Threw the president a question about his relationship with the gop. Whats the message youre bringing to the hill today . Jobs, middle class, growth. Good to see you. What can be done to avert a shutdown tfall . What can you negotiate with the republicans on . Joining us now, fox news digital politics editor, chris skierwall. It doesnt sound like chuck got much of an answer from the president . That was a long side long glance that he got there from the president. Maybe its understandable that the president would be a little perplexed by the question. Because thats not what this is about and thats not what today is about and none of this is about making a deal with republicans. This is about getting ready for the Nuclear Fallout that is coming over the next 60 days as we go into this thermonuclear budget war that were going to have. The president wasnt up there today to talk to republicans, he was up there to talk about republicans to democrats and his effort, he says, or he believes to
Under fire again for its spying programs. Today the Obama Administration declassified and released three documents outlining the phone and Internet Data collection programs. Right before that agencys Deputy Director faced tough questions on capitol hill about edward snowden. For a 29yearold School Dropout to come in and take out massive, massive amounts of data, it is obvious that there werent adequate controls. Has anyone been fired . No, sir, not yet. Who double checked snowden . There are checks at multiple levels. There are checks at moments when a person might be doing at any point in time. Obviously failed. Outfront tonight general hayden who ran the nsa until 2005. Hes also the former director of the cia. General, thank you very much for being with us. I want to start with the back and forth that you heard there. Obviously as you heard and nearly half a million private contractors have access to top secret classified information. That is a lot of nongovernment employees with acc
The east coast. Businesses leveled, trees ripped from the ground. Indra petersons is tracking what you need to know for today. Good morning, everyone. A busy wednesday. Welcome. Im john berman. Im christine romans. Its wednesday, july 9th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. Happening today, president obama heading to texas. The trip was originally for two fundraisers. But all eyes are on his response to the illegal Immigration Crisis. The president has plans to meet with rick perry about the crisis. It comes the day after obama made a request to congress. 3. 7 billion to help curb the problem. Hes facing brushback from lawmakers. Michelle kosinski has more from the white house. Good morning, john and christine. The president will be in texas to address this issue. And weve seen now the white house lay out what it calls an aggressive plan for dealing with this border situation. Its a lot of money theyre asking from congress, nearly 4 billion. Even more than originally expected. About 2 billion of
Toll of rights let us begin the program anyway welcome now syrian troops are widening a major offensive against rebels in the southwest of the country the regime trying to retake the city of daraa. A government protests began seven years ago the u. N. Says more than forty five thousand people have fled the fighting our neighboring jordan is refusing to allow displaced people to cross into its territory youre about to see civilians and children are bearing the brunt of the violence. They fled from bombs and destruction. Now this family and living out in the open just hoping someone will help them. Bread and petrol prices have risen sharply money is running out. Came from was totally destroyed every house was flattened. We had to live in the cellars. Now we want to go somewhere that hasnt been complete. Anyone who can get out is leaving dura nearly fifty thousand have gone so far villages in the rebel stronghold have been hit hard during days of bombing whole streets lined ruins the loca