The governments second largest bureaucracy . Well ask someone with a unique perspective. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington, im leland vittert. Elizabeth not a boring saturday. Leland certainly not. Elizabeth im elizabeth prann, thank you for joining us. President trump very active on twitter this morning, doubling down on his earlier criticism of amazon. Peter doocy has the latest from West Palm Beach. Hi, peter. Elizabeth, the president s concerned about amazon is, he thinks theyre putting smallsized retailers in this country out of business and he thinks that they are abusing the post office, the United States Postal Service to the point that they have become, in President Trumps own words, amazon delivery boy. So, just a few minutes after the president ial motorcade left maralago bound for the Trump International golf club in West Palm Beach. We got a twopart tweet. Its reported that the post office will lose 1. 50 for each package it delivers for amazon, that am
Of these historic deployments. The fact is, our Border Patrol is swamped because of the inefficiency of trying to guard a border without a fence, without some sort of real barrier to slow down masses of people trying to get over. Julie we have the latest from washington tonight. Hi, jillian. Reporter just a while ago, President Trump tweeted we are sealing up our southern border. The people of our great country want safety and security. The dems have been a disaster on this very important issue. Reaction from state governors across the u. S. Has been mixed. Heres Governor Brown of oregon. Theres been absolutely no planning. Theres been absolutely no collaboration with the states. This is just something that the president reeled off to distract from the problems that hes having in washington, d. C. Reporter but other governors from states like arizona, mississippi, and arkansas are supportive of President Trumps move. Some even are weighing in high profile former governors. Take a liste
Diplomats. This is in response to a poisoning of a former british spy. Felt familiar. Felt like old times. We were tough on russia. We acted concert with our allies. The United States took a leadership role. Very happy to see it. Sergey lavrov said this. Rest assured, we will respond. The reason is that no one would like to tolerate such obnoxiousness. Why does he say that . The russians continue to deny that theyre election pampering in the u. S. , they deny their involvement across the globe against our interests. In ukraine, syria, chemical weapons in syria. You know, this is a typical russian response. I think the important thing that the allies did is send a message to russia saying enough is enough. Youre overdoing it with the terrible nerve agents and the moves around the world. Can i ask you what is match on match for this behavior . The criticism is that the president didnt do enough. Then theres criticism that it will never be enough for this president for some across the pol
It looks like i will not be able to be home for your birthday daddy daddy. Abby straight to a fox news alert this morning. Major progress with north korea. The country putting its missile testing on hold and closing one of its nuclear sites. Ed President Trump calling it big progress tweeting he is looking forward to high stakes face to face meeting with the dictator kim jong un. Two expected to talk about getting rid of nukes all together. The testing has stopped. Expected immediately. The rogue nation also vowing to engage in conversations with its neighbors to secure peace in the Korean Peninsula. Abby good morning. Great to have ed and todd on the couch. There is a lot of news to get to. First and foremost. North korea. This might be the most significant Foreign Policy since we have seen from nixon. Remember nixon going to china . Ed absolutely. Abby reminds me of a little bit in that time in our countrys history. This is a huge moment in history. This is good news for President Tr
We are meeting with our military and everybody else and well be making some decisions over the next 24 to 48 hours. Dana National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin joins us from the pentagon. Jennifer, what is the pentagon saying about a possible strike . Reporter well, dana, the pentagon has been working since yesterday to draw up options for the president. Both defense secretary mattis and the president are blaming russian president putin for the apparent gas attack. The president indicated he would make a decision by the end of today, saying a major decision on syria would be coming in the next 24 to 48 hours. He said in his mind, there was no doubt who was responsible for this attack and nothing is off the table. If its russia, if its syria, if its iran, if its all of them together, well figure it out and well know the answers quite soon. So were looking at that very very strongly and very seriously. Reporter reinforcing a message delivered by defense secretary jim mattis at