On CBS This Morning Saturday, the show devoted an entire three-minute report to two women in Texas who are resisting Trump administration efforts to build a wall on their property.
As she set up the report, co-anchor Dana Jacobson recalled that 16 states are suing the Trump administration over the wall without noting that those states are controlled by Democrats, although Democrats in Congress were cited as opposing the President.
We continue this half hour with a test of wills between Congress and the White House. Next week, House Democrats will vote on a resolution to block President Trump's national emergency declaration to build a border wall. This comes as at least 16 states are already challenging his declaration as unconstitutional.
Correspondent Mireya Villareal began the piece with the sympathetic case of a woman named Nida Alvarez who is fighting to prevent her property being taken through eminent domain while she also takes care of her mother who has cancer and lives nearby. Alvarez had climbed onto her roof and written the words "No Border Wall" in large letters as she fights in court.
Villareal then shifted to a woman involved in the National Butterly Center who was seen on screen complaining that the Trump administration is "lawless." The CBS correspondent then informed viewers that her group had already lost in court as they resisted government efforts to take some of their property.
The report ended with Villareal returning to Alvarez, and sympathetically asking her if she is in a "David and Goliath" situation.
After the pre-recorded report ended, co-anchor Anthony Mason commented that it is "very scary when you come up against the government" in an eminent domain case.
