Troops, how long, what exactly theyll be doing or how much this will cost. 2017 saw the fewest arrests of those attempting to cross illegally in years. There has been a recent surge. Late last night the administration putting out figures to show that spike in march. Cnns abby phillip is at the white house with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, erica. The president moving his government to deal with the issue of what you just mentioned, a recent surge of border crossings in the last month or so. But the details are not quite clear yet. In fact, just a couple moments ago respoke to secretary of Homeland Security about how many will be going. She said shes been in contact with the governors along the border, california has been add odds with this administration over a number of immigrationrelated issues. She said her conversations with jerry brown are on going r going. She did want us to the numbers from past administrations. George w. Bush and president obama saying they w
Years. As chris hayes was talking about with his guest tonight, there is no deadline by which they have to pass this bill. There is no procedural deadline. That isnt a big deal but would make things easier for them. There is nothing. There is no reason they need to be rushing to try to pass this bill tonight before the administration has even produced any analysis about what it will cost. While the bill is still partially handwritten, while senators have had no substantive hearings on it at all, but the republicans are rushing to try to do it tonight. And so weve got eyes on that. Huge news story as the senate floor continues to bustle and as we expect them to move toward a vote at some point. Were going to have live reports on that throughout the hour, im guessing. With Trump National security adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty in washington today to lying to the fbi, we got our second gigantic news story of the day and also entered into uncharted territory for an american presiden
President over the omnibus spending bill but trump is leaving it behind. In a couple of hours he will leave washington to spend the weekend inside the safe confines of his maralargo estate. This morning he caught lawmakers off guard when he tweeted this, im considering a veto of the omnibus spending bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus Daca Recipients have been abandoned by the democrats. Not mentioned in the bill and the border wall which is d desperately needed for National Defense is not funded. And then four hours later he took the opposite approach and signed the bill. I looked very seriously at the veto. I was thinking about doing the veto. But because of the incredible gains weve been able to make for the military, that overrode any of our our thinking. And now this comes on the heels of the president s decision to replace the Current National security adviser with the military hawk and former Fox News Contributor john bolton. Following all of the action at the white hou
These comments from a white house aide are quite, despicable, vile, and completely unacceptable. Mccains close friend senator Lindsey Graham reportedly saying nobody is laughing in the senate. If you have someone that is so devoid of anymo morlality, w cant be shocked that were going it see that in the people that work for him. Senator mccain was captured in a war that President Trump received five deferments from. Three american planes were shot down and at least two of their pilots captured. One of them was Lieutenant Commander john mccain, iii. A prisoner of war for almost 2,000 days, tortured and beaten. Taken to the hospital where i almost died. I fell in love with my country when i was a prisoner in someone elses. When mr. Trump said that he prefers to be with people who are not captured, well, the great honor of my life was to serve in the company of heroes. Im not a hero. So, were coming to you at a time when poking fun at the impending death of a former navy fighter pilot, a p
Just days after former president bill clinton confessed to his relationship with former white house intern Monica Lewinsky in august of 1998. Trump, who is now facing allegations from stormy daniels, said that president clinton should have taken the fifth amendment to avoid admitting to the affair. Lets talk another 52yearold, bill clinton. Whats he need to do . Well, i dont know. Its so embarrassing. And you really have to say where does it stop . I really like this guy, but you really have to say where does it stop . Why do they keep revealing the details . He had sex, but now they talk about the kind of sex, where it took place, where it was, on the desk, off the desk. Its so out of control. I didnt hear those parts. Do you think he could have gotten away with a complete mea culpa in january when he decided to cover it up . At that point if he said im going to throw all my money on the table, the American People like me, theyre going to buy this . I dont think he could have done any