The month long impasse. You acknowledged that it is possible that the president talked to Michael Cohen about which is perfectly normal. Perfectly normal to talk to a key witness about his testimony. Snow is gone, but some of the coldest weather of the year greeting the northeast this morning. And the super bowl is set after one of the craziest days of football you will ever see. Super bowl nine for brady and belichick. Congratulations to new england. Your 11 month super bowl drought is over. I know you have strong feelings about this. It was an incredible championship sunday. If you are a saints fan this morning, you feel robbed and you should. And the nfl should do something more than apologize. Im sure they hear you. Good morning and welcome to early start. Im laura jarrett. Im dave briggs. It is Martin Luther king jr. Day. It is day 31 of this Government Shutdown. We start with the president after a 40 tweet sunday trying to find the political middle ground if there is one to end the shutdown. Instead he got hammered by the left and right. It was the president s most significant move yet to end the stalemate offering temporary protections for some undocumented immigrants in exchange for 5. 7 billion in border wall funding. That offer triggered action by mitch mcconnell, vowing to bring the plan to a vote this week even though the odds of getting 60 votes are very slim. Mcconnells probably is expected to include measures to entice democrats so if they vo no on the entire package, this will be doturning down things ty favor. Are more now from Sarah Westwood on the state of play for the shutdown. Reporter President Trump and Senior Administration officials defending the president S Immigration proposal against almost unanimous opposition from the democrats. He rolled out a deal that would involve him getting 5. 7 billion for the construction of his border wall and in exchange the president said that he would agree to a three year renewal of daca protections for the young undocumented immigrants known as d. R. E. A. M. Ers and as well as a three year extension of temporary protective status for those facing the expiration. But House Democrats say that is dead on arrival. They wont negotiate on any deal until the government is reopened. President trump has been lashing out at Speaker Pelosi claiming pelosi is beholden to the left wing. Afshd be and also defending his proposal from the right wing of his own party with conservatives accusing the president of extending an offer of am messity to the nearly 1 Million Immigrants who would benefit from this plan. But the bottom line is, this is not a new idea, trading daca for wall money is an idea that has been tried and failed on capitol hill several times. Although this is the white house attempt to try to peel some moderate democrats off, at the moment it appears democrats are united in their opposition to the president S Immigration agenda. Laura and dave. The Washington PostEditorial Board says it is time to consider the offer. It writes to refuse even to talk until the government reopens does no favors to sidelined federal workers and contractors. Unquestionably a deal would contain xwchltgalling elements both sides. Meanwhile the cost of the Government Shutdown continues to grow. The unscheduled absence rate saturday of the tsa was 8 compared to just 3 last year. In maryland, they had one security checkpoint closed for the last two days. Final food stamp payments went out yesterday, they are supposed to cover people through february. U. S. Federal courts will run out of operating money this friday. And federal housing assistant contracts are expiring in just nine days which will impact 1. 2 million households. Rudy giuliani admitting Michael Cohen might have talked to the president about his testimony. He does not know for sure, but if mr. Trump did, so what. As far as i know, President Trump did not have discussions with him. Certainly had no discussions with him in which he told him or counseled him to lie. If he had any discussions with him, they would be about the version of the events that Michael Cohen gave them which they all believe was true. But you just acknowledged that it is possible that President Trump talked to Michael Cohen about his testimony. Which would be perfectly normal. So it is possible that it happened . I dont know if it happened or didnt happen. It might be Attorney Client privilege if it happened where i cant acknowledge it. Robert mueller took the extraordinary step of publicly disputing a buzzfeed that said that mr. Trump directed cohen to lie to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. Ben smith and a reporter standing by the reporting in this cnn interview. We are eager to understand which characterizations mueller is talking about and we take it incredibly seriously. If further confirmation this is right, were being told to stand our ground, our reporting will be born out to be accurate and were 100 behind it. Giuliani also says plans to build trump tower in moscow were discussed as late as november 2016, Michael Cohen says they only went as far as june of 2016. A big story everyone is talking about, that kentucky teen who quewent facetoface w a native american man now says that he was trying to difference fuse the situation. Judge for yourself now. These students may now face expulsion. Diocese released a statement saying this behavior is opposed to the churchs teachings. But the student at the center of the controversy claims a look at all of the video tells a different story. Sara sidner has more for us. Reporter the Catholic High School student who comes facetoface with a native american elder in a viral video is now responding. In a statement nick says the viral video does not reflect the true nature of events when students arrived at the lincoln memorial. We noticed four africanamerican protesters who were also on the steps of the memorial he said, the protestors said hateful things. Indeed a small group of black men who identify as hebrew israelites did say hateful things to everyone including a priest and the students. You have these pompous bastards come down here with their dirty ass hat on. Reporter a black visitor faces hate too. You have all these dirty ass crackers behind you with a red make America Great hat again on and you want to fight your brother. Reporter at first the catholic students there for the march for life are still in small numbers, but more and more show up watching but not engaging. The small group of men continue taunting them. A bunch of babies made out of incest. Reporter he says the rhetoric was startling because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public, a student asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to begin School Spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. And they do. At one point a student removes his shirt and the chants drown everything out. Two minutes later, you hear a drumbeat and that is Nathan Phillips and another drummer. Phillips says it was their attempt to thwart potential violence. The kids began dancing to it and chanting along. I realized i had put myself in a really dangerous situation, you know. It was like here is a group of people who were angry at somebody else and i put myself in front of that. Reporter phillips, a vietnam veteran, walks around, other students avoid him until you see him come facetoface with a student who has now gone viral. The student says that he was the one trying to deescalate the situation, not phillips. I believe that by remaining motionless and calm, i was helping to diffuse the situation. I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teens into a larger conflict. He has every opportunity to move back, so does phillips, neither do. While they faced off, the kids faced more taunting. While phillips maintains he felt the kids were mocking him and being rude, sandman says it was actuals using hateful words and trying to provoke the kid, not the other way around. The diocese that oversees the high school saying that they would investigate and condemned the behavior. But the congressman who represents their district is praising them tweeting in the face of racist slurs, the young boys refused to reciprocate even when taunted. They insulted no one. The congressman said it was his honor to represent them. Back to you. 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And in middletown, connecticut, a tree fell on a lineman. Many flights were are canceled this weekend. The snow is gone, but the frigid air remains. Millions facing the coldest temps in a year. Here is Pedram Javaheri. Yes, about one in four americans dealing with brutally cold temperatures. Some areas as cold as minus 40 degrees this morning. Chicago feels like minus 6, minneapolis minus 11, detroit minus 20. This is the time of year north america sees its coldest temperatures. So certainly not unusual and that system nothing unusual as well, but it did leave behind quite a bit of snowfall. And some areas across new york, rochester in particular, over a foot and a half coming down. As much as 26 inches observed. But this afternoon, the best we can do with windchill forecasts still going to be below zero across the northeast here and the colder air does want to break up a bit come middle of the week where 44 is expected in new york city, but only on cooler weather still going into this weekend. You do not want cancellations like that at ohare. Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight want answers after getting stuck on the tarmac for more than 14 hours. The flight was diverted to canada due to a medical emergency, but the flight experienced a mechanical issue before it could take off again. Passengers were not allowed off the plane because the airport did not have a customs officer on duty. So sunday morning after more than 14 hours, another plane showed up to take customers back to new jersey. United airlines has apologized for the incident. I think they will have to do more than apologize. Super bowl all set after the most dramatic championship sunday in nfl history. 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Saints were on the wrong end of the minnesota meeute miracle lad now probably the worse no call has cost them a trip to the super bowl. Saints a first done away from running out the clock and kicking an easy game winning field goal. He drills him before the ball arrives. Obvious pass interference. But not to the officials watching the play. And if you were wondering, there were two officials in position to make that call. One to the left, one to the right. But bill ben difficuenedicts c fewest flags in the season. The no call was so bad, the nfls have not he of officiating called sean payton right after the game. It is a disappointing way to lose a game. Frustrating, you know, just getting off the phone with the league office. They blew the call. They said not only was it interference, it was helmet to helmet. They couldnt believe it. It happened. Cant dwell on it. Well probably never get over it. The afc championship game was also a thriller. For the first time ever, there were four lead changes in the Fourth Quarter. Tom brady making all the big throws when he needed to late in this game, outdoing patrick mahomes. Patriots win in overtime 3731. And for the ninth time brady and belichick are going to the super bowl, that is more than twice any other coach player combo in nfl history. Unbelievable, bro. This is crazy. What a game. Brady is excited. If you were watching that saints rams game and the whistle noise coming from the stands was driving you crazy, you werent alone. A saints super fan who is actually known as whistle man was one of the sources of that noise and get this, he doesnt even use a whistle. Pretty incredible talent he has there. Also incredible that he can do that for three hours. Unfortunately for him, he wont need that until next season. But i tell you what, my heart goes out to all of the saints fans out there because if that happened to me, im not sure that i could move on as a football fan. I think i would just called it a day. Im with you. Thanks for putting that whistle back in my head. I had just gotten it out. Let me ask you, do you think that there is time for a change, to examine maybe a no call pass interference in a gail winnime or losing situation . Yeah, i think that they will look into it. At least in the last two minutes of the Fourth Quarter, you have to be able to review this. Not only are the saints not going to the super bowl, you changed lives by not making this right call about that and the fact that it was so blatant, i think there needs to be some changes. And you are talking about billions upon millions 6 dollars in for the franchise. I watched them with a bunch of 10 and 11yearolds and they all exploded instantly. We could go on and on. Laura, over to you. I want to know more about whistle man. He needs to be banned, too. Democrats actually agree that the president s compromise no good. Is there any hope to end this impasse. Se. Ahh, new house, eh . 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