there have to be consequences for coming into our country illegally. the problem is now there are no consequences. the border patrol apprehended 200,000 hondurans the last three years. one in three are families. enormous pressure on mexico to turn this group away. heather: we ll see how it impacts the mid-terms. bill: a lot more to get to now. the president and first lady en route to see survivors after hurricane michael. we ll be there when they arrive live. plus the president now sending his secretary of state to saudi arabia to pursue the king for more answers about a missing columnist. we ll get a live report on that coming up, too. it is already a busy monday. come on back at the top of the hour right here.
some money on it. i spoke with a senior white house official an hour ago and she said everybody leaves at some point, everybody. even me at some point i ll be out of here. now that is not to say, bill, the president s comments on mattis were meant to tell grafsh his departure or the way the president described the general sent the speculation engine into overdrive. president trump: it could be that he is. i think he is sort of a democrat if you want to know the truth but general mattis is a good guy. we get along very well. he may leave. at some point everybody leaves. everybody. people leave. that s washington what are you going to do? people leave. the president is about to leave the white house en route to the storm ravaged southeast. back to you, bill. bill: we ll see if he takes questions on the way out.
she did wear it getting on and off the plane at andrews and was seen wearing it after her return to the white house en route to the west wing. it has even made the cover of tomorrow s new york post in the president s home city. when asked about the jacket, the first lady s office said, quote, it s just a jacket. there s no message. but about an hour after she returned to d.c., the president thought differently about it and wrote on twitter, quote, i really don t care, do u? written on the back of melania s jacket refers to the fake news media. melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares. but back to the central question here. following this forced policy change, when will there be a mechanism to reunite children, including infants and toddlers with their families? an early look at next week s new yorker magazine cover shows the profound imagery the artist barry blitt shows to
the program targeted illegal foreign bribery in the jarlt s criminal division. cnn reporting the potentially explosive news investigators turned up intercepted communications appearing to show efforts by russian operatives to coordinate with trump associates on damaging hillary clinton s election prospects. including specific references to paul manafort. meanwhile, vox reporting that james comey is likely the only one to be questioned with regard to the probe. as ten or more officials likely to be questioned. what you ll have is a powerful obstruction case. you ve have the former director, the are general counsel, and then others one right after the other. this has never again word of trump against comey. this is more like the federal bureau of investigation versus donald trump. leaving the white house en route
correspondent jim acosta is live at the white house this morning. so tell us more, jim. reporter: carol, what we can tell you right now is that president obama just left the white house en route to a campaign style event in kansas city. we tried to ask the president about this prospect of a government shutdown. he did not answer or perhaps did not hear the questions as he was getting on board marine one, but carol, this is more than the 40th time that house republicans have tried to defund obama care, but today, there s a twist. they are going to vote to continue funding the government. at the same time once again trying to strip away funding from the president s health care law and now the white house says the president is about to enter the shutdown fray. with house republicans setting a vote for today on a temporary spending bill that would defund obama care, washington is edging closer to a government shutdown. now just ten days until the government runs out of money and a possib