Isnt bluffing. He says hes not, keeping him honest, what if he is . What if republicans dont support him . And what will this do to american consumers, workers and farmers. John berman here for anderson, lets stipulate from the getgo, there is a real humanitarian crisis on the border. We learned more than 144,000 migrants were arrested or detained at the Mexican Border in may. Thats the highest arrest record in 13 years. No doubt, this is a real problem. Thats not really in dispute. Its how the president deals with it that it is. The president has tried to address it in any number of ways. He threatened to close the border entirely. He separated families, locking up children. Today we learned the administration is doing even more. The Washington Post reports, im quoting here from the lead. The Trump Administration is canceling english classes, recreational programs and legal aide for unaccompanied minors in migrant shelters nationwide, saying the influx of the southern border has creat
Thats the highest arrest record in years. No doubt, this is a real problem. Thats not really in dispute. Its how the president deals with it that it is. The president has tried to address it in any o number of days. He separated families, locking up children. Today we learned the administration is doing even more. The Washington Post reports, im quoting here from the lead. The Trump Administration is canceling english classes, recreational programs and legal aide for unaccompanied minors in migrant shelters nationwide, saying the influx of the southern border has created critical budget precious. Again the very real crisis. The very real problem continues because conditions have not improved in those northern triangle countries. A problem that might be even worse since the president cut off aid to them as a punitive measure. Many thought how far a dollar can go in slowing the flow of migrants, compared to what is being spent to detail and house migrants here. Now as you know, the presi
Reduce our trade deficit substantially, promote fairness and reciprocity and unlock opportunities for growth. In the United States these deals are a game changer for our farmers and our ranchers. We love our farmers and our ranchers. We have been working hard on this. Providing them with significantly enhanced access with a critical foreign market. In a moment ill be honoring a lot of the folks in the room that are here with us from farm country. Ranch country. And were going to be witnessing a historic signing by ambassador lightheiser, ambassador from japan. Neil were going to continue monitoring the president s remarks on signing a deal with japan. This does not need congressional approval. If he touches on other developments, whats going on in syria and the troop commitments, well let you know as well as the appearance of other whistle blowers who could be coming forward. Up close and personal as we lead is the president s taxes for years. It has been democrats holy grail. As a can
To congress. They link him to look into joe biden. Bill as we await the democrat leading the inquiry, chairman adam schiff will hold a News Conference in 30 minutes and talk to reporters. Lets go to Catherine Herridge on the hill today. Good morning. Good morning. In the last few minutes ive spoken with a u. S. Government official who told me some of the thinking behind this mornings decision to at least temporarily block the sfwir view with Gordon Sondland. The view of the white house and state department is House Democrats arent playing by the rules and established procedures and once they do that the administration would be willing to cooperate on some level. The reason Gordon Sondland matters the september Text Messages he exchanged with a top u. S. Diplomat to the ukraine bill taylor. They read taylor, are we now saying Security Assistance and white house meeting, reference to a meeting with the ukrainian leader and the president are conditioned on investigations . Sondland said c
Senator mcconnell and general keane and nikki haley who you see on the wall there reportedly many at the pentagon disagree with this decision, but the president is at this point want to go his own way. So far only held only rand paul seems to be on his side. Leaving three or 400 people in an area that are vulnerable could lead to catastrophe, but it also doesnt do anything to secure our National Security. I think the best answer is that we dont have all the answers. The people there will always have more at stake in the game. Martha at a moment, adam kinzinger, one of the many republicans against this move. We start tonight with Jennifer Griffin and her reporting on this throughout the day of the pentagons reaction. Good evening. Senior pentagon officials tell me the president has not taken a decision to pull all u. S. Troops out of syria. The president of turkey indicated late sunday and that phone call with President Trumps that his military plans move into Northern Syria and at that