BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump appeared to suggest Friday [2-1-19] that he will announce some kind of border wall action during next week’s State of the Union. Asked if he expects to declare a national emergency on the wall funding issue, Trump told reporters: ‘I don’t want to say it, but you’ll hear the State of the Union, and then you’ll see what happens right after the State of the Union’…The State of the Union date, February 5, precedes a three-week government deadline of February 15 to reach a deal on border security to avoid another government shutdown. And the President’s confidence in the bipartisan group of congressional negotiators working to reach a long term agreement on border security has continued to wane. Trump also claimed that Democrats are ‘not being honest’ in their conference negotiations because of the forthcoming 2020 election, an idea he has previously floated without evidence.”
–Maegan Vazquez, “Trump hints at border wall action around State of the Union,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, February 1, 2019 4:01 pm