us needs to be doing our due diligence. republicans and democratic leaders are going to have a lot of work ahead of them and keeping conferences together. democrats up for reelection in just a few months and senate leaders are going to have to try to keep their conferences together. a lot to be watching for up on capitol hill, brooke. lauren, thank you. travis, welcome. hi brooke, great to be with you. this has to be exciting for you potentially and going through all of these different discussions over who he is, there is this massive focus on kavanaugh s opinion. this is senator minority chuck schumer today on precisely that point. he even argued that sitting
on the message. steven, there was a bbc reporter in the room, and he asked the vice president a simple question, who do we believe? it s either do we believe mr. vice president, what you are saying, or do we also believe what the president has been saying. as the deputy national security adviser to vice president cheney, how did you thread that needle at times? well, there is always one president at a time. and anyone who is going on behalf of the president is doing exactly that, speaking on behalf of the president. really, though, this discussion about balancing our alliances and addressing this funding issue has been out there for a very, very long time it was discussed when i was in the white house before, it was discussed in the white house before i got there. and the or else part of it, it may be abrupt and inelegant and may make people uncomfortable but their relative comfort in the last decades has left a lot of these major nations underresourcing their own
beach, florida. also of note, general keith kellogg remains the national security council chief of staff. president making the announcement at mar-a-lago. barbara starr at the pentagon joins me live with explaining exactly who this three-star lieutenant general is, and his experience, barbara. reporter: hi brooke. oddly enough, general mcmaster is in an army job, a very senior job, grant you but he is involved in army training and doctrine. something very sort of inside the weeds. but he is a veteran of multiple tours in iraq and afghanistan. he has worked for the u.s. central command. he knows that region of the world very well in the years that he rose to become the three-star general that he currently is. this is his expertise, this part of the word. he s going to have to deal with some other areas. he has also served in germany. he knows europe. not a lot of experience as much
nation basically, exist along our nation s border with mexico. the work continues. the men and women of the border patrol continue to do an outstanding job. today as we speak, the men and women at the ports of entry are doing a great job and we re seeing more apprehensions of narcotics at the port of entry literally because of the work being done between the ports of entry. it s being forced towards the ports of entry. you would know. you would know. sure this is your realm of expertise. david and gloria and lou, stand by if you will. i want to bring in jeremy diamond who is on the phone. he s one of our cnn political reporters and he s actually on the ground there in right along the border. he s traveling in the midst of this scrum in laredo texas. you re there, you heard that news conference. what of all of this has resonated down there? hi brooke. we just left the press
up his hands. at that time he was shot when he didn t comply. i want to bring in craig cain retired u.s. marshal who has some thoughts on all of this. good to see you, sir. hi brooke. let s just begin with the fact that we now know there was a lot of talk, were they together, did they separate according to sweat who is now talking that sweat ditched matt about five days ago. he was sick, slowing him down. do you think that their separation was the beginning of the end? yes i believe so. why? because these two gentlemen, when they escaped, they had some kind of plan going. the plan fell apart. so both of them were feeding off each other. i believe that you know the limited knowledge they had about survival in the woods separately it could have been more of a problem for them. but together i think that they