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Up the capitol now with a number of offices. almost 300 officers short. they used 720,000 hours of overtime. now, members in this committee that we discuss when the report came up today, a reluctance at officers. they want them to be more efficient. you can be more efficient when the threat is up with the capitol when they have to provide more officers to protect more members. it's one leader mcconnell moved around, there's even ten capitol police taking him to lunch, dinner, to his fancy bowls and meetings and take it taken back home to kentucky. same thing with leader mccarthy. those officer...

Is secure. once we go to public access again that could be a bit challenging and way need augmentation but that is up to the capitol police board to make the recommendations and to bring additional help in. but you cannot go to public opening of the capitol now with the number of officers. almost 300 officers short and last year they used $720,000 of overtime. the members in this committee that we discussed with the report came out today are reluck -- relung about the to add officers. you know what leader mcconnell mover around there's eight or ten capitol police taking them to lunch, dinner, ...

>> speaking of resources, a congressman who is a democrat wes this, today we found out 1200 empty beds costing $720,000 a day. why are we bankrolling the pocketbooks of private companies running an empty facility? the american people deserve answers. it sounds like a lot to just maintain it just in case. >> remember we are still at crisis number levels at the border. even though the numbers of come down over the last 3 months just look at the august numbers, 64,000 apprehensions. except for 2019 where it has been much worse that month is higher than every single every month for the last 7 year...

The un in the next few minutes. we'll look for that as well. still to come, prime minister boris johnson, his political future very much up in the air. just a stunning defeat in the supreme court today. it ruling by unanimous 11-0 decision that he acted unlawfully in suspended parliament. we are also moments away from the opening bell on wall street. u.s. futures all pointing higher this morning. the dow eked out of positive close yesterday. this is after some optimism. treasury secretary steven mnuchin says chinese importers are buying more agriculture products again from the u.s. the dep...

Dashing hopes for a breakthrough. and yesterday, the pressurery secretary said it was the u.s. that asked the chinese to delay the trip. that came as a surprise to president trump. >> started by agriculture. they're going to schedule that at a different time. >> why was that our request? just out of curiosity? >> we didn't want the confusion around the trade deal. >> we want them to buy farm projects. >> according to the department of agriculture, they have wougt 720,000 soybeans in two weeks. farmers have been hurt over the trade war. they got $28 billion.