director of national intelligence dan coates just told reporters the white house is expected to announce a plan to pull u.s. troops out of syria as john roberts just reported, though coates did not give further details. critics say this would be a big win for russia and iran. president putin and iran s president are both in turkey to talk about their next steps in syria. the pentagon was caught offguard by president trump s announcement he planned to send the military. this morning the pentagon issued a statement saying there are a number of ways the department of defense is already supporting the dhs border security mission. we re still in consultation with the white house about ways we can expand that support. the navy has long been involved in a counter narcotics mission there seizing more than 250 tons of cocaine last year. the army flies drones along the border and the army corp of
thank you so much. ast rid silva. and one more thing before we go. the power of having power. [ cheering and applause ] students in puerto rico were positively electric when the lights came back on yesterday. after a 112 days in the dark, right now 70% of the island is back on the grid. but a good many folks are still waiting. the army corp of engineers said they are making progress and they hope to have most of the island restored by the end of the month but the government does concede that remote areas might have to wait until may. just in time for the 2018 hurricane season. that right there will wrap things up for me this hour. ali velshi, i ll give it to you 28 seconds early. i ll take it. are you back? are you off today. i m done. well you have a great afternoon. you have a great afternoon. and i m going to be watching your show in my office.
of engineers and not getting its job done. that s among the concerns that the rules committee will be having conversations about. thanks, everybody. bill: so there it was. it was brief but apparently a question about immigration and the house speaker saying that republicans are open to negotiations. to what extent and what degree on what matters we don t know yet. big topic at the white house coming up in 20 minutes. sandra: we know democrats want a lot of different things than republicans. interesting to see where they re willing to compromise. he started off the news conference touting tax reform. it got buried in the first few days and he started out by talking about the raises and bonuses that we ve seen in the new year as a result. bill: they promised that americans would see an increase in paychecks in february. we re four weeks away america. hang on with that. sandra: do you remember this from back in 1999? you have a vice presidential candidate in mind?
been condemned by the army corp of engineers. so it is a escape hatch for people to say we re playing politics we re not. we re accurately describing a situation that we don t have to compare to katrina. people can have their own issues separately, i m not finished talking yet, ben, but what we can do is challenge donald trump to have an idea that is more than water, more than flipping paper towels into a group of people but how are we going to rebuild this infrastructure and make sure people get the basic necessitiys people need. those are the questions donald trump needs to answer as the leader. i got to take a break. is the president using fallen service members as political pawns. we ll discuss that when we come back. til we get there
president peekispeaking in las . we ll come back to the topic but we want to go to the mayor of new orleans who is giving an update on hurricane nate. let s take a listen. to your local media stations as well as at nola ready. the city is committed to ensuring the safety of all of our residents and visitors and the public is encouraged to help spread the word and pass around information to help keep the community better prepared. throughout this event, the emergency operations center will work with local and state and federal partners such as fema and the national guard and army corp of engineers to continue to look at the changing risks and vulnerabilities as they develop and how we could keep residents safe. as was mentioned, the national weather service expects hurricane nate to make landfall as a category two. out of an abundance of caution, emergency operational departments have continued to make haste in preparation for this event. we currently have 40 boats and 20 high water v