Campaign and russians. What Paul Manafort shares with an alleged russian operative during the 2016 election. A very big day on the russia investigation, folks. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Its wednesday, 4 00 a. M. The president tweeting about his address. A very interesting experience. Sounds like that restaurant you tried and not sure youll go back to it. Were at day 19 of the federal Government Shutdown. This afternoon, President Trump will attend the Senate Republican lunch and then return to the white house for a meeting with top congressional leaders. The president setting the stage for todays meeting in his Oval Office Address last night. Federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only. Because democrats will not fund border security. This situation could be solved in a 45minute meeting. I have invited congressional leadership to the white house tomorrow to get this done. Hopefully, we can rise above partisan politics, in order to support National Security. But those top democrats, House Speaker nancy pelosi and senator minority leader Chuck Schumer rebutted the president this way. This president just used the backdrop of the oval office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration. President trump must stop holding the American People hostage. Lets stop manufacturing a crisis, and must reopen the government. Despite the hints dropped by the white house, the president did not declare a National Emergency in this speech. That does not mean it is off the table. But a source close to the president says hes been told by several advisers that an Emergency Declaration probably wont work legally. Cnns jim acosta has more on the address from the white house. Christina, dave, President Trump did make his pitch for a border wall from the oval office. While the president did not declare a state of emergency down at the border, he did talk about the situation at the border and humanitarian and National Security concerns, at one point saying he wanted to appeal to the heart and soul of the country. Heres more of what he had to say. Over the years, thousands of americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we dont act right now. This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart, and a crisis of the soul. The president did manage to tell a number of falsehoods in that brief eightminute address at one point saying it was democrats who were requesting a steel barrier down at the border. Where a democratic aide on capitol hill says that is not the case and the president said that mexico would pay for that steel barrier through the u. S. And mexico, but thats not how that trade deal works. Christine and dave. Jim acacosta, thank you. If you had a factcheck, the president listed heinous murders but a 2018 study of the Cato Institute which revealed that immigrants were less likely to natureborn americans to be convicted of crimes. The Washington Post reports between april 19th and september 30th, last year, this accounted for about one water of 1 of all family units apprehended. Most are legitimate families, trying to enter the u. S. And finally, the president claimed 1 in 3 women are sexually assaulted in caravans. According to doctors without borders, but this evidence is exactly why many women say they choose to come to the u. S. And travel by caravan. At the stroke of midnight, it became official, federal employees at americas borders and citizens and those working hard to protect us will not be getting paychecks on friday. We are deferring payments where we can. We are boning everything back to the Bare Necessities to try and make it through. I am a single mom. My son just graduated his first two years of college. Hes going back. Im not getting paid. I just bought a house. Im not going to be able to pay my mortgage. You have the stress of im not getting paid. Im not getting a paycheck. And you have inmates who, you know, just want to tease and mess with you as an officer so they can make it a more dangerous place. For safety and security, i mean that puts that at risk. Air traffic controllers, border patrol, prison guards. The list goes on and on. And now this cnn exclusive. An email written by a highranking official at the tsa, raising concerns about Airport Security being compromised. Rene marsh has more. Christine and dave, excessive callouts by tsa officers have hurt Security Operations at a Southern California airport. That is the assessment of a highranking tsa official. Its all laid out in an internal email dated monday. The tsa official in charge of Security Operations at Palm Springs International airport wrote, and im quoting, due to excessive unscheduled absences recently experienced at this airport, psp, Palm Springs International, that has adversely impacted Security Operations. If you have an unscheduled absence, you will not be placed in an intermittent furlough status. Plainly speaking, concerns about the number of callouts at the airport have reached the point that tsa management is now warning in this email that there may be disciplinary action if employees call out. Now, the email was directed to all tsa personnel at the airport. And its significant, because it exposes for the first time an acknowledgement that this partial Government Shutdown now stretching into a third week is impacting some Aviation Security at least one airport. Now, we received a statement from tsa, it says in part that palm springs airport is a small airport that requires a fullteam effort. The deputy fsd who is the federal Security Director referenced in the email obtained by cnn was simply expressing that all screening employees must report to work during the current lapse in appropriations as required by federal rules. Tsa on its part says it has not seen any impact on its operations there. Of course, this comes from safety warnings from major Flight Attendant and tsa employees. Christine and dave. Rene marsh, thanks. About 41 of the fda staff are off the job and the rest are working without pay. Jeannette parks is a chemist who tests medications at an fda lab in detroit. She tells cnn, the agency is doing the best it can with the Skeleton Crew but he says, quote, its terrifying. What if theres an outbreak . What would the agency do if something happened and they dont have the staff to handle it . Well, in an emergency, the fda can call staff back for the furrow. Hundreds are facing eviction. 1100 land lords of hud who provide subsidized housing have expired since the shutdown started. And about 1,000 more are expect stod start ed to start by february. Despite the shutdown, the Agriculture Department says it will be providing food stamps to 38 million americans through the end of february. Initially, the agency could only guarantee them until the end of january. Agriculture Officials Say they will use a provision which allows them to make obligated payments within 30 days of a funding lapse. Theyre now working with states to issue food stamp benefits 4. 8 billion worth by january 20th. All right. It may be the clearest coordination of evidence between the Trump Campaign and russia. It came out in a botched court filing by lawyers of Paul Manafort revealing that the former Trump Campaign shared polling data with an alleged russian operative. We get more from cnns sara murray. Good morning, christine and dave. Were now learning that Paul Manafort shared campaignrelated polling and discussed ukrainian peace plan with his associate. Manafort and kilimnik stayed in touch after donald trump was elected. Even meeting in ma friday in 2016. Those are the closest signs of coordination. In this case, its kilimnik, a man prosecutors says has ties to russian intelligence. That same russian intelligence that investigators say hacked the Democratic Party and leaked stolen emails during the 2016 campaign. Remarkably, were learning all of this thanks to manaforts legal team. They submitted a filing saying that manafort never intentionally lied to investigators. Manaforts lawyers say their client has misremembered details. But their lawyer submitted a redacted version with formatting errors that allows all of these details to be made public. Thank you for that. The Supreme Court ruling, the justices rejecting a challenge by an unnamed Foreign Company that sought to avoid complying with the grand jury subpoena. The jury reinstates fines totaling 50,000 a day against the Mystery Company for failing to comply with the subpoena. Chief Justice John Roberts put those results on hold. Its the first time the Supreme Court has had to intervene on the mueller probe. A riggs lawyer who met at trump tower with the Trump Campaign has now been charged with obstruction of justice. Investigators charging Natalia Veselnitskaya in connection with the Money Laundering case. It does highlight her deep ties to the russian government. She helped organize the infamous meeting at trump tower between members of the campaign and trumps family and russians, promising dirt on hillary clinton. So there is a success of the whole prime time address, its that the president distracted from a very bad day in the Russian Investigation. 12 minutes past the hour. Grammy awards of the sing r. Kelly should be under investigation. A lifetime allegations researched abuse and pedophilia. After all that Christmas Eve gloom, wall street is now on a winning streak. Optimism about trade talks with china is the reason for right now. The dow climbed another 256 points. Thats about 1. 1 tuesday. The s p 500 closed up 1 . The dow and s p up for three straight days. And thats the longest winning streak since late november because it was kind of a terrible end of the year. The nasdaq closed up 1. 1 , rallying for the eighth time in nine days. Trade stock like boeing, apple closed high. While wall street is slowly recovering from a horrible november, President Trump is hoping it will give an edge. And to Christiane Amanpour that is not necessarily the case. President vastly overstates the other comphibeconomics to l the forecast. People are now saying theres a 40 or 50 chance of recession within the next two years. Thats the right reading of what Financial Markets are saying. So, our position isnt so strong. A u. S. And chinese negotiators met for a third day in beijing, a sign that discussions may be moving in a positive direction. Multigrammywinning singer r. Kelly could be facing a criminal investigation in atlanta. After a documentary series that detailed allegations of more than two decades of abuse and pedophilia. An attorney for the family of jocelyn savage, one of the women featured in surviving r. Kelly. Savage claims she was having a sexual relationship with r. Kelly, being manipulated by him, cut off from the outside world. Prosecutors want to know if there are other potential victims out there. Please come forward. Theres nothing that can be done to investigate these allegations without the cooperation of both victims and witnesses. We cannot seek Justice Without you. In 2002, kelly was charged with 21 counts of child pornography, for a videotape that allegedly showed him having sex with an unidentified underage girl. He was acquitted. And his lawyers at the time claim kelly was not in the video. Police in phoenix try to determine how a woman in a longterm vegetative state gave birth last night. They were seeking dna from male staffers at the hacienda facility. Cnn reports that the woman has been a patient there nor at least a decade, had the baby last month. The familys attorney saying the family is obviously outraged, traumatized and in shock of abuse and neglect of her daughter. The baby boy has been born into a loving family and will be well cared for. That story is just a real shocker. Just awful. Ahead, a u. S. Navy veteran from california is being held in an iranian prison. Why his mother said he traveled to the country. 12 hours . 20 dogs . Wheres your belly rubs . 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Joanne white said he flew to iran last july to visit a woman he said was his girlfriend. She said she worries about his health because she hes had cancer and suffers from asthma. The state Department Says it is aware of reports of u. S. Citizens detained but would provide no further investigation. Whites condition could aggravate tensions between white and the u. S. Today, british lawmakers resume their debate over Prime Minister teresa mays brexit deal. And she faces an 81 hill battle to gain support. May will argue that parliament has the duty to support her or face the unpredictable consequences of a nodeal cliffhanger. But she faced another setback tuesday, members of her own party, joined the opposition party, backing the spending powers if it fails the deal with the uk union. Its ahead of that expected vote next tuesday. Trade talks in beijing between the u. S. And china ending overnight. The session was supposed to last two days but both sides agreed to extend the negotiations by one day. It could be a sign that discussions are making progress. On tuesday, china also announced would improve imports of five new varieties of genetically modified crops. A move that would allow more American Farmers to sell biotech seeds to the chinese. Are you optimistic that a minor deal is done that allows both sides to rampdown tensions . Look, theyve long opposed those gmo imports. So that is a sign. Now, you need changes, you need to protect intellectual property. Theres a very long list there. Well see if there are deeper gives from the chinese. President trump and the Democratic Leaders delivering dueling speeches. And while the federal government is shut down for 19 days. We break it down, next. Tmobile knows dancing is better when you include a partner. Singing is better when you include a friend. And unlimited is better with a phone included. Its true. Forty bucks with the other guys, doesnt include a phone. So, start the new year right. Join tmobile and get unlimited with a phone included for just forty dollars per line. There is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. President trump making his case, trying to, on immigration. Did he change any minds . Mr. President , reopen the government, end this shutdown. Now. Democrats head back to the white house today to meet with the president. Are they ready to make a deal . Deadline past. It is official now, hundreds of thousands of federal workers on the front lines of National Security will not be paid friday. Well tell you their stories. It may be the clearest public evidence yet of coordination between the Trump Campaign and russia. What Paul Manafort shared with an alleged russian operative during the 2016 election. Welcome back to early start, everybody. Im dave briggs. Good morning, im christine romans. Its 31 minutes past the hour. And were entering day 19 of the federal Government Shutdown. This afternoon, President Trump will attend the Senate Republican lunch then return to the white house for a meeting with top congressional leaders. The president heading to the stage for the Oval Office Address last night. The federal government remains shut down for one reason, and one reason only, because democrats will not fund border security. This situation could be solved in a 45minute meeting. I have invited congressional leadership to the white house tomorrow, to get this done. Hopefully, we can rise above