station in queens. no aliens at this time but we will continue to be vigilant, monitoring it into 2019. by the way, some district court will say that trump has to let in all those aliens, you know that s coming. that s it for us, have a terrific night. welcome to this s gregg: welcome to the special edition of hannity : a trump agenda. i m gregg jarrett in four sean tonight. it s day seven of the partial government shutdown. president trump not backing down from its efforts to fund the ever important while on our southern border. tonight he tweeted, let s quote here, we will be forced to close the southern border entirely. the obstructionist democrats do not give us the money to finish the wall and also change that.
women and children. we re working to lift up the voices of muslim scholars, clerics and others including defectors. but just after the president spoke a bipartisan congressional task force dropped a highly critical report saying the united states is failing to stop americans from traveling abroad to join isis. let s bring in nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell and foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. thank you for being here. your head must be spinning. been a busy day, andrea. this report just released, let s quote from it. the joint task force of congress saying of the hundreds of americans who sought to travel to the battlefield in syria several dozen have also managed to make it back into america after traveling overseas. exactly. this is we said scathing. i mean, this is exactly what
that s a very interesting question for it to leave it on carol. thank you for calling in this morning. i greatly appreciate it. of course brian. thanks for having me. thank you. the initial washington post story, one of the many reporters who followed up was markhambinder. he heard the crash story, heard the word crash wrote a piece about this headline. hi i m the secret service, and i m an alcoholic. now he s deeply regreeding what he wrote. he says the story is greatly exaggerated. let s quote what he wrought other day. i have no excuse other than what i was basing my opinion on the facts that other news outlets reported. the problem with stories like these, the initial impressions stick and the corrects don t. the press can report something fantastic, a bunch of inaccuracies and slowly walk it over a few days until the original story no longer resembles current version. all i can do is write about my mistake. let s hear what mark thinks about this.
and is the way in texas ultimately going to be the way it works out for the country as republicans everywhere figure out how bad the math is for them. joining us is wayne slater, senior political writer for dallas morning news. he s had the pleasure of covering the republican state convention this week. wayne, it s great to see you and have you here. great to be with you, rachel, as always. let me ask you about this convention versus texas republican conventions past. they re always kind of amazing and always huge. is it more contentious than it usually is on this immigration issue specifically or any of the other things they re changing or tweaking? it is contentious. it was contentious two years ago. it was somewhat contentious four years ago. the key here is, let s quote, reasonable folks among the republicans who, as you have so well set up in the set-up piece, are worried about the future of the party and alienating every hispanic potential voter from el paso to lubbock, are
ultimately going to be the way it works out for the country as republicans everywhere figure out how bad the math is for them. joining us is wayne. he s had the pleasure of covering the republican state convention this week. great to have you here. great to be with you, rachel, as always. let me ask you about this convention versus texas republican conventions past. they re always kind of amazing and always huge. is it more contentious than it usually is on this immigration issue specifically or any of the other things they re changing or tweaking? it is contentious. it was contentious two years ago. it was somewhat contentious four years ago. the key here is, let s quote, reasonable folks among the republicans who, as you have so well set up in the set-up piece, are worried about the future of the party and alienating every hispanic potential voter from el paso to lubbock, are saying we ve got to do something. we can t be the party of no