The coast guard. The on branch of the military working without pay. Reporting begins now. Good friday afternoon from the deck. Our reporting begins with a teenage girls daring escape after police say her suspected kidnapper killed her parents and held her hostage for three months. Now police say 13yearold jayme closs is finally reuniting with her family. Details on that coming. The clare in barren county, wisconsin says Jake Patterson is in custody. The Associated Press says he worked at the same plant as jaymes parents for one day three years ago. Cops say he targeted not the parents but the teenager and killed the parents as part of the kidnapping. Heres what weve learned from police. The cops say the suspect broke into the closs family home in baren wisconsin on october 15. They say he shot and killed jaymes parents and kidnapped jayme. Yesterday afternoon after an hour north of there in the remote town of gordon, jayme somehow escaped. What happened in the middle . We dont know. A
Very strong. The president really does believe you can solve this in 10 minutes. Were asking for 5. 6 billion. They offer us zero. The democrats for better or worse think theyre winning this battle politically. The president is prepared to do what it takes to protect our borders, to protect the people of this country. We need to open up government and then negotiate. Not the other way around. Because were prepared to negotiate. The president seems unaware of this but weve already built a wall across much of the border and all Border Security experts that i talk to say where a wall makes sense it has already been built. Our purpose in the meeting at the white house was to open up government. The impression you get from the president that he would like to not only close government, build a wall, but also abolish congress. The only voice that mattered was his own. Sandra kevin corke is live at the white house this morning. Good morning to you. Happy monday. Good morning. Great to be with
Interview a short time ago. Senator sanders, you are going to run for president . I am going to run for president , thats correct. Whats going to be different this time . Were going to win. That would be a difference. Ryan nobles joins us now. You were out on the campaign trail with sanders. Whats the level of excitement . There is a lane for Bernie Sanders. He has a lot of loyal support he had in 2016. There are a lot of people pointing out hes not officially a democrat and, b, he is older compared to the rest of the field. The big thing sanders has going for him is the Democratic Party is closer to where he is on hot button issues. In 2016, many issues like medicare for all, free college tuition, a 15 minimum wage were considered to be radical. Now it seem s to be the price o entry in the 2020 democratic field. Bernie sanders wants to make it clear to democratic voters while all the candidates are talking about the issues now, he was the leader. Take a listen. In 2016 many of the ide
Ukraine, namely an announcement that ukraine would investigate joe biden and his son. Nearly 100 pages of state department documents released overnight by a Watchdog Group appearing to show a clear paper trail from trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to secretary of state mike pompeo. We have this new additional batch of documents as you just reported from american oversight that further confirms what sondland said, that everybody knew what we were doing and why we were doing it. More breaking news to get to right now as Vice President mike pence indirectly addressing the impeachment inquiry today during an unannounced visit to iraq. Partisan politics and endless investigations have slowed things down a bit in washington, d. C. With this impeachment plane currently at 30,000 feet, democrats now need to figure out where theyre going to land this thing. We are going to go over all of this mornings developments now in the impeachment inquiry with our reporters and analysts. Our first b
We begin with that exhaustive review from the New York Times detailing the president s efforts to interfere in the russia investigation. In one instance last year the paper reports that the president called his newly installed acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker and asked if the u. S. Appointed in manhattan, jeffrey berman, described as a trump ally could take charge in the investigation resulted in the president implicated in Campaign Finance violations. The paper cites u. S. Officials will direct knowledge of that call. The times says whitaker who told associates part of his role at the Justice Department was to quote jump on a grenade for the president. He knew he couldnt put berman in charge because the haugh partner was recuse from the investigation. According to times the president soon soured on whether whitaker, which he often does with his aides and inaability to pull levers that could make the president s many legal problems go away. The times reports the prosecutors req