White house. Good morning, al. This morning First Response from the white house to north Koreas Nuclear test overnight. Of course it comes in the form of president ial tweets. The president writing, quote, north korea has conduct add Major Nuclear test. Their words and actions continue to be hostile and dangerous to the United States. North korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china, this is trying to help but with little success. A couple of thoughts off the bat just reading these tweets. First, the first confirmation of any kind from the United States government that this was, in fact, a nuclear test of the north koreans. Thats important, they have misrepresented their accomplishments along the way. Second you hear the president say its hostile and dangerous to the United States specifically. Not just to allies and friends in the region. Having a specific threat in the
United States and viewing the action through that prism could decide how to
Tucker and rich neighborhood to get help. The problem is as mark stein likes to say eventually run out of neighborhoods. Spoon the other assumption that drives me is that when advocates for illegal immigration say we will grant amnesty to x number of people, is that the actual number and your studies suggest the numbers are much bigger. Clearly much bigger. If, for instance, Congress Just amnesty to the people who have this daca amnesty. 700,000 people. We are talking at least a million and a half people over the next number of years that would be coming after them. But thats actually the narrowest possibility. Senator durbin and senator Lindsey Graham have a bill that would not just look at those young people who are covered by this daca amnesty but would open a whole new can of worms from scratch. Tucker we admit about
1. 1 million Illegal Immigrants are here and thats the number i always go with but thats not the real number it sounds like. In a sense it is but it would be following
Contact us by the disgust he felt watching Media Coverage of the russia story. Not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. The russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 president ial campaign. Intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. He just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. The story he told us is astonishing. We will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. At first, heres an overview of what he told us. Media reports describe Paul Manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as Donald Trumps campaign chairman. According to our source, thats only half true. He is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. In fact, Paul Manafort spent years working with the Podesta Group on behalf of russian governme
Armed and agitated man pulling up plants in the garden of what investigators are calling a rastafarian church. Two officers shot. Reporter the deputies hit one taking multiple bullets. Whats your condition . Shot in the leg. Shot in the shoulder. Copy. Shot in the leg. Shot in the shoulder. Medical is en route. Reporter the suspect, taking off on foot, a massive search under way. Roads closed, a Tactical Team on the ground and residents on high alert. David, both deputies were airlifted to the hospital for surgery and the Department Says they are in serious condition tonight. David . Kenneth moton, our thanks to you tonight. And to baltimore this evening. Major questions about police tampering. A newly released bodycam video. This appears to show a Police Officer planting evidence in a car. Authorities say he did not realize, perhaps his bodycam was rolling. Heres abcs steve osunsami. Did anybody check this compartment here yet . Reporter this newly discovered video was uncovered by so
Who is our person of the week. Good evening and its great to have you with us on a friday night. We end the week with the breaking headline from the white house. President trump demanding the resignation of tom price, the secretary of health and Human Services is out. Hell be replaced at midnight tonight comes after Spending Hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money on luxury jets and that list of Cabinet Members under fire for spending is growing. Epa chief scott pruitt. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, interior secretary ryan zinke and Top Republicans are demanding an investigation and mary bruce on how much of your money taxpayer dollars has been spent and the questions now mounting tonight. Reporter as he boarded Air Force One tonight, it sounded like the president had made up his mind about Health Secretary tom price. Im disappointed in him. Hes a good man, but im disappointed in him. Reporter just minutes
before, abcs jon karl asked the president if price was going to last.