officials weren t expecting pe loi low si to push back. it would be remarkably petty for the speaker to disinvite the president to address the nation that they both serve at the highest level. the president hasn t spoke to them since he stormed out of the shutdown meeting two weeks ago. his public feud coming amid the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. now on day 33 and starting to take a toll on federal workers bracing to miss their second paycheck. this is not fair to us. it s not. he needs to fix this and fix this fast. and the president s top economist making a stunning admission today predicting there could be zero% gdp growth because of the shutdown. could we get zero growth? yes. we could. you could? yes. wow.
that s tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight trump storms out of a shutdown meeting with democrats and whether it was genuine anger or a straight up political stunt, tomorrow brings his photo op visit to the southern border. in the meantime your federal government remains shut down. rod rosenstein leaving the justice department but a source close to the deputy a.g. tells abc news he won t leave the mueller investigation high and dry. and tonight new reporting on the counterassault. the white house legal team and their plan to fight back against what s about to be an exploding number of investigations. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 720 of the trump administration. day 19 of the government shutdown. and there is no sign of a way out as talks collapsed again today.
tonight trump storms out of a shutdown meeting with democrats and whether it was genuine anger or a straight up political stunt, tomorrow brings his photo op visit to the southern border. in the meantime your federal government remains shut down. rod rosenstein leaving the justice department but a source close to the deputy a.g. tells abc news he won t leave the mueller investigation high and dry. and tonight new reporting on the counterassault. the white house legal team and their plan to fight back against what s about to be an exploding number of investigations. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 720 of the trump administration. day 19 of the government shutdown. and there is no sign of a way out as talks collapsed again today. tomorrow the president travels to the u.s.-mexico border to make his case once again for a wall, or what he now refers to as a barrier of steel sla
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mistakenly identified was riding in the car of some of the people that they were targeting and so the case was mistaken identity. they opened a bioon a car and later they had targeted the wrong people. all right. we know that there will be a news conference at 3:00 p.m. eastern today. hopefully, getting more answers from investigators. our kaylee hartung is there. s. lee merritt, thank you for spending a a couple of minutes bus. sure. thank you. let s move into the political arena here. in a few hours, the president is going to camp david to meet with senior white house official about border security. in washington another shutdown meeting is planned this afternoon between white house officials and congressional leadership staffers. yesterday s meeting was another round of demands. little was accomplished.