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Interesting. >> indeed. >> welcome to viewers around the world and the u.s. i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. newsroom starts now. 4:01 on the u.s. east coast. thanks for being with us. two major stories to tell you about this hour. first, the 35-day government shutdown, finally, it's over. u.s. president backing down, reopening federal agencies, but getting nothing in return. a trump adviser calls it, quote, a humiliating loss. >> also on friday, roger stone arrested by the fbi at his florida home. he's been charged with obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering

Catalyst for the president backing down was all the chaos early this morning as some of the nation's busiest airports. staffing issues that forced total ground stops. we'll get information from two air-traffic controllers who should be getting paychecks some time soon. should be getting paychecks s e

That, and the vice president led the interaction with the democratic staff over the weekend. but they put things in the formal presentation that democrats want in border security. that being technology, counter narcotics technology, along the border, being able to weapons technology, $631 million for the increase of actual screening along the border, the machines that they use. some of these things are specific democrats' requests they're putting into the formal proposal. this is, i think, they believe a game of semantics and politics. but there's no sense inside this white house that there's ...

Ago and now the white house is backing down, and the president said, ale though i said that i would take the deal, but i am not, and give me $5 billion. normally, if you want to add something, offer something. and this is what he has offered. my a offer offer is to not puni government workers before christmas. and so he bows to bullies like russia, and turkey and now china, and i don't believe that you will see him saying you give me what i want or i will punish 800,000 federal employees. >> the vice president of the united states told the republican leadership that they were on board with thi...

House press secretary sarah sanders went further today claiming that before the hearing flynn was ambushed by the fbi. >> are you arguing that he was entrapped? >> look, we're arguing that he was certainly ambushed. certainly i think one thing is definitely clear is we think the fbi went outside the bounds and the scope of the way that they should operate in the way that they conducted interviewing michael flynn. >> however, judge sullivan gave flynn every chance to press his case against the fbi in court today asking, quote, do you wish to challenge the circumstances under which you were inte...