aim at republicans yet again. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: we made it to wednesday, top of the mountain, long slide into the weekend from here. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. in a rare news conference the president said he felt yesterday s meeting with congressional leadership was productive, but speaker mccarthy proclaimed there was no new movement and warned time is running out to avoid an economic catastrophe. sandra: complete coverage begins now. steve danes is standing by. john: our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. do democrats really know what republicans would cut? john, not really. congress funded veterans programs and meals on wheels late last year, that s why republicans believe democrats are trying to scare people about potential cuts. are those cuts that you guys talk about with the v.a., that s not real money, because it s not an appropriation.
wow. thanks so much to you for joining us. ac 360 begins now. the forecast? wretched. the timing? even worse. once in a generation winter storm and this one they say is going to be very, very dangerous. i m in for anderson, john berman here. already nearly half the country s population is shivering under wind chill alerts or has seen temperatures drop as much as 70 degrees overnight. this is sioux falls, south dakota. you know it s cold there when the falls at sioux falls stop falling. because they re frozen solid. you know how widespread the big chill could get when places as far south as tallahassee in florida are forecasting lows in the low 20s. if that weren t enough we re seeing countless blizzard warnings, flood watches, wind and ice advisories and of course thousands of flight cancellations. nearly 2400 already today. more than 2,000 for tomorrow. all of this smack dab in the middle of the christmas travel rush. it s not just snow. it is wind and cold as part o
enough time to pick up a cup of coffee or go kite-boarding. we ve been literally talking about their trip longer than it lasted, it was that brief. on the other hand, so was the moon landing. so was the wright brothers first flight at cu kittyhawk. those brief hours they spent on martha s vineyard changed history and left what they re calling an indelible mark on the people who live there. they enriched us, said one resident. we were happy to help them on their journey. unfortunately that journey ended abruptly at a military base at cape cod where our venezuelan brothers and sisters are held against their will, prisoners in a country they thought there was own. kite-boarding is out of the question. just a bitter dream at this point. the people of martha s vineyard knew this was going to happen. and yet, none of them thought to tell their venezuelan brothers and sisters before it happened. quote, i kept telling them it was like a dormitory, jackie stallings, who lives on the
will now on a war of words over what to do. border patrol officials a new development they are seeing. they say cartels are targeting our kids with deadly fentanyl. trying to smuggle in a rainbow colored pills. you see on the left. they are meant to look just like he had a pretty public and slamming the biden administration for what they say is not doing enough on this just days after vice president harris said the border is secure. they know exactly what is going on, on the board up or they still might become of the border is closed. it s absolutely ridiculous. one of the great things and was on the buses going up to new york and to washington d.c. and to martha s vineyard are proving in front of the press and all of the liberals, no the border is not open. kennedy: christina coleman on the newsom/desantis feud. let s go to lucas tomlinson with the very latest. hi eric. defendant setting those buses to new york sang millions of illegal immigrants have already crossed the
observatory here in washington. and at martha s vineyard. democrats call the moves cruel and inhuman political stunts. the administration is said to be exploring legal options. republicans say they are giving democrats a taste of their own medicine. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania. hi, yack question. good evening to you, john. for a second day the white house hammered republican governors for moving migrants away from overwhelmed border towns. just as there are reports that some within the administration are saying it s time to do just that. thank you. reporters pushed out the oval office door. the president taking no questions after the press secretary compared the republican governors of florida and texas to human traffickers. these vulnerable migrants were reportedly mislead about where they were headed. told they would be headed to boston. these are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like mex