John Kasich: Border Problems Not Enough To Declare National Emergency

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KASICH: "I -- I think it’s a very complicated deal. And here in the United States, part of the problem with opiates is that we were passing them out without any restraint. And it seemed to be a habit or part of the culture in medicine for a point in time. We changed all that in Ohio. So by prescribed opiate deaths went down because we clamped down on the ability to prescribe those opiates in massive amounts."
CAMEROTA: "Yeah."
KASICH: "The -- the danger, of course, is fentanyl which does come across the border, or heroin, or cocaine. And these -- they tend to come across the border, say, through these checkpoints and they smuggle them in somehow. Do I think the border is a serious problem? I do. Enough to declare a national emergency like the president is doing? No. Because I think this is a political declaration. And frankly, you don’t do end runs around Congress. The purpose of the -- of the national declaration was to say if we have — really have a problem here that is something that everybody agrees upon, rather than going through the formal process of running everything through the Congress, the committees, the subcommittees, the this thing, the that thing, give the president the authority to do what the president needs to do, which is in the interest and agreed to by all the parties in the country that’s an emergency. This is not the case. Congress has already decided what they want to do on the border, and for him to say, 'Well, I just don’t like what they did, that just flaunts in the face of that national declaration. Now, it’s going to go to the courts, and you try to tell me what the judges are going to decide. I really -- I really don’t know.”