At the white house for a meeting being held in the situation room. His is supposed to be a briefing on Border Security. Funding for the border wall is the central issue right now that is keeping the two sides from really cutting a deal to end this partial Government Shutdown. This all coming on day 12 of the shutdown with 800,000 federal employees not knowing when they will get their next paycheck. Lets go live to Boris Sanchez at the white house for us. What do you know about this meeting . What can we expect . Good morning. Happy new year to you. Likely fireworks at this meeting between congressional leaders and the president. Eight lawmakers in all invited to the white house, four democrats. Nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer expected to attend. The last time they were here at the white house we saw how that turned out live with them having a very public disagreement with the president , no common groupd on both sides regarding how to figure out Border Security and reopen the federal gover
Backing down from a subpoena fight. Investigators looking to interview past and present staffers over the Mueller Report. But the white house says it will not play ball. Bill here is the quote. There is no reason to go any further especially where its very partisan. John roberts live from the north lawn begins our coverage today. John, good morning. Good morning to you. The president will be departing the white house at 10 40 this morning heading to atlanta. A good chance we may hear more from him about all of this. Fox news is told the president plans to fight the subpoena that was issued last week for his former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn to testify before the House Judiciary Committee scheduled for the 21st of may and the white house plans to fight any subpoenas that are issued for members of the president s staff to testify. This week the white House Counsels office directed carl klein, the former director of white house personnel security not to comply with a subpoena to a dep
Wall. Cnn has learned military chiefs are concerned about the president politic sizing the celebration. Well go live to the white house. Happy fourth, tell us what youve got. Happy fourth to you. This actually happened. The president of the United States refusing to take no for an answer to the question of putting citizenship on the census even after the United States Supreme Court called the reasons for doing it contrived, suggesting they are hiding their reasons. They said they were going to drop the whole issue moving forward but then the president tweeted, which of course caused the federal judge in maryland to call them together on a Conference Call picking out the reasons for the president s tweet asking the lawyers if they represent the government. Part of the transcript, i dont know how many federal judges have twitter accounts. I saw a tweet that contradicted the position, mr. Gardener responds, the tweet this morning was the first ive heard of the issue. I do not have a deepe