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Give it back. he was the one who took temporary protected status for refugees away and now he wants to give it back. so he's offered the democrats virtually nothing new and still wants 100% of his wall. >> cristina, offering them nothing new. let me show you what congressman benny thompson, chair of the homeland security committee, on abc, what he had to say this morning. >> so you wouldn't rule out a wall. >> i would not rule out a wall in certain instances. now, the notion that we can't have barriers is just something that's not true. clearly, democrats are for border security. but we are no...

You are watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. we begin with the primetime pitch from the president that is expected to send fact checkers into overdrive tonight. fewer than six hours the president is scheduled to give an eight minute national address from the oval office to push his need for his border wall. the question is, will it be convincing enough to stop this partial government shutdown to turn into the longest in u.s. history. 18 days in, it has just unseeded a 1987 shutdown for second place and if no deal happens by this saturday, it will take the top spot. ju...

Next tonight, comedian and actor kevin hart. after stepping down as oscar host this year, did ellen just get him the job back? here's abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, comedian kevin hart talking openly about his dramatic exit as the host of the oscars on abc. after the string of homophobic comments he made years ago resurfaced. sitting down with ellen degeneres. >> i'm not upset. i know who i am. i know i don't have a homophobic bone in my body. i know that i've addressed it. i know that i've apologized. i don't want to step on that stage and make that night about me and my past. >...

Karen mcdougal were not campaign contributions. michael cohen and part of all the charges that he plead guilty to were from campaign finance violations. he went on to say that to believe cohen's allegations about the president is to trust him and take him at his word. that's not the case. the southern district of new york was able to corroborate some of cohen's claims and ami, the company that owns the "national enquirer" that helped to facilitate the killing of the stories is about the affairs that the president had helped to corroborate part of the story. giuliani is saying michael cohen is ...

The intelligence community and you know that you can't lie. when i was mayor here in kansas city, some of the people in the administration got into troubl . fbi agents came into my office, and asking questions, i know i've got to tell you the truth about people who i knew and most people, you know, out on the streets -- you don't have to be a crook or guilty or anything to know you can't lie. i don't know much more about what happened during that interrogation with the general flynn. you know, i would hate to believe that he was just, you know, badgered and beaten into lying and really, felt l...