Committee, several other things crashing at the same time. And the news reports were, out of the white house, that the president was angry, and so, he just struck out and decided to push tariffs, and he did it without talking to any of his economic advisers. He lost his most able economic adviser, gary cohn. And then fastforward a couple days, and the president is consumed in the story of a payoff to a porn star, which now were hearing he was angry at his press secretary for right. Mistakenly telling the truth. For mistakenly telling the truth. And suddenly, you have the Foreign Policy community shocked and caught off guard by the most significant announcement a commander in chief could make in 2018. So, tariffs, and north korea all to distract from a president that didnt go through the proper channels or use the proper interagency processes once. Well, thats exactly right, on both tariffs and this stunning north korea announcement. It appears to have done in a pretty ad hoc manner. Wh
The release of the democrats memo. What they did is said, look, you need to make some redactions and technical corrections here, and well get it out right away. Now, from that point, weve heard nothing but crickets. This is a president who puts his own personal interest above the National Security interest of the country. They claimed when they released the republican memo this was in the issue of full transparency and the white house people saying full transparency, well, apparently full transparency only goes so far. The white house maintaining it will release the document once the democrats make the necessary changes. The president is inclined to declassify the memo. It went through the same process, Legal Counsel and National Security team looked at it, and they feel that it needs reveals sources and methods that were not the case in the republican memo, so now itsing about it back to the congress, george, so that they can do what they need to do, so that the memo can be released.
Now, this trip no doubt will give President Trump another chance to show that he will not approve any funding deal in a didnt include money for his border wall. A wall that we know now the president wants made of steel. He stipulated that in a letter to the senate. For more, we turn to pamela brown. And pamela, talk to me first just about addressing the nation tomorrow night and also this visit to the border thursday. Reporter so the president just recently tweeted saying that he will give an address to the nation on the, quote, humanitarian and National Security crisis on our southern border. He said that address will happen tomorrow night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. What is unclear is which networks if any have accepted the white houses request for this primetime address. The president using his bully pulpit to make his case to the American Public for border wall funding. Of course that is the main Sticking Point as this Government Shutdown goes into its third week. It is unusual for the
Brown has been in prison for murder that she claims was self defense. The man charged in connection enth the shooting death of Jazmine Barnes was back in court today. B eric black, jr. , is now charged with capital murder. Dramatic video out of texas. Police and Good Samaritans all working together to rescue an elderly man from this burning car. Police say that man would not cave survived if it were not for Good Samaritans. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg misses oral arguments for the First Time Since joining the Supreme Court. She is working from home while she continues to recuperate from surgery. A man follows a woman into a karate studio after trying to kidnap her. The suspect was on a stretcher. Always know where the nearest karate studio is. Yes. Glor good evening. Im jeff glor. This is our western edition. Well begin here with a deepening standoff over the partial Government Shutdown now in day 17. Out of more than two million federal workers, 800,000 remain furloughed or are workin
The question echoing around the world, whats next . We only know for certain that tehran has vowed harsh revenge for the death of Qasem Soleimani. A funeral going on right now for the deputy leader for the leader of the militia in iraq who died alongside soleimani. Despite dramatically raising the risk of conflict, the Trump Administration has no qualms about taking out soleimani. U. S. Officials say intelligence pointed to his plotted imminent attacks against americans. Heres what the u. S. Secretary of state and the u. S. President said on friday. President trumps decision to remove Qasem Soleimani from the battlefield saved american lives. He was plotting in the region to take action, a big action, as he described it, that would have put dozens, if not hundreds of american lives at risk. This was imminent. It was an intelligencebased assessment that drove our process. He was working actively and was disrupted. We take comfort in knowing that his reign of terror is over. We took acti