Our phone lines are open also a special line for veterans. You can catch up with us on your favorite social media pages, on twitter, facebook, or email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good saturday morning. The Eric Shinseki resignation playing out on the front pages of newspapers across the country. Here it is in the Washington Posts. To the kansas city star, there is a picture of Eric Shinseki yesterday at the National Coalition for homeless veterans, where he made a speech apologizing for delayed atment, and other service for delayed treatment and other service lapses at the ba. The headline there onto the arizona republic, the home state paper of the phoenix of thefacility phoenix v. A. Facility a quote from president obama. He Richmond Times dispatch already talked about the search for shinsekis since sasser for shinsekis successor. Times york that is the topic we are talking about for the first half of todays washington journal. Before we get to your calls i want to play you a l
Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Our headlines today iran fires missiles at two us military bases in iraq in revenge for the killing of its top commander. The uk puts in place urgent measures with the royal navy on standby in the middle east. A ukrainian passenger plane crashes in iran with 180 people on board. Did sainsburys feel the festive spirit . The supermarket giant is the latest to update the city on how it fared over the crucial Christmas Period. Ill speak to the boss this morning. The worst weve played this season thats ole Gunnar Solskjaers assessment, as Manchester United are totally outplayed by man city
in their League Cup Semi final. Britains most successful ever gymnast, max whitlock, will be here on the sofa. Good morning. For many today, its going to be dry with some sunshine. However, we still have strong winds gcioss however, we still have strong winds across the north of scotland, here too some showers and later some rain comin
Meeting at the state department between u. S. Officials and mexican officials and essentially what were seeing come out of this is their offer to deploy the Mexican National guard to the border with guatemala to try to stop the flow of migrants that are then coming through trying to cross to the United States border. But the question that really is going to be the end all, be all here is whether or not President Trump accepts what theyve been talking about and negotiating over for the last several days. Now hes hadnt hes on the way back to the United States from his trip in europe and the question is whether he accepts that and right now it seems the president was insisting to lawmakers, who dont want the president to take this move because they fear he t could wreck the economy and he is not bluffing. And as always, it depends on trump. We stand by and way. And thank you very much for that. If all of the tariff drama is happening as the president learns of a week job report, only 75,0
Fa cup magic for shrewsbury a late winner gives them victory over bristol city and a fourth round meeting with liverpool. Good morning. We got some heavy rain and blustery winds to move away from the south east, then most of us will have a dry and bright day, except the far north, where we continue with gales and also some showers. Ill have more in 15 minutes. Its wednesday the 15th of january. Our top story the duchess of sussex has made her first public appearance since she and prince harry announced their intention to step down as senior members of the royal family. The Downtown Eastside centre, a womens refuge in vancouver, posted a picture of meghan with staff and visitors on facebook. Sophie long reports from Vancouver Island. The duchess of sussex pictured smiling at a Womens Centre, the first time shes been seen in public since the so called sandringham summit. Its not hard to see why the duke and duchess of sussex might wa nt to duke and duchess of sussex might want to spend m