Pass despite knowing that, before they vote, lawmakers admit there is no plan b. No backup scenario, no way out of this mess as of today and that means hundreds of thousands of workers like the ones right here on your screen will miss their second paychecks tomorrow. How does the white house see it . It is a little bit of pain, but its going to be for the future of our country and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice right now. There are reports that there are some federal workers who are going to homeless shelters to get food. I know they are and i dont really quite understand why. Theres no real reason why they shouldnt be able to get a loan against it. Ive met with my individual Staff Members and god bless them. Theyre working for free. Theyre volunteering, but they do it because they believe Government Service is honorable and they believe in President Trump and theyre working as hard as ever. Word to the wise. If youre a billionaire or even a millionaire, just dont say that or anything remotely like that, because you just dont get it. I have heard from federal workers across the country sleeping in cars, rationing asthma medicine for their kids, going to food pantries for the first time in their lives. These are men and women who are showing up to work keeping us safe and not seeing a penny. So to both sides, end this and end it now. Cnns Phil Mattingly is up on capitol hill for us, so phil, talk to me about these votes that well be going nowhere. Reporter brooke, in about 30 minutes youll see two senate votes. One is on the president s proposal, 5. 7 billion for a border wall in exchange for what he says is a compromise, temporary protections for daca and some pretty significant changes to south american migrants, things that made it clear to democrats were not a compromise. We know all of one democrat plans to vote for that plan, joe manchin. The democratic proposal, it is a clean extension, reopening the government until february 8th. We know three republicans at this point in time plan on voting for that proposal. Democrats need 13. That is also likely to fall short. Brooke, whats most important right now i think is whats going to be what happens after the vote . We talked about this a couple times. Sometimes you need to see things fail for an opportunity to reach a deal. After the vote, youll see as many as 15 senators both democrats and republicans take to the senate floor and Start Talking about there needs to be a way out. Senators in both parties are frustrated, house members very frustrated on the rank and file. They want this end. Theyre just not totally sure how yet. The how has not been answered. Youll see the senators express that frustration on the floor. The biggest question has stayed the same for 34 days, the dynamics are, democrats wont negotiate on Border Security until the government is reopened, the president wont reopen the government until he gets his border wall. If those stay the same, nothing changes overall h. Can these new efforts and can the failure of these two votes in 30 minutes drive change to one or both of those dynamics, brooke . Looking forward to the okay, now what, phase of all of this which im sure well be discussing later on during the show. Thank you so much, phil. Speaker pelosi accepted the dare but President Trump is the one who blinked and had to admit there would be no state of the Union Address until the shutdown ends. He tweeted late wednesday, i will do the address when the shutdown is over. I am not looking for an alternative venue for the state of the Union Address because there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber. This is the speaker now reacting to trumps concession. The president accepted the fact that the state of the union should be at a time when we can talk about the state of the union when government is not shutdown. Im glad we could get that off the table because i know it was a source of many questions, should we rent the equipment for the state of the union, should we have our families come in . It is so unimportant in the lives of the American People in terms of, especially those who are victims of the shutdown, hostages to the president s applause line in a campaign speech. Thank goodness we put that matter to rest and we can get on to the subject at hand. Open up government so we can negotiate how best to protect our borders. Abby phillip is our white house correspondent. Abby, my goodness, that was mighty polite and quick not in the president s nature. Reporter very uncharacteristic of President Trump. This fight between the two of them over the state of the union have been likened to something over a proxy war. Its pelosi and trump looking at each other square in the face and seeing who would blink first. President trump was the one to do that. Now the reasoning might have something to do with what he hinted out in his tweet last night announcing this, the history and the grandure, the splendor of that House Chamber that according to our sources, the president wanted to deliver the speech there. He did not want to be the first president in many, many, many years to not deliver his state of the Union Address at the capitol, so he decided to let nancy pelosi have this one. Now, what does this mean for the Government Shutdown . There are some who think this could signal an opening for a potential thaw. So far we havent seen that at all, however, what we are hearing now from white house sources is that they are considering, perhaps, having yet another meeting here at the white house between the republicans and the democrats in the house and in the senate over the shutdown issue as early as tomorrow. Now, nancy pelosi and President Trump have not spoken in real life except on twitter and through these speeches in over two weeks since the president stormed out of a situation room meeting here at the white house more than two weeks ago. If this meeting does, in fact, happen tomorrow it would be the first opportunity for them to sit down facetoface yet again over the shutdown but, frankly, we dont really have a sense from either side here what the compromise might look like, what it could be, but President Trump is clearly conceding to nancy pelosi that Something Like the state of the union, perhaps all the pomp and circumstance that comes with it needs to be postponed until people are getting paid again. The real question now is when will that be and will it be any time in the near future considering that they are really just arent speaking right now, brooke. Except over twitter as you so astutely pointed out. Abby phillip at the white house. Thank you. So President Trump, gives Speaker Pelosi a win and House Democrats are hoping shell return the favor, sort of. 30 of them signing their names to this letter asking her to offer the president a vote on funding for Border Security if, if he agrees to open the government and one of those democrats is congresswoman Jennifer Wexton from virginia. A pleasure to have you on, welcome. Thank you, brooke. Lets just start with this letter, what are you asking Speaker Pelosi to do . Were asking her to go to the president and suggest that should he reopen the government, that we will agree to debate and put forward the funding that hes asking about, that we will have a full and fair debate and hearing on it, give folks from dhs an opportunity to come in and justify why these funds are needed and allow everybody to call witnesses, you know, have testimony, the regular order as were supposed to be having here in congress. So if the promise is there, the guaranteed to reopen government, would you be willing to compromise and approve the five plus billion that trump wants for some kind of barrier or wall . I would be willing to listen to debate and hear from the experts about what kind of barriers are needed and whereabout what other measures could be used more efficiently and effectively to combat the transport and the entry of illegal contraband and drugs would you would you be open to the 5 billion or is this your way, President Trump, listen, well listen to you, just open the government. Im always willing to listen. What i want what about the 5 million . What has been missing from this discussion is any justification of why those funds are needed and why theyre the best way to deal with this problem . I dont think anybody is looking to waste taxpayers money and further damage our country in the interim. You have 30 people including yourself who signed on to this letter, but is this something that might be catching on in the Democratic Caucus . Do you think even more democrats would be willing to listen as youre explaining to me . I think we all want to get back to having a full and fair discussion, to debating the issues that are before us, to getting back to regular order. Thats something thats been missing. Its time to get this whole debate and the whole crafting of legislation to come from the bottom up instead of the top down. If youre the white house and listening to this interview right now and theyre hearing you and democrats saying, okay, okay, well listen. Theres a big difference between, okay, well listen and okay well give you money for your wall. You understand why that them hasnt been good enough for them and why were still in this mess. Why is this the best way to spend the peoples money . How is this the most effective and efficient way to stop drugs and contraband from come noog our country . Sure. We have also so many stories, sacrifice from federal workers and when you juxtapose that from what we have heard from the commerce secretary wilbur ross and also trumps daughterinlaw, lara trump, if you havent heard it, here you go. Mr. Secretary, there are reports that are some federal workers going to homeless shelters to get food. Well, i know they are and i dont really quite understand why because as i mentioned before, the obligations that they would undertake say of borrowing from a bank or a credit union are in effect federally guaranteed. So the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldnt be able to get a loan against it. It is a little bit of pain, but its going to be for the future of our country and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice right now. So, congresswoman, i want to ask you about your letter to secretary ross in a second and your invitation to him, but first how can they understand the need to reopen the government if they dont seem to understand the severity of the shutdown . Thats one thing thats been so striking about this entire process is the complete lack of empathy from the president on down through his administration, complete lack of understanding of what the daytoday life is for regular people, you know, in this district and what people are going through who do have to live paycheck to paycheck, who dont have the luxury of borrowing money from their parents or tapping into savings. This is something that i hear every day from constituents who are really, really suffering and theres no empathy at all coming from the administration. And what response have you gotten from secretary rosss office for people who dont know, youve written this letter and invited him to go with you to the capitol area food bank, what has he or his staff said . We havent heard back yet, but the offer stands, you know. Im happy to go with him to the food bank here in the d. C. Area or he can come to my district in loudon county, see the good work thats being done in the blue ridge and loudon and sadly, the people who are having to come and get donations from food pantries, federal workers who have been laid off. Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton, thank you. Thank you. We are moments away from those two key senate votes on the Government Shutdown. Will bring that to you live as soon as that begins . Before he reports to prison, President Trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen is now being hit with a subpoena to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee. Well look at the Unanswered Questions he could be facing there and is it still safe to fly . The head of the airtraffic Controllers Union says this during shutdown is now causing and i quote, routine mistakes and poses a major safety risk. Ill talk live with an airtraffic controller. Is no paycheck impacting his ability to do his job . Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Choose glucerna, with slow release carbs to help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. Glucerna. Every baby can have the freedom to move their way in pampers cruisers with threeway fit they adapt at the waist, legs and bottom for all the freedom to move their way pampers he has been accused of forcing people to keep quiet about donald trump and now trumps former attorney Michael Cohen may be compelled to talk about his former boss. A source close to cohen says the Senate Intelligence committee has subpoenaed him to testify before the panel in midfebruary, just a day ago we were reporting that cohen turned down speaking for two house committees citing threats from President Trump and his current lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the source says, cohen has those same fears if he testifies before the senate which would likely be behind closed doors. It would also be the second time cohen goes before the Senate Intelligence members. Remember, after his first time cohen did not tell the truth about the trump tower moscow project and he pleaded guilty to lying to congress. So with me now is our legal analyst. Richard, welcome back. And when i first heard about this, i thought, hum, if youre team cohen, might this have been a strategy at all to force a subpoena . Its likely that the subpoena was a subject of negotiation with mr. Cohens attorneys, but i think what we see here as a committee which has operated more than any other in the past couple of years on a bipartisan basis and theyre calling for his testimony in private session rather than in open session and theres certainly entitled to get it. Afterall, cohen testified under oath falsely before them certainly about his involvement with the russia project and mr. Trumps pursuit of that project and that and then we have the recent flap with buzzfeed over what exactly was said and what motivated cohen and that, i think, is one of the most likely subjects for his testimony before the senate committee. You mentioned we talked about the russia project. Since this will likely be behind closed doors, would that mean that Michael Cohen would have no restrictions on testimony that he could talk about those sorts of things not just about the payments paid to those women or the tax medallion business but anything in the scope of the mueller business, would that be fair play . I dont believe there would be any restrictions that are imposed unless they are negotiated and perhaps mr. Mueller has some restrictions that his folks would like to see imposed, but we wont know about that at least in the shortterm. And then what about, if youre President Trump and we saw his tweet this morning essentially celebrating quieting cohen, that as we had been reporting the last 24 hours prior to the subpoena, that he would not be testifying publicly in front of the House Oversight committee, do you see, you know, if he goes in front of the senate intel behind closed doors, is this a win for the president . Well, i dont think this closes public testimony from mr. Cohen before the house or any other appropriate body. I think it perhaps delays it. His surrender date is early march and its probably less difficult for them to arrange his appearance before his surrender date, but even that can be worked out. All of these questions about security and so forth are also things that can and should be worked out. The congress has a right to have open hearings when they deem it appropriate and presumably that ought to occur with appropriate deference to the special counsel. Sure. But the congress has its own priorities and its own obligations. Sure. Well see what happens with the senate. Richard, thank you so much, sir, i appreciate it. Thank you, brooke. Moments from now, two key senate votes will be happening to address this Government Shutdown. Both are expected to fail, but, of course well keep an eye on the whole thing and play that out for you. 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