Back to work for federal workers after an unscheduled long weekend. President trump ending the threeday government shutdown. The government is funded for three weeks. Well done, congress. House and senate voted to end the stalemate after mcconnell fir firmed up assurance of daca and immigration. The president held two meetings to discuss immigration reform. One with six conservatives and two red state democrats. The president up late tweeting big win for republicans as democrats cave on shutdown. Now i want a big win for everyone. Republicans, democrats and daca. Especially for the great military and Border Security. Should get there. See you at the negotiating table. Cnn asks can a long term deal with reached by february 8th . More from Phil Mattingly. Reporter christine and dave. Three days. That is how long the shutdown lasted. Government will reopen. Hundreds of thousands of workers for the federal government will no longer be furloughed. You can look at the democratic votes in the
Final vote in the house of representatives on a compromise shortterm spending bill. Were also following the shutdown fallout for President Trump and both parties. This hour, ill talk with two prominent democrats, senator bill nelson and the chairman of the congressional black caucus, saCedric Richmond, and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. President trump is claiming victory tonight. Thats right, wolf. The white house is taking a victory lap after democrats in the senate caved and voted to reopen the government. The odd thing about this victory lap is its missing the man in the dreevers seat. The president who has been meeting with senators from both parties behind closed doors. Hes still steering clear of the cameras. A source tells us thats by design to make sure the shutdown was not about him. For the last three days its been the art of the conceal. The ayes are 81. After pushing back it was a democratic
February 8th . We have more from Phil Mattingly on capitol hill. Reporter christine and dave, three days. That is how long the Government Shutdown lasted on Tuesday Morning with the government reopening. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will no longer be furloughed. What did they get out of this . You can look at the democratic votes in the senate and house and recognize that not all democrats were on board with the deal that was eventually made. The reason why . Concern of the promises and word of Senate Majority leader mcconnell. Some type of bipartisan deal to protect those d. R. E. A. M. Ers. 600,000 individuals. That has always been the democrats primary purpose and primary goal here. They didnt get any guarantees. They did get that promise. Thats what Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer was pointing to. I expect the majority leader to fulfill commitment to the senate and to me and to the Bipartisan Group and abide by this agreement. If he does not, of course, and i exp
When he sat down with muellers team, can he use that or no . He can to a certain extent, but hes not going to be talking to congress. It is going to be a different situation. It is going to be more conversational. And fbi agents can be a little bit strong in their questioning. But he doesnt have the legal compulsion to speak. Had they brought him before the grand jury, they can compel testimony except, you know, certain types. So the choice to interview him rather than initially bring him before the grand jury is significant. But mueller, we have seen in this investigation, is not afraid to use heavy handed tactics. I want you to comment on the issue of privilege. Youre a walking encyclopedia into the entire russian affair and russia investigation. What are the major touch points that you think that mueller would want to drill down on . Right, so as shimon referred to earlier, you know, sessions really is involved in a number of different threads here. One he was part of the trump tran