President pushed back by a federal judge that sided with a number of states fighting white house efforts to end protections for young, Illegal Immigrants and sping turn and Justice Department fight it saying promoting and enforcing rule of law is vital to protecting a nation, its borders and citizens. And there should be a bill of love. Truly, it should be a bill of love and we can do that. He followed unusual day at white house as President Trump convened a meeting of democrats and republicans on immigration and in a move that shocked the White House Press corps allowed media to listen in. For people who are not in the white house every day, you have to explain how rare this is. Rare but strategic move as president made case for renewing daca protections in skaiching for border wall funding. Something that democrats will continue to resist. There was no agreement on that. Wean well be working on that. And while theyre working that out, there is the distinct posibility this will all up
Washington examiner who serves as a political reporter. To both of you, thanks for joining us today. So lets start with state of the union. If you look to the papers this morning just even suggestions from the headlines, the president isat expected to softn theg, tone on the speech as fars tomorrows presentation, and particularly what it does for immigration. Darlene, what do we get a sense as far as tone leading into tomorrows speech . Guest well, the white house has said that he is going to speak in more optimistic tones tomorrow. Contrast that, for example, with the inaugust ration speech that he gave a year ago when he talked about american carnage andam painted this kind of very dark picture of the United States of america. So hes looking to do a little bit of the opposite and be softer, more optimistic, more hopeful in talking about immigration and is only of the other some of the other issues were going the hear him speak about. Host al weaver, particularly those members of cong
Cyber espionage. The hack of opm is the latest example. Do the chinese steal our Naval Technology and apply it to their navy, and as a corollary to that, are you aware of any evidence concerning china stealing u. S. Civil Nuclear Technology and diverting it to its nuclear navy . Sir, im not personally aware of any instances of another nation stealing our Nuclear Technology and applying to their navy, including china. That may be happening, im not briefed on any intelligence that would implicate that. I think its wellunderstood that there is Cyber Espionage that occurs. We have concerns from time to time about our cleared defense contractors for example in their Cyber Security. I think Frank Kendall and at l is working hard to tighten that up as best we k. I was reflecting on this earlier we talk about Nuclear Matters. As a sort of graduate of the Navy Nuclear Propulsion program. One of the things that has intrigue said me intrigued me over the years, the element of Human Performance th
Website, and were emailing some of my contacts, calling them right now. We understand we are on time, but as you said Megan Mcgrath is going to be there in a little while at grosvenor. As far as traffic goes, 95 at newington, we are slow here due to lateclearing road work. 95 here, again, taking a look at 95, no problems there. Until you get a little bit north of dale city. Georgia avenue at randolph road, one left lane is getting by. Prince georges county overall looking good. Tom, dare i say, it was a little cool this morning when i stepped outside. I slept with the windows open. It was rather cool this morning. In fact, down near 60 degrees in some of the suburbs. Storm team 4 radar scanning the sky, no rain around. But its down to near 60 in montgomery and Fairfax County and parts of northern virginia. Upper 50s, shenandoah valley. In the low to mid 50s out of the mountains. Upper 60s, near 70 by the chesapeake bay. And walking to work and walking to the metro this morning waiting
People were late, trains singletracking of course slows everything down. They had crowded platform. I talked to one gentleman who said it took him about an hour and a half to get home yesterday. Normally it takes half an hour. I told him unfortunately we are still singletracking and he was not happy. I have to be at work at 6 30 and im tired of this. Reporter so singletracking between grosvenor and the twinbrook station on the red line. I talked to a worker earlier this morning and they hoped to get things back to normal within half an hour and were keeping an eye on the situation. For the moment bake in some extra time in your commute because things are still slow here this morning. Well let you know as soon as they return to normal operations. With more on traffic, we go over to melissa mollet. Hows it looking . Not so bad. Well check back with megan throughout the hour. Were tweeting about this on first 4 traffic as well. Singletracking between twin brook and grosvenor. And train 30