we have one week to go. a seven-day sprint of the primary season. a portland area backyard, the missing piece ripped from a packed airliner in mid-flight. we have ignition. mission to the moon, the first lunar launch in decades blasts off with the real aim might be mars. that mars mission september a high for us on this monday. hi, even. good day to our viewers. it s monday, january 8th. let s get into it. it s 5:00 a.m. in washington. 4:00 in iowa, where social security just a week before the first votes are cast in the presidential race. republican candidates blanketed iowa over the weekend urging voters to caught cuss for them next month when temperatures are forecast to be in the single digits. got to love iowa. the candidates emphasized iowa s influence on the nomination process and the vital importance of turnout. donald trump continues to dominate polling in iowa, so overwhelmingly that the other candidates struggled to escape talking about him and put the focu
$16 billion in addition to that. and i think mr importantly, what it isn t is what many $30 billion short of what the senate wanted, which includes senate republicans, buts it is pretty much within the parameters of the deal made with president biden last summer. now this is just sort of the first step, the top line funding that they have agreed to at this point, but what about some of the policy sticking issues? where are we in particular with the tie between foreign aid packages and the u.s. southern boarder? those negotiations are still ongoing. it s important to know these are two separate funding tracks and the conversation around securing the southern border, who is negotiations that have happened over the holiday break and will continue into this week are going on. and as the further along the war in israel gets, the more frigid that the biden administration
you re working your sources over there. we ll get back to you. phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. you heard the president say if mulch mcconnell and chuck schumer could come up with a reasonable agreement, he would support t definition of a reasonable agreement, though, remains outstanding. doing a lot of work there. one of the key issue bes we ve seen the last four or five weeks is that both parties, regardless, democrat or republican, having a difficult time trying to pin down exactly what the president is for or whether or not the president is willing to move off his $5.7 billion top line funding for the wall. over the course of those comments i was texting back and forth with democratic sources in the house and the senate, about a pro-rated wall down payment over the course of the three-week cr, continued resolution and unanimously democrats are expouresponding t no. democrats both in the house and