tools at our available to us because of the government shutdown. another one of the statements inside this report, not being able to pay confidential human sources risks losing them and the information they provide forever. it is not a stwhawitch that we turn on and off. again, that word forever there, i know you say this is funds and you re out there doing your job, but can you do the job as well with the government shut down. i think the answer is no, we can t do our job as well because it takes money to conduct investigations. confidential human sources that this agent member talked about is somebody who obviously is being paid. people talk to the fbi and give us sources of information for many reasons, and one of them is that it is a paid for information. and if we re not paying those people and the cases that you re reading from the voices from the field, that s apparent that we re not able to do that as well as we have before january
white house speech writers are hard at work on separate passages that could lend themselves to a speech in a different venue, and for a different audience that members of congress. but we start, we start with that report from the fbi agents. donald trump has the entire federal government shut down over border security, but it turns out his shutdown may be the graver threat to our security. the report details the damage being done to the nation s premier law enforcement agency, as the shutdown enters its second month. one agent writes, i have been working a long-term ms-13 investigation for over three years. since the shutdown, i ve not had a spanish speaker in the division. we have several spanish-speaking inform ma informants. we re only able to communicate using a three-way call with ali ali ali alinguist in another division. not being able to pay confidential human sources risks losing them and information they