5 00 a. M. In the east. And we are entering day 19 of the federal Government Shutdown. This afternoon, the president will attend a Senate Republican lunch and then return to the white house for a meeting with top congressional leaders. The president setting the stage for todays meeting. In his Oval Office Address last night. The federal government remains shut down for one reason, and one reason only, because democrats will not fund border security. This situation could be solved in a 45minute meeting. I have invited congressional leadership to the white house tomorrow, to get this done. Hopefully, we can rise above partisan politics in order to support National Security. But those top democrats, House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer in a mean inducing speech rebutted the president this way. This president just used the backdrop of the oval office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration. President tr
Well, the partial Government Shutdown in the United States is now in its third week, and there is still no end in sight. Another day in talks for a border wall ended sunday without any progress. And as Boris Sanchez reports, President Trump is not backing down. Reporter as has been the case for several days during meetings between Top Administration officials and lawmakers to reopen the federal government and potentially fund some sort of border barrier between the United States and mexico that President Trump has been promising, were hearing two different sides about what happened during these negotiations. On one hand you have President Trump tweeting out that this meeting was productive. On the other hand were hearing multiple accounts from people behind those closed doors that things did not go all that well. One source telling cnn that republicans presented to democrats the official justification for spending 5. 7 billion on the president s longpromised border wall. According to o
Leland 1 00 p. M. Eastern negotiations could get underway in the next couple of minutes. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington paradigm leland vittert. That afternoon, everyone. I am gillian turner. Well go live to the white house now. President trump speaking out to reporters saying he may declare a National Border wall attacks of the democrats fail over the next few days. The Government Shutdown continues on. Joining us live in the white house with everything thats going down today. Cabin. Reporter jillian, good afternoon. The president is up in camp david. They are actually strategizing to 2019 agenda before making his way up there he did have a chance as you point out to speak with reporters and he said topping his todo list or a couple of very important things. Number one solving the shut down and number two, building a wall. Intend to call either the United States and a couple other great Steel Companies who have them, but the place for design of the beautiful ste
Democrats saying after that meeting that talks shouldnt move forward until the government reopens. They called that meeting with President Trump contentious. Trump described that same meeting as productive and said the government would remain partially shuttered indefinitely until he gets funding for his border wall and hes holding firm on his demand for that 5. 6 billion sum that House Republicans included in a bill that they passed as one of their last acts in the house majority. Even though previously the president had signaled he might be willing to back down off that sum in order to get a deal. But President Trump has been showing some flexibility when it comes to what might qualify as a wall. Despite promising supports in 2016 an actual concrete wall, President Trump has now hinted that he might try to spin a seethrough barrier of some kind or steel slats as a fulfillment of that campaign promise. He demanded democrats make a deal tweeting, i dont care that most of the workers no
Get the government fully restarted again. The shutdown has forced about 800,000 american men and women even to stay home, from their federal jobs, without pay, or even perhaps more challenging, continue to work, without being paid. Two weeks now. No paycheck. Friday at the white house, the president and congressional leader, the president reportedly launching into a profanity laced speech, refusing to budge from the dollar amount he wants on the Mexico Border Wall and as i said earlier, President Trump reportedly told the people at the meeting that he wants to use the word strike, not shutdown, which he has the power to end. Instead, he says it is a strike. You know, when workers are so unhappy with their employers that they dont go to work. What is happening now, it could not be further from a strike. Heres the president yesterday suggesting that the people without their paychecks, now for two weeks, are cheering him on. And many of those people, maybe even most of those people, that