37 years and former head of special operations. Hillary clinton fan. Special operations excuse me. Hillary clinton backer and obama backer and frankly hes a navy s. E. A. L. Wouldnt it be nice if we got Osama Bin Laden a lot sooner than that . Back to that drama in a moment, but we begin with an important legal drama for the president and most curious words by one of his closest aides. The deadline to submit his written answers to Robert Mueller. The president said he finished them last week and they will be handed over this week. We know he was angry about some of the questions. Robert muelle takes a dim view for those who lied to him. He reserves the right to come back and ask for a facetoface meeting on some issues. The president said the written answers are likely his final act of cooperation. I think we wasted enough time on this witch hunt. The answer is probably. Were finished. The president s witch hunt refrain has been a constant. Absolutely no collusion is another. This morni
U. S. Border agents firing tear gas after hundreds of migrants trying to push their way at the port of entry near san diego. Forcing the closures for hours at the nations busiest border crossing. President trump today tweeted this. Mexico should move the flagwaving migrants, many of whom are stone hold criminals, back to their country. They are not coming into the usa. We will close the border permanently if need be. Congress funded the wall on that side of the border is tijuana. Harris, the situation into you has gone down significantly by Border Patrol agents are on standby and ready to respond to Something Like yesterday were to happen again. Thats when a huge group of migrants from the tijuana side of things ended up breaking on from this margin demonstration, crossing over this canal where they rushed up to this exact border wall. And thats when things got out of hand. Take a look at some of this video, four Border Patrol agents reported being hit with rocks or large pieces of cem
Now as it stands right now, democrats have picked up 39 seats in the house of representatives. That is the biggest gain in the house seats by democrats since watergate. But even that fact doesnt really capture what happened in these midterms. The Cook Political Report has been keeping a tally of the votes cast for either party in house races across the country. And according to their latest count, Democratic House candidates got over 9 million more votes than republican candidates. That is the largest margin in the history of midterm elections. Democrats lead republicans by 8. 1 Percentage Points. Thats a bigger lead than republicans had in wave elections in 1994 and in 2010. And beyond the house, democrats picked up seven governorships, even winning in kansas, a state the president carried by almost 21 points and unseating republican scott walker in wisconsin. They picked up 332 state legislative seats across this country, and that could still grow. Since his press conference on novem
The Border Patrol is confirming 42 individuals were apprehended on the u. S. Side. The president tweeting about the crisis writing mexico should move the flag waving migrants many of whom are stone cold criminals back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it any way you want. But they are not coming into the u. S. We dont want to be in cage or the prison. You saw an escalation where russian vessels rammed yukrainin military ships. We have deep concern of an escalation and violation of international law. President putin will do, go as far as the free world will let him go. Okay. In addition to that, we have breaking news. General motors announced sweeping layoffs today for the north american employees. Nearly 15,000 workers are expected to lose their jobs. The Restructuring Plan to shut five factories, three that produce cars for foreign markets. Ohio, michigan and ontario facility completely shut down in canada. Two powertrain plants in maryland and michigan, as well. On
Reporting begins now. Our reporting begin begins with President Trump telling fox news he will not overrule the account acting attorney general math Matthew Whittaker if he puts restrictions on the russian investigation. Three Senate Democrats filed a lawsuit challenging whittakers appointment. They argue the president sidesteps the constitution because the senate has not confirmed him. They say anybody who watch schoolhouse rock would realize that. The state of maryland is also filed a lawsuit arguing the president should have chosen the Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. They say whittakers appointment is lawful. In the past whittaker criticized muellers investigation in the 2016 and talked bow the how the attorney general could cut funding. Whittaker said there was no collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. The president agrees. He didnt know whittakers stand in advance. The real question here is whittaker in charge as a partisan to protect President Trump . John