Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 01/18/2019, including: The mainstream media can’t stop showing closed security checkpoints ate a few airports and telling us how bad it is. But has one person missed a flight? Media also can’t stop reporting how some federal workers haven’t been paid. Did media care when automakers were going out of business and tens of thousands of Americans were affected? The United States’ immigration policy doesn’t originate from a poem on the Statue of Liberty. The Stream’s John Zmirak notes, “When the Statue of Liberty was built, and when that poem was written, we had no welfare state. No ethnic quotas. No separatist movements among immigrants who resented America and expected “reparations” for the “crimes” the U.S. had supposedly committed against their homelands.”