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A huge relief, surprising given with what you saw there. some good news after a police officer falls through that ice to rescue a young man. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." im dave briggs. >> and im christine romans. it is friday, january 25, no pay pay day friday. 800,000 federal workers missing a second check. this is day 35 of the partial government shutdown. democrats and republicans dueling bills to reopen the government failed. both of them failed in the senate. remarkabl...

Hes already asked to watch netflix, so he is good. >> relief for a family in north carolina, a little boy who vanished three days ago has been found alive. welcome back to "early start." >> 30 past the hour. happy friday to some of you, but not for those 800,000 federal workers who today missed a second paycheck. it is day 35 of the partial government shutdown. democrats and republicans dueling bills to reopen the government both failed in the senate. remarkably six republicans crossed the aisle...

Passed bill will get a vote after this first vote goes down. the trump proufl after that fails to get the 60 votes needed to advance, then that other proposal to allow the government to be reopened until february 8th will come forward, that did already pass the house but other house bills, 11 that have passed the house total, ten of those have not seen any action, so thats part of the pressure going forward. youre seeing some different efforts on display soon after this -- these bills do go down...

Regarding his weapons and lean on china to support him. >> i think kim is saying, look, i have options. i am not backed in a corner. im committed to diplomacy, but you are going to have to have reciprocity on my terms. >> reporter: while tough talk has bubbled on the surface, "the wall street journal" is reporting theres a back channel, a covert pipeline of messages and meetings between american and north korean intelligence officials for about a decade, to keep communications going during tense...

Really important to try to get to the bottom of what was underway in terms of what was talked about, what was promised, what was pledged, because since election day, donald trumps behavior and actions towards russia and putin are quite, quite puzzling in terms of is he trying to pay back? cover up? is he trying to follow through on some commitments? and the fbi financial investigators are some of the best in the world and im confident theyre going to come up with whatever may have transpired. >>...

Sandm sandmann told savannah he bought the hat that day from a vendor in d.c. that hat has become symbolic of a lot of things in this country. to some, it is nearly a hat that dons a political slogan that the president popularized. for others, it is an invitation for confrontation. some referred to the hat as a modern day version of the confederate battle flag. do we think that the same reaction would have been had on both sides if he werent wearing that hat? >> probably not. there was a sense i...

Of strong and clear commitments to the report being issued and there being no interference in the investigation that are needed, particularly now with president trump treating the justice department as he has. paul: senate minority leader chuck schumer wednesday announcing his opposition to president trumps attorney general nominee saying he is not convinced that william barr will protect special counsel robert muellers russia probe or provide congress with a full report on muellers findings. we...

Is it a mistake for president trump to reward in effect north korea with another piece of that world stage you described, another face-to-face meeting with the u.s. president without any steps of the administration defined as success in these talks? >> it would be a mistake if the president just agrees to another summit without some concrete commitments from the north koreans. maybe if they establish a framework for negotiations. okay, north korea we will do something on sanctions relief and the...

That is about the best we can hope for here. the glaring thing that is lacking, of course, is that we dont expect any advancements in terms of what north korea is going to do, some big gesture towards actual de-nuclearization. if you remember, before the last trump kim summit, the state department was outright demanding that before that summit could happen, north korea needed to do something. it needed to start living up to the commitments it made back then that it wouldnted to denuclearize. the...

Also. he loves these summits. sometimes he gets in trouble. kim jong-un wants the summit to show his people that he is on the world stage with the president of the united states. but kim jong-un so far i would lay more blame on the north koreans as not taking almost any steps on de-nuclearization. yes, he has, for instance, not had any detonations of nuclear weapons, no missiles tests. that is good. there is less tension on the peninsula. on the commitments that he made at the first summit he ha...