Highly transparent piece of political gamesmanship. Meanwhile another 1,000 people are genuinely risking their lives, they are trying to make it to the border. Congress so far as to be nothing to provide them with an orderly system to be processed. A fence system that encourages them to risk everything long on coyotes across the border. Juan williams on that issue at the heart of all of this. Border security and a moment, first live on the scene in honduras. Steve harrigan, good evening. Good evening we just crossed over that border from honduras into guatemala. People were held up, migrants at the border today for several hours while their identities were tracked. Also looking for criminals. Weve been washing them come across this Mountain Road, it is mainly young men we are seeing also some families, parents with small children and sometimes if not the parents caring them. Heres what we saw. We are seeing mainly small groups of five to ten people, some of them meet along the caravan.
Im brooke baldwin. Hours from now the government will be on the verge of the l g longest shutdown in history. 800,000 workers are seeing this. A big fat zero in their paychecks today. The first pay period since the shutdown began. And millions more are directly impacted. The families of these workers, the contractors who havent been able to work, families who, like 3 out of 4 americans, live paycheck to paycheck who are worried about paying rent, paying the mortgage, paying for groceries, medicine, gas, daycare. They are the ones worried and fearful today. Meantime, airports at risk. Food inspections, risk. Americas credit rating, the work of the fbi, National Parks closed, but hes the fact. This is an american embarrassment. And i want you to keep this in mind. This is a selfinflicted problem. A problem made by leaders who are playing politics. If thats not enough, the senate is gone. Many went home as workers struggle. The bottom line, many federal employees are working without getti
Ludicrous. They say they launched a report after President Trump fired director, james comey. Bill another report saying the president concealed details from Senior Administration officials. Sandra trump has been firing off tweets all weekend and all morning with response. On the congressional side, lawmakers are reacting. I would like to know who leaked it, because they have an agenda not very friendly to President Trump. I dont trust what i read in the New York Times. Na was a concerning, eve en alarming report. It suggests the Mueller Investigation needs to continue. Sandra doug has the latest from the white house. Good morning. The president has been picking his travels very carefully as the Government Shutdown enters its 24th straight day, the longest on the record. Visits to troopers, a good thing, visits to puerto rico, not such a good thing. The president has tried to encourage their spirits. He tweeted at 7 20 this morning, getting ready to address the Farm Convention today in
House cannot weaken the obamacare mandate. And serious security questions after a passenger with a gun was allowed to fly. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Happy monday, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Day 24 of the Government Shutdown. We start with two extraordinary stories. The Washington Post reporting that the president went to extraordinary lengths to conceal details evof his conversations with Vladimir Putin. Among the unusual steps he took, con physicfis among the unusual steps he took, con physicficating his own interpretsers notes after a meeting. And that following another shocker in the New York Times that Law Enforcement officials were so concerned by the firing of then fbi director james comey, they began investigating whether the president was working on behalf of russia. Trump was asked about that report on fox news and did not exactly deny it. Are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. President . I think it is the most insulting thing ive ever been asked. I thin
Allen. Newsroom starts next. 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. We are learning that the actions the u. S. President , it was a question asked, was the u. S. President a threat to National Security. The New York Times says that question prompted the fbi to take actions. The fbi looked into whether donald trump, the sitting u. S. President was working on behalf of russia and against american interest. According to the times, the federal agency started the investigation because it was worried about mr. Trumps behavior after he fired fbi director, james comey. It was triggered by mr. Trumps own words, which he said he dismissed comey because of the russia inquiry. To be clear, we dont know if Robert Mueller is pursuing that probe as part of his own investigation in the russia collusion. We spoke to an author of the New York Times report. Here is what he had to say. When the fbi started investigating President Trump, the day comey was fired, there was two elements, one was the criminal el