agents. 75 new immigration judge teams to reduce the court backlog of believe it or not, almost 900,000 cases. our plan includes critical measures to protect migrant children from exploitation and abuse. the plan includes $5.7 billion for a strategic deployment for physical barriers or a wall. this is not a 2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to sea. these are steel barriers in high priority locations in order to begin real immigration reform. there are two more elements to my plan. number one is three years of legislative relief for 700,000 daca recipients brought here
i m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. it is the bottom of the hour, let s start with the morning s top stories. the federal government shutdown has officially hit the one-month mark as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle weigh in on president trump s offer to democrats. now, the president on saturday laid out what he called a common sense compromise for both parties, at least both parties can embrace. so far that doesn t seem to be the case. nbc news white house correspondent kelly o donnell has more. reporter: vice president mike pence on a televised sales mission for the president s new shutdown offer. for reluctant democrats he tried to make the border wall seem less ominous. it s not from sea to sea, it s 234 miles of additional steel barrier. reporter: for conservative critics who questioned giving three years of legal status to qualified young immigrants and refugees, pence drew a line. this is not amnesty, theres no pathway to citizenshi
king, jr., and his legacy today. follow our show on twitter, facebook at mitchell reports. and here is aman mohadin for velshi & ruhle. gafrp. it s monday, january 21st, let s get smarter. you have an announcement you would like to make? i am running for president of the united states. yea! [ laughter ] and i m very excited about it. the american public wants a fighter and they want someone that is going to fight like heck for them and not fight based on self-interests. and i m pry paired to do that. we are heading into month two of this partial government shutdown. it comes after the president rolled out what he calls a compromise on saturday. he said he d give about a million immigrants three years protection from deportation in exchange for that $5.7 billion he wants for his wall. this is not a 2000 mile concrete structure from sea to sea. these are steel barriers in high
concrete structure from sea to sea. these are steel barriers in high priority locations. a lot of democrats have voted for barriers in high priority locations. the president was trying to sound more reasonable. and the administration and the president himself has been trying to walk the whole concrete wall idea back for some time now because we have heard the phrase steel slats for a while. a new talking point i heard a lot from republican senators this week is previous presidents got walls or fences. why can t this president get new fencing? he s only asking for 230 miles. but i thought another interesting story line yesterday was the re-emergence of mitch mcconnell. he s been on the sidelines. he wanted trump and the democratic leaders to figure this out which is a very unusual position for the majority leader. but sources told me yesterday after mcconnell saw the disinvite from the state of the union by nancy pelosi this week, that was the turning point for
we ll delve into that story this hour and next. welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and all around the world, live from atlanta, ga, i m natalie allen. i m george howell from cnn world headquarters. cnn newsroom starts now. a forceful and unequivocal no from democrats to a white house proposal to end the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. that s right. in exchange for his border wall, president trump offered to temporarily lift the threat of deportation, a threat now hanging over 1 million undocumented immigrants. the plan includes $5.7 billion for a strategic deployment of physical barriers or a wall. this is not a 2,000 mile concrete structure from sea to sea. these are steel barriers in high priority locations.