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Of the story. >> reporter: the government shutdown drax on. as opposed to the negotiators getting closer to a deal. digging themselves out of this everybody seems to be driving themselves further apart. you had speaker pelosi suggest the president move the state of the union address, currently scheduled january 29th. the president responded by taking away the speaker and the congressional use of aircraft to make a trip to afghanistan to visit the troops and then because of that letter or because...

Actors that were coming. it ever, you never advance, you never give advance notice of going into a battle area. you just never do. programs the presidents inexperience didnt have him understand that protocol. the people around him, though, should have known that. >> the speakers office says they got calls from reporters about potential flights. saying we are coming for the administration. the administration would have been aware of efforts to fly to afghanistan. but the back and forth aside, its...

Televised announcement about another story we are following, of course, what he calls the humanitarian crisis at the southern u.s. border. >> you see the government shutdown there. 28 days, its just continuing on and on. a senior administration official says the white house address mr. trump, he will offer concessions to democrats to get them back to the negotiating table. however, though, he will not likely budge for his demands for a poureder wall. earlier, his press secretary was tight lipped...

Border that america has. so its really a manufactured crisis. the president did, of course, back off calling this a national emergency wisely. but the fact that the government, its made it actually ironically even harder to come one a resolution to shut, to reopen the government. so just tremendously disturbing way to start the new year, for the president to begin his third year in office. >> right. and he hasnt showed very much empathy for the federal workers, who are hurting right now. i want ...

Government until they are ready to fund his wall. democrats say they want to reopen the government. theyre happy to have that conversation. as long as those two baselines stay the same, a shutdown that has gone 28, 29 days will go on longer. heres the bottom line. with all the back and forth over the course of the last 48 hours, there have been no meetings, no phone calls between the key negotiators. there have been no proposals traded between the key negotiators. in other words, we are no close...

An announcement on saturday? >> reporter: thats right f. i had my crystal ball in front of me i might be able to give an answer that nobody appears to havetive. its a little like brexit, we dont know why its going. really, i have to say, not only are we looking at so many people without paychecks and the numbers of stories we are hearing surrounded whats been created, made up as a crisis which simply doesnt exist on the border, but there is no foreseeable way future. looking over here at london,...