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The president has not risen to the mantle of the office. so says mitt romney, making his presence known in a blistering op-ed before taking his senate seat. today is the first bipartisan meeting since the government shutdown began. is a deal possible to end the shutdown costing 800,000 government workers their paychecks? the family of an american detained in russia denies charges of espionage. was paul whelan detained as payback for the russia investigation? someone in new york waking up really happy and $425 million richer before taxes. we have the lucky numbers and where that ticket wa...

"business" this morning. and markets around the world are mostly lower on the first trading day of 2019. you see tokyo, shanghai, hong kong lower there. pretty decent decline for hong kong, almost 3%. and then european markets also following suit here. on wall street, futures are lower, as well. the dranchow jones industrial ae futures on that average down almost 1.5%. 2018 was a record-setting year for stocks, but it's one no investors would rather forget. the s&p down 6.2%. the nasdaq down 4%. the worst year for stocks since 2008. and only the second year the dow and s&p 500 fell in the past...

Best served warm." and romney just proved it. just let that marinade for a while, folks. if you figure it out, let us know what it means. mitt romney will speak with jake tapper on "the lead" at 4:30 p.m. eastern time on cnn. if you're back from a break, the government is still partially shut down, 11 days and counting. president trump holding firm on his demand for border wall funding in more than two dozen tweets since friday. today he's invited congressional leaders to meet with him at the white house. that has not happened since the shutdown began. about a quarter of the federal governme...

Jamal khashoggi and mocked the official government accounts. >> at one point they were saying that he died in a fist fight jackie chance style. they went through so many explanations, the only one they didn't say was that khashoggi died in a free-climbing rock accident. >> a spokesman for netflix says they strongly support artistic freedom worldwide, but the group human rights watch denounced the move saying, quote, netflix's claim to support artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to demands of the government officials who believe in no freedom for their citizens. not political, not comedic...

Leaders from both parties to meet with him at the white house. that hasn't happened since the shutdown started. about a quarter of the federal government has been frozen for nearly two weeks. that means 800,000 federal workers are going unpaid while lawmakers still collect paychecks. jessica dean with more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning. here at the white house, there's expected to be a meeting with the president and leadership from the house and senate from both parties later this afternoon. details still being worked out on all of this. but we are told to expect a briefing f...