Responded to the foray. And the hurricane warnings are in effect as the Tropical Storm barrels in. The path shifting. Could that storm now wreck the holiday for millions of americans . I do not like that path. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im george howell. Im Christine Romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Donald trump talking tough on immigration. Laying out a plan that certainly is not the softening telegraphed over the last week or so. In the highly anticipated speech intended to clear up his positions on the issue, trump laid them out point by fiery point. No amnesty for immigrants in the u. S. Illegally. He called the Deportation Task force. No federal funding for u. S. Sanctuary cities like san francisco. No visas for countries without Adequate Security screening. Here are highlights from the speech. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero. Zero. There are at least 2 million, think of it, criminal aliens now inside of our country. 2 million people. We will begin moving
Trump camp. Will any republicans go along . Striking distance. North korea says its new missile can carry Large Nuclear warhead and threaten the United States. Analysts say the latest test was successful. How great is the danger to the United States, and can anything be done to stop kim jongun . And the new bin laden . As al qaeda makes a comeback, does it is have a dangerous new leader . A new video reveals a chilling threat and a call for revenge from the son of Osama Bin Laden. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. Theres growing fallout tonight from the president s firing of fbi director james comey and his threat that he may have recorded their conversations. President trump says the process for selecting a new director is moving rapidly, and democrats may try to stall the president s pick as they demand a special prosecutor to investigate russias election interference and his contacts with trump associates. The white house insists theres no need for a speci
She comes out in a few moments, will be asked about that. What is not in plan, wolf and it would keep the government running until february 16th of so a fix for daca, the Deferred Action Program for those dreamer kids and young adults who are still in the country but wondering whats going to happen to them come march 5th when that program terminates. So that is also going to be an issue in this Briefing Room, i suspect, because democrats have been saying, hey, we dont want to sign on to another continuing resolution. We want to sign on to a spending plan that includes a daca fix. It just seems that there are too many trains coming into the station at once. What we may end up seeing over the next 48 hours, wolf, is the house, the senate, and this white house putting together some sort of proposal that throws another token in the toll booth to keep the government running for another couple weeks. That all, of course, remains to be seen, but as of this point, the white house has said repe
Say addresses dreamers and Border Security. Dreamers have to border v. That Border Security too. The wall. Democrats saying they will vote against the proposed stop gap measure to keep the government open past friday if a daca fix is not attached. Each political side blaming the other, watch. It makes no sense for democrats to try and bring us to a shut down to try to cut off chip funding for States Running out of money Like Washington and kentucky and other states. I hope cool heads hopefully will prevail on this thing. Only person in washington i believe said would be good to shut down the government was the president himself. I dont think thats what the American People want. Its certainly thought what the Democratic Caucus wants. Harris chief White House Correspondent mike emanuel joins us from capitol hill. Mike . Harris, good afternoon to you. This proposal out there to keep the government up and running to avoid a government shut down would extend government funding 28 days throu
We lead our broadcast tonight with a stunner of a report in the New York Times which says the president wanted to order the criminal prosecution of james comey and Hillary Clinton, according to two people familiar with the conversation. It broke while trump was on air force one on his way to his florida property for the thanksgiving holiday. Times reporting is the work of Michael Schmitt and magle haberman. They write, President Trump told the white House Counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and the former fbi director james comey. The lawyer, don mcgahn, rebuffed the president saying he had no authority to order a prosecution. Mr. Mcbegan said while he could request an investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To underscore his point, mr. Mcgahn had white house lawyers right write a memo for mr. Trump, warning if he ask Law Enforcement to investigate his rivals he could face a