Of the department of Homeland Security as Congress Battles over funding. This showdown happening at a critical time. The United States and britain are vowing to hunt down the coldblooded isis killer known as jihadi john. The londoner who has brutally slaughtered western hostages on camera. But while the world now knows his true identity Mohammad Emwazi was known to British Security services for years. He was detained more than once. So how did he escape that scrutiny and become a key figure in the isis reign of terror . How will the department of Homeland Security protect americans from a Terror Threat which is growing daily if congress cannot find a way to pay those workers whose job is supposed to keep all of us safe . Looks like republicans are moments away from failing to break the deadlock over funding the department of Homeland Security. House democrats joined by 15 republicans voted to block an effort to keep the money flowing for another three weeks. Lets go immediately to our
Care of a few lastminute things. Maybe run the dishwasher one last time. You take out the trash. You do all of these things in order to put your house in order before you leave. You do that so youre not faced with a big stinky mess when you get back home. Thats what people do when theyre heading out for vacation. Turns out, washington did the same thing. Now, contrary to what you may have heard, they actually did get some stuff accomplished before they skipped town today. We have a new u. S. Ambassador. A lot of people expected this to be a big hair are confirmation fight. But Samantha Power got 87 votes in the senate. There you go. Confirmed. The Senate Confirmed one of the top judicial nominees before leaving town. The Senate Unanimously confirmed raymond chen to sit is on the court of appeals for the federal circuit. That is a lot of stuff, including trademarks, patents and claims. The Senate Confirmed b. Todd jones. The First Permanent director in seven years. They said it couldnt
Night as the 11th hour begins. And good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. This was day 111 for the trump administration. Where does the time go . The day after the president fired the head of the fbi. And while fighting off comparisons to Richard Nixon after firing james comey, the president met in the oval office today with nixons secretary of state henry kissinger. While also fighting off claims that comeys firing was about the russia investigation, the president met in the oval office with two men named sergei. Russian foreign minister sergei leave rove and Sergey Kislyak of mike flynn and carter page fame. The meeting with the russians was closed to the press. The still photos we are able to show you here and now came from tass, the russian Government News agency. Today also saw the white house on defense, trying to explain the reasoning and the timing for comeys firing. The president took the advice of the Deputy Attorney general who oversees the director
Good gins. And good evening once again from our headquarters in new york. This was day 111 for the trump administration. Where does the time go . The day after the president fired the head of the fbi and while fighting off comparisons of richard nixon, the president met with nixons secretary of state Henry Kissinger while fighting off claims that his firing was about the russia investigation, he met with two men named sergey. Russian. Of mike flynn and carter page flame. It was closed to the press. The still photos we are able to show you came from the russian Government News agency. Today also saw the white house on defense trying to explain the reasoning and the timing for comeys firing. The president took the advice of the Deputy Attorney general who over sees the director of the fbi and they made a decisioning to remove him. The president s decision to accept the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney general and attorney general to remove director comey as head of the fbi was based
In kind. We have columnist and associate editor David Ignatius, mike barnicle, kasie hunt, sam stein and clint watts. Good morning, everybody. Good to see you. Lots to talk to you about. Clint, the home of President Trumps former Campaign Managers home was raided by the fbi. Well get to that in just a moment. Lets start with north korea. Were hearing from secretary of defense general jim mattis for the First Time Since President Trumps fire and fury remarks tuesday. In a statement general mattis says in part, quote, the United States and our allies have the demonstrated capabilities and unquestionable commitment to defend ourselves from the attack, the dprk, north korea, should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. The dprk regimes actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates, end quote. Meanwhile, the north korean army has released a new statement t