Over the past week, we heard authorities begging the public for any help and any information they could offer in the search for this killer and now we know a tip led them to take eric black jr. , a 20yearold man, into custody. They say they did that without incident in east Harris County. That is the area where the shooting took place. And in the course of questioning, this man admitted to taking part in the shooting. Authorities are not specifying what role he played. They have not explicitly said that he was the gunman. They say they are continuing to pursue evidence that could lead to others being charged here. But the headline in houston for a community that has been gripped by fear the last week, is that eric black jr. Is in custody and charged with capital murder. In a statement from sheriff ed gonzalez here in Harris County, he said the following. The key there our work is not finished. This is an evolving story and we will be here with you with the latest as we learn more. There is a press conference scheduled for 3 00 p. M. Eastern time this afternoon with the Harris CountySheriffs Department where we hope to learn more. So many answers still out there. Hopefully, we will get some this afternoon. Kaylee hartung, thank you very much so much. Cant imagine the relief for the jazmines family. Lee, what are you hearing about this suspect . I heard late last night they had made an arrest and they had charged the suspect that they arrested with capital murder for the murder of Jazmine Barnes. This is welcome news to the family. We have no reason to believe that it was not but [ inaudible ] heard anything up to this point. At least four independent witnesses [ inaudible ] have identified the suspect as a white male. We are going to take a minute. Im sorry. The skype we are working on with you is just not its not working. We cant understand what youre saying so take a minute and get out on the phone and we will be back in a minute. 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Is on the phone with us. An arrest in houston of a person who has admitted to be involved in the death of Jazmine Barnes. Lee, have you been in contact with the family to get their reaction to this arrest overnight . Yes. [ inaudible ]. Lee, go ahead. Have you been in touch with the family . Yes. Through my office. Was there any reaction from them that you could share . The family was surprised but they were grateful that an arrest had been made. This is something that happened over a week ago, so it was a great deal of anxiety behind anyone would be identified because to the extent that the arrest is reliable, we have no reason to believe that it is not. We look forward to getting some more answers in the coming days. Sure. What do you know again, im revisiting a question we asked but we could not understand your answer due to the connection. What do you know about the person they have in custody and what happens from this point on in the investigation . My understanding after speaking with the sheriff that they have two persons in custody. We expect that they both will be charg charged. To date, only one of the two suspects has been charged with capital murder. Eric black. The other man, from my understanding, some 20yearold, 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. Lets 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. Yesterdays meeting was another round of demands. Little was accomplished. Very little progress. Now, as the shutdown gets closer to becoming the third longest in history, a white house official says the president may decide to declare a National Emergency to get border wall funding. Live from the white house now. White house reporter sarah westwood. They are saying that he may be more inclined now, as he sees these meetings not being very fruitful or productive, to go ahead and declare a National Emergency. Has the president , do we know, given any time line as to how long he is willing to wait before he tries to do that . Reporter well, the president has said he is willing to leave the government partially shuttered for weeks, months, even years if he doesnt get funding for his border wall. But a senior white house official does tell cnn that the president is inclined to use that National Emergency declaration over Border Security to try to get funding for the wall if he is not able to do it legislatively. The source telling cnn that perhaps that could be way out for the president from these contentious talks. Emerging yesterday from the meeting on the white house lawn led by Vice President mike pence and other congressional leaders, there wasnt a lot of progress. Both sides appear no closer to a agreement to reopen the government. Aides asked for a justification for the 5. 6 billion demand in wall funding and supposed to come last night or early this morning ahead of another expected meeting. Now incoming acting chief of staff budget director Mick Mulvaney said he got the sense from that meeting that democratic aides did not want to make progress yesterday. He claimed they were simply there to stall. Here is what he told cnns jake tapper. We recognize that it is important. We didnt make much progress in the meeting which was surprising to me. I thought we had come in to talk about terms that we could agree on. They were actually, in my mind there there to stall and we did not not make much progress. Reporter there are low expectations heading into a meeting today between white house officials and staffer for congressional leaders because as you know, the white house has not been exactly cleared always about what exactly it wants, for example, the president had signaled that he would be willing to back off that 5 billion demands, perhaps a lower sum in some kind of deal. Then he went back and enfrenched behind the 5 billion dollar and try to muddy the waters around what constitute a wall, a seethrough barrier or steel slats could fulfill his 2016 Campaign Promise and democrats are dug in behind their refusal to fund any barrier at the border so the stalemate could insist and President Trump heads later today for camp david for a senior staff retreat so he wont be attending the border walk talks today. Thank you, sarah. Joining us is errol louis and political anchor for spectrum news. Welcome back. Good morning. The report from the white house there was not much progress made. If the president is not moving off 5. 6 and democrats are not moving not a dollar for a wall, the only progress, tell me if you see this a different way, is a surrender from the other side. There is no middle ground here, is there . The flip side of a surrender, victor, is the scenario i think is most likely which is that at some point one or the other side, most likely the white house will simply declare a victor, even though nothing has changed and move ahead. There is not any easy way out of the stalemate as you suggest. Somebody is going to blink. Somebody is going to give in at some point. If part of making it all in, though, involves nobody acknowledging who has given in, then somebody can declare victory and we open the Government Back up. Reporter can the president declare victory without really clear and explicit expression legislatively, a fall, a fence, a barririer or something more . The president declared victory after he lost seats in the white house. Its not beyond Donald Trumps expense to led into gold or vice versa. What we will find, i think, the question is whether or not trumps base will accept that he put up a hard enough fight. So one number to look at, for example, is will this now become, will this eventually become, could this eventually become the longest shutdown in u. S. History . At that point, i think the president can declare victory saying, look. I push this further than anybody imagined and further than anybody thought i should and i did the very best i could. He can say that in about six days from now, after which, again, the hope is that the government will reopen and people can get back to work. Keep in mind, victor, while the d. C. Area always gets a lot of attention, if you adjust for population, the places most hard hit as a percentage of the work force a lot of federal workers are furloughed or set aside right now ur, youre talking ab alaska and red states and as much as they like him to fight the battle over the wall be would also like to get paid and not see their local economies be damaged by it. Lets talk about the reporting the president is inclined to have a National Imagine and build the wall through the military. A source telling cnn that this qo, quote, provide a way out of the, closed quote, of the stalemate. There would be a swarm of legal challenges, obviously. The idea of declaring a emergency and moving forward quickly by using the department of defense to get this stuff done, which agency in the department of defense . Most likely i think the army corps of engineers. Anybody who knows how that agency works they do not move quickly. We are talking about studies and multiple opportunities for congress to step in and say, oh, no you dont. There will be no funding for this. There will be no side journeys to the wall that we have explicitly refused to fund. Yes, it will end up in court and end up in congressional appropriations hearings and it will end up essentially not working. The president s lawyers, im sure, have walked him through this and so on some level, its a reasonable attempt to get what you want, but its really just kicking the can down the road. Eventually, they have to deal with congress and arrive at some agreement to fund something as big as a border wall. Reconcile this with republican orthodox congressional territorial nature the president would say we couldnt solve this through the legislative process so im just going do it myself through the National Emergencies act. Congress has somewhat cooperated on this, frankly. To the extent we have seen any litigation around this its the original i. D. Act that Congress Passed in 2005 and it allows e the saying you, the federal government, are not allowed to simply sweep aside local regulations. The courts has found the federal government can do that and gives an expedited appeal process. The federal government has a strong hand here. Its just, again, once you are talking about Something Like a wall, youve got to get the funding in place and that is where congress always has the last word. Yeah, and one element of the News Conference there in the rose garden on friday in which the president was asked about Eminent Domain and was challenged on that, that most republicans dont like the idea of Eminent Domain but the president will not take as long going through the courts. The Eminent Domain youre allowed to excel the sale of the land and calling it a tag a legal term. The reality you have to pay full market price so youre back to congress, the power of the purse is critical in this case. That is the thing that the white house has not figured out a way to get around. Errol louis, good to have you. Thank you. Be sure to watch state of the union with jake tapper. On the show is Mick Mulvaney and representative adam schiff and alabama senator doug jones at 9 00 a. M. A. M. Easteeastern on senator Elizabeth Warren is hitting the Iowa Campaign trail. She faced some tough questions yesterday. One voter confronted her regarding her decision to troy to prove her claims of native american an restry. Political reporter peter binard is with us now. You wrote the following. What do you mean by that . If you look at the kind of major female political politicians of our time, hillary clinton, nancy pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, what you see is that consistently, they have significantly higher disApproval Ratings than kind of according male figures. Elizabeth warren has higher disapprove rating than Bernie Sanders and joe biden. Hillary clinton had the same with like john contrary or al gore. Nancy pelosi significantly more unpopular than Chuck Schumer or harry reid. What i argue is if you look at Academic Research studies that show that, unfortunately, people tend to respond much more negatively to women when they express ambition than towards men. Youre saying the challenge for women, in general, its not specifically for warren . Yes. That is exactly right. Its not that we shouldnt cover all of the specific issues with Elizabeth Warren, but we make a mistake if we think that her highest Approval Ratings are necessarily connected to specific things she has done. A lot of it, i think, is something that would be faced by any woman who was seeking the presidency, especially any feminist woman. The presidency. But lets look what happened the last few months. You have 15 women who have ascended into positions of power in washington and 127 women in the house of representatives today as opposed to 110 just last year. Do you think that things are changing in that regard . Why would Elizabeth Warrens gender be a challenging factor . I think changing a bit but i think different when you run to the simply one member of the house or one member of the senate, compared when you run to the president of the United States or speaker of the house. What Check Research shows and this is an uncomfortable subject. It is, because im sitting here would it be the same for amy clobachar . Yes. I think women who have traditional views about gender tend to express in studies is a discomfort with women in positions of power over men. And that is what the presidency represents and what the speaker of the house represents. And that is why i think that when you ascend for those higher jobs, you tend to find a greater gender of blowback. Lets talk about this too. Back in october, i want to play what President Trump had to say about what he hopes happens in the democratic nomination process coming up. Listen to this. I hope she is running for president because i think she would be very easy. I hope that she is running. I do not think she would be difficult at all. She will destroy the country. She will make our country into venezuela. With that said i dont want to say bad things about her because i hope she is one of the people that gets through the process. Its going to be a long process for the democrats. So President Trump, obviously, is talking there about Elizabeth Warren and how he hopes she gets into the race. Is there a hesitation about a woman running at all . Or is there a hesitation in the Democratic Party even about a woman running against trump . I dont think it has particularly what we know that trump goes after women, particularly aggressive and often sexist and vial ways. The fact he is focusing on this pocahontas slur against Elizabeth Warren far more than he has attacked Bernie Sanders. I think that is typically of the way in which women who run for National Office tend to get more attacked than men do. That is not to say Elizabeth Warren couldnt win the nomination and beat donald trump. I think perhaps she could but i think we have to, as journalists and as political commentators, we have to be aware of the ways in which political conversations about women in politics are different than they are about men and more and that women face particularly challenges, even in this era in which we have more women in congress. What is the answer . Because you are going to want to have a nominee who fights bac