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Speech from dictator kim jong un could reveal current stance on denuclearization. richardson has more on what to expect. >> reporter: a federal judge says otto warmbier with a healthy aquatic student with smarts and skills was when he returned the year and half later he was blind, deaf and brain-dead. he died less then a week later. and her decision to award his parents half $1 billion, chief judge beryl howell writes, quote, north korea more likely than not bore barrick lee tortured him to extr...

When you look at the whole country. katie: when it comes to high stakes, president trump has had trouble in the last week with own base. now changing his language from wall to a fence and talking about replacing existing fencing with a better barrier. is there a risk to him politically from the right if he doesnt get this done? >> there was a risk going into this. i think there was some concern that he was -- that paul ryan and the congress leaving town was getting away with doing nothing on thi...

Midterms. does he see this, do you think, as his last chance to get the wall project funded? >> a couple of things. a couple of things. he has made one rhetorical concession. he says you dont have to call a wall. you can call it a fence. you can call it whatever you want. nancy pelosi, we just heard, called it a beaded curtain. hes not going to like that. but the president has made some small concession on that. right now, neither seed seems interested in giving anything and democrats, of course...

That are not evidence-based and its wrong. now, the house and senate are scheduled to return and be back in session tomorrow. the white house budget director says that this shutdown could very well last into the next congress, which takes over next week. and democrats will have more leverage when that happens as they do take control of the house january 3rd. back to you guys. katie: rich edson at the white house, thank you. we will see where things go in d.c. president yesterday was working duri...

Republican-controlled house and a republican-controlled senate and he did have a deal on the table. it seems like the reason hes got no deal now has more to do with him than it does with anybody in congress. >> well, id also tell you there was a federal court ruling that reinstated daca which took the leverage off the table in terms of the fact that it needed to be done. if that gets overturned i think that deal comes back and there may be something long term in that respect. but also as you kno...

What it is. donna, you make the point, president trump has been talking about the wall, he sure has, on christmas eve, on christmas day, the government is still shut down. how does this get resolved? nan nancy pelosi said hes backed off cement, and now hes down to a beaded curtain. >> this has been a broken record from donald trump. all hes talked about the last two years is the border wall. every day that goes by theres not a deal made trumps leverage completely evaporates. when congress flips ...

Diplomatic strategy. use the tools you have to basically give strength to your diplomats at the negotiating table. if we want to prevail, we have to be able to sit down across from vladimir putin and the iranians and say look, we control one-third of the territory. what are you going to do to make sure that you can help the population and let people come back and protect them? you make these kinds of deals with the leverage you have. were giving up leverage for nothing. >> fascinating conversati...

His decision. he said as you can see here, we are respected again as a nation according to the a.p. there is a lot of news that is coming out of this trip now including on the topic you were just discussing related to border security and related to the government shutdown that is now continuing. it looks like it will be continuing for several more days. the president feeling like clearly he has the leverage and negotiating power here, telling reporters on this trip that he will keep the governme...

Leave open power to be gained by both iran, russia and by turkey. >> certainly a danger of a vacuum without the on the ground presence. we will i think, i hope, still have some overwatch from the air and from time to time take air strikes against isis tar gets but thats harder to do without having boots on the ground and the syrian civil war is not resolved. there are different pockets of the country controlled by different players and having our forces in there with the syrian democratic forces...

Over the house, the worse it is for the president. he has his most leverage right now, when republicans still hold the house, even though as garrett noted, nobodys in the capital. i was just up there, too. its very quiet and the players are skif scattkind of scatteredt the country, as garrett rightly noted. hes not going to get $5 billion for the border wall. and his allies on capitol hill say that theyre not going to settle at $1.6 billion, which is the bipartisan agreement. so this is becoming...