October 2017. That has since become a famous bit of testimony because he has since pled guilty to lying during that sworn testimony about the president s efforts to build a trump tower in moscow during the campaign. In light of that guilty plea by Michael Cohen where he admitted lying to congress, the Senate Intelligence committee asked him to come back and testify again but this time they said it would not be voluntarily. They sent him a subpoena to testify tomorrow. We thought that was on track but now today, we learned that testimony before Senate Intelligence will be rescheduled. His testimony that was due last week to the house Intelligence Committee, that was also rescheduled. Committee chairman adam schiff said cohens testimony to the house Intelligence Committee had to be delayed in the interests of the investigation. We dont really know what that means. We dont know why Michael Cohens congressional testimony both voluntary and subpoenaed, why that keeps getting put off. But regardless of what these committees are able to work out with him, they can only put it off for so long. Michael cohen is scheduled to report to federal prison in three and a half weeks. If they are going to hear from him before he turns up to get his orange jump suit, there isnt that much time to committ comfortable hes delaying. They arent expressing concern or worry or beating their chest. They seem to think they will get him but not getting him yet. Were following that today with clarity on what it means, presumably well know in the long run. We have been following the big news out of colorado. This is Colorado StateCapital Building today. Thousands of Denver Schoolteachers marching to the state capital to launch their strike against the Denver School district. This is the first time denver teachers have went on strike in decades. It was below freezing but more than half of the 4,000 plus School Teachers were in the streets. The teachers are asking not just for higher pay but interestingly, they are asking for more stable and predictable pay. Right now denver teachers are paid a low base salary and then they get an end of the year bonus but the end of the year bonus can swing up and down quite widely which makes for a very unpredictable total amount of compensation from year to year, which makes it hard to live, hard to plan. Denver schools were still open today on the first day of the strike but a lot of students walked out of class today, too and joined their teachers on the picket lines. Teachers say they want this to resolve fast but its not clear if that will happen. Tomorrow will start day two. I want to tell you something that just broke within the last half an hour. For the past week, congress has been trying to Conference Committee has been trying to work out a deal to avert another Government Shutdown. The deadline to come up with a bill to avert a shutdown, which would have to be pass by both chambers of congress, that deadline is this friday or another shutdown starts. Well, just tonight, just within the last 25 minutes, that Conference Committee, that group of bipartisan legislators who have been trying to find a deal to overt the shutdown have announced they got a deal. They say they have reached a quote agreement in principle about funding the government. Now we have no idea what that agreement is. We have no details about their supposed deal. The lawmakers do say it includes some sort of funding for some sort of border security. We dont know if that includes any money for the president s beloved wall idea, but again, they do say they have a deal. We will keep you posted as we learn more. What remains to be seen is even if these Conference Committee members do have a deal they can all agree on, if it can pass the house, and pass the senate, of course, it would have to be signed by the president to avert the government shutting down. Weve been here before. The senate and the house already agreed on noncontroversial legislation to fund the government in an on going way the and president refused to sign it and led to the longest Government Shutdown in history, which we are just out of so yes, there is an announcement there is a deal but there is a gigantic grain of salt riding that announcement without a saddle. So we will let you know again more about that when we learn more. Were also of course, watching what is happening tonight in el paso. Right now, as we speak, President Trump is starting a Campaign Style rally in el paso, texas. El paso is the red dot on the map. It sits along the border of the United States and mexico. At his state of the Union Address last week, you might remember the president using el paso as sort of a case study for why he wants his wall so much. He said el paso is a terrible, violent, dangerous place until a portion of fencing went up on the u. S. Border at el paso and he described that bit of fencing as essentially solving all of el pasos problems. Factually, thats total horse hockey. El paso has a low crime rate but that was the case long before the fencing was put up. Unless its time travel, that argument never made much sense and el paso knows it. Nevertheless, the president is due to appear in el paso at any moment making the case for building the magic wall on the boarder to keep immigrants out. And he, of course, will be making that pitch against the backdrop of what is another looming Government Shutdown over this very issue at the end of this week if that deal does not produce legislation that both houses agree to. You should also know tonight el paso is a weird spot for the president to be holding this Campaign Rally tonight. Its weird because of the thing hes been saying about el paso that fund mentally is not u ttr. He does like holding Campaign Rallies when its not election season but always holds them in deep red places, right . Very republican friendly places. That is not el paso. In the 2016 election, donald trump lost el paso by 43 points. 43point win for Hillary Clinton in El Paso County. To put into perspective how bad of a loss, donald trump lost by a bigger margin than blue blue state california. So el paso is a weird place for the president to rally his base around the idea of a border wall. El paso is not a weird place for what will go on across the street from the president s rally tonight, though. The president s rally is, well show you here, see that red dot . The El Paso County coliseum, the location for the president s rally tonight. Now, show the other thing here, go on. Other red dot across the parking lot there. Thats the acosta Sports Center. See how close the buildings are . They are. 2 miles away from each other generously. But that acosta Sports Center, that place that is spitting distance, that is the site tonight of a counter rally against the president. Tonight, thousands of people marched through the streets of el paso to protest against the visit and border wall and what hes been saying about el paso. They are calling it the march for truth saying they are fighting back against what the president has been saying about el paso and about immigrants and how hes been using both as political footballs. This march tonight started about a mile away from the Sports Center thats across the parking lot from the president s rally. On the way there, they chanted el paso united will never be divided. And at the end of the march, beto ocho rrourke is heading t and came close to picking off ted cruz in the senate race last year but ocrourke has not said if hell run for president this next year but there is some expectation he might. Oc orourke was born and raised in el paso and slated to speak across the parking lot from the president s rally. Can we dip into this for a second . That was the only place that she was allowed to go to high school in el paso, texas. Had the audacity to enroll at Texas Western college and denied entry solely because of the color of her skin. She did not allow that injustice to detouour her or dampen her spirits enlisting the services of a little known attorney called thurgood marshall. They took that case to the federal courtroom of r. E r. E. Tomison and making their stand for this community, they integrated Higher Education for every single american in the state of texas. Beto orourke speaking in el paso, texas. Hes close. Hes across the parking lot from anti immigrant Campaign Rally with these rallies happening so close together, were keeping an eye on the speeches tonight. Well turn this around as we get remarks from the president and beto orourke. Well let you know how this develops tonight and well watch as these events may let out around the same time, which will be interesting given these folks being in close proximity. And this comes when more democrats are dipping into the 2020 race next year and let me say why i think its important Amy Klobuchar decided to jump in. Shell be my guest for the interview. This will be her first extended cable interview since she announced shes running for president. The first time she ran was in 1998. She had no political experience at all. She had spent an intern, an internship one summer in washington but that was it. Her dad was a newspaper columnist. Her mom a second grade teacher. Both were from immigrant families. Her grandfather had been an iron miner in minnesota. But in 1998 she decided that she was going to run for office for the first time. She decided she would run for d. A. The top prosecutor job in Hennepin County in minnesota, the twin cities. It was a republican leaning year and a random year in minnesota and elected a professional rest ler to be their governor. That same night she was on the ballot to become d. A. But despite sort of head winds and cross winds there, Amy Klobuchar did pull off that race and elected to the powerful position. The first time she ran to office. She became Hennepin County prosecutor d. A. Four years later, she ran for reelection and nobody tried to run against her. She ran unopposed. So she spent eight years as d. A. Then she decided she would run for u. S. Senate. No woman had been elected for minnesota before. She did it and made it look easy. She won by 20 points. Six years later in 2012 she ran for reelection and won by more than 30. Then this past year 2018 republicans initially made noise about picking off her seat since Hillary Clinton had barely eked out a win over trump in minnesota and maybe they could take Amy Klobuchars seat in minnesota two years later and started to make noises about that but try it. Klobuchar won by 24 points and won so comfortably, she was able to spend a got chunk of the election season traveling the country campaigning for democrats that needed more help than she did while she romped to another huge win in her state. Amy klobuchar had been politically invincible since the first race she ran in and now as of this weekend, shes running for president and her National Name recognition is low to start out with for now. But her political effectiveness is high both electorally and in terms of her getting stuff done, the number of bills shes gotten past under republican and democratic accomplishments and what shes brought home. I also think there is an ex factor with Amy Klobuchar, which is that shes funny. And that might matter. Shes funny enough it may have seemed like a practical joke when god decided to jump this much snow on her outdoors no umbrella, no cover, no hat president ial Campaign Kick off speech this weekend in minnesota. Amy amy amy amy hello, everyone. [ cheers ] welcome america to boom island. Where are we . Boom island now we dont let a little snow stop us. We dont let a little cold stop us. No. Like are you guys even cold . No tell the truth. No [ laughter ] there was so much snow at her president ial Campaign Announcement, people literally skied to her speech. [ laughter ] people brought they are kids to her speech but they brought them not only bundled up to an inch of their lives but they brought their kids on sled. The location was on boom island, the site of her speech this weekend specifically was about a mile from a bridge over interstate 35. Remember these pictures . Bridge over interstate 35 that collapsed, catastrophically in 2007. Amy klobuchar had been a u. S. Senator for only about six months when this bridge came crashing down. Its a few blocks from where she and her family live. 13 people died in the collapse. Nearly 150 people were injured. Youll remember the kids being rescued one by one by the school bus teetering over the side of the collapsed bridge. And her announcement this weekend, Amy Klobuchar paid tribute to the heroes who rescued people in that disaster, again, about a mile from where she stood. She drew a roar from the crowd when she talked about what it took to work across the isle prague mat tick prag when she and other politicians got the huge bridge rebuilt and back up and running in about a year. Constructing something that big and that important that fast takes a lot of political work. The roar from the crowd when she talked about her effectiveness in doing that, gives you a portrait of the kind of senator shes been in minnesota. People talk about being an elected official who your own constituents feel is indense penceb indispensable, thats the reason why. So she talked about that and went ahead and jumped in as is her nature, somed ad lib jokes along the way. Were tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns of the gridlock and the grand standing. Today on this snowy day on this island, we say enough is enough. Our nation, our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity, not by wallowing over what is wrong but by marching toward what is right. And it has to start with all of us. My family story is like so many of yours. On both my mom and my dad eastsid s side they arrived with nothing but a suitcase. They made a home here. It was cold okay, maybe not as cold as this. They didnt know anyone but like so many immigrants, they wanted a better life. My grandpa worked 1500 feet under ground in the mines up north in the iron range. He never graduated from high school. He saved money in a coffee can in the basement to send my dad to college. My dad, who is here at age 90 [ cheers ] got a twoyear degree from a Junior College and then finished up at the Great University of minnesota. [ cheers ] he became a journalist. As a young thank you. I stand before you as the granddaughter of an ironer miner, as the daughter of a teacher and newspaperman, as the first woman elected to the United States senate from the state of minnesota. To announce my candidacy for president of the United States. [ cheers [ cheers ] i promise you this, as your president , i will look you in the eye. I will tell you what i think. I will focus on getting things done. That is what ive done my whole life. And no matter what, ill lead from the heart. [ cheers ] at that point in the speech, the crowd starts to say amy, amy, amy. She clearly has no idea what to do with it. She eventually cuts them off and basically says to stop cheering. This is not a politician who basks in the applause. Although maybe it is just hard to bask in anything when it is snowing on you that hard. So a few things about senator Amy Klobuchar joining the race. First, im not going to lie. I think it matters shes funny. Thats part of how she gets things done and part of how the country will get to know who she is. Im banking people will like that in a candidate. Shes not the slickest candidate in the world. Shes not the most professionally packaged candidate in the world but funny sets her apart in lots of ways and matters alongside that that she does have a record of getting things done at home and in washington. On the other hand, its going to matter and probably going to be expensive in building up donations she would run a national campaign. It will matter shes not nationally wellknown, not yet. She doesnt start with big name recognition. Also for what its worth, it seems like the man she would be running against, it seems like President Trump has no idea what to do with her. This was the tweet he sent trying to mock her Campaign Announcement this weekend criticizing her for how much it snowed. Quote, Amy Klobuchar announced shes running for president talking of fighting Global Warming and standing in a blizzard of snow, ice and temperatures. The president says by the end of her speech she looked like a snow man woman. This is her response. Science is on my side, donald trump. I wonder how your hair would fair in a blizzard. Is that the right way to beat that guy . I dont know. I dont know. Hes only run for office once and he won. In responding that way, did she make you think about his hair . Perhaps more importantly, did she make him think about his hair . He really cant be out in the snow or the rain. She can. Does he get nervous about people knowing that . Does it make him nervous to have a woman