responsibility to us citizens is to protect us, and that's exactly what he's doing. liz: republican lisa murkowski and lamar alexander are pushing back saying this is taking money away from the pentagon's needs. they are prioritizing congress's power of the purse. > >> everybody can have different positions. i want to protect military funding. i want to do energy my power to make sure we keep that funding there. limits say the president gets down to the military construction funding from the other buckets he can choose from first. we can always give more money, the congress can give more money to these military projects and that's certainly what i would support. liz: let's get to republican senator ted cruz slamming