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Broken and said hey, lets get this over with is likely not the conversation happening with those officials in "the situation room" right now meeting with the leaders. the second time they met this week to discuss the government shut down and it probably sounds a lot more like what you heard from nancy pelosi and the vice president, mike pence, during the introduce last night. a lot of white house officials i spoke with, several said they did not expect a lot of progress to come out of the meetin...

Contentious and we will continue discussing of course, but its very hard to see how progress will be made unless they open up the government. >> speaker pelosi, was any progress made at all in this meeting. did you make any progress on a dollar figure for what the president wants or what you all want from him? >> how do you define progress when you have a better understanding of each others position? when you eliminate some possibilities? if thats a judgment, then yes, we made progress. >> thank...

The bills soon and the pressure increases. se kupp, gloria borger, thank you so much. we are standing by for the president to speak after this face-to-face meeting on the shut down with democrats and top republicans. we will see what he said about whether progress was made. this shut down is dragging on. federal workers are fearing for their lives without their paychecks. im going to speak with one contract worker that someone who is not getting back pay who said she will not already be able to ...

>> that opens the door to a lot of questions. house speaker being asked did you make progress and not on a dollar figure, but she said that there is a better understanding of possibilities and by that measure, they did make progress. i want to bring in gloria borger. what possibilities? im dieing to know. >> im dieing to know, too. the democrats probably made it cleary are we are not giving you money for the wall. they may have eliminated that and the clear message coming out, we just have to re...

If we go that route, that is the most consequential thing congress can do next to declaring war. if we do that, the senate is a long way from convicting an impeached donald trump. a long way from that. another thing it does, im very conscious of this, part of the reason democrats were handed majority of house of representatives, families all over this country said, hey, im worried about wages, im worried about health care, retirement, educating my kids. democrats, please make progress. if we go ...

In this case. whats valuable to him is the truth. this is a quest for the truth. a defendant can get value, substantial assistance for cooperation if they can give you information that leads to the investigation or prosecution of others or if you can provide intelligence information thats valuable to understanding something thats going on. i think just telling the truth, even if that truth is an exonerating picture. if he can talk about what happened in the trump tower meeting in june of 2016 an...

Korea is continuing its nuclear program. >> we arent going to confirm or deny any intelligence reports. what i can tell you is that were continuing to make progress. >> you say make progress. how can the public evaluate that progress? whats happening? >> i think a number of things. one, in the last eight months you havent seen missile launches. you havent seen nuclear -- you havent seen the nuclear detonations. and, again, these conversations are continuing to evolve. im not going get into the d...

North korea on thursday to meet with kim, but she declined to comment about reports that north korea is continuing its nuclear program. >> we arent going to confirm or deny any intelligence reports. what i can tell you is that were continuing to make progress. >> you say make progress. how can the public evaluate that progress? whats happening? >> i think a number of things. one, in the last eight months you havent seen missile launches. you havent seen nuclear -- you havent seen the nuclear det...

News reported that u.s. intelligence agencies are convinced north korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons in recent months. the "wall street journal" also reports that north korea is expanding a missile manufacturing plant, one that makes weapons capable of striking u.s. forces in asia with a nuclear warhead. at a briefing this afternoon, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders announced that secretary of state mike pompeo will be departing for north korea on th...

Secretary pom perreault w-- pompeo was able to return the americans which will be back in the united states tonight. >> i want to ask about the toeb -- the tone of this potential summit because north korea criticized that the maximum pressure was the reason for the north korea and south korea meeting and they reminded secretary pom perreault that happened as a result of no outside sanctions but does the president maintain he had everything to do with that meeting and worried the backlash could i...