Allegedly. Also this from brazil there hour, dangerous flooding, hundreds of people missing following the collapse of a dam. Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. We want to welcome our people here in the states and all around the world, im george howell. Im natalie allen. Newsroom starts right now. The 35day nightmare is finally over for 800,000 u. S. Workers. The president suddenly dropped his demand as a price to reopen the government. Instead, mr. Trump quietly signed legislation to put Government Employees back to work, with pay for three weeks and in return, he got nothing. One of his advisers called it a humiliating loss. Also on friday, roger stone, his relationship with donald trump goes back many decades, now, he has been arrested by the fbi. This exclusive video from cnn, caught in the net of the special Counsel Robert Mueller, now facing multiple federal charges. Well have more on roger stone in just a moment. We begin with cnns jim acosta. Well have the latest from
Sarah westwood is in west palm beach, florida, not far from where the president is spending the weekend. S sarah, it does appear to be signaling that the white house is ready to fight for this declaration. Reporter thats right, fred. The white house is maintaining that theyre prepared to defend this National Emergency declaration against challenges from capitol hill from the courts. White house officials maintain that the declaration was crafted over the past few weeks and months with these expected legal challenges in mind that they expected that they would have to defend this declaration from groups suing to challenge the constitutionality of the order. And obviously landowners along the southern border, they will be suing the administration to try to prevent the administration from using Eminent Domain to seize their lands to Start Building the physical barrier. And on capitol hill House Democrats are already vowing to pursue a resolution of disapproval to try to stop the president
Security. What the president was saying is, like past president s, he could choose to ignore this crisis, choose to ignore this emergency as others have. Thats not what hes going to do. Dana john roberts is live on the north lawn as we wait for the president to come back, youve got the place to yourself. Reporter its awfully quiet around here. Almost feels like it might be a holiday. With the exception that its been a very noisy day in washington, d. C. As part of a day of protest around the country against this Emergency Declaration. Just a short time ago a big demonstration across the street from the white house in lafayette park. Members of the aclu, moveon. Org protesting against the president s Emergency Declaration at the same time as legal challenges have been filed. Public citizen also launched a lawsuit in District Court in washington, d. C. The aclu and californias attorney general and others planning on bringing lawsuits against the declaration and then when they get back fr
To the European Union who recently told house investigators that President Trumps actions did, in fact, amount to a quid pro quo. I dont think the evidence is building at all. And im being sincere in this. I think the evidence is crumbling. Still no quid pro quo. No smoking gun. Bottom line is that he got the money. Ukraine got the mon. I president s allies continue to defend his actions with the president of ukraine, as you heard there. How much longer will they as more and more testimony comes out andn another week ahead . Did i mention that . The next debate three days away. More poll numbers to share from iowa. They show that mayor Pete Buttigieg leading by near double digits in the state. Thats new. Meanwhile, will an apology from potential 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg regarding his political past help him with a win in the white house . Well dig into that. All, this coming hour. A new round of public impeachment hearings start in less than 48 hours. Witness spotlight is on am
His rescue . An arrest in the case of missing utah student melissa lueck. Im Shannon Bream in washington lets go to rich edson live from osaka with the latest on Significant Developments at the g20. Hello, rich. Hello, shannon. President trump has just sat down with chinese president xi amid a massive trade fight between the United States and china. Before they started meeting the president said the two countries are getting closer to a trade deal. President trump we want to do something that will even it up with respect to trade. I think its something thats actually very easy to do. I actually think that we were very close and then we something happened where it slipped a little bit. Now were getting a little bit closer. It would be historic if we could do a fair trade deal. Were totally open to it. I think it can be a very productive meeting and i think we can go on to do something that will be monumental and great for both countries. The United States has tariffs on 250 billion in c