In the day's other headlines, the acting head of FEMA is stepping down after just six months in the role.

David Richardson took over as the agency's acting administrator in May after the previous leader was pushed out of the job.

He was widely criticized for the slow federal response to the floods in Texas that killed at least 136 people this summer.

FEMA has been in limbo since the start of this Trump administration,

with both the president and Homeland Security Chief,

Christy Noem, calling for a major overhaul of the agency.

Richardson will be replaced by FEMA chief of staff, Karen Evans, starting December 1st.

President Trump says he's open to military strikes on Mexico if it would

help his broader crackdown on drug trafficking. Mr. Trump's comments came in response to a

reporter's question during that Oval Office event this afternoon.

Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's okay with me. Whatever we have to do to stop drugs, Mexico is, look,

I looked at Mexico City over the weekend. There's some big problems over there.

The president also said he'd be proud to take out cocaine factories in Colombia, saying it

would save millions of lives, but he stopped short of announcing any

immediate action. Today's comments come as the Trump administration has carried out more than 20

strikes on alleged drugboats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. The U.S. Supreme Court said

today it will hear arguments on whether the government can control the number of asylum claims

at the U.S.-Mexico

border.

At issue is a practice called metering, which allows border officials to stop asylum seekers

from setting foot on American soil until space opens up to process their claims.

It's been used by both Democratic and Republican administrations.

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