administration source telling us the president will indeed announce a short term funding deal. it would expire on february 15th, hans nichols was probably right. if you are working in washington, forget about your valentine s day plans. seven appropriation bills. no money, katy tur, in this continuing resolution for the wall. listen, this has been a long time coming. we ll see when the president officially announces that. again as you have been saying this has been going on today is day 34 day 35. we can see our halie jackson is there, she s poised to ask questions. we got two big breaking news story. we got this shutdown story which could be coming to a temporary end in just a moment and we have roger stone. is it interesting, chris?
vet in the midst of a special ceremony. a lot more to this story, buzz feed and covington catholic, the media accused of rushing to judgment in both cases after new information came to light. let s bring in rob amari and fox news contributor judy miller. good to have both of you with us. let s start with the so-called buzz feed bombshell the special counsel made very rare decision to come out and rebut what was being said. the washington post has an article that talks about going behind-the-scenes and with special counsel made the decision to come forward. after betsy published a story the special counsel s office reviewed evidence to determine if there any documents or witness interviews like those described, reaching out to those they thought might have a stake in the case and they found none. at the moment the pressure is on buzz feed to be more upfront
washington post urged democrats to negotiate. democratic position seems to have lost favor with the washington post which is an important voice in this. shannon: it is delaying climate data and undercutting scientists. a result of the government shutdown is nasa and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration are unable to issue their annual temperature analysis, so neither can some other governments. when this is over with the temperature data analysis will emerge and we can make of it what we will. the climate alarmist will say this evidence we are about to be fried to death and others will have a different take on it. that is almost as if the reporter on the climate beat learned to get in on the shutdown story and found a way to do it. shannon: there are many angles
about its own reporting but on the other hand robert mueller s statement is not a denial. robert mueller s people said this story in whole or in part is inaccurate, it is not accurate so i am reserving judgment. i think we need to do more reporting on the mueller statement and the buzz feed story, a greater degree of transparency is essential now. what do you make of it? buzz feed is standing by its claim, they believe eventually they will be proved correct but one account set over the 48 hour period when the story first broke even after the special counsel spoke up there were more than 200 mentions of impeaching the president on network and cable television. there were red flags about this story that certainly caused me when i first saw it to say i
reporter: whether does ferguson, missouri, the buzz feed michael cohen story or this march in dc if you don t have context you don t have the story. really reporting about these catholic high school students focused on a few video clips that appeared to show them as instigators but the tape is an hour and 47 minutes long and starts with a group of 5 or 6 black hebrew israelites believing they are descendents of god s chosen people calling the students derogatory names like incest children. a bunch of insist babies. reporter: the teen who was widely accused of disparaging and inappropriate behavior toward the native american man says he and his fellow students only started chanting in