1. 375 billion for 55 miles of new border fencing. Although not a concrete wall. This is twice as many miles adds funded in 2018, but its not what the president asked for. It would pay for more than 40,000 ice detention beds. Heres the big question. Is the president down with this . Nobody is really sure. Just now, just now i said wait a minute. I got to take care of my people from texas. I got to go. I dont even want to hear about it. I dont want to hear about it. But i had a choice. I could have stayed out there and listened or could have come out to the people of el paso and texas. I chose you. So. So theres that, but what about the conservative allies to ended up helping sync the last shutdown deal . Well any republican that supports this garbage compromise, youll have to explain. So my colleague Geoff Bennett is at the white house. Kasie hunt oh on capitol hill. Fill me in, and jeff, let me start with you. When i spoke with a white house official this morning, they said were looki
more than 2,100 women are now in state legislatures across the country. smashing the previous record. and eight more states are closing in on majority women legislatures. reporter: i wonder what the men are thinking right now? i think they re thinking how they can get into the smoke filled room full of women now, right? reporter: what s your message to the men in the legislature? we re equally at the table, if not more of us there. we re here. we re not going away. so let s get to work. reporter: so much work to be done. danielle moreno, she came up through the foster care system and was adopted. her mother took her to a city council meeting when she thinks she was five or six. and she said at that age she looked around the room and realized the people making decisions were white men. well, no more. that is that image of the women sitting around in the
smoke filled room is evocative. danielle is in a leadership position. what about women more broadly in those leadership positions? reporter: that s another great piece of news. all around the country, the more women you have in the legislature, the more seniority, the more chances they have to get into leadership. three out of the five house leaders are women. four out of six in the senate. that sets them up for who knows what. karen bass, the congresswoman from california was the first speaker of the house. this is about starting that process, when they re very young. maybe not five or six right, that s very young. very cool, indeed. thank you so much for bringing us that great reporting from nevada. time to get a check with a couple other fabulous women on what our sources are saying. shawna, i want to start with you. you re talking about a man who a
the news at 11:00 starts right now. nbc bay area news starts now. this morning we begin with breaking news. we ve just learned the chancellor of the uc system is stepping down at the end of 2012. robert has not explained why he s quitting after eight years on the job. in a statement, he says, quote, i am deeply grateful to have been entrusted with the profound responsibility of leading this great institution through one of the most challenging periods in its 144-year history. now, of course, much of the difficulty coming during several protests dealing with budget cuts and that occupy movement. this is the chaotic confrontation between students and police on the cal campus last november after protesters refused to take down tents at the plaza. four cal students and a professor now facing charges for their roles in that protest. they re accused of resisting arrest along with other charges. the defendants accuse officers of using excessive force, hitting them with batons as