're going to have on and off showers all throughout the day. even the potential for a thunderstorms and temperatures below average. the storm is a one on the storm impact scale and it will continue through sunday. ror has been sponsored by trulicity. you have a fun little guest here, sara. >> i sure do. sahi to miss ginger. focus. iam >> hi. >> we are celebrating the day after valentine's day by breaking down the best way to break up with someone.

>> uh-oh. >> that's the way to follow a romantic holiday day. plus, a 106-year-old dancer. and blackpink. >> more blackpink. >> that's awesome. >> yay. >> i say we just keep him on but up next, something you'll want to see right here on "gma." avril lavigne is performing live. [ applause ] >> all right. stay with us. >> thank you so much.

all right, back now on "gma" af avril lavigne is back. she is an eight-time grammy nominee and her sixth studio album "head above water" is out right now performing the title track. here's avril lavigne.

[ applause ] ♪ i've gotta keep the calm before the storm ♪ ♪ i don't want less i don't want more ♪ ♪ must bar the windows and the doors ♪ ♪ to keep me safe to keep me warm ♪ ♪ yeah, my life is what i'm fighting for ♪ ♪ can't part the sea can't reach the shore ♪ ♪ and my voice becomes the driving force ♪ ♪ i won't let this pull me

♪o, ♪ don't let me drown it gets harder ♪ ♪ i'll meet you there at the altar ♪ ♪ as i fall down to my knees don't let me drown drown drown ♪ ♪ don't let me, don't let me, don't let me drown ♪ ♪ so pull me up from down below cause i'm underneath the undertow ♪ ♪ come dry me off and hold me close ♪ ♪ i need you now i need you most ♪ ♪ so, god, keep my head above water ♪ ♪ don't let me drown it gets harder ♪ ♪ i'll meet you there at the altar ♪

♪ as i fall down to my knees don't let me drown drown drown ♪ ♪ don't let me don't let me ♪ don't let me drown don't let me drown drown drown ♪ ♪ keep my head above water ♪ and i -- i can't see in the stormy weather ♪ ♪ and i -- i can't seem to keep it all together ♪ ♪ and i -- i can't swim the ocean like this forever ♪ ♪ and i can't breathe ♪ so, god, keep my head above water ♪ ♪ i lose my breath at the bottom ♪ ♪ come rescue me, i'll be waiting ♪

♪ i'm too young to fall asleep ♪ so, god, keep my head above water ♪ ♪ don't let me drown it gets harder ♪ ♪ i'll meet you there at the altar as i fall down to my knees ♪ ♪ don't let me drown don't let me drown don't let me drown ♪ ♪ keep my head above water above water ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you.

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for so many years here at "gma." two decades angie has been stage manager here more than 20 years and you have made all of our lives so much easier and i'm getting emotional right now but, angie, just to see you behind the camera every day gives me confidence because i know how much you care about everything we do. we're going to miss you a lot. thank you. [ applause ] >> you can tell she loves people and you can tell that she loves each and every one of the people that work with us here at "gma." >> i do. >> now life gets to begin because you get to sleep in and you get to have a life. >> yes. >> so happy for you. >> that's the future. i get to sleep in. >> thank you. >> thank you for your service. [ applause ]

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