few cards up his sleeve in congressional actions. fund to barrier. here s jim acosta. reporter: christine, the president says he s not a big fan from capitol hill to provide border fencing. but it appears the president is going to sign this agreement. i talked a white house official who said the president although aides, and top aides are going over what is exactly over this bipartisan agreement. as the president was meeting with his cabinet earlier in the day, he registered his complaints about this agreement. here s what he had to say. i have to study it, i m not anticipate happy about it. it s not doing the trick. i m adding things to it, and when you add whatever i have to add, it s all going to happen where we re going to build a beautiful, big strong wall that s not going to let criminals and traffickers, and drug dealers and drugs into our
also been in the courtroom throughout the entire trial. and going behind closed doors his lawyers says el chapo is upbeat and he s a fighter. as for u.s. attorneys they say this is a victory on the war on drugs. again, sentencing going to be held later this year. christine and dave. texas senator ted cruz wants el chapo to pay for the wall. cruz said that money should go to funding the southern final, legislation that cruz introduced in 2017. the head of the senate intelligence committee not too happy with mike. cohen. any goodwill is now gone since cohen postponed his hearing. he s already stepped a stone being in washington today.
u.s. negotiators in china today if tra 2k5id f today for trade talk, the first since they met at the start of december and agreed to a 90 day trade truce. deputy level negotiators trying to figure out whether a deal can actually be struck before march 1 because that is the date president trump threatened to impose another round of stiff tariffs. matt rivers is live for us in beijing with the latest on this. matt, given the com plenks iple this deal, is there any optimism of getting something done in that short of time? reporter: there is. i think if you look at both sides because of some incentive frankly on both china and u.s., both sides to maybe potentially get a deal done, at least more optimism than there was six months ago, the latest round of negotiations really trying to lay the ground work for talks
a white man in his 30s or 40s that the investigators were looking for, compare that to black being a black 20-year-old man, they say there is nothing nefarious but when they were caught up in the chaos of the moment, the white man in that red pickup truck is very likely the last thing they saw. he is not a person of interest. they believe that he is a witness and they do hope that he comes forward to discuss what he may have seen last sunday morning. dave, christine. kaylee hartung in houston, thanks. kevin spacey is expected to plead not guilty at his arraignment in a nantucket, massachusetts court this morning. spacey charged with indecent assault and battery charges stemming from an independent ci restaurant involving an 18-year-old bus boy. the judge ordered that the 59-year-old had to appear in person. the accuser and his money hamot plan to be there. flu is spreading faster with a month left to go in the season. numbers released friday show 19
facing some swift pushback from democrats. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during war time, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency. so that is a nonstarter. unfortunately the short answer is yes, there is a provision in law that says that the president can declare an emergency. in this case i think the president would be wide open to a court challenge saying where is the emergency. speaker nancy pelosi says that the house will begin passing spending bills this week to reopen parts of the government, the first measure funding the treasury department a irs so americans get their tax refunds on time. there is zero sign that the white house would support them. boris sanchez has more. reporter: christine and dave, as we have seen during other meetings between top officials and lawmakers, we re hearing two different sides as to what happened during these negotiations to reopen the