Happy birthday. A little girl hears her sisters voice for the first time. What happens next might melt your heart. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And im christine romans, its wednesday, january 16th. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. President trumps nominee for attorney general, in an unnotably untrumpian appearance in a hearing. Barr split from the president and his aides on several talks points, among them disagreeing with the president s claim that the special Counsel Robert Mueller is on a witch hunt, vowing that he will not Robert Mueller to quit and consistent with the regulations and the law. And barr assured its best to reassure senators that he will allow mueller to finish his work. I mr. Not do anything that i think is wrong. I will not be bullied into anything that i think is wrong. By anybody, whether it be editorial boards, the congress or the president. Im going to do what i think is right. Barr also promised to quit if the president crossed the line. If someone tried to stop a boneified investigation. Cnns Jessica Schneider has more from washington. David and christine, an unanticipated contentious hearing was actually quite calm. With top democrat Dianne Feinstein saying so far, so good. And chris coons is going to support William Barrs confirmation, maybe its barrs strong stance pointing to the 30year friendship with Robert Mueller and the russia probe and make as much as he can about muellers final report public. Will you commit with providing mr. Mueller with the resources, fund and time needed to complete this investigation . Yes. Will you commit to assuring that special counsel mueller is not terminated without good cause, consistent with Department Regulations . Absolutely. Will you provide muellers report to congress, not your rewrite or a summary . My objective and goal is to get as much as i can of the information to congress and the public. I dont know what at the end of the day what will be releasable. Barr did say that he wont fire mueller, saying it will take something egregious, since he knows what type of investigator mueller is. In one issue that could rankle democrats, he was asked can a sitting president be indicted . For 40 years, its been the position that you cant indict a sitting president. Im asking you what your view is right now. You know, i actually havent read those opinions in a long time. But i see no reason to change them. Now, barr was also asked several questions about president ial pardons, while he did say it is within the president s power to pardon individual, he stref it is also possible that the president could abuse his power by issuing certain pardons. And barr didnt rule out the possibility that mueller could subpoena the president. But overall, barr wanted to take away the beat that he will be an independent attorney general with another second tlund star s s round that started this morning. With the Government Shutdown in its 26th day, 800,000 workers and the families they support, real people, feeling the pinch. Hes earning his paycheck, but hes not getting it. The shutdown is affecting real people here in iowa. We got our pay stubs on thursday and seeing zero dollars is just very disheartening. It makes it hard to wake up and go to work. Yeah, hard to imagine, liz is a mother of two in summerville, south carolina. She depends on food stamps to care for a disabled daughter. And does not have a plan b if those benefits dry up. Its important that the people that maybe arent so affected by it, you know, either that they dont have a government job or dont receive assistance, they need to see the faces of the people it is affecting. For now, those food stamps are paid out until february, beyond that, we dont know what will happen. The coast guard is the only branch of the military not being paid. Dive shop employees down the road from the association started a food drive. Again, a branch of the United States military is not being paid, everybody, just think about that in the largest economy in the world. And the irs is bringing back 36,000 furloughed employees. They will work without pay, that is so americans can get their tax refunds at the expense of those employees. On tuesday, a judge denied a request on the part of a federal employee to provide employees without pay. Cnn has obtained a letter to Homeland Security employees warning that accepting money from gofundme or similar sites could be illegal. President trumps own economic advisers now say the cost of the shutdown is worse than they thought. The economists doubled projections on how much the Economic Growth is worth each week. Kevin hasek said it reduce us quarterly Economic Growth by 0. 13 Percentage Points for every week it goes on. Standard and poors estimates it costs the economy 1. 2 billion in growth. How . Workers dont get paid which means they dont spend. That hurts retailers, land lores, auto sales. They cant pay their babysitters, for example. And on a call, jamie dimon said they could reduce the growth to zero if it goes down a whole quarter. Deltas ceo told cnbc, the airline will see a revenue reduction for the month. Bad news for investors. One of the bad news for us, were seeing a reduction in revenue, not huge, but about 25 million due to the fact that some government charactontracto not traveling in ways. In many ways, shutting down the federal government costs more than keeping it open. Its a failure of the government not to have the largest economy in the world have its company open for business. If you think d. C. Is a mess, take a look at the chaos in the uk. The brexit deal crushed by a record margin. A humiliating indictment of her plan to guide britain out of the european union. As the bbc points out, the white house is in crisis, turned to fast food, downing street goes for an armed doughnut delivery. Those are Krispy Kremes in that bag. Not sure why you need an armed guard to bring them. Lets go live to downing street. Theyre going to need a trumpsized food order that the National Champs got. Whats the latest this morning . Reporter well, dave, to put into context how crushing that defeat was for theresa may last night, the last time we have record of a defeat like that was in 1924. Last night, that margin was 230. Immediately after that vote, Jeremy Corbyn tabled a no confidence motion. What that means, members of parliament will have to vote whether or not they have confidence in theresa may. That will take place at 7 00 p. M. We expect may to win that no confidence vote. Its win thing to vote against a bill. Its another thing to vote against the leader of their party. But if she loses that no confidence vote, that could trigger a lot. I actually watched the results come in with a big group of parliament. They were all shocked. Some of them there for decades said they have never seen anything like this. Theresa may has three days before she has to return to parliament with an update. Shell be talks to brussels. Shell be talking to members across the parties here to see if they can come to some consensus of what they want. The outlook doesnt look good. Barreling towards that march 29th deadline where the uk will leave the european union. Can she survive another no confidence vote and could Jeremy Corbyn or boris johnson, could they get the support . Its hard to figure where this is headed, but your guess . Reporter right, my guess is she will survive this vote. Jeremy corbyn doesnt have the numbers behind him. They said they will vote and be in her favor tonight but they dont support the deal she has on the table right now. But the labor party has indicated they might keep putting forward niece no confidence votes over and over again. That could shake up the government. Much like our no offhamp at the the white house. First up, a procedural vote to advance a measure to a final vote this afternoon, democrats need 13 republicans across party lines to pass it. Republican leaders believe they can stop it but democrats think they have a chance after 11 republicans broke ranks. The treasury secretary has been trying to convince republicans to reduce the bill. And another running for president in 2020 . Do you have anything you would like to announce . Yes. And what would that be, madam . Im filing an exploratory commit for president of the United States tonight. New york senator Kristen Gillibrand making an announcement on the late show. She released it on womens rights and fighting trump. Gillibrand will travel to ohio this weekend. And share rerrod brown may e next one in the race. I want to continue to learn about the work about everybody whether you swipe a card, whether you punch a card, whether you work on tips, whether youre taking care of kids. Brown said he and his wife will decide whether or not he will run in the weeks ahead. There was a long pause on gillibrand. Like she was secondguessing it for a moment. Its interesting that colbert has been the guy. A lot of these, you know, teams, they have that strategy. How do you get steven could bph. And did the former president of mexico take a 100 million bribe from a notorious drug lord. The courtroom bombshell, next. Tmobile knows dancing is better when you include a partner. Singing is better when you include a friend. And unlimited is better with a phone included. Its true. Forty bucks with the other guys, doesnt include a phone. So, start the new year right. Join tmobile and get unlimited with a phone included for just forty dollars per line. I had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. coughs ah i missed you then i discovered mucinex. One pill lasts 12 hours, and im good. Mucinex releases fast and lasts 12 hours, not 4. Lets end this. It appears the Democratic National committee has pulled out of organizers of the womens march in washington this coming weekend. The groups leaders face accusations of antisemitism. The dncs name was removed tuesday as sponsors of the event. The dnc said they stand in solid arity. Bombshell testimony of the murder trial of Joaquin El Chapo guzman. Telling a courtroom that el chapo once paid a 100 million prescribe to former mexican president enrique pena nieto. A colombian trafficker spent two days on the spend, saying he spent two days with guzman in the mountains of sinaloa. Its day three of a teachers strike in los angeles. The rain did not keep those from the pickets. An estimated 32,000 and staff walked the walk. Theyre demanding higher salaries and more counselors and nurses. The walk could cost the School District millions of dollars. The state fund is based on daily school attendance. Only about a third of the usual number of students showed up on monday. 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Frightening dash cam video from minnesota shows the moment a 2yearold tumbles outside of a moving car on to the street. The pink coat still strammed in the car seat. Chad mock who posted this video on facebook. Stopped his car. Carried the child to safety. Remarkably, the toddler was not injured. It looked like the mother drove away there. She did turn around and come back. Officials are looking into charges of child endangerment. Its hard not to smile when you see and hear this next story. This is 11monthold scarlet benjamin. She was born three months early and treatment for a serious infection impaired her hearing. Scarlet was fitted for her first hearing aid last week. Her older sister hallie tested out. Hey baby sister. Oh, my gosh. Baby sister. Thats awesome. Scarlets mom also could not contain her excitement. She said its been a long and emotional experience. Wonderful stuff. What we needed. All right. While were you sleeping, President Trump got roasted over the fast food feast he served up for the National Champions Clemson Tigers at the white house. Here are your late night laughs. The Oscar Nominations dont come out until next week. As far as im concerned we already have the winner for best picture. This is the best picture of the year. This is the image you see when you take off your blindfold in bird box. This doesnt look like a white house celebration. It looks like a divorce dance. He had to figure out thanksgiving for the first time. President trump misspelled the word hamburgers in a tweet this morning. Normally, you wonder if he misspelled or this is so bad, i think its both. I think you dont know how to spell it. And then you made a typo off the wrong spelling in your head. A lot of analysis there of a little tweet. 25 minutes past the hour. William barr wins over some of his critics. He said he will protect Robert Mueller but will the public see muellers report if barr is confirmed as attorney general . In a clinical study, 4 out of 5 users felt better joint comfort. Move free ultra. Movement keeps us connected. I will not be bullied into doing anything i think is wrong. By anybody. Bipartisan praise for bill barr the nominee for attorney general vows to let Robert Mueller finish his work. Will the public get to see a public report . Turns out it costs more to shut down the federal government than to keep it open. And now the president s economic advisers are doubling that. Another uk crisis. Uk rejects the theresa may plan facing another brexit vote today. Hey baby. Little sister. Little sister. A little girl hears her sisters voice for the first time. What happens its going to melt your heart. Stay tuned. Welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs on day 26 of the longest shutdown in history. We start with the president s nominee for attorney general, delivering an unnote about untrumpian performance, william barr setting the tone before a Senate Judiciary committee that had both parties, yes, both parties, mostly pleased. Among them disagreeing with the president s claim that special Counsel Robert Mueller is on a, quote, witch hunt, vowing he will not allow the lawyers to collect or put their own spin on muellers report. And committing to release as much of that report as possible, quote, consistent with regulations and the law. Barr also did his best to reassure senators that he will allow mueller to finish his work. I will not do anything that i think is wrong. And i will not be bullied into anything i think is wrong by anybody, whether it be editorial boards or congress or the president. Im going do what i think is right. Barr also promised to quit if the president crossed the line. If someone tried to stop a bona fide lawful investigation to cover up wrongdoing, i would resign. But barr did hedge on one issue that may cause problems for democrats. Cnns jessica cschneider has more. A contentious hearing could actually come with Dianne Feinstein saying this, so far, so good. And democrat chris coons says hes going to seriously consider supporting William Barrs nomination. And the reason for that with the stance with present Robert Mueller. Will you commit with providing mr. Mueller with the resources, funds and time needed to complete this investigation . Yes. Will you commit to assuring that special Counsel Robert Mueller is not terminated without good cause, consistent with regulations . Absolutely. Will you provide muellers report to congress, not your rewriting or summary . My objective and goal is to get as much as i can of the information to congress and the public. I dont know at the end of the day what will be releasable. Barr did say they he wont fire mueller, saying it will take something egregious since he know what is type of investigator mueller is. But in one issue that potentially could rankle democrats, barr was asked ask a sitting president be indicted. For 40 years, the position of the executive branch is that you cant indict a sitting president. Im asking you what your view is right now. I actually havent read those opinions in a long time. But i see no reason to change them. Now, barr was also asked several questions about president ial pardons. And while he did say it is within the president s power to pardon individuals. He stressed it is also possible that the president can abuse his power by issuing certain pardons. And barr also wouldnt rule out the possibility that mueller could subpoena the president. But overall, barr wanted takeaway the vee that hell be the independent attorney general. Dave and christine. Here we are, the impasse over border wall funding and that puts the Government Shutdown in its 26th day. 800,000 workers and the families they support, real people, feeling the pinch. Hes earning his paycheck, but hes just not getting it. Shutdown isnt just a washington, d. C. Problem. Its affecting real people here in iowa. Getting our pay stubs on thursday and seeing zero dollars is just very disheartening. It makes it hard to wake up and want to go to work. Liz is a mother of two in summerville, south carolina, she depends on food stamps to care for a disabled daughter and does not have a plan b if those benefits dry up. Its important that the people that maybe arent so affected by it either, you know, they dont have a government job or they have never received assistance, they need to see the faces of people it is affecting. We know its paid out until february, but beyond that unclear. The coast guard, the coast guard is the only branch of the military not being paid during the shutdown. United states of america not paying a branch of the military. In mondayer r ee eer monterey, california, dive shop workers started a food drive to help their friends. The irs is bringing back 36,000 furloughed workers. They will work without pay, so you will get your tax refunds obviously at the expense of those employees. On tuesday, a federal judge denied a request from federal employees to deny a request to pay air Traffic Controllers who have been working without pay. And bad news looking for help from the public. Warning that accepting money from gofundme or similar sites could be illegal. President trumps economic advisers now doubled the cost of the shutdown. Kevin hasek now calculates the shutdown reduces quarterly Economic Growth by 0. 13 Percentage Points for every week it drags on. How much money is that . Well, Standard Poors forecasts 1. 2 billion a week in lost growth. How . Workers dont get paid which means they dont spenld. And that hurt retailers, landlords, auto sales, also all the people who support them. Babysitters, day care. And it means long lines for you at the airport, because tsa agents, some of them, rather than pay for the commute and day care costs and not getting paid at work are calling out sick. How are we made safer by shutting down a wall for border security. This just goes round and round. Shutdowns are stupid. If you think washington, d. C. Is a mess, well, take a look at the chaos across the pond and in the uk. To the left, 432. Prime minister Theresa Mays Brexit deal crushed tuesday by a record margin. A humiliating indictment of her plan to guide britain out of the european union. May faces another no confidence vote today. The british people facing a very uncertain future. Lets go live to downing street. Reporter good morning, dave, i dont know, people in Parliament Last night, it was a stunning evening for theresa may. This is the largest defeat for a Prime Minister in modern british history. The last time there was a margin even this big, close to this big was in 1924, to give you some context of where we are. Immediately after that vote, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition party, the labor party tabled a no confidence vote. What that means, tonight, members of parliament will get a chance tonight to say whether or not they support theresa may as the ruling party in parliament. But shes likely to survive that vote. If she doesnt, that could trigger a general election and we could see a complete change to the approach to the brexit deal. In the meantime, may said shes talking to members across parties, try to come to a consensus, go to brussels, try to get extra concessions and possibly table a new vote until next week. She has to return on monday and get some sort of update. We might see a new plan in place. But theres still a lot of possibilities for many other situations including maybe even a second referendum. Is this what a lot of members are calling for. Whatever happens, though, doesnt change the scenario that were just 72 days away before that deadline of march 29th when the uk is supposed to leave the european union. So far, we see closer and closer to crashing out without a deal. Hadas gold live for us in london. Thank you. A new court filing in the Paul Manafort case gives an unprecedented look with Robert Muellers work with a grand jury. The special counsel indicates he testified last fall about his communications with konstantin kilimnik. Manafort communicated with him august 2nd, 2016, less than a month before leaving the campaign. The file also details now manafort mislead investigators and the grand jury. He said he was not communicating with people in the trump administration. But prosecutors say he was texting someone with access to trump last may. One big mystery. And he does not say who that person was. Muellers team and attorneys for former Campaign Official rick gates also reveals the special counsel is not ready for gates to be sentenced. That would suggest that manaforts onetime deputy is still providing usele information. Two newspapers calling for congressman steve king to resign. Writing he has lost the potential to effectively represent his iowa constituents because of his abhorrent comments about white nationalics. King should do what is in his best interest and step down from office. And the house of representatives voted 424 to 1 to approve a resolution rejecting White Supremacy and white nationalism. King actually voted for the resolution meant to criticize him. That ideology never shows up in my head. I dont know how it could possibly come out of my mouth. But it did come out of his mouth. He told the New York Times white nationalism, white supremacists, western civil dags, how did that language become offensive . That support for president king is mixed. Of all people with equal value in the sight of god. And our policies should reflect that. Theyre overreacting, you know, magnifying it 100 times what it should be. Im hoping theyll get him cleared out of office. Im hoping it will dismiss what the people voted for. The house leaders have denied king any Committee Assignments in this new congress. Will a woman head the world bank . According to a person familiar with the matter, white house officials including the president s daughter, ivanka trump will begin interviewing candidates to become world bank candidates. The top candidate ingrid. The president and the daughter has been a main conduit to the world bank. The u. S. Is the banks largest shareholder. If named, nooyi would be the first woman to head the group since its founding. The world bank of the imf some of those early 21st Century International institutions meant to stabilize. And using the imf and the europeans have picked that. And theres this nice give and take. Some of them wonder what the president s connection is to the organization. Ahead, did the former president of mexico take a 100 million bribe . From a notorious drug lord. The courtroom bombshell, next. And unlimited is better with a phone included. Its true. Forty bucks with the other guys, doesnt include a phone. So, start the new year right. Join tmobile and get unlimited with a phone included for just forty dollars per line. Drug trafficking and murder trail of el chapo guzman. Telling that el chapo once paid a 100 million prescribe to enrique pena nieto. It comes from a colombian drug trafficker on the stand. He said he spent two years helping him elude the army. Its day three of the teakers strike in los angeles. Rain did not keep teachers from the picket lines tuesday. An estimated 32,000 teachers and staff walked the walk. They are demanding smaller class sizes, higher salary and more counselors and nurses. The walkout of 100,000 students may also cost the School District thousands of dollars. Only about a third of the usual number of students showed up for school on monday. Attendance did improve slightly on tuesday. A proper reminder to make sure your car seats are installed properly. Most people dont. Frightening dash cam video shows the time a toddler tumbles out of the car on to the street. Chad mock posted this video on facebook, stopped his car and carried the child to safety. Remarkably, the toddler was not injured. It looks like the mother drove away. Didnt realize the child came out. She did turn around and come back. Officials are looking at charges of child endangerment. Ahead, binging on netflix about to get more expensive. The streaming service raising prices to invest in a new program. Cnn business has the details, next. Ah i missed you then i discovered mucinex. One pill lasts 12 hours, and im good. Mucinex releases fast and lasts 12 hours, not 4. Lets end this. Unstopand its strengthenedting place, the by xfi pods,gateway. Which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. Well almost anything. Leave no room behind with xfi pods. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Click or visit a retail store today. Kenyas president now says all of the terrorists have eliminated following an attack on a hotel duplex in nairobi. The death toll now at 14 including at least one american. We do want to warn you, some of this video were about to show you may be hard to watch. Cnns sam kiley live for us in nairobi. Sam . Reporter well, dave, this operation by the terrorists began yesterday afternoon at about 3 00 local time, with an explosion at the entrance to the hotel, just about 100 yards behind me there. Three cars set alight. Suicide bomber ran in killing himself. Four gunman proceeded through, not just a hotel, but an office complex, with people running for their lives through the gardens. Fortunately, for a lot of the survivors, the evacuation was pretty efficient, immediately. There were a number of armed private security guards inside the complex, responsible for evacuating the people with the gunfire. I spoke to one of them while he was doing just that. You could hear gunfire with detonation and grenades. And they claimed it was all over, but it restarted morning and continued until about 10 30. With very loud dead natitonatiot of guns, special forces eventually cleared the area with the assistance of some american forces, too. Dave. Sam kiley live for us in kenya. Just incredible video, thanks. A top negotiator for north korea is visiting washington, d. C. This week. Pyongyang official is expected to meet with mike pompeo and President Trump to finalize preparations for a second summit with kim jongun. The president hand wrote a letter that was delivered to the leader last weekend. And honoring the life and career of the legendary Carol Channing who died tuesday. Its so nice to be back home where i belong channing is best known for playing dolly leavy in hello domesticall dolly. Bette midler, one of the many stars paying tribute saying, quote, channing was a complete performer and will never be any other. Sportscaster bob costas leave nbc after 40 years. Costas telling the New York Post that they reached a deal last year but decided to keep it quiet. The 66yearold has done it all. He entered the broadcasters wing of the baseball last summer. Costas will continue to work for the mlb network. Hard not to smile when you see and hear this next story. This is 11monthold scarlet benjamin. She was born three months early and treatment for an infection impaired her hearing. Scarlet was fitted for hearing aids last week. Her older sister halle tested them out. Baby sister. Oh, my gosh. Baby sister. Baby sister. Nothing better than the sound of that laughter. Scarlets mom also could not contain her excitement. She said its been a long and emotional experience. Can i get that on my ring tony. Wouldnt that be great . Best of luck to all of you. Lets get a check on cnn business. Global markets mostly flat as investors giving a muted reaction to last nights brexit deal defeat. In asia, mixed here. London also mixed. Really searching for direction on wall street, futures a little bit higher. But again, i would say searching for direction is the tone here. The dow closed up 156 points. Thats a little less than 1 . The s p 500 advanced 1. 1 . The nasdaq had a better day, a onemonth high there. Microsoft and walgreens join forces to take on amazon in health care. Microsoft announced a partnership with walgreens tuesday. As part of the deal, microsoft will become walgreens new cloud provider. They will also work on solutions to Lower Health Care costs. Walgreens will open up 12 Digital Health corners in stores that will still healthcare related gadgets. The two said the partnership will help walgreens gain personalized data about customers help and last year, amazon announced a partnership with Berkshire Hathaway and jpmorgan chase. Binging on netflix is about to get more expensive. Netflix is raising prices in the United States as the streaming service invests heavily in new programs. All three of the streaming Services Plans will increase in price by one or two bucks. The standard 11 plan, for example, will increase to 13 a month. Is comes as disney plans will launch this year. And nbcuniversal will have its own streaming service by 2020. Netflix stock closed up 6 on the news. The price tag will be applied to all members. New members will be charged the new price immediately. So youre not really grandfathered in. A little wiggle room for existing customers. And day 26th of the Government Shutdown. I will not be bullied into do anything i think is wrong by anybody. Bipartisan praise for william barr. The nominee for attorney general vows to let Robert Mueller finish his work, but will the public get to a see final report . It turns out it costs more to shut the government down than to leave it open. Now, the president s own economic advisers are doubling the projected losses. Another democracy in crisis. Uk lawmakers reject the brexit plan. Theresa may faces another no confidence vote today. Baby sister. Oh, my gosh. Baby sister. Cant get enough of this. A little girl hears her sisters sweet sound. What the Family Voices are
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