the week. the talks with china. in your opinion, where does all of that stand right now? are you comfortable with progress that s been made in the last couple weeks? larry kudlow has said that the talks the next couple days will be determinative. is that your assessment? we ve had very good conversations with the two presidents. i think you know we sent a team over to beijing. there were significant discussions. we ve had conversations since then. ambassador lighthizer and i are looking forward to the two days of talks. president trump is going to meet with the vice premier at the end of those. let s remind people. we do have another 30 days after this. so my expectation is that we ll make significant progress at these meetings. i would just emphasize they re complicated issues. we have a timeline of how we mapped out the 90 days.
always vote to open the government period. i hope the speaker she s taken her position, the president has taken his. now step back and let the congress come up with a result and allow it to happen. some newly elected members of congress sound eager to deal. what i tried to do is not draw any lines in the sand. i want to vote to have border protection, have border security, reduce the flow of drugs and illegal immigration. sure, i wouldn t rule out barriers in places where it s appropriate. the temperature here on capitol hill feels a little lower for now, shep. shepard: what are some of the congressional leaders saying up there, mike? a top house democrat says now that government is reopened, he s willing to talk. hopefully he will stick to that position that he s taken. now in the past we have supported, as you know, enhanced fencing. that s something that is reasonable that should be on the table. the number 3 house republican says democrats must signal what they re
we got a surprise this afternoon. or i thought it would be a live at the white house. there s the white house briefing. there s going to be a briefing today scheduled to start in 30 minutes. the first one in more than a month. the sixth briefing of sarah sanders since september. president trump tweeted last week that he told sanders don t even bother with the briefings that much anymore. the white house correspondent s association responded. more ahead. first, the standoff over president trump s border wall continues even now. because the president told the wall street journal the odds of congress coming up with a deal that he can accept are less than 50/50. the parent companies of the journal and fox news share common ownership. president trump signed a bill on friday night you ll remember that reopened the federal agencies until just until february 15. so now hundreds of thousands of federal employees are going back to work after missing two paychecks because of the longest governm
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in turkey over the killing of the washington columnist jamal khaishoggi. she melt with the foreign minister today. state news say she will meet with the justice minister and the prosecutor. u.s. intelligence officials have concluded that the count prince of saudi arabia ordered the killing of khaishoggi. it happened at the saudi consulate in october. there s said to be an audio recording of him being tortured and chopped up. saudi officials have denied the prince s involvement but charge 11 others with his murder. roger stone arrived moments ago. once again, he s not ruling out a sort of flip. ahead, what president trump s former adviser says about whether he might cooperate with the russia investigation. roger stone speaks. it happened moments ago. we ll have that. even about whether he might testify against the president. answers coming. plus, the president reportedly said this russia thing was all