He just said it was not a national emergency. He just said he’s using the pretense of a national emergency to expedite a non-emergency.
He just gave the democrats a nuclear weapon to undermine his agenda.
It really doesn’t matter all that much... politically it may have been a foot in mouth they will hammer against him. But legally, tomorrow is a new day and tomorrow could be something changed that makes it an emergency.
He didn't say such words, of course, but you have offered an interpretation that will certainly encourage the 9th Circuit.
Many here are confident he was speaking in cryptic terms and the rest of his thought was generally, "except Congress has failed to provide me with the tools our Border Patrol experts say I must have in the near term to effectively deal with a growing threat to our country's national security".