sarah ferris, reporting for politico. we can find her articles at politic.com. tweets @sarah n. ferris. thanks so much. >> thank you. on newsmakers this week is the administrator of fema, brock long. emergency a career in response management at the state, federal level and in the private sector. sworn in in june of 2017 and has had quite a year with category 5 with two hurricanes. one of the biggest wildfire years in history and a category 7 earthquake in alaska. so lots of calls for your folks action.to >> glad to be here this morning. >> let me introduce the two reporters. ron nixon covers homeland times.y for the new york and this is the homeland security and immigration reporter. >> thanks for doing this. the question i'd like to start there's someink common misperceptions about fema's role in emergency management and dealing with natural disasters. could you lay that out? what's fema's role and what's and local first responder's role? break those down for us, please. mission iss incredibly complex. it's a lot more than just the response, which is often covered on t.v., when big events occur. obligation to provi

. >> sarah ferris reporting for her ico, we can find rticles at politico.com and also her tweets at sarah n. ferris. so much. >> thank you. >> when the new congress takes ffice in january, it will have the youngest, most diverse freshman class in recent history. new leaders. live on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2018][captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] *-*- [applause] >> good morning and welcome. coauthor of the political co-playbook. it's such an honor to be here today for our sixth annual women's leadership summit. know, we started in 2013 first major the surge of women running for office. the n 2018 we've had privilege of not only seeing winning.n but women [applause] >> we had a record number of women who have served in the 116th congress. women are ruling now more than they ever have before. speaking their truths, honing their skills, demanding holding those positions in power accountable. have had a unique opportunity o speak to female leaders from vastly di

. >> sarah ferris reporting for her ico, we can find rticles at politico.com and also her tweets at sarah n. ferris. so much. >> thank you. >> when the new congress takes ffice in january, it will have the youngest, most diverse freshman class in recent history. new leaders. live on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2018][captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

host: sarah ferris reporting for politico, we can find her articles at politico.com and also her tweets at sarah n. ferris. thank you so much. sarah: thank you. the possible government shutdown at the end of this week was a topic of conversation on cbs's face the nation. white house advisor stephen miller and amy klobuchar. >> we are about five days from potential government shutdown. republican leadership says there is no plan. what is the president's plan, and will he shut it down to get the $5 billion in border wall funding? >> were going to do what is necessary to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration. this is a very fundamental issue. at stake is the question of whether or not the united states remains a sovereign country, whether we can establish and enforce rules for entrance into the country. the democrat party has a simple choice. they can choose to fight for america's working class, or promote illegal immigration. you cannot do both. >> is their wiggle room? >> i'm not going to negotiate the details with you on air right now. party wants to go down the road of continuing to pre