Can Donald Trump declare a national emergency for border wall funding?

• 6 years ago
• News
• Duration 7:41

Legal scholar Kim Lane Scheppele from Princeton University says the U.S. president does not have free-floating powers to declare a national emergency to build a border wall because Trump can only make use of specific powers that Congress has put into law. Scheppele spoke with CBC News Network's Andrew Nichols from Sarasota, Florida.