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Returns. randi kaye, cnn, new york. the daughters of a new york podiatrist say their father diagnosed donald trump with bone spurs in 1968 as a favor to trump's father, fred. now, according to "the new york times," the diagnosis helped the 22-year-old trump avoid serving in the vietnam war. he had received four deferments to finish his education. one of the women says what her father got was access to his landlord, fred trump. she goes on to say, if there was anything wrong in the building, my dad would call and trump would take care of it immediately. that was the small favor that he got. n...

The investigation process. related to all parties involved. it's worth pointing out that young wrestler went onto win the match. congratulations to him. finally, an american man just made history in the antarctic. the first to complete a trek across the continent alone. he ended the trip with incredible effort. covering 77 miles. in 32 hours. he says the last stretch was a challenge but also some of the best moments of his life. you are watching cnn "newsroom." i'll be back with another hour of live news right after this.

Angeles, cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at "the atlantic," ron bernstein. good to have you with us. >> good evening. >> president trump told democratic leaders, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, he would take responsibility for the shutdown over the border wall. now, he is trying to shift the blame on the democrats. who will blink first? who will ultimately get the blame and what damage will be done in the meantime? >> well, first of all, the history of the shutdown is fascinating because it's easy to forget that last year, there was a deal on the table for the president, in whic...

About to change dramatically one week from now. democrats will retake control of the house of representatives. armed with enforcement powers to investigate every aspect of the trump presidency and his business empire. here's cnn's randi kaye. >> reporter: is the trump organization mixed up in money laundering? that's what some members of congress want to find out. deutsche bank has a history of illegally laundering russian money and a relationship with the trump organization. >> they paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fines to the state of new york because they were laundering russian mon...

Demanded that democrats also agree to the largest cuts in legal immigration since the 1920s and it all fell apart. here we are now, with the president demanding from democrats the money for the wall, without anything on the other side. the longer-term history of this, is twice in 2016 and 2013, the senate passed legislation, that included substantial increases in border security, as part of a comprehensive package, that included a pathway to citizenship for roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country presently. again, each time republicans said no. given that history, i think it ...