Interoperability with our allied brethrens. When it comes to migration especially from the caribbean, do you support the feet dry policy . How have recent diplomatic efforts in cuba likely to affect that . Ill let you draw your conclusions. We have brandnew response cutters. They are great platforms. There was an expectation that a migration policy was going to change around christmas. It didnt but that was the perception back in cuba so we had a spike in migration. We were able to apprehend almost every one of those boats destined for the florida coastline. But then it takes five days to go through a screening process before these folks are brought back to cuba. Within the last two weeks we had two my grants that shot themselves, then were medevacd before we apprehended them so they were medevacd back to the United States. We have others that will selfmutilate to do whatever it takes to get their feet dry in the United States. Meanwhile our crews are trying to safeguard these folks fo
Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birthday. Today admiral zukunft will discuss the challenges for the coast guard such as congressional budget struggles a welldebated Cyber Security plan, maintaining a zero tolerance for Sexual Assault and a fleet in high need of modernization and sheer numbers to tackle the next 225 years. Please give a warm National Press club welcome to the commandant of the United States coast guard admiral paul zukunft zukunft. [ applause ] jeff, thank you for the flattering introduction, and i had a chance to m
Capital all coming to you less than 30 minutes from now. Between now and then we have news to bring you. Here are the top business headlines. I knew a. 2 stake in a natural gas company. Carl icahn a wellknown activist thinks this Companies Shares are undervalued. He wants talks with Company Management and might seek board seats. Shares are down 8 this year but in the premarket up 5 on the strength of this new stake taken by carl icahn. A new discount website is reportedly getting the Cold Shoulder from retailers the wall street journal says macys, amazon, home depot, are complaining about jet. Com they say theyll using links to their site without remission and companys are withdrawing products. Bank of america is planning on selling 1. 2 billion dollars of mostly illiquid home loans bloomberg reports there are selling five pools of nonperforming debt loans that have been modified and resumed payments and some have not defaulted. The move would extend a series of sales. A today matt a t
Apple, everyones darling share, in the bear territory at the moment. Well wait to see what happens monday. Everybody is saying dont panic if youre in for the long haul. The Federal Reserve is expected to meet in september and there is some concern that it will raise rates. Were following some breaking news out of new york city right now where a federal agent has been shot. It happened late this afternoon near huston street in unanimous hatten. Wcbs is in manhattan. Wcbs is reporting that the agent and suspect were both shot. The building is reportedly on lockdown following the shooting. Youre looking at the area live, again a federal agent shot in new york city. Well bring you more information as we get it in. Were following a developing story in france where three people were shot on a high speed train traveling from amsterdam to paris. Police say the 26yearold gun man was armed but was attacked by two americans and the train was stopped. Two of the victims are in critical condition.
Houston, sylvester turner. After a brutal august, a nowweakened President Trump faces a challenging september. I am fully committed to working with congress, and i dont want to be disappointed by congress. Do you understand . Can he get a budget passed, raise the debt limit, keep the government open, get his border wall funded . Ill talk to republican senator roy blunt of missouri. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc News White House correspondent kristen welker. Matthew continetti. Susan page. And eddie glaude of princeton university. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Were going to get to the latest on the flooding in texas and the Recovery Efforts in a moment. But we begin with some very big news overnight while you were sleeping. North korea carried out its sixth nuclear test and claims that it has