to his families back and forth to the mansions . slim calls the president shady during the bet hip hop awards. good day philadelphia, 5:00 a.m., starts right now. it is straight up 5:01, thank you so much for waking up with us, joining us on this very early wednesday. half way through this week. good morning, gang. really doesn t feel early here at 5:01. guess what today is? what? national take your par don t lunch day. oh, goodness. for my kids, i m wait willing, i have my phone right here. first one in get the best appointment. i have a feeling we may be waiting. waiting, waiting. good morning, sue. oh, wow, my mom s in baltimore, that s going to be a long lunch trip. an hour drive? right. just be prepared for the windshield wipers, little later on today, because we do have rain in the forecast for today. let s just say, we re beginning an unsettled stretch of weather for the next couple of days. six out of ten today, with bus stop buddy. he s go
afghanistan with operations commander general john campbell. on newsmakers this week, we are joined by congressman adam schiff of california. he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. he also serves on the house select committee on benghazi. to help with our questions, we are joined by niall stanage, associate editor of the hill newspaper, and ryan lucas, intelligence reporter with cq roll call. ryan lucas has the first question. congressman schiff, thank you for talking to us today. i wanted to start off with the announcement from the white house that it was essentially scrapping the train and equip program for syrian rebels. instead of training and equipping them, they are going to essentially provide information to vetted insurgent leaders and then small packages of equipment to then send back with them. so that they can kind of be force enhancers in syria. is this plan the way that the white house has outlined it is this something that you think
there have been a number of members looking to shift that responsibility elsewhere. certainly opm didn t demonstrate the kind of alacrity they needed to to beef up cyber security in advance of these attacks or in the wake of these attacks. i think they have adopted a new management strategy and i m willing to give it time to see whether they can get their act together. but i have to say, when this story broke and the hack was revealed, and we were briefed in the intelligence community by opm, it was one of the least impressive briefings i have ever had. i don t even feel that the briefers were fully candid with us. which is not an allegation i easily make about anyone. so i start out with deep skepticism about opm. its track record is very poor. i am willing to give the new management and effort to see if they can demonstrate success. niall: congressman, yet another issue. the issue of gun control has of course, become prominent for rather tragic reasons in the past couple of
applying every week, safe to say americans want answers and results, not whiplash. we re also keeping a close eye on salt lake city, utah. that, of course, is where this pandemic will be center stage. tonight a live look at the debate hall where in just a few hours senator kamala harris and vice president mike pence will face off in their first and only debate, separated by plexiglas. also this hour, we expect attorney general bill barr to hold a news conference on a national security issue. we re not getting a great deal of information. we will be watching for what exactly that is. a live look there at the justice department. we ll take you there when it starts. we have also learned in the last 30 minutes or so that two isis terrorists who are part of a group dubbed the beatles are expected in court in alexandria, virginia, today. we start, though, with our reporters following the president s treatment for covid-19 and how he s impacting those relief talks. carol lee is cove