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Ends. so, who are the essential employees who will have to work for free until they get paid? u.s. customs and border protection agents dealing with imgrants, migrants seeking asylum. tsa agents and air traffic controller protecting americans and members of congress who are traveling this time of year. fbi agents, u.s. marshals, coast guard employees, dea agents, u.s. forest service, firefighters exhausted from battling fires in california and weather service forecasters. employees who work in t...

With me as garrett haake on capitol hill is witnessinging what is going on there. and mitch mcconnell clearly made a political speech aimed at the white house. he is is doing the duty as a good soldier. they had been told, and agreed by unanimous consent and you know better than anyone up there what it means voting on unanimous consent, and unanimous vote on that bill with the assurance of the vice president that this is going to be signed by the president. that is the only reason why they went ...

Proposal. and in the midst of that, there is another crisis and the historic protest of the secretary of defense, jim mattis is resigning in an extraordinary letter outlining the d disagreements with the president on national security. joining me is kristen welker at the white house, and garrett haake on the hill, and national security and military reporter courtney cubii. and kristen to you, at the white house, they have not come out of the meeting. they were supposed to be in the senate sessio...

Sherman and garrett haake shoulder to shoulder there at the capital, and you even dressed similarly. its great. good to see you, thanks guys. to russia with love, president trump under fire from members of his own party for that decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria with no one, seemingly no one in the administration coming out to support his decision. wheres this coming from? also, rolling stone, breaking in just the last few minutes, the house intel kme committee voted unanimously to r...

The course of today, its just not really the way im sure that the speaker wants to go out. >> kasie, let me ask you this. one thing we always say about nancy pelosi is she knows how to count votes. she knows that there isnt going to be a democrat whos going to vote for $5 billion in border wall funding. does paul ryan and kevin mccarthy, do they know the same things about republicans about as to whether or not something goes to a vote, you mentioned the test vote, do they know how this would go?...

Gillum, and he would join a crowded field along with others like kamala harris and cory booker have visited a number of key ground states. and joining us from capitol hill is garrett haake. so, this is a pretty important potential move for beto orourke if he going to be taking a presidential run seriously. i know that he denied that to you leftways and sideways in the senate campaign, he seems to have changed the tune, but there is murmuring criticism from the women and the minorities in the dem...

Among his supporters. well see how it plays out in about a half hours time. >> we should also point out nancy pelosi has to be careful because she hasnt completely locked down that speakers gavel yet. so something to watch for. also doesnt want to have to have a tough border wall fight early in any potential speakership. geoff bennett, thank you. last hour nbcs garrett haake asked paul ryan about the presidents tweet that he said he can order the military to build the wall. ryan, surprise, sur...

His presidency saw the fall of the berlin wall, the collapse of soviet union and he famously launched operation desert storm along with coalition forces to drive saddam hussein and the iraqi government out of kuwait. flags are flying at half staff outside the white house and u.s. capitol building. i want to bring in garrett haake who is in houston and tammy leitner is in the george h.w. bush museum. garrett, lets start with you. this is the town of george h.w. bush. >> thats right, richard. this...

Was here on tuesday for a meeting with former president bush. he had, of course, struck up quite the relationship with bill clinton over the years. the two traveled all over the world together raising money and taking part in other philanthropic activities and very fittingly, david, the last public picture we have of president bush was from november 1st, exercising his civic duty in the company of his great friend james baker and of his new service dog, casting a ballot here in the mid-term elec...

Haake. hes in houston where 41 lived. im sure the funeral plans are just coming together. >> reporter: you mentioned the services that well have in washington, d.c., where the former president will lie in state, folks who watched the services for john mccain recently, this will all look very familiar. the former president will lie in state in the capitol. there would be a funeral service at the national cathedral uptown in northwest washington, d.c. the president has said he and melania trump wi...