00:00Yep. Over here. Ashraf Khalil with the Associated Press. A lot of this seems to be perceptions of what constitutes an emergency. The White House and the administration says there's an obvious emergency. Your administration with numbers of the council says there is not an emergency here. How do you solve that? Is there an arbitration option? Where does it go from here?
00:24Because it feels like it's. Do you agree that it comes down to what constitutes an emergency and what's next?
00:31Well, what I would point you to is the home rule charter that gives the president the ability to determine the conditions of an emergency.
00:41And we could contest that, but the authority is pretty broad. And so if you wanted to say the most outrageous thing, one might say, well, I won't say that.
00:53It could be something very small. Like, I'm not saying that that's what he's doing, but it could be.
00:59And if he deems it and he puts the meat around it and the argument around what he thinks is an emergency.
01:06When we think of emergencies, it usually involves surges in crime and or crime that's not being responsive or tools that we have that we can't use in the normal course.
01:19That's that's what when we use an emergency, that's that's what it's for.
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