The system work better. So you heard him say it with my lawful authority. Republicans say he will be overstepping his authority. Joining me to discuss this is dana bash. Were getting new details about what the president will announce. What are your sources telling you . Reporter that hes going to talk about executive action that he believes he can take to allow most children of immigrants who came here not by their own volition but with their parents, socalled dreamers, to stay in the u. S. Legally. And the flip side to allow some parents of children who are here to stay legally. Its probably about 3 million to 4 Million People all told that were talking about in a universe of what is suspected to be about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. So it certainly is a very big sector of the population that were talking about, but here on capitol hill as you can imagine, don, the reaction is pretty fierce from republicans saying that they really wanted to do this legislat
Glor good evening, im jeff glor. This is our western edition of the broadcast. The white house confirmed this afternoon, what isis claimed this morning, american peter kissig has been executed. Kassig who was just 26yearsold had been held since last october, he becomes the fifth western hostage beheaded by isis. Two other americans and two from britain were previously killed. The newest video, however is much different than before. We have two reports tonight beginning with julianna goldman. This is peter edward kassig. A u. S. Citizen of your country. Reporter like previous isis execution videos, this one features the same blackmasked killer with a british accent known as jihadi john. But kassig did not appear kneeling in an orange jump suit befire he was killed and did not make a statement. The 15 minute video also identified the militants location and shows isis soldiers executing syrian officers. There also wasnt an additional western hostage at the end. National security advisor s
House, the senate, the white house, what they may not have control of is their caucus. Mitch mcconnell needs democrats, but that aint happening, so the scramble is on in the senate. Wheres the president in all this . One public event on his calendar this afternoon, but in about 29 minutes well see two of his top advisers inside this Briefing Room live to answer questions about all of this. Before that briefing, we get to ask our questions of white house director of legislative affairs marc short. Hes joining this show in moments. First, kasie hunt on capitol hill. The senate is starting work this morning and now just less than an hour, you have Mick Mulvaney, who heads the office of management and budget telling reporters at the white house a couple seconds ago chances of the shutdown are now a coin flip, basically. Whats the expectation . That sounds a little rosy to me, to be honest, hallie, at least from the view on capitol hill. Its really basically, whats happened here is both sid
The government after a threeday shutdown. Good morning to you. Im jon scott. Melissa im melissa francis. The president praising a big win for republicans after congress voted for a stopgap funding bill but it is a different picture on the other side of the aisle with democrats blasting Chuck Schumer for agreeing to the deal. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders saying that democrats had no choice but to compromise. Democrats realized that the position that they had taken frankly was indefensible and that they had to focus on first funding our military, protecting Border Patrol agents, funding Vulnerable Children through the chip program. These were things that they didnt disagree with. Melissa this could be only a ceasefire in the shutdown battle with a new fight looming over Immigration Reform. John roberts is live on the north lawn. Good morning, melissa. Start with a headline here and it is a headline because we just learned about it. Not that it just happened. Fox news has con
Took last week in illinois, we are still here. We are coming back, ready to go again. We are still here. Some of us survived. Dagen yall kind of took a beating in the house. He adam it could have been way worse. Melissa i like the attitude. Dagen optimism. Melissa the importance of the Florida Senate race growing now as republican Martha Mcsally concedes to democrat Kyrsten Sinema and the race for senate in arizona. The democrat victory there to guarantees that they will hold at least 47 senate seats, shrinking the size of the republican majority. This adding to the tension in florida as Election Officials in Broward County and around the state work to complete the mandatory recount by thursday. Now, democrat senator bill nelson calling on his g. O. P. Challenger, governor rick scott, to recuse himself from any role in the process. Rick scott isnt interested in making sure that every lawful vote is counted. He is using his power as governor to try and undermine the voting process. He s