Morning. The federal government is closed. The government shut down at midnight after senators failed to pass a stopgap funding measure in order to avoid a Government Shutdown. Karin caifa is in washington with the latest. 0 17 30 mcconnell the Government Shutdown was completely avoidable, now its imminent. The federal government going into shutdown overnightsenators unable to reach an agreement on a spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline. Despite last minute negotiations. 60 votes are needed for passage in the senate the big Sticking Point for democrats immigration. They want protection for the so called dreamersbut the Republican Leadership says those talks should come later. Daca wont expire until march at the earliest. Sen. Mitch mcconnell, r majority leader apparently, they believe that the issue of illegal immigration is more important than everything else. Minutes into the shutdown the finger pointing started schumer 0 30 05 this will be call
The bicycle patrol unit for the past four years. Over the course of the morning we have seen the Police Presence at the hospital grow as officers show their support. You are looking at police chief bill scott who arrived 20 minutes ago. Prior to that we saw the assistant police chief walk out of the hospital with other officers. The assistant chief and chief signal to us as they walked by that they were not able to talk to us at this time but they would be speaking later today. This started around 12 20 pm yesterday afternoon when there was a call of an officer down in the area of turk street between van ness and franklin. The officer was deliberately struck by a vehicle by a man he was about to question for a possible firearms violation. The man struck the officer and took off. Three hours after that come up Police Arrested the man they believe was the driver of that vehicle. You see some front end damage on the vehicle. He was arrested around ellis street. Witnesses say he did not ap
And im steve aveson. The Washington Post and New York Times saying those secrets have not even been shared with american allies. And could jeopardize a crucial intelligence gathering channel. Grant lodes is here with what we are learning about the leak. grant the meeting took place at the white house. President trump and foreign minister sergey lavrov, plus Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. According to the times and post, President Trump began with a boast. They quote him as saying, i get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day, and then he told them of an isis plot to use laptops against airliners. More damaging, they say he revealed where that intelligence came from a third party in syria who had not given permission for the us to reveal its source. The president s security adviser says that never happened. The president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries including threats to civil aviation. At no time, at no time w
To them in a certain way. And that has accelerated their actions in the past so thats another danger. University of San Francisco school of law dean John Trasvina who worked on capitol hill says for almost anyone in government it would be illegal to reveal classified information to a country viewed as an adversary. Sot John Trasvina, Dean University of San Francisco school of law classified information is handled very religiously by all sectors of the federal government. But that the commander in chief has authority to declassify government secrets. In a press conference the National Security adviser denied the claim. Sot general h. R. Mcmaster, National Security adviser theres nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. And republican senator of arizona john mccain says hes waiting on more details before jumping to conclusions. Sen. John Mccain R Arizona well if its true, obviously its
To them in a certain way. And that has accelerated their actions in the past so thats another danger. University of San Francisco school of law dean John Trasvina who worked on capitol hill says for almost anyone in government it would be illegal to reveal classified information to a country viewed as an adversary. Sot John Trasvina, Dean University of San Francisco school of law classified information is handled very religiously by all sectors of the federal government. But that the commander in chief has authority to declassify government secrets. In a press conference the National Security adviser denied the claim. Sot general h. R. Mcmaster, National Security adviser theres nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. And republican senator of arizona john mccain says hes waiting on more details before jumping to conclusions. Sen. John Mccain R Arizona well if its true, obviously its