exactly seven minutes ago, director wray convened an svtc, which is a secure video teleconference with the 56 division heads for the fbi. it was discussed in part this matter. now, there are folks on the right that are saying that it s awfully curious that a day after director wray is on the hill taking a look at the #releasethememo, the next day deputy director mccabe steps down. there s folks on the left that are screaming that the despot and autocrat donald trump is has once again put his finger on the scale and weighed in where he shouldn t have. andy mccabe was eligible to retire on march 18th. he was 49 years old. he worked for me as a young s.w.a.t. agent. he had to get to march 18th to have a full 20 years on the job and be age 50, whichever comes later. what happens is you build up vacation days. he probably had a month, two months, maybe three months that he had accrued.
cnn has not been able to verify that these comments were made. this is, obviously, a president who made immigration a focal point of his campaign, of his first year in office. he proposed a travel ban on certainly countries. he has talked about building a border wall. in the weeds of this, he has proposed significant changes to the immigration system including the chain moigration and lotter system. the president has two things on his agenda today. he will do a video teleconference with troops and wishing them a merry christmas on this christmas eve. he will also track santa through norad, that great website that tracks santa across the world. he will also do that this afternoon. dan merica in west palm
your families. that was president trump this morning in a video teleconference with military personnel overseas as tensions continue to escalate with north korea over tough new sanctions approved unanimously by united nations security council on friday. that includes sharply lowered limits on north korea s refined oil imports and tighter restrictions on smuggling. pyongyang responded calling those sanctions, quote, an act of war. joining me is ro khanna. let me have you respond to the rhetoric, what we ve heard from north korea. this has been played back over and over again. have we reached the end of the line about sanctions? it s appalling rhetoric. i give our team credit for getting the sanctions unanimously through with russia and china backing us. north korea s declaring war not just on the united states but also threatening russia and china and every country that
talk with senators there about tax reform. the white house, yes, leeland, they say president trump has talked about tax reform during the thanksgiving break making calls to law makers on the topic. it was a theme of his yesterday when he spoke with troops in the middle east via video teleconference. watch here. president: i especially like saying companies are coming back. now we re working on tax cuts, big fat beautiful tax cuts. hopefully we will get that and you will really see things happen. tuesday shaping up to be a big day. tuesday we know in the oval office will sit down with those four there. the big four. we are told to deal with year end legislative issues. leeland of course that s tax reform. republicans want this done before the end of the year, democrats are not working them on this, and vice vers vice ver.
the gulf of mexico have already been evacuated. as you know, hurricane nate is now the latest storm that fema is responding to, stretching resources and of course funds very thin. the house is scheduled to vote next week on nearly 30 billion dollars in disaster funding from the trump administration, but texas, florida, and puerto rico say they are going to need much more. joining me now is fema s deputy administrator. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. of course. we are talking about resources that are stretched very thin what do you have prepared for this next storm especially when you re already in a number of places across the united states? this is our fourth hurricane in six weeks so certainly we re very focused on allocating those resources for all of our disasters. our current focus right now today on the 12:30 video teleconference i just got off with a dozen federal agencies as