allow that. wolf? you ve also learned that kim jong un s father also had his own sister in a very similar role. his father trusted his own sister with his most sensitive secrets and counted on her as an adviser. she did a lot to promote and educate her nephew kim jong un. so for all of her work promoting her nephew, he made her a widow. lots of history unfolding. we ll see what happens tomorrow in hanoi. coming up, michael cohen gets what lawmakers call an extense extensive grilling behind closed doors and sources say he apologized for lying in previous congressional testimony. how will anonymous threat from a key trump ally in congress impact the rest of this week s hearings?
i think the thing that s striking in these conversations with workers both furloughed and contractors, they love their jobs. they just want to get back to work. and they word they re using is they all feel like hostages to the federal government right now. ali there in the new york city. thank you much. let s talk about what is being done about the folks who say as ali said that they feel like hostages. over on capitol hill here s what mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer have agreed to vote on. the republicans proposal has with the president wants. 5. $7 billion for the wall. a three of year extense extensions for dreamers. it funds all agencies at existing levels but it has no extra money for the border wall. okay. kat kasie hunt is on the hill for us.
unpopular policy with the government as hostage, it will be his only policy path for most of his agenda. that would be a dark two years for the party and everybody else. president trump is facing blow back from a number of his supporters and immigration hardliners over his offer to end the government shutdown. commentator ann coulter tweeted on saturday, there are a million things to trade for a wall, a higher federal minimum wage, an infrastructure bill, trade a wall for amnesty and there s no purpose for having a wall? the president apparently heard the criticism saying amnesty is not a part of my offer. it is a three-year extense of
or whatever. that s a possibility. and his world view. the talking point is spisecific but everything under mines our alliances and history basically is the product wanting to destroy everything we have ever stood for as a country. beginning with his desire to undermine nato, et cetera and bizarre talking point, montenegro, one of russia s enemies now is going to start world war iii because they wanted to join nato. it s another example of him, a little of his world view mixed with vladimir putin maybe whispering in his ear. katie, quickly, before we wrap it up. i wanted to ask about the mueller investigation, which just extended the grand jury looking into all this. what s the significance of that extension? it means mueller still has work to do. the ex-tense is up to six months. a chief judge determined the standa standard met. is it in the public s interest?
behavior, russian aggression against ukraine. well, i think it s certainly true that the very stringent sanctions that have been imposed against russia by the united states, its allies in the european union and others as well may have had an impact on the russian economy but don t seem to have done much to change russian policy, which was the stated intention of them. in that extense sense, many experts look at this carefully and say they ve not been a success. that doesn t mean there aren t going to be more sanctions that could have an impact, of course. it s exactly this kind of escalation this kind of tension as it bubbles into actual violence that may provoke a much stronger reaction. what s taken place the last 24 hours or so, ukrainian navy say at least six of its sailors were injured when russia opened fire on three of its vessels in the kerch strait, very narrow stretch of water that exists between the russian mainland and