most are taking a wait and see approach. while we await the white house briefing, let s bring in our analysts. david gregory is with us. sarah murray is with us. and our chief political analyst gloria borger is here. the speaker says a shutdown makes no sense, but it s clearly still very possible. well, yeah, and he s of course blaming the democrats. what he s done is he s proposed a measure that he s not sure will clear the house, but what it does is it dangles, you know, funding for the children s health insurance program in front of democrats for six years. they re hoping they can get some democratic support on that. but even in the house, there are conservatives who don t want to vote for a short-term spending measure. democrats are saying, look, we want to resolve this issue on dreamers as part of this, once and for all. so even if the house does pass it, what do senate democrats do,
firefighters plucking a terrified truck driver from the cab of her big rig as it dangles over the side of the monitor merrimack memorial bridge. she lost control of her truck on i-664 yesterday morning. it actually caught fire for a few minutes after jumping that embankment. firefighters were able to use their truck s rescue bucket to bring her right there to safety. lucky gal. the pictures are so dramatic. can you imagine? wow. thanks zoraida. this morning we re talking about two stories out of cuba. one reports two young florida boys allegedly abducted by their father showing up there. and jay-z and beyonce s controversial trip, too. some have questioned whether it crossed the lyle lines. congresswoman ileana ros-lehtinen is a congresswoman from florida. she was born in cuba and fled with her family when she was 8 years old. welcome to the program. good morning, congresswoman. thank you. good morning, thanks for having me. let s talk first about these two little boys.