he was on the back porch it was a couple. and he was directly talking to me while i've been trying to get one girl's heart for all the evil and not give me a chance and i just started laughing and i'm thank you he really has missed her and he really is not bad. please tell him. we've. had to keep. working and. i've been working. currently. special. i was. twenty five to fifty. to fifty sounds like not to fifty still. it's overwhelming sometimes. i get my check is just not enough and i have i can't get.

my family's look at it you know so if i see here. they're probably going to do exactly. right i don't need a pity party to make this work. we're not the type to say oh we're going to drop our kids off here and drop our kids off there. for you but. it has to be even if. bad. weather. his mom and my dad both work full time. it's hard to.

please. we weren't out of money a lot you know it's been days when we were insured and. my son is asthmatic. just in case i need to hurry up to get to the hospital i mean to know there i can give you walking you don't miss class this is what it is. and i just don't feel that camper widmark ha. ha.

d.j. works at walgreens its flagship store downtown. his chance to see his kids before bed depends on making a good bus connection. but. if . he's finally able to call to keep which he isn't allowed to do during his shift it's not very right still laughing that i've ever run is my first. day i lay out a lease i always catch it when i grew up. this is down it's not a friday wrote me read it for the rest it's issue abrogation the words i wish it was i got it right she's right you're not going to make it right make. it so. today was another. terrible day it was just bad o'clock our collective that's all

of us today were. as happy to be home and get some little ones and actually see me . not in the morning so the nights i was is a bit. to my deejays lucky on average she can talk the kids into bed just one night a week. we're . located. and i let you know when you get it right there is

a transcription. about twenty twentieth's can you print out all these jobs. are you nice find them makes even you. but it was. i did two tours in iraq working back i couldn't find a job anywhere i was on government assistance i was on food stamps it feels very low. i finally found a job at a quarter porting agency six months ago. the manager bromine for interview she asked me what i thought i should get paid i was like oh i should i don't know i think i said like thirteen dollars an hour. she called me back after training will pay you seventeen dollars an hour and i was like wow i really kind of like coming

by surprise that's more i was kind of. with the ok you detain reflects the county. i didn't get enough divide in mcgovern county. the position was for five minutes or one and. i know some late hours. i'm not convene there and right. so but. i was told. i've got a few words to practice. a little she said we'll make it work. it's just going to put in the key goes in the oven with your bush to think it goes turkey those neighbors have more to do and you might turn into a tuxedo. right now the living situation is crazy. for joe jose marino and his girlfriend elizabeth bontoc live part of the week with jose's

mom and the other part with elizabeth's parents after a year and a half together the couple has been saving money for a place of their own. this is where we all three sleep yes when we sleep over here . we stayed. there for number dinner for three people. should have his own room since i don't. think that even delving into anything deeper i mean that's it's just hard to have a child a six year old next to you. you always hear about those rich and famous and then you hear about those who have the opposite complete and utter opposite but you never hear about those people that literally have credit card debt you know three kids that they're put in a college or are you know living with a stepson and modifying their life you know that's that's something you don't hear about you know and that's i think the american story.

hospital bill credit card gas card here's my motorcycle insurance my car payment sprinkler fedders i still pay dues even though i don't work for a construction company. they work the construction job for eight years so i went from macon fifty dollars an hour to making about three hundred a week. i worked last saturday eight hours i made fifty bucks so last week my total income was forty less than three hundred for the week paid my credit card this morning just the minimum balance and hope to god the doesn't go through till friday. but you know i live off my credit cards when i don't make enough money so the last couple months it's been minimum balances emilia's credit card debt is now sixteen thousand dollars which is

just above the national household average of fifteen thousand dollars and. i can't do any worse tomorrow that's for sure the worst that could happen is that i make the same amount of money. breakfast and lunch spot looking for happy and it's people i don't know about have people are honest. and dead of. oh oh. this one sounds good but i'm not sure italian restaurant but see why now it isn't big boss so i haven't called because i'm thinking not about the white knowledge. i applied for this morning person work breakfast and lunch starting at six am on the monday through friday i would kill to get it. but they haven't called.

these last couple months is very really really stressful there's just a lot going on and did you know china be a good role model i'm all found the right now i just lost my grandmother so just trying to be strong for everybody. and that's why i can go outside at court and be extra competitive because my place of peace is always been cool. shoot far as i'm shoot a monster. now so that i can say ok let's deal with this. i don't. know where we come out of the book whoever the black widow was so i would call that man the bottom post my compass at the back school that we very high school was

thought. it was probably the greatest pride of my life as far as basketball. once i graduate i went off to the same as a minnesota op played there may be a semester they'll work out due to money i would love to stay but at the come back home. that's why i was discovered by a college they was looking for a point guard. not just. played there and then i told my legal i tour in seven different spots. two days after surgery they knew i was on a basketball team. scholarship was kind of like taken away.

to stay in school t.j. needed to take out more student. and i tore my shoulder i really thought it was over. like just go a whole. area so that's how low i felt even worse when he took my scottish. volunteers being all that stuff you know uplift a school to have to happen to me was devastating i came home rehab did i start a work of walkers. because he's falling behind on student loan payments d.j.'s and eligible for additional financial aid which he would need to finish his degree. come on. somewhere to be. been waiting for.

this one at the finish i have one more year. if it is. but i know my first school it's a thousand years. i'm not valuable without the. people working at mcdonalds you know to get out so quarter to three now i know that i need. to be gone so. somewhere out of the way. there are some countries where children get to go to school free and he's covered through taxes. not here. we make it so hard for them so go with. and i think is right.

we want our children to be competitive we want our children to go anywhere they want to accomplish anything they want to do. but they can't get an education because we can't afford. we can't afford it how is it a country so rich as we supposedly our. children can go to school. in the end someone could possibly say you know well as parents just be able to help them you're supposed be able to you know have it in your playing really. their head in when i was going to see you know work they have walgreens and now that stuff are gaps take some college courses but i think it's. so there's money coming from.

i had to move back home and live in the basement of my parents' house it was a weird. we've been here to pressure and you know we've helped out her parents hosanna lizabeth live half of the week with elizabeth's parents in order to help them pay their mortgage. or make it longer. so over a longer they own the i or. my parents they get social security and medicare and stuff like that but it's not enough. being the private people that they are they never want to tell me that they needed financial help they started willy with my uncle sitting me down and telling me how inconsiderate of a daughter i was because i had left and that they needed my help american young professionals after they graduate and find a job they block the nest that's what you do but when you have a hybrid of your own culture telling you no that's not what you do you go to care

your parents. so i had to move back home and i was renting i loved it i felt crushed like my wings were now clipped paid twelve hundred dollars each month for their mortgage. my dad is receiving chemo. it's hard because. it's hard because you know i'm the youngest of my sisters and. take care of my parents. was also in remission and she's now diagnosed with cancer anymore but she was when i was in and college. ino you grow up seeing your parents you know they're the ones that are strong for you. they're the ones taking care of you when you're sick. or in turn i'm going to do it. i don't know if i'm ready for it i don't know if it's something i'm blessed

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have to secure. goes with. living. at the. location. the headlines on the run in the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is challenging the results in court and he's now calling for a recount. vote counting by catholic church election observers show he won sixty one percent of the votes eighteen percent won by the declared winner.

more from the capital kinshasa. what's going to happen. to the. constitutional court. that he won the election. we're not going to show up at the court. more than anyone else here at the court we told what's going to happen will be. a document. to the court the judge may only meet monday and maybe even the latest could be a while until they make the ruling. of the new york times reporting the f.b.i. opened an inquiry to find out of president donald trump was secretly working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests in was conducted after trump's actions over the firing of former f.b.i. director james comey counterintelligence investigators were assigned to evaluate whether trump was a potential threat to national security the twenty two day shutdown of the u.s.

government is now the longest in history with no end in sight and eight hundred thousand federal employees missing their paychecks urging democrats to give up their weekend and vote for his five billion dollar border war with mexico a fuel truck explosion in nigeria is feared to have killed dozens of bystanders police in cross river state confirm at least twelve people dead it's feared the eventual total could be as high as sixty a crowd was gathering fuel from the overturned tanker when it exploded a gas leak suspected of causing a blast in a bakery in paris where at least two people have now been killed emergency services treated several people for injuries the blast blew out windows in nearby buildings and cities and towns across france are on high alert for a ninth weekend of yellow vest protests thousands of police as well as armored

vehicles are deployed in the capital and elsewhere those are the headlines the hard earned. i'm giving you an application for the national honor society it's basically like a membership where students who have really good grades are part of the not only that they need to be good citizens this is going to be a question asked in every type of application from here until college you know i was the first one in my family to graduate from college and the only one to get my master's. i went to johns hopkins and finished in two years my mom paid my first year. that is to great through her home equity and then the last three years i got twin reimbursement if you work full time you get your money completely back

and then my masters has thirty thousand dollars with. thirty four to be exact when i finish paying for. us after school. i was then everybody in my age has student loan on their heads my really good friend went to design school which isn't different eighty thousand dollars eighty thousand dollars i mean that's beyond imaginable for me. i mean you have a generation of working class citizens that can't afford to go to school and that's the only option that you have to kind of surviving get out of the. way of living

that she wore in current. use or the people who want to study what the. where are they now. i don't care what you want to be but be. if you want to. do it but with diploma you want to be the boss of all the person. because they came to kill you. you think you want to know why you have to go to the school that's the only way you can live in my house. dog is that onto that. specially if you want to go into engineering like you can tell and this is something you really really should be considering putting in you know work on which you have to know you don't have to. but you know the answer to that question.

is due friday i'll be bugging you not knowing my life. right. now you see how to talk to a teenage boy. after. i got kicked out of our school school for me when i'm with a member or. when i go to visit her she has a masters and i really got me motivated to finish school with his veteran benefits jose attends a community college squeezing and study between work and child care. worker. jose watches his sister's kids after school while their parents work. monday so a neighbor works at a grocery store and she's able to give us food that has to be off the shelf an expiration date is not just a bakery will get milk organic milk that's often you go out and your

bread and butter. that's. where this question that. we still might be good for coming days. i just had surgery earlier today so that was not the last i was there for. that's good milk you. can throw away have a gallon of milk. this whole years boma. i can't really comprehend a word problem that easily. i've been four years in this two year program and so to me i kind of that's like i. like and i get to say. like why am i taking so long to finish this is just agree my mage's radio communications so i aspired to be on radio he did not realize it is hard to get those positions and of starting at the bottom i won't be making seventy dollars an hour so it's hard and now i can afford

that i can afford not to make seventy miles an hour. i got to see what i have now received is worth it. that's what i mean reasons why i want to finish school to give him something to surpass to not say well you didn't go to college why do i got to go to college campus three. so what would you have to have one more had to go to work great kids who are doing homework brand. as they don't want to know and so on a paper pleasure pencil case. the pencil case that. i had just bought it i know not. that it was just

a long. while did she works the evening shift at walgreens to quito presides over weeknight homework when if you do a scooter my. reaction after. you are child out of. their mire so. they go oh you're not here to we're. you have to finish drawing your last thing she chose. this sixty minute so you're supposed to circle you have homework you know where you know i don't play about homework sit it down do the homework now. my aspirations for my kids is just stop acting like i don't know how homework time go do good and whatever you do

now what number is this take me count me sixteen pencils and circle and i feel like me and b.j. were working toys that. my son had trouble their parents and he was getting calls. we work with him at home and they work with him have a care. and oversight over. him but now he's the one real good he's on a roll and i'm so proud of him. on . tuesday i'm. going to play you know.

when i always want to. go in there then i want to. thank you. when they are you know. fourth time working. i'm just one person. i want to finish all of. the. people. she asked me to move here to their house so the transition would be easier when she. you know to help my dad

with things because my sisters all have kids and it was harder for them to pick up and move with kids and. it's hard to be an adult and what your parents. you know ok there. this is my little house the green one right there. i love my little house wish i was here. i bought this house in two thousand and two when i was in construction bought my motorcycle when i was in construction but my car when i was in construction. yeah i could've done this with. that seven hundred fifty square feet it's a duplex somebody else owns the other side they used to call it the little doll

house it was always clean i had nice things and then when you lose a job making eighty thousand dollars a year. you know your options are either to keep it and struggle or let it go and i chose to to run. she was just out of her apprenticeship when i met her and i was fascinated that she was doing this job as i didn't know i mean i watched flashdance back in the eighty's. and i didn't know too many women who got into the trades and succeeded and work cept in. i was bartending and one day somebody so want to apply in the trades the trades like yeah you know. i went. to all the trades i went to electricians pipe fitters sprinkler fritters. i remember when she got into the. they gave you a booklet to study over for the test and she wants to study that thing for. a test

to test and i started may eighth two thousand for the sprinkler for years. i thought i'd died and went to heaven i'd never made their kind of money in my life i'd never had insurance. i couldn't make the doctor's appointments like oh my god i have insurance. and i remember her working on these scissors left you know to be attaching all that screws and fittings and the hangers to put the sprinkler has women in the trades generally don't make it very far if you do it because you have tough skin and you have to be because a lot of those guys you know what i mean they don't feel women should be doing their job it was spawn i had a lot of fun it was a busy time we were consistently and then in two thousand and eight it dropped everything fell and i got laid off in december of two thousand and eight when they started hiring back they just didn't call her back for whatever reason a younger stronger man could do probably more then you know

a fifty year old woman is probably what a lot of them think but it's tough it's tough to go back i thought for sure that i would be able to retire in that field. that think the. my fear my fear is of not making enough to be able to upkeep. you know the things that i have. and the takes a lot on a house. i bought the house in two thousand and two for ninety five thousand. and now i'm underwater on this mortgage. hobby or someday i'll be back.

so unless. she's working. with if you just stick with see what they've actually fixed the. jose and elizabeth have signed a contract on a two hundred sixty nine thousand dollar house in a county where the median home price is much higher when i told my parents that me and jose are planning to get a holiday you know we've saved enough money they told me that if we could find a place that was big enough for them to move in with us that would help them a lot and so we did that for checkups there is no. i think we did things backwards we started looking at houses and getting really eager and looking at all these nice houses with all the things we had on our checklist that we needed and are getting

along without even going to a letter asking how can we afford can we afford. the couple has prequalified for a special mortgage program for low income individuals if approved their downpayment will be as low as three percent. all we have right now is our downpayment in the one month one month of our experiment. what we'll do is we'll come back a couple days before i make sure that i actually did everything got closer to the paperwork and get the kids that which is very good they're good on average for the holidays and so i go into the numbers. i go out. scare. big purchase. one of the biggest purchases we have is a home. so therefore. by your feel better after you're starting from when to say

this is my house you know i wouldn't take that away from. a stove or a surrogate here is not mine not my property or. we will have a no no it's not approved. or something happens or whatever the company i work for goes bankrupt and i worship or in a house i would campaign for. i don't feel comfortable going outside of our spending limit although it is easy to enlist emery county oh my goodness it's just like i said it's just the zip code good adds another twenty thousand dollars. in two thousand and ten the cost of living in montgomery county was thirty percent higher than the national average and was the tenth wealthiest counties in the u.s. . but want to live in the county we were born and raised in. families up here. i don't know any other place. jose and i went to twelve here in montgomery county

we went to great schools we met my cousin introduced me to or on facebook. and this was proven and i knew she liked star wars me being a nerd sent a picture of the guy with the stormtrooper helmet on looking at how much a creature can prove you know she's all this is really awesome you know i could give you whatever sauce are cool you know i'm kind of in there i was like my look here's a virtual hug we can share this looking back at us like. i was a virtual. who's they started talking to me on facebook. let's be honest in this one sex the guy was hot i got that he's very good looking guy. is very lucky. the first date came up my cousin they were like go there don't to learning about dating and don't turn about the. you're married or your ex-wife what you're going through don't do any of that stuff are there many it we walked

into the restaurant he says i'm still married i don't have a job. i'm still in school i have a son. took a deep breath i drank the whole couple wine that i had. i loved him for who he was and he never lied to me he never lied to me to marry. she takes care of my son as if it were her own child read these words. as another thing this is a fresh relationship i mean it doesn't take two cents to know that you don't buy a house to somebody but when i saw eight in one day that he was angry he went under the bed. and he was crying and he said that's a safe spot. he has no where to go in this house because he doesn't have his own room. so. that made me change my mind. we need this house.

i've been really have a lot of probably one job. i'm giving them everything they want as far as i'm very customer service great teamwork and no performing well but it's not a matter new to. there's all these guidelines they say. but man is going to pick and choose who they want to enforce to god's will. for an example but alas like more than i have as many will recall the sea cargo walkers have to have on the bottom floor you know all the heat was up stairs with you know management everyone else all so mob boss has a you know. want to spears jacket that we get to wear around the store because we go in the house cool is where have you so i just put my jacket on and she comes all

the way down. from the second floor why does he have that black jacket on did you not just have a whole conversation with a few other team leads and they have the stuff or you know at least my i was black with my name tag. something. they say they to get you to react or save me. without it yeah. d.j. has been talking to the union that coordinates the local campaign for fifteen dollars an hour wages all of. this farce you know management master with us just because they have the ability to do so. i tested it out you know i wanted to do everything that they x. men do in scene you know and it was true for.

any way. to get there and you need. to agree that stuff needs to change in walgreens and what is going to take for it to change . with or without the going to have probably right but without the you can't. we can reach out to other. if we get involved corporations will listen. we make in these companies big and make a million dollars make down this wall greensburg a kid all these people is making all this money but all the people doing the legwork is just not getting the money and that call me right away you know that was my my grabbing point and i've been a fighter since from that. this is. what . i just because cities are on strike

today fast food workers and retail workers i knew about the first strike but i think jennifer start because i was nervous and scared that the second strike. will or gave it a good. back to. the federal minimum wage is seven dollars twenty five an hour but each state can set its own minimum. the highest is nine dollars and fifty cents an hour in washington d.c. the work of. what i think are right i work for come. here now well it's ok i want to make billions but we'll we don't want to live we're probably haven't seen any of the paper all i want is what i want he wants to. change overnight. in his. rags and you know

should there be a compromise in there. because two people working minimum wage or even just a little bit more than minimum wage where can you go. every individual. in a crowd like my son graduated college got their masters i believe that people will try to switch roles and ask if it i just want to understand that it's. i really really hope our. next time on hard earned. to start all working that's a problem for me. getting more lost scared with the financial disclosures which

could potentially lose the house that the house that we moved and moved from italy i wonder if my life would have been different. you know i'd be fifty years old. and we meet helton and diana who live in a garage in a trailer park and survive on the wages of a cafeteria worker. in search of a safer neighborhood it was a huge blow when they came in a house and took all our stuff being a man who can't put my family in the hole they deserve that's a problem for me struggling to secure a home really really quite a bit of words are all that is all we don't we could potentially be living paycheck to paycheck there's nobody to blame and live with the consequences every day of the choices that have been hollowed. out.

from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. however as we enter what's effectively in the new year the rains been falling quite heavily for ecuador down and the end chain through peru and this is the result you get heavy rain anyway this time here but it can be in hans and danced all the result this is northeast of the capital in peru as a capital being leaman down the coast not remain dry up in the hills clearly not so and they will be more of this to come the rain to the south as he saw for

a while northern argentina power for a few green spots it's dry but it's getting wetter again is quite extensive learned flooding in northern argentina because of the rain of the last week or so but also the constant is now very quiet you see lots of grey dots which are light passing shot more than a few minutes the prevailing breeze means they're likely to be most obvious in nicaragua honduras and billie's and of course a smaller audience will soon possibly have now again otherwise the last time the year now to the u.s. if you can see what's going on pretty obvious really good last lump of cloud like this hump with coals behind that's an active system that has been drawing won't stop from below so that's right in the snow in the northern flank which moves eastwards across the appalachians behind it should be cold but it really isn't. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. it's very difficult as a chef or restaurant or to buy shrimp with the confidence that what you're serving

is going to be good seafood by nature is a high risk commodity sometimes trampas raised using production drugs. that are not approved for use in the u.s. the f.d.a. simply isn't testing enough on be imported market to really find all of these violent a president take no one else does it. and monday put it on . us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. russian filmmaker andre neck rosol travels across his homeland to discover what life is like on the putin the russian economy

is in crisis sanctions unstable oil prices fluctuating cards half of the country struggles to make ends meet in soviet times doctors were in charge now economists calculate everything we don't want to think what will happen when the bank takes away our flags. in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. a lot. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the opposition leader challenging the election result in the democratic republic of congo finally arrived in court. president rejects reports the f.b.i.

launched an investigation into his links with russia. south africa's president whose voters with promises of jobs in a bid to stem the ruling and seize falling popularity and then school three times champions iran are into the knockout rounds of the asian cup the tournament that top ranked team securing their place with still no when over vietnam. allowed the runner up in the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has arrived in court to challenge the result martin for you too says vote counting by catholic church election observers show he won with sixty one percent of the votes and he says that compares with just eighteen percent won by the declared we're no rival opposition candidate felix k.t.

tunstall is live for us from the capital kinshasa so how do for you news finally turned up now what more are we hearing. well he's actually about to leave the court not very is over there in the middle of all those journalists he's talking to journalists and he's basically telling them that he things president joseph kabila should stay out of the electoral process he's accusing couple of trying to manipulate the votes and he's saying that the former ruling party could be less party stole this election he was meant to be had nine am in the morning he showed up a few minutes ago just before two pm local time he said he was mysterious of meeting it was quite a dramatic day his supporters wanted to come here to the courts to be with him but the police said no they aren't allowed to do that because the crowds would get out of control those who tried to come to the court some of them were beaten and dispersed by the police the police a block of roads leading up to the courts of quite hard as to get here is a journalist or you work in the courts the police and surrounded by you his house as if it is not stopping you from coming to the court they will even give him an

escort but he cannot bring his supporters for you lee was not happy about this he friends of not to come to the court in person he said he was in his lawyers eventually he did show up he came carrying documents he says those documents are evidence that of this election was stolen and that he is the genuine winner of this election what's going to happen now is that judges will meet on monday maybe even tuesday go through this evidence and if they decide to throw the case out it means then that is the case he will be declared the official president elect and here before noon on january eighteenth as i'm so what do we expect to happen next then house. what so wait and see really if it's all depends on how the judges rule and if they're going to be independent if for some reason for you isn't happy with the outcome could even tell if the force is supposed to on the street if he does that hard when you've been listen if they do go on the street how would life police react in the past some people have been shot and killed by police

these live ammunition to disperse protesters there's a real genuine the could be violence if i you support is unhappy with the outcome of the court it will be a couple of days but time is what. because the saying impairment is mentally and january eighteenth so a lot of people wait and see what his next move is going to be but the most important thing right now is when those judges that and meet how they're going to rule and would they be independent and not be influenced by outside forces like president joseph kabila as well you see if he fears at that but that could happen if he isn't here in the court art harris thanks for having metasearch reporting to us from kinshasa there that the united nations secretary general has called for calm in the d.r. seen rising violence is fueling fears of a wider breakdown diplomatic at the james bays reports from un headquarters in new york. the security council finds itself in a most difficult position its members have long been keen to see the back of the

could be led government but now it's been defeated they face an electoral dispute between rival opposition candidates they will for now rally around the message of the head of the un peacekeeping force in congo must go a call to avoid further conflict i deplore all such acts of violence and appeal to the congolese people and security forces alike to exist. and restraint in these critical period the security council tried to discover if the provisional election result was an accurate reflection of the will of the people the head of the electoral commission briefing the council from can chart admitted the election was not perfect and had been conducted in an atmosphere of mistrust but he stood by the result he's announced. the african union the regional body the south african development community which had observer teams on the ground both broadly back that assessment but then came the testimony of archbishop who temby

his catholic church organization senko had fielded by far the largest number of observers nearly forty thousand correspondent the results is published do not match the data collected by our own observation mission we have a recommendation to publish it quickly as possible all the records and minutes from the counting and polling stations to allow candidates to compare notes but the head of the electoral commission said he would only hand over that data to the constitutional court for now the security council is focusing on the stability of the democratic republic of the congo but as the electoral dispute continues maintaining calm and avoiding violence will become harder and harder james zero of the united nations the us president donald trump has blasted a new york times report the f.b.i. opened an inquiry into him in may twenty seven seventeen it was to find out if

trump was secretly working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests trump in a tweet said wow i just learned the failing new york times that the corrupt former leaders of the f.b.i. almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons opened an investigation on me for no reason and with no proof after i fired lion james komi a total sleaze let's go live now to rosalind jordan in washington with more on this so the president trumps already given his reaction perhaps not surprising there but but where does this investigation fit into the whole wider probe into trump's relationship with russia. well basically house what this is according to the new york times is that there was ongoing suspicions about the president's behavior during the presidential campaign in two thousand and sixteen

but f.b.i. agents knew that it would be politically very damaging if it came out that they were trying to look into his behavior into his engagement with russian officials or alleged engagement depending on who's talking and so they did not actually launch an investigation into donald trump's behavior and interactions with russian officials instead they focused their energy on the larger counterintelligence question of what if anything is the russian government doing to try to influence or affect the two thousand and sixteen presidential election it was only after james comey the f.b.i. . chair was fired in may two thousand and seventeen and after the president talked about the circumstances surrounding his decision to fire james comey that the f.b.i. decided ok we really need to actually take a look at what the president has been doing to see if there's something untoward

going on here he's also the president has also gone on to further i castigate james komi reputation and to again say that he is being protected by robert muller the special counsel something that we would expect that james comey would deny if asked about it later on saturday and he's also talked again about the ongoing refusal of the justice department and of the f.b.i. to actually look at the behavior of the former presidential candidate hillary clinton even though there's been considerable discussion about that in this in in washington has i'm about whether or not that's really the issue whether in fact the president is simply trying to deflect from his own alleged behavior rosalyn thank you rosalynn jordan in line for saying washington. now the twenty day shutdown of the u.s. government is now longest in history with no end in sight eight hundred thousand

federal employees are missing their paychecks donald trump is urging democrats to give up their weekend and vote for his five billion dollar border war with mexico he's backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency over the impasse i'd rather not do it because this is something that congress should easily to this is something that the democrats should do and i don't want to give an easy way out of something as simple as this not only simple it's easy and it's going to see you know we have a country that is under siege you could actually get a lot of people don't like the word invasion we have a country that's being invaded by criminals and by drugs and we're going to stop it so i want the democrats to come back to washington and vote. castro has more on this from washington. reports indicate that some of jonell trump's closest advisers

including his son in law jared questioner have been cautioning him against declaring a national emergency to get funding for the border wall it is seen as possibly setting a bad precedent and critics say a step toward authoritarianism if he were to issue that declaration also if he does it there's still no real understanding of where the money would come from trump wants five point seven billion dollars to construct the border wall between the u.s. and mexico and right now reporting indicates that that money may come from money set aside for disaster relief in the future which may be an idea that the american public is not so wild about trump himself has indicated that if he were to move forward with a declaration he'll likely immediately face court challenges that he says he would likely lose in the lower and appellate levels but all of that said this president

who has wavered so much on whether or not to call a national emergency to build the border wall mais yet change his mind his latest indication to reporters at the white house was that if congress does not come together to fund the border wall and he indeed will still pull the trigger and declare a national emergency republicans are still squarely in the president's corner because of his popularity with the republican voting base and democrats don't have reason to relent on not giving trump the border wall citing polls that show the majority of americans oppose the border wall construction so where that leaves everyone is there's very little incentive to meet in the middle or plenty more ahead on this news out another weekend of protests across france by the yellow this will have a live update. barrel just walks through a windscreen police investigating the.