So was the shutdown worth it . And why do things go from here . Lawmakers on both sides weighing in this morning. Shutdowns are never good policy, ever. They are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal no matter how important that goal may seem to be. We cannot have the threat of a Government Shutdown hanging over our people and our economy. We all know that these workers were held hostage by the president. We all know its a strategy the American People abhorred and thats why the president had to cave. But we also want to make sure it never happens again, whoever is president , whoever is in congress. Lets check in with cnn correspondent boris sanchez. The republicans are not backing down on the threat to get congress to get his border wall. Thats right, the democrats are trying find a way to get past the president s request for a border wall. The president has threatened to declare a National Emergency and get his border wall that way. The congress promising to block that order in court. According to sources, according to people familiar with the plan so far, all of that money combined would not reach the president s demand for 5. 7 billion, the sort of down payment he wants for building his longpromised border wall. So for the president and his team, its back to the drawing board, yet again threatening to shut down the federal government, essentially a repeat of the past month or so if the president doesnt get what he wants. Its unclear exactly why the president and his team feel like they can get Something Different this time around, but as the acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said this morning, the president is determined. Is the president really prepared to shut down the government again in three weeks . Yeah. I think he actually is. Keep in mind hes willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border. He does take this very seriously. This is a serious humanitarian and security crisis, and as president of the United States, he takes the security of the nation as his highest priority. He doesnt want to shut the government down. Lets make that very clear. He doesnt want to declare a National Emergency. Well, fred, mulvaney reiterated the president s demand for 5. 7 billion in border wall funding, saying thats what border wall experts have told the president thats what he needs. Although he did say the president isnt married to that figure, but he didnt specify what the president would accept to move on without threatening to shut the government down again. Fred . Joining me right now, democratic congresswoman maxine waters. She is also the Ranking Member on the Foreign Services committee. Can you see that there will be an agreement to avoid another Government Shutdown . I certainly hope we can get an agreement. Its been too long. Too many of our federal employees have suffered. We saw the suffering, we saw federal employees standing in food lines, and so im hopeful that this is a serious and credible negotiation, and particularly on the president s part. You know, the president changes his mind. We dont know if hes going to, you know, abide by any rules of negotiation. As a matter of fact, i was stunned after he came out and announced that he was going to participate in opening up the government. He started to do the attack again. And basically he was saying he started to threaten, yeah, the emergency wealth. Thats right. You heard Mick Mulvaney who said once again the president wants to keep the government open. They are exploring places where they can extract money to help justify the emergency declaration. So which is it . What is the sense you get from the white house in terms of how it will be participating in any negotiations where there is wiggle room . Its hard to believe that he is prepared to seriously negotiate when hes making his demands outside of the negotiation already. First of all, hes talking about hes got to have a certain amount of money. Hes also talking about how terrible it is with the rapists and the drug dealers and on and on and on. Thats not how you enter a negotiation. You shut up, and you shut down, and you get into the negotiation and you legitimately lay your concerns on the table and people are prepared to talk about what they can and cannot do. Does that tell you its going to be a repeat experience . I hope not. We believe in border security, and we have offered, you know, how we think it can be done. We want to make sure that he understands that its not simply about a wall. I want him to think about, and we want him to think about technology. We want him to think about drones. We want him to think about all of those things that go into having a secure border. And so i just dont know i dont trust him very much, because hes agreed to something and then backed off of them, and i just hope that he understands, he put this nation in danger. Just think what is happening to our air Traffic Controllers. Many of them are under a lot of stress because they didnt get their pay, they had to come back to work because they were considered among those employees that must work despite the fact that theyre not getting paid. Theyre under stress. Many of them are working long hours. Some of them are working in towers with only one individual there, one air traffic controller, and so i dont know if he understands that he was about to shut this nation down. Except is that the imagery and are those the sentiments from air Traffic Controllers and flight attendants that actually got the president s attention, seeing how commerce, how the economy was being disrupted because of these ground stoppages . We heard from federal workers for five weeks who talked about their personal hardships, but it was another thing to see those images on television and then you had the president saying, Government Back open again. I think the air Traffic Controllers sent us a serious message. They sent out a letter that talked about the dangers that were possibly involved in what was going on and said it was so awesome and so huge the possibility of the risk that was being put into effect by this president , they couldnt even tell you how bad it was going to be. I think that had something to do with it. But the most thing is nancy pelosi had made a legitimate offer. Nancy pelosi had also employed a legitimate strategy. So its a combination of those things that made him back down. He had to back down. He had no choice. So he should not come into this negotiation with threats. So there was really unity demonstrated by the democrats, perhaps by a representation of the president s thinking, this goaround with 19 more days, this is what the acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had to say this morning about the white house, the president s persistent demand for the wall. There are some parts of money that are easier to get to than others, so again, this is not something were shooting on from the hip. We had hoped to do it through legislation with democrats because thats the right way for the government to function, but at the end of the day, the president s commitment is to defend the nation and hell do it with or without congress. So again, hours after the president made his announcement, he was tweeting about this option of an emergency declaration. How is congress preparing for President Trump to try steto establish that there is a National Emergency, a krcrisis,o that these pots of money mulvaney was referring to would be available . Im going to say this. I think the American People, including the air Traffic Controllers, weve made everybody understand what a dangerous situation were in, and i dont know where theyre getting this money from. But i know this. I know that even if they were able to find money that was not in the control of the congress, they will have all other kinds of issues to deal with, imminent domain issues. They dont even know about the terrain. The land especially along the texas border, and there was an inference from mulvaney money would come from treasury or perhaps even the defense department, and you dont see those as Viable Options . No, i dont. I dont have any idea what theyre talking about. I heard he was going to take money from housing, that he was going to get money from places where there is no money. So, again, this president starts out bluffing and threatening all over again. I would just hope he would settle down and come to his senses, because he doesnt understand the role of the three branches of government. He thinks he can just run over the house and the senate, but were proving that he cant do that and it wont work. And so i hope that he would have sense enough, or his advisers would have sense enough, to send him into a negotiation in a legitimate way. We dont play threats. We are together. The democrats are solid, and were not going to be intimidated by him. We want legitimate negotiations to try and make sure that we never put the American People or our workers into the situation that we put them in, threatening the entire economy of this country. So, congresswoman, you for a very long time have led this charge for impeaching the president. You are the chair of the House Financial Services committee. And a recent Washington Post polling is supporting democrats, you know, opening a range of investigations of trump, including suspected ties between foreign governments. However, that same poll shows that only 40 believe congress should begin impeachment proceedings. So how are you prioritizing that whole idea this goaround . Let me just say this. I am pleased that i started the conversation early. I believe that the president early on had defined himself as someone who was incapable of being a legitimate president. And so i started the conversation, of course we got a lot of criticism, i got a lot of criticism, but he has been defining himself ever since. And you will hear impeachment being talked about more and more. 80 of democrats believe he should be impeached. I know that the congress of the United States is slow and rhett te reticent to do it without all the facts. Theyre waiting on mueller to come back with the information that will either say he colluded with the russian government or he obstructed justice or he committed some other kinds of crimes. We want to hear what cohen has to say. Hes been subpoenaed. He has additional information. So we have a ways to go, but i believe that ive been right all along, that i was able to understand what hes all about and his allies, their connection to the oligarchs of russia. The intent on being able to lift those sanctions, and i believe that was part of the agreement with sending manafort there to help run the campaign, that if this president was elected that he would lift those sanctions so that putin and the oligarchs would have their way and moving forward with drilling for oil and other kinds of things they want to do to continue to enrich themselves. Youre still intrigued by the idea, but are you kind of slowing the role on pushing for impeachment proceedings . Im never going to change my mind on it. I said what i believe in. Im going to move forward as the chair doing legitimate work of the Financial Services committee. That doesnt stop me from doing that. Weve got a lot to do. Weve got to be concerned about predatory lending and all those issues. Housing, homelessness, et cetera. Im going to work on that. Okay. And then real quick, the field for democrats throwing their hats into the ring, or at least launching exploratory committees for 2020 is widening. Today senator Kamala Harris has her launching of a Campaign Rally in oakland, california, your fellow californians. Do you have any favorites thus far . Who are you supporting or backing . I have not announced anything at this point. Fredricka, when i do it, it wont be on national tv this way, it will be getting with the candidate and helping to understand how theyre going to direct the issues of this country. It will be helping to understand where they stand on progressive issues, et cetera. So im watching, im looking, ill be talking with them, and at some point i certainly will make a decision. But were going to have a lot to choose from, arent we . So far, yes. California congresswoman maxine waters, thank you so much. Thank you so very much. Still ahead, an aboutface from one of the president s allies, roger stone, now saying he is willing to testify in the special counsels investigation. This as stones own longtime friend tells cnn he has no problem telling Robert Mueller the truth about stones link between Trumps Campaign and wikileaks. Breast cancer. We thought that we would travel to Cancer Treatment centers of america. We left on day one feeling like were gonna beat this and that feeling is priceless. Visit cancercenter. Com. Gonna beat this and that feeling is priceless. Stop fearing your alarm clock. With zzzquil pure zzzs. 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After repeatedly saying he would not testify against the president , today stone now says he is open to testifying. Any chance youll cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller if he asks . You know, thats a question i would have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion. If there is wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that i know about, which i know of none, but if there is, i would certainly testify honestly. I would also testify honestly about any other matter, including any communications with the president. Its true that we spoke on the phone, but those communications are political in nature, theyre benign, and there is certainly no conspiracy with russia. Cnn justice correspondent Jessica Schneider joining me right now. Jessica, stone continues to talk ahead of this court appearance. Why is he so comfortable and really eager to do so . Maybe trying to talk now before he appears in court on tuesday, but youre right, fredricka, roger stones media blitz continues. But his tone does seem to be softening ever so slightly. Stone there pledging to tell the truth about his communications with donald trump but then also saying he never spoke with the president about russia either during the campaign or since trump has become president , and stone interestingly also shed a little bit of light on who that Senior Trump Campaign official might have been who was directed to ask roger stone about any upcoming releases from wikileaks back in july 2016, stone saying, sure, it could have been rick gates, the former Deputy Campaign manager to paul manafort. Gates, of course, has been cooperating with Robert Muellers team for almost a year now since pleading guilty. But roger stone says he doesnt have any emails or documents to back up it was 100 gates, and he says he doesnt really remember. Stone also insisted that he has no idea who may have actually directed gates amid much speculation. Another person blasting the airwaves this morning, individual 1 from that indictment, jerome corsi. Corsi a longtime friend of roger stone. He predicted that wikileaks would be leaking more and more documents. It is alleged in the document that stone directed corsi to get more information from julian assange. Corsi, however, said he never has been in touch with assange and instead was just a good predictor. He also said he would testify. I will testify. I expect to get subpoenaed, and will give my testimony wherever it falls. Ive said from the beginning im not a human tape recorder, you cant push a button, and i cant recall precisely granularly details from the events in 2016, but ill do the best to tell the truth without calculation of whom it benefits and whom it detracts. And jerome corsi has already been talking because hes been interviewed by muellers team several times and he said hes already sat for 40 hours of interviews. They do not believe corsi will be indicted. Corsi put it this way to cnn back in november. He said that mueller and his team have everything and know everything. So very ominous words from jerome corsi and what may be yet to come with this probe. Needless to say, theyre looking for corroboration, so those testimonies will be incredible information as well. Former special assistant to Robert Mueller at the department of justice and a senior legal analyst, Garrett Graff and michael bender, a senior political analyst and reporter for the wall street journal. Good to see all of you. Thank you. Michael, you first. Stone now says hes open to the possibility of cooperating with the mueller investigation, testifying. He says hes willing to tell the truth and has nothing to hide. So is he changing his tune . I dont think so, because he also is saying that i have no evidence that anyone has done anything wrong, including the president , so thats been his party line all along. So im not sure exactly what it is that hes saying thats any different than what he said all along. So hes on a media blitz and im surprised his lawyer allows that, but, you know, hes a difficult why . Why wouldnt his attorney feel that that was potentially dangerous territory . Because he does make reference to his attorney that, you know, my attorney thinks its okay. Yes, im willing to tell the truth. And hes already said that he would be unwilling, you know, to say anything that he believes was being coerced by investigators. Second to donald trump, roger stone may be the most second most difficult client to control. I think that roger stone has been counseled by his lawyers to be careful out there, and yet he keeps talking. Hes already indicated what his defense is to this case, which is, i may have lied but i did so unintentionally. I forgot, it was immaterial. Why you would do that is beyond me except its roger stone. Hes not going to change his spots at this point, age 66. He does like the limelight. So while stone is possibly opening the door to testifying with Robert Mueller, he says he has no plans to cut a deal and vows to win this court case. Take a listen. Are you prepared to spend your last best years in jail . Due to the fact that i expect to be acquitted and vindicated and that my attorneys, including bruce rogow, one of the best attorneys in the country, grant smith, rob brouchard believe this case is as thin as piss on a rock. So im prepared to defend for my life. That gets your attention. Based on what we know here, based on reading the indictment, why is he so certain there would be an acquittal for him . Well, i wouldnt he may be saying that. I dont know that thats necessarily what he believes deep down. You know, when you look at this indictment on paper, if mueller has, and presumably he does, have the evidence to back it up, this is about as simple and straightforward an indictment as you could bring. Very heavily grounded in documents, in primary sources. You actually wouldnt need a lot of corroborating testimony from other sources to help bring this case. You know, i think this is obviously the negotiating position where you start out if you are roger stone, and that roger stone is also sort of looking at this in the big picture. This is something where if he goes down fighting, if he is able to either be acquitted on a hung jury, perhaps, in the courtroom or does a short prison sentence and goes out and hits the conservative speaking circuit, roger stone hopes he can dine out on this indictment for years to come. Much in the way that one of the best things that happened to g. Libbys career was getting wrapped up in watergate. So a recent Washington Post poll shows a range of investigations on trump, and the latest Campaign Including relationship with vladimir putin. Only 40 believe congress should begin impeachment proceedings. So does it mean we should wait for the results of the mueller investigation, or are they tiring of it . More people have fewer doubts about trumps presidency after all this russia investigation, all of the mueller news. You know, the poll shows that trumps Approval Rating right now is pretty steady, so top lines this is not bad news for trump. A small dip but not what you would think after another associate in handcuffs just presided over the longest shutdown in u. S. History, and its effectively unchanged in our poll thats out today. But its not exactly good news for trump here. There is a lot of erosion in how people feel this president is equipped to do his job. A lot of people thought coming into office that he was going to be a positive change agent. No more. More people now he said he was going to surround himself with the best people. More people thought he was going to be effective at being president than didnt. Those numbers have reversed themselves. More people over 50 of americans think he does not have the personal characteristics to be president. Compare that to president obama at the same time. 15 said that about obama. So trumps top numbers are pretty steady. He has a very strong support core. Hes shown incredible resilience. But were seeing some churning underneath that should give this administration some pause. Back to roger stone. He has said hes not at all concerned that the president seems to be distancing himself from stone and says that his publicizing wikileaks documents was not against the law. Take a listen. When Sarah Sanders says this has nothing to do with the president , she is correct. I never discussed these matters with the president , and everything i did regarding trying to get as much public attention to the wikileaks disclosures among voters, among the media, is constitutionally protected free speech. Thats what i engaged in. Its called politics and they havent criminalized it, at least not yet. So michael zelden, is it as simple as that . Well, its complicated for sure. And i think central to the analysis is what do you think wikileaks is . Our intelligence agencies say they are nonstate hostile intelligence service. Many others, including roger stone, say it is a First Amendment mediaprotected organization. If it is the latter, then i think stone is correct, that his talking to wikileaks does not implicate any criminal conspiracy. If wikileaks, on the other hand, is a nonstate hostile intelligence service, then talking to them may well be. So mueller may have to make a decision. If hes going to bring a case like this, does he want to fight wikileaks on First Amendment grounds in the same way they fought with the release of the pentagon papers . Well leave it right there, gentlemen. Michael zelden, michael bencraft, appreciate it. Kamala harris is about to kick off a Campaign Rally in her hometown. How does she plan to kick off to democratic hopefuls . Well have that, next. Indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea. Try pepto with ultra coating. Do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth, or one thats good for my teeth . Now i dont have to choose. From crest 3d white, the whitening therapy collection with new spearmint and peppermint oil. It gently whitens, plus it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. Remember when we all used to go to the cafeteria and just chow down midday . You mean, like, lunch . Come on. Voted most likely to help people save 668 when they switch. At this school . 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Harris is joining a crowded field of democratic president ial hopefuls, which is already the most diverse in modern political history. Cnn steenior National Correspondent kim law is in california. What is the expected message to be . Reporter the public hasnt been let in at large, fredricka, but there is a line forming where we are standing which is oakland city hall. Kamala harris expected to say in her prepared remarks that cnn has obtained some excerpts of that she is the one who is best poised to lead the country, to unify the country, both in biography as well as in her credentials. And part of it is the symbolism of what she is and who she is. But i give you a look of where we are. We are in oakland. This is right in front of city hall. The podium is set. The public will fill this center area. This is a city that the senator was born in. Its a diverse city. It has been for decades a place of protest, and it has continued to be a place of constitution. This is the place where Kamala Harris started her career. She is expected to be populist in her issues. There are five points she will be lying out. She will be fighting for medicare for all, a middle class tax cut. Access to education. That includes universities as well as making sure when people graduate, they are debt free. Criminal Justice Reform and fighting climate change. One line she is expected to deliver is, quote, i love our country and i feel a deep sense of responsibility to stand up and fight for the best of who we are and what our country can be. The people and power are no match for the power of the people. She swung through South Carolina shortly before arriving here in oakland. Part of the reason is theres been a monthlong launch in the southern strategy which is critical to winning in the south. Today this is about launching her campaign in the heart of the city she was born in and that she plans to have one of her campaign offices. Fredricka . Very familiar territory. Its also just a few blocks away from that city hall, is the courthouse where she started her career as a prosecutor. So the people who are there are clearly going to be great advocates of her. But she is bracing herself for the kind of criticism that might come, and scrutiny based on her record as a prosecutor. Has she or her Campaign Said anything about how they will preemptively try to address that . Reporter this is something that has already come up at a number of stops during her book tour where she outlined her biography. She talks about being the kind of prosecutor who isnt just tough on crime but smart on crime. Thats a phrase that she commonly uses. And part of the reason for that is that she saw her career as a prosecutor as fighting from the inside to make change. That has certainly opened her up for criticism, especially here in oakland among the far left. The left has said she hasnt been enough of an active for change, that shes been too much of a prosecutor. This will be something shell continue to talk about not just in sound bites but with her voters. Fred . Were about a half hour away from the official launch there in oakland for Kamala Harris. Thank you. Are women really being bound and ducttaped at the border . Next we check the president s claim that there is rampant crime at the southern border. Ti. It would keep an eye on my fleet. [ beeping ] and an eye out for danger. With active brake assist. If i built a van, id make it available in diesel and gas. And id build it right here, in South Carolina. Introducing the all new sprinter starting at 33,790. Built in the usa. Mercedesbenz. Vans. Born to run. Sorry, is that too loud . Oud. You dont need any more hormones in your house. Thats why you chose kraft natural cheese. Made with fresh milk without the added hormone rbst. Its cheese as it should be. 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They dont go through your port of entry. They make a right turn going very quickly. They go into the desert areas or whatever areas you can look at, and as soon as there is no protection, they make a left or a right into the United States of america. That was President Trump on friday justifying to the American People why there should be a wall along the southern border. Keep in mind the fight over a border wall is the entire reason the government was shut down for 35 days. Now its back up and running. People getting back to work this week, so that argument the president has made many times in the past in an effort to illustrate what he calls the crisis at the southern border. But is that an accurate depiction of whats really happening at the border . Cnns Polo Sandoval has been digging into that and he joins me now with that for more. Polo . The president has clearly latched onto this idea that women and children are bound and smuggled across the border in ways he describes here. We have repeatedly been looking for evidence of that, turning to the white house to see if they can produce at least one or two cases of this situation happening. So far no response. We have, however, heard from some of those experts that deal with the victims of Human Trafficking. They say the victims in this, the nightmares they experience, just do not match with what the commander in chief is saying. Its President Trumps new goto talking point in his attempt to convince americans of his border wall. Build it and stop Human Trafficking in the u. S. Its at the worst level, Human Trafficking, in the history of the world. They come through areas where they have no protection, where they have no steel barriers, where they have no walls. And we can stop almost 100 of that. Reporter this was friday in the rose garden as the president announced a temporary end to the Government Shutdown. He painted a vivid and startling picture of Migrant Women being restrained with duct tape and then snuck over the southern border. Women are tied up, theyre bound, duct tape put around their faces, around their mouths. In many cases they cant even breathe. Reporter it seems like youve heard this before. You probably have. The president described this terrifying trafficking tactic almost a dozen times in the last month. They have women in the backseat of the cars with duct tape all over the place. They tape their face, their hair, their hands behind their back. Human traffickers tying up women putting tape in their mouth. They tie women up, they put duct tape over their mouth. Women tied up, they have tape over their mouths, electrical tape. Usually blue tape. Reporter this is all a misconception, says lauren cohen. Of the hundreds of trafficking victims shes represented, she has yet to meet one who has experienced what the president describes. I dont know where the president s information is coming from. I dont believe its coming from law enforcement. Its certainly not coming from victims, and its not coming from the dozens of Service Providers who i have spoken with across the country. Reporter the experts we spoke to say many victims of trafficking actually come into the u. S. Legally, unaware they will be victimized by traffickers. Others are smuggled but not restrained with tape before being driven over the border, as the president repeatedly claims. Donald trump has told this lurid tale full of bogus details of how he thinks Human Trafficking works, and its just not what we see. Reporter martina vandenburg who also works with trafficking victims says this is all about the border wall. About 34 are foreign nationals, and of those foreign nationals who are coming in, in our experience, the vast majority of those foreign nationals are coming in on perfectly legal visas. Her organization keeps a database of 1400 illegal indictments dating back to 2009. She says 26 of those involve Human Trafficking and only one mentions duct tape. It mentions someone tied up with duct tape, but the victim was a use citizen, not someone being brought across the border from mexico. The people at the southern border declined to comment on the president s comments. And they did not support the president s anecdotes on Human Trafficking. The victims themselves had an opportunity to speak to a woman we can only identify as sandra for safety purposes, and she tells me that when she became the victim of Human Trafficking, really before that happened, she was actually smuggled over the border, and the situation, the nightmare that she experienced does not match what the president is describing today. Fred . All right. Polo sandoval, thank you so much. And well be right back. To make you everybody else. 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