million or so people were arrested at the border. now nowadays, it is down to 300,000 to 400,000 and the question is when was the crisis, then or or now? back to you. facts matter, and the facts contradict the white house message here. and thank you, joe johns. now to caple toll hill and manu raja, and really, the key bell weath bellweather here is that a handful of people are driving the shutdown, and is that a growing force? we have to see in the coming days, because the democrats are planning to move forward in the house individual appropriations bills to try to push back on the president, and try to reopen individual agencies and take this and separate the fight from the ongoing border fight of the other agencies such as the transportation department and the ing a ri kagricultural depa
the hard-line agenda that are not popular and the expense of border control and security that command broad support. will there are things that the president could be pushing right now that would be broadly popular in terms of the additional immigration enforcement across the country and interior and the border, but the wall is not one of them. the strategy appears to be making political points for the 2020 run for re-election and it is clear everyday. mark preston and alex burns, thank you. some senators are putting the pressure on colleagues to block all legislation that does not immediately reopen the government. is senator joe mansion on board? and the national security adviser is slamming john bolton saying he made mistakes, and this as mike pompeo is saying
the irs and the treasury department and the interior department and those individual bi bills will move through the house, and the question is if there is enough pressure on the senate republicans to move forward. right now, mitch mcconnell says that he is not going to put the bills on the floor unless it has the president s support. and that is one reason why the vice president mike pence and the homeland security secretary kirstjen neilson is expected to go to the house conference meeting tonight to make sure that the republicans don t defect in large numbers, and large enough to overcome ve veto-proof majority, and this is right are at the moment they are okay from sustaining a veto and the question is if that number grows. at the same time that the president is moving on the emergency declaration side, they need to convince the republicans that is the right thing to do and that it is not going to be tied up in court. i had a chance to talk to the senate republican john cornyn of te
happened right after the election? he sent those troops home, and we had 1,500 or 2,000 national guard troops down there and you know how much it costs out there, and it is just so everyone knows over $200 million donald trump did that for political purposes. that is one of the decisions that jim mattis disagreed with and also one of the reasons that led to his resignation. another consequence of the president s lies or misstatements when he is making a case for the national emergency, the fact is that most americans don t believe him and even if some in the base do, and already he has deluded his own credibility. that is dead-on, and it is going to be one of the enormous stories coming out the of the president s address tonight, does he have the capacity to persuade anybody because of the record of making stuff up and saying stuff that is nott tru t and also the record of immigration policy where he has sort of exercised elements of
ar argued against that. they said that the tax refunds could not go out, and so now we are seeing that policy are reversed. it is really directed from the president to try to mitigate those effects of the shutdown as much as possible. now, because of this ruling, milli millions of americans will soon begin filing their tax returns, and that will be able to get the tax refunds, but it also means that irss employees who have been sent home, 90% of that workforce has been furloughed, and they will have tole come back into the work, and many of them, a significant portion of them according to the irs will have to come back to process the are refunds, be but of course o, jim, those employees will not be getting paid. jim. no fun to work without pay. jeremy diamond, thank you very much. employees at federal prisons across the country are feeling the pinch of the government shutdown. in the city of aliceville, alabama, a correctional facility for women is the driving force of the local econ