testimony next month before he goes to prison. this comes a day after cohen pulled out of the a february appearance before the house oversight committee citing threats to his family by president trump. this hour, i will talk with angus king and our co correspondents an analysts are standing by. first, live to capitol hill with manu raju. also, white house, caitlyn kin collins is covering the talks. we heard from the president on his search for a compromise. update our viewers on the latest. reporter: the president is now saying he is open to a deal if senator chuck schumer and senator mitch mcconnell can reach one, but only if it s reasonable. that comes after his press secretary issued a statement they would agree to a three-week short-term reopening of the government.
reportireport ing done, that the president has told people around him, he wants to get in front of him. he believes he has done nothing wrong. he said in this gathering with reporters time and time again, there was no collusion. no obstruction of justice and he wants to convey that to robert mueller. now, of course, the terms of what is actually going to happen is still being worked out and our sources tell us that his lawyers would prefer for written answers rather than an in person interview. so we ll just have to wait and see what happens. but he wanted to make it clear he believes he has nothing to hide when it comes to collusion and obstruction of justice and he wants to tell robert mueller that under oath. just two hours or so from now, pamela, he boards air force one at joint base andrews and flies off the davos switzerland for the world economic forum. give us a little bit of his mood during the ten or 15 minute exchange. you and other white house co correspondents had.
anderson comer. next, more inside details on who president obama will say and do. we ll check in with our co correspondents and hear from a key lawmaker right after this. [ male announcer ] a man. a man and his truck.
shortly how the united states will respond to what he called a heinous chemical attack and vowed that everybody responsible will pay a price and saying that could include russian s vladimir putin. and i m speak with our cour o correspondents. and the raid on president trump s lawyers office. let s get to evan perez. update our viewers on what you are learning? we re learning from stephen ryan, the attorney for michael cohen, the fbi carried out raids against michael cohen trying to seize he said some of the documents are attorney-client privileged material and we don t know what was searched but we do know according to stephen ryan they were carried out with the u.s. attorney in manhattan who had gotten a referral from the special counsel robert mueller. an now we have two investigations that are now