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
she is going to try to do decently well in iowa and new hampshire. but really make a strong launch in south carolina and then, john, when you look at the calendar beyond that you have all of those states in the southeast where the african-american vote dominates the democratic primary elector rate. alabama, louisiana, all of those states. and she hopes to be able to consolidate that african-american vote, start racking up those delegate wins and get enough momentum to push through to the nomination. mark your calendar. today is january 21st and we just had a discussion about delegates in the democratic primary. yes. i have to let you go but biggest of big pictures here in the is really in some ways the most major announcement we have seen to date. yes. this shakes up the democratic race at an early stage. we knew it was coming, but now that it s there it s a big deal. it is a big deal. you know, obviously kamala harris has had a series of firsts throughout her career.
it s only january 21st. well, turkey offering condolences to the four american heros killed by isis in syria. turkey s president expressing sorrow over their death in a call with president trump. the four americans were among 19 killed in a suicide bombing in syria last week. the commander in chief was at the dover air force base as their bodies returned to the u.s. on saturday. and apologies rolling in after some new video emerges or at least the whole video showing the confrontation between that group of catholic students wearing maga hats and a native american man at a rally in d.c. well, the media and critics rushing to condemn the boys for harassing that man you see there. but the new video shows the man approaching the teenagers and some who were quick to judge are now apologizing. megan mccain tweeting in part
the charlotteton that he is and waiting for mueller are with a big gotcha, any sort of crumb because mueller has been so quiet and the leaks have been almost nonexistent, any little drip many people are holding on to saying see, this is evidence, like it is going to happen. right? many people are hoping this would happen january 21st of, you know, 2019. or 2017. and so we re waiting. i think that the biggest problem that i have is that it falls in to the hands of the president where, you know, i think his biggest he s done a lot of things to damage our democracy. one of the greatest things that he s done will have the most long standing effects is really calling in to question truth, facts and our media. and if we think about medias at fourth branch of government, he s essentially are said anything that you hear that is not favorable to me is fake. and so if he doesn t like the news, he callings it fake news. and i think the long standing
with the shutdown now entering the fourth week, i want to flag a few key dates. january 11th marked the first time about 800,000 federal workers missed their paychecks. january 12th it was the longest in u.s. history. president trump was scheduled to go to davos on january 21st. he cancelled that trip. the state of the union is coming up january 29th. one wonders what his assessment of the state of the union is going to be when he delivers the address. late january and february is the start of the tax season. the debt limit, here again, expiring on march 1st. this is the date, but the census p bureau is working all yearlong. let s turn to our panel here.