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The sit-down in the situation room led to nothing. for more on that, we have kaitlan collins at the white house. >> reporter: dave and christine, business is at a stalemate today now that the meeting with the president and congressional leaders yesterday ended with a deadlock and no progress made and the government no closer to be open than it was 12 days ago when it partially shutdown. the meeting was in the situation room because officials wanted to communicate how serious the border situation...

Of only funding $1.3 billion for border security? now, the democrats did not signal that they would, so the white house essentially said, what would be the point in us agreeing for the president to sign these six bipartisan senate bills if youre not going to come out any higher on that funding? so essentially, what were left at is an impasse. there was a deadlock and they did not come to any agreement during that meeting. >> okay, so do we know -- how long is the white house prepared to let the ...

You willing to give him this money for the wall? thats a sticking point. >> no. we are talking about border security. >> nothing for the wall, but that means -- >> we can go back and forth, but no. nothing for the wall. >> lets bring in cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. everyone is dug in here. where are things headed? >> nowhere. thats what both sides are telling you. the two clips perfectly indicate where we are in washington right now and thats a deadlock. the talks at the white ...

Argument for why he believes its worth shutting the government down other funding his much-promised board eller wall, and then he invited members of the national border patrol council to come up and also make some brief remarks after what the president said was a meeting in the oval office but then the president, the press secretary and white house communications director all turned on their heels and left the room without taking any questions from the reporters in the room about the government ...

Democratic congressman john garamendi who serves on the armed services committee. our correspondents, analysts and guests are standing by. first, to our white house correspondent kaitlyn collins. democrats saw the white house meeting a stunt and nothing seems, at least for now, to have come out of it. >> reporter: nothing, wolf. aides werent expecting of and they certainly didnt get of with that meeting essentially ending in a deadlock with no sides being closer to any kind of compromise to reop...

Do your sources and experts believe kim already has? >> reporter: wolf, south korean officials and weapons monitors tell us the estimates are between 20 and 60 nuclear warheads are already in kims arsenal. he is still believed to be operating secret weapons sites and those why the numbers vary so widely. >> see what happens. thanks so much, brian todd reporting. coming up, the breaking news. president trump wont budge on his border wall, saying he will keep the government closed for as long as...

That includes a health and safety emergency ongoing right now at a very popular national park. cnns nick watts reports from joshua tree national park in california. >> reporter: and heres some trash bags that we can have. >> do you guys need gloves? >> reporter: a small army of volunteers keeping joshua tree as clean as they can. >> were operating now, but im working 11 to 13 hours a day running what i do for a living, running rock climbing trips, and maintaining the park, and yeah, what were do...

Government in seoul. he called for the mass production of ballistic missiles last year. instead this year much of that 30-minute speech was about the countrys economy with north koreas leader saying he wants to improve the lives of his people. of course what north korea really wants now for that to happen is for those international sanctions to be lifted to help boost the economy. kim jong-un has warned if it doesnt happen positive diplomatic relations with the u.s. may not last. the u.s. is ins...

Im ready to go. they can come over right now. we are not giving up. we have to have border security, and a wall is a big part of border security, the biggest part. >> reporter: the border wall at the center of the deadlock. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. >> reporter: but his outgoing chief of staff john kelly saying the administration long abandoned a concrete barrier along the southern border, telling "the l.a. times," quote, to be honest, its not a wall. ...

President trump loses patience and then he goes back to some sort of twitter storm that makes kim jong un servi kim jong un nervous or we could be drawing this out as long as possible because they know trump because of his ego invested here doesnt want to do and say the hard things to break the deadlock. >> do you think its possible, gordon, that the u.s. -- i believe generalicle was referencing this in the article with the l.a. times. the president was considering withdrawing the 28,000 u.s. fo...