change camps. even with the outcomes of all of these things happening what could really jolt it possibly is if mueller comes with a smoking gun, if there s something there as there was with nixon when you have a tape, which convinced everybody he has to go. on both sides of the aisle. but so far, there s we see no evidence that that s what s coming. alice stewart, this is what president trump said today about possibly forcing a government shutdown. watch this, please. here you are suggesting that you d be willing to, maybe you would talk about shutting down the government if that s what it took to get this wall built. it s like pulling teeth. getting these guys to to get it done is and you have to idea how tough i ve been, and i say, hey, if you have a shutdown, you have a shutdown, but whether it s before or after. but i actually think it s a great campaign issue. i think it would be great bef e before. wait, wait, alice, hold on. i wish you guys could have seen da
take time with respect to whoever is charged to finish up. while the process is unfolding with hearings and a trial date, those guys in bob mueller s office will work on other things as well. coming up in the newsroom, puerto rico s governor is trying to cancel a $300 million contract awarded in a country in the small town of the interior secretary. wa wait until you hear how the ceo explains how he got the contract. that s next. it s ok that everybody ignores me when i drive. it s fine, cause i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i m accident-free. and i don t share it with mom. right, mom? right. safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it.
investigators here continue to wa wa wait for the return of ethan couch and his mother. thank you, ed lachb dare ra. and we are learning that security is being tightened to locations related to celebrations. and one threat mentions los angeles, washington, d.c., and new york. and with me now to talk about this is congressman gregory meeks of new york s 5th district, and he he is a senior member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you so much, congressman, to be with us to talk about this important topic as everybody is ready to revel, and they don t want to worry about the safety, but they are on having it on their minds after the year we have had. do you know anything more about tightened security in new york and these other cities? well, i will tell you that new york is prepared. on my trek to the studio right now in new york, if you go up and down 5th avenue, you will see large units of the new york
that s not what the centers were meant to be about. the whole point of the force is to work cooperatively in your geographic location. so access to the data base really isn t enough. right. juliette, why wouldn t an fbi official, if they re on this task force, walk down the hall and say by the way, we interviewed this person who live ins boss ton. just a heads up? that was what should happen. that was the creation his family was describing of these fusion centers. there s a whole apparatus and architecture that was created after 9/11 because of the lessons learned. so depending on how this particular story that the globe is reporting on unfolds, it is dismaying for this city to learn wa wait, there was an entity that knew that he was on some lisz. it s also drip and drap that this information seems to be leaking out from federal and