That is such a great development. There were so many concerns about her. Welcome to early start, everybody. Seemed like hope had been lost. Friday, january 11th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. That means day 21 of the Government Shutdown. Tomorrow it becomes the longest in u. S. History. The administration now actively looking for funds to use for building a border barrier if and when President Trump declares a National Emergency. One prime source under consideration, billions of unspent Defense Department Disaster Recovery money intended to help victims in puerto rico, texas, florida and california. The president now warning he will declare a National Emergency if talks with democrats to end the Government Shutdown stay at standstill. If this doesnt work out, probably i will do it. I would almost say definitely. This is a National Emergency. Such a declaration would be subject to an Immediate Court challenge and even trumps advisers have told him that it probably would not work legally. But
Financial crimes and had agreed to cooperate with the mueller investigation. The judge issued an order saying that manafort lied in three of those topics and that the lies were, quote, material to the investigation. Two of those lies the judge said had to do with manaforts former business associate, konstanin kilimnick. Prosecutors allege that kilimnick is an operative with russian intelligence and say that manafort shared sensitive polling data with kilimnick during a meet last year at a cigar bar in new york. We dont know what ills happened at that meeting but prosecutors say it was important enough that manafort lied about it and that those who attended even left by separate exits perhaps to avoid detection. The judge has yet to decide how long manafort will spend in prison and whether he gets any time for admitting to his crimes. Christine and dave. Evan perez, thank you for that. If all goes according to plan a bipartisan Border Security bill could be on President Trumps desk by t
We as a government feel absolutely confident that the vast majority of New Zealanders will support this change. Reporter so how is this going to work . Many people, gun owners who had some of these category guns as of 3 00 in the afternoon on thursday here in new zealand suddenly those guns are illegal. And the police have announced that there is going to be the activation of this website this weekend where people can register their weapons to surrender them. The government is estimating that it will cost the equivalent of between 70 million and 140 million for subsequent gun buyback scheme. And they are also taking measures that we dont quite know what they are yet to ensure that people dont stockpile like you get sometimes in the u. S. When there is talk of gun safety reform where people run out and rush and buy guns. Were not sure what measures that they really took there to try to prevent this. But anecdotally nobody that ive spoken to here in christchurch even ive spoken with has
John mccains grave. And Roberts Kraft wants video and other evidence from his so licitation case kept undr wraps. Welcome to early start. It is thursday, march 21, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Nobody won in the powerball by the way. But we start overseas, Decisive Action from the Prime Minister of new zealand less than a week after 50 people were slaughtered in two christchurch mosques. Jacinda ardern isov joefoverhau her countrys gun laws. New zealand will ban all military style semi automatic weapons. We will also ban all assault rifles. We will ban all high capacity magazin magazines. We will ban all parts with the ability to convert any firearm into a military style semi automatic weapon. The Prime Minister also announcing a buy back program to encourage New Zealanders who own automatic weapons to surrender them. Lets bring in ivan watson. Is there any opposition to these really swift moves by the Prime Minister . Reporter so far we havent heard an organized opposition. New Zealand Poli