which leads me to our work at hud. i am committed to making sure our department's resources reach the doors of high-risk american families at the prevention stage, long before their children are exposed to dangerous chemicals for which they might later need a cure. hud works with public housing authorities and private landlords across the country to provide affordable housing to approximately 5 million households. to help ensure that children and families we serve are safe, hud's office of lead hazard control and healthy homes provides technical guidance to our grantees and stakeholders to confront hazards related to rehabilitating damaged homes, such as mold, lead-based paint, and asbestos. earlier this year, hud announced that it would make lead hazard reduction grants available to help eliminate dangerous lead-based paint hazards from lower income homes. today, we are announcing the winners of those grants, who are working to protect high-risk american children and families. hud is proud to have participated in the

i need to recognize our talented hud staff over here today. from the office of lead hazard control and healthy homes, our director, matthew ammon, who has worked extremely hard to bring this day about along with michelle miller, peter ashley, warren friedman and kit along with several others. it has been a labor of intensity and love. they do a tremendous amount of work on led remediation efforts and work closely with the other agencies that are here today on this federal action plan. i also want to thank secretary hr --azar for what he has fostered along with the deputy secretary in this fight against environmental hazards to children's health and i look forward to building on this important work together in the future. today we are here to unveil a federal action plan to reduce childhood lead exposure. hud will also be announcing later on today nearly $140 million in grant funding to 48 states and local government agencies to help protect american children and families from lead-based paint. you will actually be able to see the award amount,

state syrian democratic forces the s d f made up of kurdish and arab fighters have captured the town of hud gene and are now in the process of clearing out islamist fighters gene lies in the balli of the euphrates river close to the border with iraq it's the final urban stronghold of the g. hottest militia which once controlled substantial territory in syria and iraq. but as the mainly kurdish inches closer to. turkey is threatening to launch an assault against the kurds further north. sent this report from the front line in syria. people have escaped the clutches of the so-called islamic state. stranded in a camp two hundred kilometers from the front line. traumatized exhausted but free after days of rain and cold weather the conditions are atrocious but it's better than being under the guns of the. of the euphrates. as human shields so the warplanes can't attack from the sky. planted mines everywhere and they don't want to let anyone escape. the criminals dirty thieves they took everything from us our money as well and then they left. the battle for the last bit of territory held by as is

and at that time, fema, the federal emergency management administration was a part of hud, so i was on the hud fema disaster team so i traveled all over the country doing that and then there was a program for indian reservations so there was a lot of outreach. i was exposed to capitol hill photography and the press photographers that was going on. while all this was going on, i was pursuing my degree in journalism from the university of maryland. so i would be running around the country and at night, be doing my night school work so i could get a degree in journalism and then i started thinking, i would really like to actually switch from doing the government documentary photography work into news photography and "the washington post," time magazine, news week, they were all there. i pursued that but that never happened. but i did wind up getting hired by the u.s. chamber of congress, which is across the street from the white house and they had, at the time, largest selling business magazine in the country called nation's business magazine and i was hired at the the chief photographer.

if you believe you've experienced sexual harassment file a complaint at hud dot gov slash fair housingrity team should be paying more attention to the russian and chinese encroachment in the western hemisphere and asserting the man row doctrine. 91% of you said yes. robert mueller defending the interview with michael flynn. listen to this. outrageous. >> i sent them. something i probably wouldn't have done or maybe gone the away with in a more organized investigation -- more organized administration, the george w. bush administration or obama administration. lou: unbelievable. as ed rollins noted tonight. the man is a criminal. president trump naming mick mulvaney as his acting chief much staff. john kelly exiting the posted at the end of this year. the house won't return until next tuesday. they will have two >> from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromo's "wall street." maria: happy weekend. welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo, thanks for joining us. coming up, i'll be speaking with

the continuing resolution to keep them functioning with the department the national forest service hud and irs and many others. the purpose of the unanimous consent request is to say we will continue to w fight we hope we can get it done in the next five hours but if we do have a government shutdown that we are telling you when we have appropriations restored with that i ask for immediate consent calendar number 290-2274. >> 2274 to provide for the compensation of federal employees with appropriations. >> with that objection proceeding to consideration of the measure crack. >> i would be considered it reread a third time with no intervening action or debate. >> is their objection? it is agreed. >> the senator from maryland. >> we now urge the house of representatives to take this up immediately and now they have an opportunity to pass this in the house i would urge them to do that this evening to hard-working federal employees in the event that it does shutdown. >> both senators voting on back pay for federal employees what looks to be a shutdown in a few hours time we will take your p

if you believe you've experienced sexual harassment file a complaint at hud dot gov slash fair housing. fair housing is your right. use it. lou: on wall street stocks closed lower. it was a huge selloff. all of the major index at 52-week lows. the dow fell 352 points tonight at its lowest point of the year. the s&p down 39, nasdaq down 147. crude oil off, if the fed is watching a little reminder, it dropped four percent today. $48 a barrel. i can understand they are just a main concern about inflation. in the face of plummeting prices. gold lost half a percent, silver and copper relatively flat. the fed ignoring the presidents clear warning. raising interest rates by 1/4 point to a range of 2 1/4 to 2 and a half percent. the seventh rate hike in the trump presidency. and a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast-to-coast on the sale and radio network. joining us now to make sense of what was a very, very difficult day on wall street. chief economist at the milliken institute, bill lee. and equity portfolio manager, standard and poor's investment advisory services. good

all you had to do was write a letter to the secretary of hud. he or she would review the proposal through this whole bureaucratic process. and, as long as you provided a relatively similar, um, replacement property so that we could develop the backyard of lloyd house, as long as we provided a similar quality, similar size of recreational open-space that would be approved. these conversions usually involve the substitution of similar qualities. of size and utility. however, in the 1980's in order to decentralize the decision-making properties and give localities the greatest discretion in land decisions, the conversion of approval process quietly was repealed in 1983. the reason was -- it was repealed was the secretary of hud was not reviewing the applications and some preservation is filed a lawsuit and embarrassed george romney, hud, embarrassed him in early in the reagan administration that restriction was removed. says that time, urban communities have had the option to convert these open spaces purchase with federal funds with any review. un

year in a row hud's latest report estimates the u.s. homeless population at five hundred thirty three thousand in january twenty eighth seen with two thirds of those people lacking any form of shelter while the increase was small the trend seems to belie you low u.s. unemployment statistics new york city and los angeles account for twenty five percent of the u.s. homeless population but seattle's notably rose to twelve thousand reflecting the trend of rapidly rising wends in booming west coast cities. in global perspective hong kong officially showed a twenty two percent home increase in homelessness four twenty seven thousand to twenty eighteen in the u.k. the office of national statistics says the number of human beings without housing who died on the streets has increased by twenty four percent over the past five years to five hundred ninety seven in twenty seventeen on wednesday a forty three year old man without housing died hours after he was found unresponsive it westminster station near the parliament building. we talk about the

finally, hud secretary ben carson is somebody i think that will come under scrutiny.ticularly from earlier in the year there was a controversy over the $30,000 dining room table that he says his wife authorized a purchase of. congress will look at what spending will be at hud and what spending appointments, and people who hire that don't have experience in housing and what their roles are. that's going to be scrutinized very heavily. >> i know you read through the transcript from the last round. why do you think republicans are calling him back again, curt? >> this is really interesting. and comey is coming back on monday for round two. he spent six hours a couple fridays ago with the oversight committee and the judiciary committee with a joint scloesd door testimony. >> it's why it's important that it's completed. talking about how damaging the president's attacks on the fbi and the justice department have been. it really provoked trump, and it just raised a question of what are they really getting out of this by doing. it seems to just annoy trump and send him into

kenneth blackwell, served as hud undersecretary for bush 41. and lauren leader, the co-founder of all in together. jon, i must start with you, in your mind, what is the most important part of bush's little i? >> he did it based on the ancient greek principle. he absolutely believed, embodied, breathed, the idea to whom much is given, much is expected. he understood life had been very fortunate for him and he was doing his damnest to extend his hand to others. it's a moment to reflect not just a bigone era but it's also important george bush will be the first person to tell you he wasn't perfect. if he was an imperfect guy and could do good things, then the rest of us who are so imperfect can do the same thing and i think that is a compelling part of the legacy we're going to be be contemplating. >> you worked in both the bush 41 white house and bush 43. these two men had very different reputations and leadership styles. tell us about the differences you saw in the father and son and the relationship they had. >> well, his son i think had a more

here is where the money comes from, fema, hud, sba.s how to use it in succession to do the greatest good. but there's not one computer model that i can provide anybody that says if you spend the money this way we will become resilient and we will never have to come back to your communities in texas to do this again because we've use the money correctly. that is the problem. how do you streamline this? there is too much of a time delay between fema's emergency housing and were hud funding can be used. it's complicated, it creates mistakes and it's far greater with fema streamlining the processes. how do we do this and allow governors to control their own destiny? take me out of the game. there german deals back the gentleman from maryland is recognized. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. administrator long i have listened to you very carefully and , first of all i want to clear up some things here. there is no one on this committee that does not fully appreciate what fema has done. and we realize that fema has a tremendous burden on i

i've taken the jobetf wr it was hud sector mayor of san antoni seriously.ed make sure that i could work with folks that have differ mews f me. and what the american people want right now, i think, they want someby who, number one, they believe that they can trust, that has integrity. second is trying to unite americ and not to divide them. and then somebody thais they thingoing to actually take this office seriously and try and work folks to make sure that everybody can prosper in the unstates. d th thing is, right now each of those things is msing in this president. >> you know, there is some -- a bunch of texas democrats that wish you and your fellow texan that is thinkingbout running for prto o'rourke wouldn run for president. dear beto and julian,ne thing the 2018 election results made clear is that texans have a real ance make this a purpl state. good democratic candidates can win. there is work to be done here. and it's importantwork. run for president and the messag that you're not especi interested in that work. and just maybe texans shouldn't be th

the borrower must complete a hud-approved counseling session -- >> ensuring the borrower and consumert they're going into, understands that they still own their home, understands that their balance is going up a little bit, and understands, most importantly, that they're responsible for paying taxes and insurance and maintaining the home. >> she would ask several different ways during the interview to make sure we were really clear on that our equity would go down as years went on. >> one of the perceptions is that those who are concerned about leaving their children something, they feel that their kids basically will get nothing. >> as with any -- any mortgage you have, the bottom line is you look to sell the home. whatever you sell it for less the mortgage payoff, that difference, that equity is left to the family, left to the kids, left to the heirs. >> clients, when i try and explain the benefits of a reverse mortgage, they say, "oh, no, i think they come and take your house away." well, we've lived in our home free for 12 months now. and we haven't made a payment. and our home wo

it starts with hud an goes down the treasury. give us a sense of the agencies.as the one we most drastically affect? guest: that's a good question. i think one to keep in mind is treasury because of the irs. the irs is preparing for the 2019 filing season. i think they have already been slightly delayed in that. some ip issues pushed them further back. .t. issues pushed them further back. about 80% of the workforce will be for load depending on how long the shutdown actually last. if the shutdown goes past the christmas holidays, about 88% of the workforce will be at home. just having people available to answer taxpayers questions, i think that would be tricky. the veterans affairs department is open. defense department is open and parts of health and human services are opened. the fda, although many are considered accepted, that agency is running with about half the staff they usually would. usually get questions when these events happen about social security checks, medicare payments, those types of services. paint that picture for us as far as coverage. guest

the borrower must complete a hud-approved counseling session -- >> ensuring the borrower and consumerstands what they're going into, understands that they still own their home, understands that their balance is going up a little bit, and understands, most importantly, that they're responsible for paying taxes and insurance and maintaining the home. >> she would ask several different ways during the interview to make sure we were really clear on that our equity would go down as years went on. >> one of the perceptions is that those who are concerned about leaving their children something, they feel that their kids basically will get nothing. >> as with any -- any mortgage you have, the bottom line is you look to sell the home. whatever you sell it for less the mortgage payoff, that difference, that equity is left to the family, left to the kids, left to the heirs. >> clients, when i try and explain the benefits of a reverse mortgage, they say, "oh, no, i think they come and take your house away." well, we've lived in our home free for 12 months now. and we haven't made a payment. and o

millions slogged it out four years in the mud and 52 months, 1700 men they fought to see the hud and blood through reckless and german leaders succumbed to the allure of battle and delusion their skill was sufficient to win at the outset at once. there is no need for strategic planning beyond beyond winning the opening as they called it, battle after nileation and so committed that after that failed catastrophically for them along the marn, they did it again and again. and turned back to the west in 1916 and east again in 1917. they lost it all in 1918. didn't stop there. the war to end all wars as gh wells called the fight did not stop until 1945. it was this second and greater war commemorated in this two wars so intimately connected we can begin to call them as charles dpchlt aulle called them 30 years war of the 20th century. it was emerging and being revealed. culminating at the beginning of the 0th century, defensive firepower have enhanced defense that offense of mass infantry attacks was so overmatched by artillery and defense that any mass attack almost inescape bli led to c

i've taken the job of whether it was hud secretary or mayor of san antonio seriously. tried to make sure that i could work with folks that have different views from me. and what the american people want right now, i think, they want somebody who, number one, they believe that they can trust, that has integrity. secondly, is trying to unite americans and not to divide them. and then somebody that they think is going to actually take this office seriously and try and work with folks to make sure that everybody can prosper in the united states. and the thing is, right now each of those things is missing in this president. >> you know, there is some -- a bunch of texas democrats that wish you and your fellow texan that is thinking about running for president beto o'rourke wouldn't run for president. dear beto and julian, one thing the 2018 election results made clear is that texans have a real chance to make this a purple state. good democratic candidates can win. there is work to be done here. and it's important work. run for president and the message is that you're not e

the level of cuts we've seen to hud's budget. so the programs been the hud budget need to be protected and expanded where possible but with the budget control act and other limits in appropriated funding, we wouldn't want to see programs like the national housing trust fund competing with limit and dwindling resources. just as an example, the public housing capital repair dollars have been cut by more than half over the last ten years and we see the result of that today with significant needed repairs in the public housing tock stock across the country. the long income housing tax program is another program that builds and preserves housing affordable to the lowest income people. the national housing trust fund is unique in that it is the only federal housing production program that creates or preserves rental homes affordable for those extremely low income households. households for which the private market cannot on its own build and maintain homes affordable to them and where federal subsidies are necessary. the current fundin

the level of cuts we've seen to hud's budget. so the programs been the hud budget need to be protected and expanded where possible but with the budget control act and other limits in appropriated funding, we wouldn't want to see programs like the national housing trust fund competing with limit and dwindling resources. just as an example, the public housing capital repair dollars have been cut by more than half over the last ten years and we see the result of that today with significant needed repairs in the public housing tock across the country. the long income housing tax program is another program that builds and preserves housing affordable to the lowest income people. the national housing trust fund is unique in that it is the only federal housing production program that creates or preserves rental homes affordable for those extremely low income households, households for which the private market cannot on its own build and maintain homes affordable to them and where federal subsidies are necessary. the current funding for

that's not mincing words like the previous administration did when they tried to hud tell around china identify them as a security threat. what this administration is trying to do is push back on china's economic warfare with the imbalance in trade and intellectual property being stolen, and intellectual property being transferred as a result of business deals in china. and the militarism that's a serious threat to our allies. this has got to be con front, and the administration is doing just that. lou: at this juncture, the role of russia, president putin threatening to produce new missiles should the united states withdraw from the treaty. vladimir putin seems to be provocative on every level whether it be working in concert with opec driving against u.s. interests. crude oil prices higher around the world by cutting production. whether it be threatening the ukraine after having seized crimea. there doesn't seem to be much end to the expansionist visions and ambitions of china and russia. >> putin is very aggressive. he's a thug and killer as we all know. but he's also a geopolitical

or may will continue in her role as british prime minister off to surviving a no confidence vote in hudleadership the vote was triggered by conservative party rebels over what they consider mishandling of the stick negotiations. parliamentary party those of confidence. following this but we now need to get on with the job of delivering for the british people and building a better future for this country a make or break vote for the british prime minister has taken place in westminster three hundred seventeen tory m.p.'s have cast their ballots in a secret to vote and the result allows theresa may to breathe out a sigh of relief at least for the moment two hundred votes in her favor and one hundred seventeen against the british prime minister so she leaves this won't vote with a majority of eighty three she was expected to be able to win if she gains one hundred fifty nine so with the results that we have seen on ravel on wednesday two thirds of her party does in fact still support the prime minister despite all the political turmoil that has been unraveling in the u.k. over some analyst

there are other agencies involved such as hud. i think we put over $15 billion to work to do emergency repairs the grid. trying to bring up the infrastructure to where it is no longer a threat to life because it is not working. now is the tough task of working with the commonwealth to say, governor, what is your clear plan to build an energy grid that is resilient, that will make you more economically viable down the road, one of the biggest tasks we have is repairing schools. these are not things that happen within a week. these are things -- imagine a new school being planned in your community. it takes years to do so. we are trying to be thoughtful and work with the governor to understand. here is how the money works. we have broken it out into sectors such as education and health and medical sectors to try and go in and fix everything simultaneously. you look at the roadway sections. there were thousands of breaches in the roadway sections. -- is always facing unrealistic expectations to make communities work immediately after

but there's other agencies involved, such as hud, putting billions of dollars in as well. think we put over $15 billion repairsto do emergency to the grids and the, you know, trying to bring up it'sstructure to where not -- it's no longer a threat to life, because it's not working. but now is the tough task of say,ng the commonwealth, governor, what is your clear plan to build an energy grid resilient, that will make you more economically viable down the road? we havehe biggest tasks is rebuilding a tremendous amount of schools and repairing schools. happenre not things that within a week. these are things, you know -- imagine a new school being planned in your community where live. it takes years to do so. and so we are trying to be very theghtful and working with governor to understand what he -- you know, here's what you're entitled to. works.how the money we've broken it out into sectors such as education or health and sectors or transportation sectors to try to go and fix everything simultaneously. you look at just the roadway sections. there were thousands of breache

you have something with with a secretary of labor, epa, interior department, commerce department, at hudhe has brought the swamp to washington and flooded the plains and i think mueller will deal with trump >> and he's begun to turn over his cards. >> you have an entire government not on its game protecting the american people. >> and that was previous to the filing off the documents. how does that correspond with the direction house democrats are intending to go? >> i think thats rr on par. you're not hearing many call for impeachment in recent months. i think rom is right. they want to let mueller do his thing to focus on the other elements around ptd and i think that's the approach they're going to take but republicans are going to be increasingly under pressure to say do you agree with this? it will be interesting to see which republicans are can say this is a step too far and we need to take action. >> we've said for some time it's not leaggal to lie to reporters. but you see in this filing that mueller believes that it is evidence of obstruction of justice to lie to the public. >>

and transportation, you'll have people at tsa having to work for free, the agriculture department, hud, all not working, john harwood. you had joe kennedy, a congressman from massachusetts tweet that it's not just a wall shutdown, the violence against women act is being allowed to expire. republicans just took a shellacking in the last midterm election. i, for the life of me, don't understand. this is an unpopular shutdown. he said he owns it. why don't they pass? and then override his veto? >> i don't think they could get the votes to override the veto. the core problem here is the republican party has gotten itself to a place where it's appealing to a very small segment of the american people and the way it's appealing to them is appealing to anger and frustration and upset with the way the country schachanging, t economy is changing. it results in a set of incoherent demands that don't really hold together and not consistent with what the country wants. that's why you had a party that lost hugely in the house. nevertheless, they're trapped into an inability to admit that the wall wi

a quick upfront example, there's $43.6 million in there for hud.s over the president's request. if you drop it $6.9 billion you would have your wall. the second big way you can solve this problem is you can do you obligate money, and when i get to the state department, one thing i realize is a dirty little secret in the secret is they obligate it, the bureaucrats but never liquidate it. if you put a dictate out to 137 agencies and departments, give me all your obligated but unliquidated moneyback you would be well over $5 million and there's a top-level transfer, if a federal bill and the dhs bill and the big bill have restrictions in it, there are existing bills that have already become law and if one of those bills allows you extra money and one of those bills, trillions of dollars in those bills, you can do a top-level transfer and move that money around, this is all political theater. to make every american think $5 billion is a lot of money. the truth is that is a lot of money but we are so far over that number now, literally next year, the ov

connection that presumed change of house financial committee with banks herself, remember heathe her hud shareholder of a bank helped out during financial crisis of 2008, and she made a special effort with treasury secretary back then to make sure they got a little bailout, headlines -- it happen helped her family, do you think they will go back that far. >> it has not slowed down, maxine waters is determined, one of original we need too impeach trump ad advocates, this is they she thinks it will help. david: it is all about trump. >> yes all about trump. >> this is scaring the stock holders. there is terrible for the banks is plorbanksmore regulation ande democrats and maxine waters in particular. david: is it all about trump? there is stuff that needs to be done, do you think just a slow? a trump show. soar stuff that gets done in terms of rolling back regulation not working? >> they did roll back some restriction on smaller banks and raise threshold on what made you a significant institution. i think they have taken care of some of the worst outcomes of dodd-frank, this is disadvantag

have with epa, you have interior department, you have it at the commerce department, you have it at hudrought the swamp to washington and flooded the plains. mueller will deal with trump. >> he has begun to turn over his cards. >> that's right. you don't have to lead mueller, you need muelle to lead. you have an entire government not on its game protecting the american people. the house should focus there. >> scott, that interview with rahm emanuel was taped for ax files for tonight. do you think that's good advice? >> it is good advice but supplement with the following. while the swamp may have been brought to washington, there are a lot of unanswered questions for congress and the senate in regard to donald trump, his business dealings, and whether there was even a quid pro quo whereby american foreign policy is suborned to his business interests. we're seeing some of that. i think congressman schiff ought to be looking at this collusion investigation that the republicans completely walked away from, and to that part i think they ought to continue to dig there. not get in the way of t

point because there are things that have not been funded that democrats desperately want to fund be it hud other things but the truth is there's nothing more important than the nation's security. it's our number one job in the u.s. congress, keeping america safe and when you have people that are here legally from mÉxico and central america get the wall where we need it, secure the border, you've got to make this country safe, i don't know why they are not being listened to and when you hear democrats saying oh, no, it's immoral to have a wall and then say that while they are living behind a wall around their house like president obama, his new home has a 10-foot wall around it. walls matter. jillian: today marks 10 days since partial shutdown, both chambers are in session today but striking a deal seems rather unlikely. the white house putting pressure on nancy pelosi to work with republicans on border security. >> nancy pelosi needs to come back from hawaii, more mula for dhs, funding border security, they need to come to the table and do their job. jillian: likely incoming speaker of the

there are no deputies at the department of homeland security, at hud or the va. this is an incredibly vulnerable time for this administration to have all these positions unfilled or staffed by people with acting titles, alex. >> it is quite extraordinary. i hadn't thought about it in that perspective, but i agree 100%. let's also talk about the latest offer from the white house to reopen the now shuttered government, at least partially so. where does that stand? >> well, the first thing folks should know is that there is no real deal on the horizon. mick mulvaney did the sunday show tour today, and he even said he thinks this shutdown could last into the new year. but he did say that the white house has backed down from their $5 billion demand in funding to build this border wall or this border barrier that president trump says he wants, but he said he hopes that democrats can come up from their 1.3 billion offer. so here's what mulvaney said on one of the shows today. >> i think it's important that everyone understands the language that everyone is using. the pr

huds evacuee wer forced to leav cars and run. >> they learn how to large numbers of people on small roadwaysbout as efficiently as we can. >> anything that helps people get out quicker and better planning is beneficial. >> emergency officials will evaluate the data they collect this morning during the drill, like traffic flows and travel times in hopes to streamline their evacuation plans. they're already planning more drills in lay fayette. >>> in san mateo county there was efforts to prepare for an emergency. cal tran closed highway 1 in order for the state fire marshall to conduct a fire drill. >> and they call it a fire drill. it's several drills. several exercises. they rather than whole battery of tests you have to pass in order to remain open. >> they filled the tunnel with smoke and test emergency response times. the tunnel reopened this morning by 4:00 this morning. >>> this morning police are looking for the person who shot a man outside of a liquor store in the south bay. it happened around 10:00 last night at the intersection of alma avenue in san jose. san jose police and fire r

affected by whether or not the government shuts wn, partial shutdown but it would involve things like hud,ousing and anansportation, the justice department, homsecurity. >> tracie potts on the hill for us this morning. thank you. >>> president trp's forme attorney michael cohen will beo back inrt today. he will beed sentenc on campaign finance and tax evasion crimes. cohen said the president told him to pay off two women whome clai they had affairs with him. a cohenlso admitted to lying to congress on the president's >>> also appearing in court today, maria butina. she's aused ofcting as a russian agent in the d.c. area. she's charged with conspiracy and failing to act as a russian agent. she is expected tohange that plea today in federal court in virginia to guilty. >>> breaking news now at 5:47. british prime minister theresa may facin a no confidence vote. chris lawrence is at the live desk. >> reporter: yeah, aaron, those lawmakers are upset with how may handled brexit. now she's speaking out moments after they reached a thrrihold toer that vote of no confidence. >> a change of leader

everybody else gets shafted, including hud nora lopez and an awful lot of people like him.he people profiting from the policy don't want the rest of us to think about it. they want us to mount the empty platitudes and move on. nothing to see here. shut up and go away. those who won't shut up get silenced. you have seen it a million times, it happens all the time.. the enforcers scream racist on twitter, until everyone gets intimidated and changes the description.is it's a tactic, a well-worn one. nobody thinks it's real and it won't work with this show. we are not intimidated. s we plan to try to say what's true until the last day. the truth is, unregulated mass immigration is badly hurt this country's natural landscape. take a trip to the southwestern desert if you don't believe it. thanks to illegal immigration,on huge swaths of the region are covered with garbage and waste. the arizona department of environmental quality estimates that each border crosser leaves six to 8 pounds of trash during the journey in our country. look at the website. arizonabordertrash.com. illeg

. >> working with him on housing, what do you think was the biggest accomplishment at hud?> he had jack kemp as his undersecretary, so jack would take us into areas that historically republicans didn't venture. he had the full support of president bush. if you take a look at what happened during his term, housing ownership among those who had historically been left out actually was on the increase, and so he always was one who supported those efforts to make american culture more inclusive and he was really an advocate, a cheerleader for civic engagement and participation by all americans. >> so to both of you, his legacy, as you see it, how he will be remembered through the ages? michelle, to you first. >> there's so many dimensions from foreign policy to the disabilities act, but i think ultimately his life itself was an embodiment of his legacy. that was a life that truly did embody service, of recognizing our life's journey is not about power or wealth or even glory, which he had plenty of, but really about what we do for others. i think that's at the heart of his legac

who might have learned over the last year that we'll be looking at too, ken, is ben carson over at hudy here, there have been a series of headlines about his spending et cetera. he's defended that obviously. doesn't seem to be in any jeopardy of losing his job at this point but he's somebody that could be put on swamp watch in 2019. >> another one who couldn't resist the office redecorations. i would put trump's superpack on swamp watch it's paying out huge sums of money to these former consultants who don't seem to be doing a whole lot for it and that's where we see the donor who is are sort of most making an effort to curry favor with donald trump making large contributions. weave seen sheldon allison, for instance, get really quite a bit of special treatment from the administration and from president trump in particular making a pitch for him to get a gramabling license in china to president chi. i thi -- xi. >> mal whitaker, a no brainer. he previously worked for a slightly curious conservative nonprofit making a ton of money doing a ton of work that was a little bit vague and was

hud secretary ben carson said he believes his agency can help by promoting more housing development.oted for the number of homeless and unsheltered people to stay nearly flat is good. >>> let's get a check on your weather. >> give us some good news. save us, bill. >> it looks great if you like warm weather and you don't want a white christmas, it's fantastic. if you're in northern new england, it's like blizzard conditions in areas of maine. behind it the winds are just howling. there have been a couple snow squalls in connecticut. it is 2 in burlington, vermont. a little piece of arctic air has moved in through northern new england. boston windchill is 10. december at about 34. new york city at about 23 with the windchill right now. let's fast forward to the travel issues at the end of this week. our storm begin s wednesday nigt in louisiana and east texas, then spreads to the southeast. again, we're going to have a little problem with flooding risk. there may be a little bit of issue in the rivers. the biggest issues are going to be at the airports here. from miami to orlando to ta