Department of Homeland Security is already asking the pentagon for more u. S. Troops on the southern border, possibly extending the Controversial Military mission nearly into next year. Its our first show of 2019. Lets get it on. Joining me now is republican strategist scher michael singleton, alexei mccammen, political reporter for axios, chris lew, former deputy secretary of labor under president obama, and caitlyn dickerson, immigration reporter for the New York Times. Let me go to you first, chris. You were in the administration of president obama, and you went through a Government Shutdown. I think need to understand that while were looking at this back and forward with the Senate Congressional leaders and the white house, the reality is you were deputy secretary of labor. The 800,000 federal workers, some on furlough, some working and not getting paid until whenever this is over, went through the holidays and are going through now where not only are they waiting on delayed checks
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
Government shutdown now what weve seen plenty of rhetoric, political bluster, and finger pointing. What we havent seen, any signs of real progress. Now President Trump is warning he will consider declaring a National Emergency to build the border wall based on what happens over the next few days. Vice president mike pence wrapped up another meeting with capitol hill staffers last hour after talks yesterday for about 2 1 2 hours went nowhere. No word yet on whether todays talks went any better, but even President Trump himself wasnt very hopeful, saying he didnt expect any progress. And trump has made it clear he will not back down on his demands for wall funding. This is a very important battle to win from the standpoint of safety, number one, defining our country and who we are. Also from the standpoint of dollars. This wall will pay for itself many times during the course of a year. The money were talking about is very small compared to the return. You think i like doing this . I don
So we have learned in the last hour from these aides telling cnn, really today, not expected to accomplish much. Right. Really today, not expected to accomplish much at all. As you were talking about the republicans that are starting to break rank. Democrats see that as their strategy working. That really gives them incentive to stay exactly where they are and keep putting their pressure on. The republicans, the white house, President Trump, has given no indication hes willing to budge at all, and in fact, we have heard from various people within the administration, no wall, then theres no deal. They have been saying that over and over again. Were looking to 11 30 for this meeting. We have the gang of eight coming back here. Again, theyre having this meeting in the situation room. The white house trying to frame this as a National Security emergency down at the border. The democrats not really buying that at this point, but thats kind of the setup for all of this. Were now in day 14, p
Newsroom. Talks to end a u. S. Budget impasse are at a stalemate with the partial Government Shutdown now in its third week. President donald trump is not backing down on his demand for more than 5 billion to build a wall on the southern border. And hes threatening to bypass congress to get the money if needed. Boris sanchez has an update from washington. Reporter as has been the case for several days during meetings between Top Administration officials and lawmakers to reopen the federal government and potentially fund some sort of border barrier between the United States and mexico that President Trump has been promising were hearing two different sides about what happened during these negotiatio negotiations. On one hand you have President Trump tweeting out that this meeting was productive. On the other hand were hearing multiple accounts from people behind those closed doors that things did not go all that well. One source telling cnn that the republicans presented the democrats t