judge jeanine: it s a new year and time for new battles with our justice panel. gentlemen, welcome back and happy new year. chris, i m going to start with you. you know, the democrats are bemoaning the fact that the non-essential federal employees. in some parks departments in certain states, agriculture and interior, non-essential jobs are not being paid. but they will be paid the back pay when the shutdown is over. but the president stays in washington, doesn t take a vacation. your employer, chuck schumer is on vacation. they are bemoaning the federal employees. yet they don t stay in washington to work it out. they go on vacation. how do they justify that. they have phones and
father was killed in a gang-related shooting, that according to police. so really this video helped to kind of push it over the edge. so what s next for the family? reporter: well, you know, the question that we ve been trying to track down, when will the toddler when will his mother be placed into this foster care home? will it be tomorrow? will it be next week? right now, that s still unclear. but, again, the one thing we do know is that both of them will be in the same foster care home under supervision. george, appreciate it. a lot to talk about with our justice panel, sunny hostin and mark geragos. sunny, what do you make of this? is this the best thing for the mother and the child? i do. i think we need to remember that the mother is a child as well. she was only 17 years old. so to have them together and to not rip apart that part of the family i think is very important. in these kinds of cases, the issue is, what is in the best interests of the child. and you have two
family? reporter: well, you know, the question that we ve been trying to track down, when will the toddler when will his mother be placed into this foster care home? will it be tomorrow? will it be next week? right now, that s still unclear. but, again, the one thing we do know is that both of them will be in the same foster care home under supervision. george, appreciate it. a lot to talk about with our justice panel, sunny hostin and mark geragos. sunny, what do you make of this? is this the best thing for the mother and the child? i do. and we have to remember, the mother is a child as well. she was only 17 years old. so to have them together and to not rip apart that part of the family is very important. in these kinds of cases, the issue is, what is in the best interests of the child. and you have two children here. so what is in the best interests of the mother and what is in the best interests of the 2-year-old. and i think this is probably the right way to go. mark, d
question that we ve been trying to track down, when will the toddler when will his mother be placed into this foster care home? will it be tomorrow? will it be next week? right now, that s still unclear. but, again, the one thing we do know is that both of them will be in the same foster care home under supervision. george, appreciate it. a lot to talk about with our justice panel, sunny hostin and mark geragos. sunny, what do you make of this? is this the best thing for the mother and the child? i do. and we have to remember, the mother is a child as well. she was only 17 years old. so to have them together and to not rip apart that part of the family is very important. in these kinds of cases, the issue is, what is in the best interests of the child. and you have two children here. so what is in the best interests of the mother and what is in the best interests of the 2-year-old. and i think this is probably the right way to go. mark, do you agree with that? you and sunny oft
reporter: investigators at this point are still trying to determine the identities of the two people who died in this fire. we are expecting another news conference in the next hour and a half, and we will pass any information along as we get it. george howl, the great news looking behind you right now, no smoke this morning. truly a welcomed vision. coming up our justice panel, looking at the case of the youngest person ever on death row. she was just 16 years old. why she gained freedom just a short while ago. you ll never guess who now supports her freedom.