Trump using emergency powers for wall won’t work, Ex-DHS sec. Johnson says
By Bloomberg
13 January 2019 |
9:00 am
Jeh Johnson, former Homeland Security Secretary under President Barack Obama, discusses President Donald Trump possibly using his national emergency powers to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and his views on the partial shutdown of the federal government.
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