Whose democracy do you want this morning . Live to london where it is 10 00 a. M. Welcome to early start, im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Were going show you this photo that we just showed on late night broadcasts of mike pence, what exactly happened here . Was it weekend at bernies, it was Madame Tussauds rolled into a version of mike pence in this office spat . You compared it to watching grandparents argue squabbling over maybe a bing old game. There were funny analogies on social media but a very serious situation. You have nancy pelosi whos trying to set the agenda about keeping the border keeping the government open, and the president trying to see this isbois about border funding. A clash. America lost. T the stock market went up 368 points. You could watch the stock market start to get rid of its gains. Michael cohen about to learn the price he must pay for his loyalty to President Trump. The former lawyer and fixer will be sentenced in new yorks Southern District. Hes requesting no prison time in exchange for cooperation after pleading guilty to Campaign Finance and business crimes and lying to congress. But in a sentencing recommendation last week, Southern District prosecutors said cohens description of the efforts is overstate in some respects and incomplete in others. For these reasons the office respectfully requests that his court impose a substantial term of imprisonment. Special counsel Robert Muellers team will appear in court and are expected to tell the judge cohen has helped their investigation after meeting with them seven times. The president s former lawyers faces up to four years in prison. President trumps former National Security adviser Michael Flynn is also asking a judge to spare him prison time because of his cooperation with the special counsel. In a memo last night, flynns team described the meeting in 2017 with fbi investigators. His lawyers in this memo say that peter strzok and one other fbi agent visited flynn in the west wing after he first made those false statements about his contacts with the russians. Flynn did not have a lawyer with him. And according to his attorneys, he should have been warned he could be prosecuted for making false statements. They go on to claim the bureau decided the agents would not warn flynn that it was a crime to lie during an fbi interview because they wanted him to be relaxed, and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the report. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has told the court flynn provided substantial assistance to the investigation and should be spared from going to prison. The judge overseeing his sentencing makes the final call on tuesday. Lawyers for former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort say they may not challenge claims that he violated his plea deal by lying to prosecutors. Last week Robert Muellers team claimed manafort lied about five major issues including his contact with administration officials. In a Court Hearing tuesday, a judge said the mueller memo was too much of a summary and doesnt provide sufficient information to make factual findings. A hearing on the disputes over the plea agreement scheduled for january 25th. President trump claims hes not concerned about being impeached. In an interview with reuters, he defends the hushmoney payments made to two women by Michael Cohen claiming they do not violate Campaign Finance laws. The president goes on to say its hard to impeach somebody who hasnt done anything wrong and created the greatest economy in the history of our country. Im not concerned, nope. I think that the people would revote if that happened. He was asked about all of his staffers who took meetings with russians before and during the 2016 campaign and replied, the stuff youre talking about is, quote, peanut stuff. A Government Shutdown is looming in time for christmas. President trump making the threat over funding for his border wall during an extraordinary televised clash with the top house and senate democrats. One thing i think we can agree on is we shouldnt shut down the government over a dispute. And you want to shut it down. You keep talking about it. No, no. The last time, chuck, you shut it down no, no, no. Yes, if we dont get what we want, one way or the other, whether its through you, through military, through anything you want to call, i will shut down the government. Fair enough, we disagree. We disagree. I am proud to shut down the government for Border Security, chuck. The people of this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. So i will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. Im not going to blame you for it. If you watched tuesdays spectacle in the oval office, you got a preview of what will happen when the democrats take over the house. Listen to him exchanging taunts with minority leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority leader nancy pelosi. I also know that nancys in a situation where its not easy for her to talk right now, and i understand that. And i fully understand that. Were going to have a good discussion, and were going to see what happens. Mr. President we have to have Border Security. Mr. President , please dont characterize the strength that i bring to this meeting as the leader of the House Democrats which w. H. Who just won a big victory. Chuck schumer is urging the president to accept the bipartisan agreement to spend 1. 6 billion on Border Security. As he life the white house, the Senate Minority leader told reporters if the president sticks to his position of a 5 billion wall, he will get nowallino wall and will get a shutdown. More from jeff zeleny. Reporter the ekeows from the meeting inside echoes from the meeting inside the oval office reverberating across washington. It was the first time in more than a year that President Trump met with the democratic leaders. But of course so much has changed in that time. Particularly the fact that democrats won the house of representatives. It was an extraordinary exchange in the oval office. The president decided to bring the cameras in to try and if not put democrats on the spot, to try and frame the debate. Well, they did not blink at all, at least in that session. And there is a sense that washington is moving closer to a shutdown than people certainly thought earlier in the week. Of course we have seen this movie before. Of course its been averted before. But no question that the president doubling down on the border wall and saying that he would, in fact, own a shutdown. Now many republicans arent nearly as confident and arent interested in owning that like he is. So again, there is a week to go here in this debate. We got a sense here at the white house and, indeed, across town here of what divided government will look like in washington. We saw the president challenged for the first time on his facts and his substance. And his ideas inside that oval office. Something he has rarely experienced from republicans and certainly members of his staff. So perhaps a window, an ugly one perhaps of a civic lesson that was short of civility. Dave and christine . Thanks. The dow was 300 points before that. Before that Public Exchange. Then closed down after the tense Public Exchange with the president in the oval office. Nancy pelosi met privately with House Democrats and mocked the president s desire for border wall funding saying, its like a manhood thing for him, as if manhood could ever be associated with him. Policy also revealing in their private pelosi also revealing in their private meeting that mexico would pay for the wall and the House Democratic leaders suggested they gained the political upper hand with President Trump taking personal responsibility for a potential Government Shutdown. A federal judge in california ordering porn star Stormy Daniels to pay nearly 300,000 in legal fees to President Trumps lawyers in connection with her failed defamation suit. They had asked for more than twice that amount. Nightclub none theless, the president calling it adotal victory. The defamation suit was separate from the original lawsuit concerning the nondisclosure agreement daniels signed with former trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen. The suit was brought after trump accused daniels of fabricating a story that a man threateneder in a parking lot threatened her in a parking lot if she didnt leave things alone. Things just got a lot worse for british Prime Minister theresa may. 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Shes been lambasted, criticized verbally, cut down in parliament for hours on end some days criticizing her handling of the brexit deal. Shes said all along that she is delivering the best brexit deal that she can get from the European Union for the people on the issues that they vote on. Border control being one of those big issues. And the biggest stumbling block in all of this has been the new land border between the European Union and britain. That is along the border of Northern Ireland and ireland and a socalled backstop arrangement had been entered into with the European Union. And thats what theresa may has had the most pushback on. The fact that this is something that the British Government cant get out of unilaterally could last a long time. Potentially sort of separates Northern Ireland is not palatable. The vote on the motion of no confidence will take place this evening. It will be a secret ballot. All the conservative members of parliament will take part. All theresa may needs to win is a simple majority. 158 votes. Of course she needs a lot more than that if she wants to seem like she got a resounding victory. Nic robertson in london. Thanks. France, meanwhile, has raised its National Security threat level after a suspect opened fire near a Christmas Market in the center of straws bourg killing two and strasbourg killing two and injuring 14 others. The motive unclear at this hour. Melissa bell live where a manhunt is underway. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This manhunt doesnt appear to be focused on strasbourg where the rampage took place last night after 8 00 p. M. Local time. You see the police are taking up the Police Cordons that have cordoned off the parts of the city. There were several of them where the victims fell. The death toll which has been changing over the course of the morning from police. And now confirmed at three people known to have lost their lives. This gunman attacked this Christmas Market. One of europes biggest, dave, one of its oldest, as well, and one that had already been the subject. Terror threats including a foiled attack in 2000. This Christmas Market was the focus of the attack. We dont know much about the mans motives. We do know that he was known to authorities. We know he spent time in prison, particularly in germany, before being deported to france in 2017. According to authorities, it was during his time in prison that he became radicalized, and that that radicalization became known to french authorities which is why he was on this watch list for those believed to pose a threat to the french state. At this hour the manhunt continues. It is unclear whether he is still in france or may have crossed the border into germany nearby. Okay. Melissa bell, three dead there in strasbourg. Thank you. President trump says hes open to using the arrest of huaweis ceo meng wanzhou as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations by china. When asked by reuters if he would intervene he said, quote, whatevers good for the country i will do. Quote, if i think its good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made, which is a very important thing, whats good for National Security, i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary. A judge granted meng bail tuesday after three days of Court Hearings in vancouver. The u. S. Government alleges mention help meghng dodge sanctions on iran. It reiterated it follows the laws and regulation wheres it operates. The extradition process could take months. Meng it due back in court february 6th. There have been signs that china is moving to ease some of these trade tensions, suggestion thats it would back off on some auto tariffs that were 15 , jacked up to 25 , then to 40 , and now back down to the original level again. So some sign that they might be moving there they dont want to buy u. S. Cars, thats not as consequential a number. Ive heard this from u. S. 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