To ending it right now, is hol out for money for the border wall. On the other side Congressional Democrats who insist he will not get that money. Today Vice President mike pence gathered congressional aide its and Homeland Security officials to see if they could make some headway where the top leaders in congre congress could not. Sources inside the meeting say they had, quote, baby steps but pence would not move from that dollar amount. And a short time ago this tweet from the president. Vice president mike pence and team just left the white house, briefed me on their meeting with the Schumer Pelosi representatives. Not much headway made today. Second meeting set for tomorrow. After so many decades, must finally and permanently fix the problems on the southern border. Lets get to our White House Correspondent, boris sanchez. Boris, not only is there no agreement on ending the shutdown, there apparently isnt even an agreement on whether todays meeting was productive or not. Reporter r
This is cnn breaking news. We are following breaking news on the president backing off of a potentially desperate bid to get his wall built. He says he wont declare a National Emergency at the southern border so fast, acknowledging it would likely be challenged in the courts. He is sticking to his demand that congress agree to spend billions of dollars on the wall. Tonight, the deadlock continues, taking a very painful toll on 800,000 federal workers. Theyre going without paychecks tonight for the First Time Since the shutdown began three weeks ago. This hour, i will talk with New York Times columnist and author thomas freedman. Our correspondents are standing by. Lets go to jim acosta. The president has been threatening this National Emergency for days. Now he is saying not so fast. Reporter thats right, wolf. Today, he talks about the situation on the border as being a National Emergency, a crisis and so on. For now the president says he is not declaring a National Emergency so he wi
Rivals affairs, jeff bezos. Coincidence . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The move by House Democrats that is certain to draw the ire of President Trump. Former lawyer and fixer Michael C Cohen will tell the American People what he knows. Cohen has agreed to testify publicly before the house o oversight committee, cooperating with Robert Mueller over crimes that he says were directed by donald trump. President trump has denied the char charges. He will almost certainly be talking about the hush payments to women but there will be a lot of questions. This will be a day President Trump is going to hate. The biggest danger here, too, is that this is theres always danger when your biggest advocate, strongest enforcer, Michael Cohen in his former life working for donald trump, becomes your biggest detractor. The other part of this, theres been this sort of missing element. What did the president know, when did he know it . Its very likely, or at least theres strong indications that Mic
Never knew. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We have the first major event of the 2020 president ial election. Tonight ill be moderating a town hall with kamala harris. She launched her Campaign Officially in front of thousands in her hometown of oakland, california yesterday declaring we are better than this. It was a big time roll out. Well drill down as they begin the process of sticking a nominee. The field is already sizable and growing and another wild card may be about to jump in and change everything. Well have much more on that in a moment. What does harris need to say tonight to win over the voters . Making her first visit to iowa as a president ial candidate on the heels of her official Campaign Launch in california. I will lead with integrity and speak with truth. Truth, a word she said more than 20 times in her speech. She called on supporters to fight for their vision. People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our american story is each other. That
Interview a short time ago. Senator sanders, you are going to run for president . I am going to run for president , thats correct. Whats going to be different this time . Were going to win. That would be a difference. Ryan nobles joins us now. You were out on the campaign trail with sanders. Whats the level of excitement . There is a lane for Bernie Sanders. He has a lot of loyal support he had in 2016. There are a lot of people pointing out hes not officially a democrat and, b, he is older compared to the rest of the field. The big thing sanders has going for him is the Democratic Party is closer to where he is on hot button issues. In 2016, many issues like medicare for all, free college tuition, a 15 minimum wage were considered to be radical. Now it seem s to be the price o entry in the 2020 democratic field. Bernie sanders wants to make it clear to democratic voters while all the candidates are talking about the issues now, he was the leader. Take a listen. In 2016 many of the ide