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Interesting. >> indeed. >> welcome to viewers around the world and the u.s. im natalie allen. >> im george howell. newsroom starts now. 4:01 on the u.s. east coast. thanks for being with us. two major stories to tell you about this hour. first, the 35-day government shutdown, finally, its over. u.s. president backing down, reopening federal agencies, but getting nothing in return. a trump adviser calls it, quote, a humiliating loss. >> also on friday, roger stone arrested by the fbi at his flori...

Catalyst for the president backing down was all the chaos early this morning as some of the nations busiest airports. staffing issues that forced total ground stops. well get information from two air-traffic controllers who should be getting paychecks some time soon. should be getting paychecks s e

That, and the vice president led the interaction with the democratic staff over the weekend. but they put things in the formal presentation that democrats want in border security. that being technology, counter narcotics technology, along the border, being able to weapons technology, $631 million for the increase of actual screening along the border, the machines that they use. some of these things are specific democrats requests theyre putting into the formal proposal. this is, i think, they be...

Ago and now the white house is backing down, and the president said, ale though i said that i would take the deal, but i am not, and give me $5 billion. normally, if you want to add something, offer something. and this is what he has offered. my a offer offer is to not puni government workers before christmas. and so he bows to bullies like russia, and turkey and now china, and i dont believe that you will see him saying you give me what i want or i will punish 800,000 federal employees. >> the ...

House press secretary sarah sanders went further today claiming that before the hearing flynn was ambushed by the fbi. >> are you arguing that he was entrapped? >> look, were arguing that he was certainly ambushed. certainly i think one thing is definitely clear is we think the fbi went outside the bounds and the scope of the way that they should operate in the way that they conducted interviewing michael flynn. >> however, judge sullivan gave flynn every chance to press his case against the fbi...

With this president. nor do the rules of the game or views on decorum. i must say i think this has been a significant victory for cnn and for the country. we have now reinforced through the courts and through the white house backing down, weve reinforced the sanctity of the first amendment, which was what was critically at stake here. and we go back to work. now, what we have to see, john, is -- in a night of ironies, by the way. an irony here is that this is a white house that prides itself on ...

Not his rhetoric or even our rhetoric. >> thank you very much, i appreciate your time as always, senator blumenthal. the white house backing down, restoring jim acostas press pass. and the white house now spinning that defeat tonight. youll hear how, and president trump about to be briefed by the cia on the murder of jamal khashoggi. this after reports the cia has concluded the saudi crown prince, a ruler of the country ordered the killing personally. why is trump still saying this? >> i want ...

>> i think this has been a significant victory for cnn and for the country. we have now reinforced through the courts and the white house backing down, reinforced the first amendment. we go back to work. what we have to see is a night of ironies. an irony here is that this is a white house that prides itself on i dont know how many regulations it has erased. now coming into place a set of regulations with regard to the press. we have to see how the regulations enforce. are they going to allow re...

Backing down, even with kavanaugh now on the court. politico is reporting that democrats are still pressing forward with legal challenges to get more kavanaugh documents released. a process that could drag on for years. top white house democrat nancy pelosi filing an official request to get background information related to the fbis investigation of the assault allegations. senator kamala harris pressing fbi director christopher wray on that yesterday. watch. >> was your direction limited in sco...

Judiciary chairman bob goodlatte to subpoena rosenstein. sources are telling fox news, rosenstein appearing on capitol hill are at an impasse over terms of his testimony. some lawmakers are insisting on an interview under oath, while rosenstein side refers no paper trail. they told investigators last week that he took seriously reports that rosenstein had discussed secretly recording president trump. possibly removing him from office under the 25th amendment. rosenstein has denied this report. h...