Shutdown. Hes canceled plans to go to palm beach, but is he really trying to negotiate a deal or just sending out tweets . Taking it to the streets. By the hundreds of thousands, americans crowd the streets in cities across the country. Theyre demanding womens rights and protesting the trump presidency. Is this foreshadowing what well see in this falls midterm elections. And north korean crisis. One year into his presidency, the president has promised to beat north Koreas Nuclear program with fire and fury, so why do some experts believe President Trumps rhetoric has given kim jongun the upper hand . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The u. S. Government has shut down now for just over 17 hours. With no end in sight. On a day were seeing huge protests marches nationwide. President trump is holed up over at the white house, and instead of celebrating the start of his second year in office with a lavish fundraiser in florida. Were tracking the anger and the negotiations here in washington. Our reporters are fanned out across the country, and our correspondents and specialists, theyre working their sources right now. Lets begin with our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, the president is fretting about whether hell be blamed for the shutdown, right . Thats what were hearing, wolf. Thats exactly right. But there has been a lot of talking today, a lot of posturing, but not a single vote was held here in washington to end this shutdown, the president did not come out in front of the cameras here at the white house. And his officials explained their battle strategy at this point. All of the necessary ingredients for a shutdown. That could last for days. Conceding they dont know how long the shutdown will last, aides to President Trump are shaming democrats for closing down the government. Its like a 2yearold temper tantrum to say im going to take my toys and go home because im upset about something else. My favorite is still the schumer shutdown. Its got a nice ring to it. Privately, cnn has learned President Trump has confiding he worries he will ultimately take the blame. As the shutdown is happening exactly one year after he was sworn into office. This is the oneyear anniversary of the president being sworn into office. How does this white house feel to have a shutdown one year after the president was sworn in . Well, jim, i think its disappointing that congress has chosen to shut down the government and particularly Senate Democrats have at the oneyear anniversary. Is it a reflection of the leadership out of the white house . I think its a reflection, candidly, of many the Democratic Party find themselves in. On the other end. Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with jello. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is complaining mr. Trump rejected his offer to start paying for the wall as a last ditch gesture to prevent a shutdown in their friday meeting at the white house. Its next to impossible to strike a deal with the president because he cant stick to the terms. I have found this out. Leader mcconnell has found this out. Speaker ryan has found this out. What do we want . Democrats have dug in their heels, insisting on an agreement to protect the young undocumented immigrants known as the d. R. E. A. M. Ers. In exchange for their help in reopening the government. Outraging republicans. There is no reason for this shutdown. We have been and we continue to be willing to Work Together in good faith on immigration. But that deadline, that deadline is weeks away. The president stayed behind closed doors, making calls to republicans while using his phone to blast away at democrats, twaeting, democrats are holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked immigration. Cant let that happen. The president is escalating his rhetoric on the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, a far cry from the compassionate tone he used earlier this month. This should be a bipartisan bill. This should be a bill of love. Truly, this should be a bill of love. But democrats are constantly reminding the president of his past comments on shutdown. He said what the country needs is a good shutdown. We dont agree. Especially when barack obama was president. Whos going to bear the brunt of the responsibility if indeed there is shutdown of the government . If you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. I mean, problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top. And the president s the leader. The president was supposed to be at maralago this weekend celebrating the oneyear anniversary of being sworn into office. Instead, he can hear the protests from the womens march in washington right outside the white house. It was one year ago when the president promised fundamental changes for the u. S. This american carnage stops right here, and stops right now. That combative tone from that january weekend has lasted throughout the president s first year in office. In ways the nation wont soon forget. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe. Now, white house Officials Say they may be willing to accept a shortterm spending bill that would fund the government through the early part of february, rather than the middle part of february. That could be a concession to democrats. Not sure if its enough for democrats to take that sort of deal and help reopen the government, but wolf, get this, in just the last several minutes with the Government Shutdown and both sides not really working together, the Trump Campaign has rolled out a new web ad that is highly inflammatory on the subject of immigration. It says, quote, democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by Illegal Immigrants. Wolf, that is a tough way to end a stalemate here in washington. Wolf. Certainly is, jim acosta at the white house. Thanks very much. Up on capitol hill right now, democrats and republicans, they have spent the day coming before cameras to blame the other side for shutting down the federal government. But behind closed doors, theres an urgent search under way to try to find some sort of compromise. Lets bring in our congressional correspondent, phil mattingly. Phil, any indications theyre anywhere close to a deal . Wolf, this is a day thats been defined certainly by frustration, some confusion over where policy positions are, but in terms of a real bipartisan urgency to find a deal, well, all you need do is look at the senate floor. A senate floor where there have been no votes today. The only procedural things that have happened have been efforts to politicize various positions, trying to target to other side. And very clearly, while people are saying they want to get something done, behind closed doors, neither side is budging. Wolf, what i can tell you right now from republican and democrats sources, Mitch Mcconnell very comfortable in his position. Hes talked on the floor about that, but hes also reiterating that behind closed doors saying he and speaker ryan are in line, theyre willing to move to a threeweek short term deal, but thats the extent to where theyll go. The democrats, there is a closed door Democratic Caucus meeting where senators came out more unified, more resolved in their position as one democratic aide told me, were here now. Theres no sense in giving up before we get what were looking for. What are they looking for . Very clear commitments on immigration. On the daca resolution issue, and wolf, i can tell you right now in talking to republican sources, that is something that is just not on the table. At least not to the degree that democrats want. So where does that leave us . The reality right now, wolf, is theres a very good chance the senate will not hold a single vote today. They will move into tomorrow, where people are trying to figure out if thats what will open the door, perhaps the end of the weekend, monday, the government really being closed, federal workers really being effected will be the trigger point, but all you probably really need to know, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has not spoken to President Trump at all. The communications between mcconnell and schumers office, those are limited right now. And if a deal is going to be made, those are the players that are going to make it. And wolf, theyre barely talking right now. Thats very, very disturbing. All right, phil, thank you very much. Phil mattingly on capitol hill. Joining us now from the white house, the White House Principle Deputy press secretary raj shah. He campaigned on the notion he was a great deal maker. He said the only way to deal with a shutdown is for the president of the United States to simply get everybody in a room, all the major players, and make a deal. So why has he been holed up in the white house today, not meeting with schumer or Mitch Mcconnell, not dealing with the leaders in the senate to try to force a deal . Well, first of all, the president has been engaged. Hes been talking to leaders in the house and senate. He talked to senator mcconnell, speaker ryan. He hasnt spoken to schumer, the democratic leader. Wolf, hes also talked to leaders in the military. Hes talked soosecretary mattis and our Homeland Security secretary to talk at the impact excuse me for interrupted. You know if theres going to be a deal, he has to work it out, not just with his own cabinet, not just with republicans. He has to work it out with democrats. Democrats can prevent the 60vote majority you need in the senate. You only have 51 republicans. Why not do what hes suggested he would do, get them all over to the white house, get them into a conference room, orin the oval office, and work out a deal . It shouldnt be that complicated. Look, the president had a discussion with senator schumer just yesterday. That was yesterday, what about today . What about today . Wolf, wolf what about today . Wolf, the terms that the democrats are laying out are completely uncertainly. Thats just a fact of the matter. What they want to do, and what they are planning to do now, is continue a shutdown of our government over unrelated immigration matters. It is simply not a budget matter. Theyre shutting down the government, theyre risking our military. Theyre undermining our troops overseas and in the United States. They are not paying first responders. Theyre not paying our border patrol, and theyre threatening health insurance. Youre making good points, raj, but you have to have a deal. And he did meet with schumer yesterday. And right after that meeting, the president of the United States tweeted, excellent preliminary meeting in oval with senator schumer. He went on to say making progress. So what happened . All of a sudden, he was making progress. It was an excellent meeting, and then everything collapsed. What happened . Lets go back for a second. There are a lot of issues to hammer out for a longterm funding agreement. Also a lot of issues to work on to get to an immigration agreement. Theyre not going to get settled in a threeday or fourday continuing resolution. We think we need four weeks, were willing to compromise to three weeks. We need a substantial amount of time to negotiation these deals. Its not going to be handled overnight. People who are saying that are putting up false ideas. The fact of the patter is democrats have a deal in front of them that will reopen the government. It extends Childrens Health insurance, it cuts it delays obamacare taxes. These are measures they support on their own. They simply dont want to reopen the government, and its that kind of obstruction mpt that we cant award. Schumer said today he thought he had an extension until tuesday night. The president recommended tuesday night. Listen to what Chuck Schumer also said. Negotiating with this white house is like negotiating with jello. Its next to impossible. As soon as you take one step forward, the hard right forces the president three steps back. Even the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said on wednesday he didnt know where the president stands or what he would sign. How do you respond to that criticism, hes like jello . Senator schumers criticism is way off base. Hes playing a blame game because hes left in an untenable position. Senator schumer in the same press conference said he offered the president full funding for the border wall, and then when he was pressed, only offered less than 10 of the funding. Hes just not telling the truth. The fact of the matter is the Senate Democrats have a bill in front of them that can reopen the government. They need to vote on that. Theyre delaying even a vote on cloture on that measure that would just be a threeweek extension so we can have the breathing room necessary to negotiate terms on immigration and spending. What would be the downside, and this is a critical issue. Millions of americans are being impacted by this. Its a hugely important issue. What would be the downside right now if the president called schumer, called Mitch Mcconnell, called the other democratic and Republican Leaders and said this is awful. Youre not all that far apart. We have to work out some solution to make sure the government is not shut down. Come over to the white house. Well have dinner tonight. What would be so bad about that . Im not sitting here ready to make dinner plans but what i think is important is that the American People need to understand that just a threeweek continuing resolution is necessary. Its absolutely necessary for us to reopen the government and begin negotiations on these issues. On the issue of immigration, one of those that senator schumer mentioned, if hes ready to fund the wall, thats a great step. We walked away from a bipartisan meeting just last week where we had terms to talk about four issue said. Daca, the immigration, the younger Illegal Immigrants. The issue of chain migration, the visa lottery, and Border Security. If hes willing to fully fund the wall, thats big progress of two of the four issues. Right, you and i are talking on live television. What we really need to do is fund the government for three weeks with a continuing resolution so theres plenty of sometime for all the relevant folks to get into the room and discuss these matters. Have a little breathing room. I want to be precise. We cant be discussing these things right up to the deadline. Im just channeling in what the president of the United States said as a private citizen a few years ago. He said any president , any president , you have to sit down, you have to work it out. Youre the man in charge. Just do it. So whats curious to me as someone who has interviewed donald trump many times over the years, why he just doesnt get these people in a room, if he cant work out a deal, he cant work out a deal, but as you know, he says hes a great deal maker. He should be able to do it. The president did have senator schumer in the Oval Office Just yesterday. They couldnt work out a deal because senator schumers terms were frankly not realistic. Were not going to just pass immigration legislation that they want and that they havent negotiated with republicans just to keep the government open. That doesnt seem to be the appropriate step. Its not the terms president obama agreed to in 2013 when he opposed the Government Shutdown. Senator schumer said he left that meeting pretty encouraged. The president was pretty encouraged. He said it was in his tweet, an excellent preliminary meeting in the oval with senator schumer. But something happened. Schumer says the president hold on. In that same in that same tweet, he had a fourweek extension is the best move. Thats the important point. We need they discussed issues, but youre not going to handle all of these overnight. And to present an option that were going to do that with a two or threeday extension is unrealistic, not the way to govern. Ill read the whole tweet so im precise. Excellent preliminary meeting in oval with senator schumer. Working on solutions for security and our great military together with Senate Majority leader mcconnell, speaker ryan, making progress. Fourweek extension would be best. That was yesterday. Today is another day. The government is shut down. You need to solve this. Listen to what the president said just last week in a meeting with democratic and republican lawmakers. Ill take all the heat you want to give me. And ill take the heat off both the democrats and the republicans. My whole life has been heat. I like heat in a certain way. In that meeting, he seemed like he was ready to compromise. He wanted people on both sides to come around to a deal. He got a proposal from Lindsey Graham and dick durbin, a democrat and a republican. If hes worried about being blamed, as our sources are telling us right now, hes already being blamed. Once again, let me just ask a final question to you, why not get everyone in a room and make a deal . Well, first off, i wouldnt trust your sources. The president s concerned not about being blamed but about getting this government open for the American People. Now, with respect to immigration, they left that meeting that you just showed a clip from with an agreement to go further on four specific issues. That was daca, that was the visa lottery, that was chain migration, and Border Security. And the deal that was presented by senators durbin and graham only dealt with daca, had an inadequate funding for Border Security, it did not end the visa lottery, it did not provide serious reforms to chine migration. The president is not going to present a bad deal. He wants bipartisanship, but he wants serious reforms thereat are going to put us in a place where a few years from now, we dont have hundreds of thousands of new Illegal Immigrants in the country asking for protected status. If the president doesnt get everyone in a room and makes a deal, theres not going to be a deal. Millions of americans will suffer. I want to point out what Lindsey Graham has told me, what dick durbin has said. This was a preliminary deal, following the reopening if theres no Government Shutdown, a comprehensive immigration plan would in fact deal with all of those issues that youre raising in a very, very comprehensive way. And thats frank lael a deal to make sure the government didnt break down. If you give me a moment, that deal was specific to providing daca individuals legal status, and then, you know, preliminary Border Security funding or preliminary looks at these issues. Those are terms we cant accept. Schumer says hes ready to but the border wall on the table. Thats not what he told the president in the oval office to his face. I would take his words with a grain of salt. But what i would also say is that serious reforms to those three measures along with daca will insure that we dont have hundreds of thousands of new Illegal Immigrants coming into this country across a porous border and without enforcement measures. You have been very jen gener with your time. If the president is watching, lets see if he gets involved instead of just talking to republicans and tweeting. Lets see if he brings in the democratic leadership and works out a deal. Im sure he believes he can do it. There is so much at stake right now. This is a moment for the president to do what he said he would do when he was running, even before as a private citizen. He can do it if he wants. So lets see if he does it. Thank you so much. Raj shah joining us from the white house. Well keep our eyes on developments at the white house. Up on capitol hill where the u. S. Senate is holding a rare saturday session, behind the scenes negotiations are under way to end the Government Shutdown. Also, breaking news in cities across the country. Hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to protest President Trump and demand respect for women. I thought i was managing my moderate to severe Crohns Disease. Then i realized something was missing. Me. My symptoms were keeping me from being there. So, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of Crohns Disease after trying other medications. 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There have been a number of celebrities who have been speaking to what is a very sizable crowd, from our ground viewpoint, its really difficult to get a sense of how big this is, but from our drone shot, you can see this area just outside the steps of Los Angeles City hall, it is still very full. Three and a half hours, nearly three and a half hours into this. The mayor of los angeles said that this was the largest womens protest, womens march in the entire country, estimating the crowd at 500,000 people. So what is it that they are after . Last year, we saw a lot of rage, a lot of passion. This year, what were seeing is its a bit more directed, and what im noting is that were seeing a number of signs like this. Here, clearly, using a phrase that was used by the president when he was captured on that access hollywood tape. But this is politically motivated. The idea that the womens march was not simply protest. It is going to lead to action. And wolf, we are already seeing this. The number of women who are declaring themselves candidates. If you look at the numbers of women runner for governor in this state, there are according to rutgers, 79 women who are already said they want to run for governor. That is a record. Wolf. Huge crowd out in los angeles. Other cities across the country as well. Kyung lah, thanks very much. Coming up, were watching major developments up on capitol hill. The house and senate remain in session as leaders negotiate behind closed doors. Will there be a deal to reopen the federal government . So much is at stake right now. Millions of americans are impacted. Hed to unlimited on americas most awarded network. Verizon . Uh, woah, woah, woah vince. It was ranked highest in Network Quality performance nationwide by j. D. Power and rated number 1 in the nation by rootmetrics 8 times running. Its totally verizon. Vince we can see the sign. The vs sticking out. Anyway, the most awarded network is. Verizon vince you didnt know what it was. 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A majority of americans. 55 , disapprove of the way hes handling his job with only 40 expressing approval. But thats an improvement from a month ago, when the president s Approval Rating stood at just 35 . Lets bring in our cnn political director david chalian. The preds approval number is ticking up a bit. Whats behind that . Really, it is positive views about the economy and taxes. On those two issues, his numbers have gone up. We see in this poll where donald trump is able to start improving after a year of an Approval Rating that was just in total decline. Its on the economy, the supercharged stock market, but the other big takeaway in the poll is that he still is just facing enormous headwinds when it comes to his own ability to get out of his way. Lets look at the good news. Look at how independents here are approving of trumps handing of the economy. Its at 52 approval among nm t independents. Just last month, that was 45 . A 7 increase in this key issue. Thats helping fuel a rise in his Approval Rating overall. And look at this number. 69 of americans say that Economic Conditions today are good. That is like the best number that we have seen in 20 years. And its 12 points higher that just a year ago when donald trump became president. If its the economy stupid, as they used to say, even the president said it this week, why is he so unpopular . Because even though clearly voters, especially independents, want to start giving him good marks on the economy, he cant get out of his own way. Take a look at this question we asked. Do you have confidence on trumps ability to do his job after watching his actions and statements . 59 have a decreased level of confidence after watching the president in office over the last year. That decreased number has gone down a little bit, but thats still an enormous number, that 6 in 10 americans have a decreased level of confidence. And then his basic policies. 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Its not happen. Hes stuck here in washington. Were getting new information, filling in the blanks what hes been doing all day long. Our white house producer is reporting that the president filmed a video in the rose garden of the white house this afternoon thats going to be broadcast at the fundraiser tonight. Heres one quote from it, very interesting. It pertains to the shutdown. He says there shouldnt be a shutdown but there is, its caused by the democrats but were going to win another victory. This is a 90second video that looks like it was shot by an i phene or something in the rose garden of the white house. It speaks to two things under way in the white house. There are two separate battles going on, one is to frame the Public Relations debate about this. Thats what i told aides spent most of the day doing, trying to win the public argument. We saw the Trump Campaign put out a web video earlier. The Republican NationalCommittee Also engaged in this. Far more attention, energy, and time is trying to win the Public Relations game than to actually try to solve the problem because thats something thats largely left to the senate and house now, but clearly the president engaged in this, but amazingly, we have not seen or heard from him publicly once today, wolf. Hes been tweeting but he hasnt made a statement. Or anything along those lines. David axelrod, what would be the downside if any if the president brought schumer and mcconnell, maybe some others over to the white house tonight, got into a room, had dinner and tried to come up with a deal to end this Government Shutdown . Well, look, i actually think it would be appreciated by the American People if it looked like the president was taking an active role here. You know, his image of the art of the deal, the big strong leader, but he doesnt look particularly strong here. Each time he toes the line and appears to be ready to make a deal, he gets reeled back in by his staff, reeled back in by elements of his own party. And so thats one of the reasons why we are where we are. It would be advisable to do that, but just to a point that jeff zeleny made. I do think that just trying to be a little detached and not as involved as we are in our work, and looking at this story, i wonder how Many Americans are watching this and seeing this sort of cucafany of finger pointing and blame making, while no one is really working to solve the problem. If he were to call people together, at least there would be a sense that he was trying to solve the problem. Because rebecca, it doesnt seem like this is mission impossible, they could work it out and get the Government Back operating. They could, but the problem, wolf, is you have two positions, the republicans on one side and the democrats on the other, and not sort of an obvious middle ground to reach a compromise here. Republicans are saying they dont want to negotiate on immigration while the government is in a shutdown. They want to reopen the government, get back to the negotiating table on immigration. Democrats say they want the immigration Problem Solved as soon as possible, and they should be negotiating that right now with republicans. So what is the middle ground when its negotiate on immigration, dont negotiate on immigration . To solve this shutdown, and it might be republicans can give them assurances. They have talked about reducing the length of time before the next spending bill would need to pass. But there isnt sort of this obvious win that republicans can give democrats to try to reopen the government, get back to this immigration issue. Sabrina siddiqui is with us from the guardian. If the president did what he said he would do back in 2013 when there was a Government Shutdown, when he was critical of thenpresident obama for not taking charge, getting everyone in a room, and working on a deal. There was a 16day Government Shutdown then. What would be the downside if he were to do that right now . It shouldnt be all that difficult to get this resolved . Certainly, one of the challenges has been that lawmakers feel the president has not been sufficiently engaged in this process. Theres not a great deal of clarity around what sort of compromise the president is willing to sign. Democrats say one of the problems is that they dont trust that the president would move on to immigration after signing a shortterm government extension. They want much more than just an assurance theyre going to bring up a bill to resolve the stater of d. R. E. A. M. Ers. The other challenge for democrats is theyre under immense pressure from immigration advocates who have seen the show before. They have seen failed efforts to protect d. R. E. A. M. Ers in 2010, in 2013, and the only way to enact the law is to tie it to a mustpass bill that would corral more support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. But as rebecca said, if republicans are saying immigration is a separate issue, were going to deal with that later, and democrats are saying we must deal with it now, its hard to see where theres that middle ground and where theyre going to come together. David, you know the players. You know schumer, mcconnell. You have worked with them when you were in the white house in the obama administration. So they should be able to come up with a deal. Whos going to blink thfirst, d you think . I agree with everything thats been said. The fact is that democrats are under enormous pressure from their base that feels very strongly about this issue and feels like they have been rolled in the past. They know that 80 of americans are on their side on this issue. They believe what the president said, which is that at the end of the day, the president of the United States will bear the brunt, whatever polling says now, the party thats in charge and the party that runs the white house and both houses will be blamed. Nonetheless, i think that as this wears on, its not going to be good for anyone. And my guess is that there will be some sort of shortterm solution there. And with some, some triggering mechanism that would indicate to democrats or assure democrats that this daca issue is going to be taken up in the near term. Wolf, heres why i think your idea of getting in a room tonight for dinner is not necessarily going to be even helpful in this scenario, which Many Americans would be, what do you mean . Its because of the clarity issue. Both Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Schumer have expressed exasperation in the last 72 hours that they dont know what it is the president wants. So getting in a room, if the president doesnt know what his end game is, will do very little good. That sort of has to be the first step for everyone else to come to the table and work it out. One thing he doesnt want is to be blamed. Theyre trying to blame democrats but they know in their heart its the president s role. I was talking to a Senior Adviser before i came to the studio and they believe tomorrow there will be more movement. If this is still going monday morning, thats when they believe both sides will actually start talking. So so much finger pointing today. Were really not in any more of an advanced situation than we were 24 hours ago, which is shocking. Have to wait to tomorrow, they can do something today if they really want to. Lets see if they do. Guys, stand by. 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President Trump Took Office with the promise to shake up american policy on north korea. One year in, the president s provocative tweets and threats have become a centerpiece of his approach to dealing with kim jong un. We have been tracking the changes over the past year. Brian, tell us more. As President Trump was being sworn in, we were coming off a period of what was calling strategic patience with north korea. With the u. S. Saying it wouldnt negotiate with kim jong uns regime unless it committed to getting rid of the nuclear weapons. It was a commitment to the status quo, a stalemate hoping that the North Koreans wouldnt do anything provocative. That didnt work. Bun year under President Trump and americas dynamic with n if looks like an earthquake hit it. President trump wasnt in office yet when jong un in the new years address a year ago he declared he would launch a long range missile capable of hitting the u. S. The president responded it wont happen and the battle of wills was on. During a year in which personal insults between the president and the north korean dictator were hurled back and forth, the president has said hed meet facetoface with kim. Tonight, experts are saying that donald trump has in his first year shaken the american dynamic with north korea like no other president before him. North koreans have been put on their back foot i think. Reporter put on their back foot by tougher sanctions pushed by trump and by the president s implications that if pushed too far the u. S. Could take this confrontation to the mat. He knows im not messing around. Im not messing around. He has forced kim jong un to think the unthinkable that the United States might attack north korean soil. Reporter which has forced kim some experts believe to make the kinds of diplomatic strides with his mortal enemy to the south, that hes never made before. To the point of sending north korean athletes to the Winter Olympics in south korea. Kim jong un would never have thought about talking with the south if it were not for President Trump. Reporter but many argue that trumps volatility has made kim more aggressive. He tested his most powerful nuclear bomb during trumps first year and fired off more missiles than north koreas ever tested in one year. I think north korea responded in kind by saying we better quickly get as much capabilities as possible because were dealing with the administration now that says everything is on the table. Reporter everything including open threats if north korea were to fire a missile toward the u. S. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Reporter kims regime responded by threatening to target guam. The threats only ramped up from there. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself. Reporter he called him a lunatic old man and trump tweeted why would kim jong un insult me by calling me old when i would never call him short and fat . President trumps pretty good at schoolyard insults. The North Koreans have a whole propaganda fact tir that designs them so this bell acoast rhetoric suits north korea. Reporter and one officer in korea said that President Trumps brash style of taking on kim jong un so personally has projected north korea to the world as being much more trump has given a country with 25 Million People with many starving and an economy on the death bed the statement status as britain or china. Thank you. Coming up, President Trump is working the phones, lawmakers are looking for a compromise. And can everyone make a deal to end the Government Shutdown before it becomes even more disruptive to millions of americans . Tched imited on americas most awarded network. Verizon . Uh, woah, woah, woah vince. 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This as we wait to learn if the wouldbe witness in chief will meet with the special counsel. And one year later, protests marked the First Anniversary in office of the president as he unleashes snarky new tweets and presides over political chaos. Has he changed the role of commander in chief forever . We want to welcome our viewers from around the United States and the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Tonight, protests and paralysis on this, the First Anniversary of donald trump