retirement company.on addi support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. thompson: good evening and thank you for joining us. the partial government shuondown willnue until at least next thursday. lawmakers were back in the capital today, after failing to meet predent trump s demand for $5 billion for a border wall and fund nine agencies. president trump postponed his holiday trip to mar-a-lago in flthida, and hosted a lunch staff and republican lawmakers. in a video posted on twitter last night, the presblamed democrats, despite saying a week ago that he would onoudly take rebility for a shutdown. the senate minoritleader, chuck schumer, met with vice president pence earlier this afternoon. on the senate floor today, schumer blamed the president for what he called the trump shutdown and said
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to deal with immigration. but first the senior senator from arizona has endured insult after insult this week. at one point labelled songbird john, a reference to his time as a p.o.w. and while discussing votes for cia director gina haspel who mccain opposes, white house special assistant kelly sadler said, quote, it doesn t matter, he s dying anyway. here s the white house s apology for those comments. does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks or comments again, i m not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. are you saying she didn t say this? again, i m not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or the other. no, no, sorry, here s the white house apology. i think the remarks are awful, but let s look at this in context. that was said in a private meeting inside the white house. that s not like you might say something really nasty about me off the air, it doesn t have
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[siren] and every day thousands of officers, their families, and their supporters converge on washington, d.c. to pay tribute during national police week. tonight, we want to do make sure that the thousands of officers who joined us, the thousands of survivors of officers killed in the line of duty get the honor and appreciation that they deserve every day. i remember my older brother, senior trooper senior vincent who was killed in the line of duty, and we are here honoring two of our fallen officers. we lost two troopers last year in 2015. the history goes back to 1962 president john f. kennedy signed a proclamation making national police week official. and every year since, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers from all over the country meet in the nation s capital to remember their fellow officers. this year, on on the record was there. it s humbling there be here obviously. my first year here. never been here before. any given given year, somewhere
gathering to honor law enforcement officers from around the country. from terrorism to violent crime to patrolling the neighborhoods to just walking the beat. these are the men and women who work 24/7 to keep us all safe. and, behind me, law enforcement officers from across america are here to kick off national police week by remembering our heroes in blue. every law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. on the record s griff jenkins is here with me talking to some the heroes gathered here tonight. griff, what s it like where you are? greta, here in the seats, in the section behind me it s actually those that have lost someone in just 2015, lastyear. 123 officers lost their lives probablying communities. i m here is state trooper anthony rasten. i m sorry for your loss. tell me about your son. thank you. it has been a pretty awesome experience being here for our first police week down here in d.c. and, you know, our son was an amazing boy. we got to share 24 a