Monday, january 21st, im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell will hold a vote this week on President Trumps proposal to fund the wall and end the shutdown, even though democrats are united in opposition. On saturday the president offered a temporary threeyear protection for young undocumented migrants under daca program, as well as immigrants from countries on the temporary projected status protected status list, excuse me. It is trumps first public offer to democrats since the shutdown began back on december 22nd. Now at 31 days and counting, House Speaker nancy pelosi called the proposal a nonstarter and said that his offers of protection do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to peoples lives. On sunday trump tweeted multiple times about pelosi, accusing her of behaving irrationally, calling her a radical democrat and telling her to clean up the streets in San Francisco which trump called disgusting. Last night on msnbc James Clyburn said the white house proposal did not go far enough. If a high school daca person were to accept this deal, in three years, what would happen if that person is away in school trying to get a College Degree or some other post secondary education in pursuit and look up, three days expired three years expired and they are back in the shape that they were in before. What if the president made those daca protections permanent, would this change this equation . Yes, it would. Tps as well. Speaker pelosi says that democrats will vote again this week to reopen the government wi with Vice President mike pence they would reject. You can open the government tomorrow, then you can negotiate about this. Because, i mean, you know, frankly, chris, what the American People want us to do is to work on their priorities and the American People want us to secure the border. All right. So President Trumps immigration proposal is being met with deafening silence, no at single democrat has publicly expressed openness to it. According to axios a senior white house official said their strategy which was created largely by Jared Kushner and Vice President mike pence was to get trumps compromise immigration bill through the senate with an overwhelming vote and pressure House Democrats to speak from Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But axios says that the democrats do have a consensus, no immigration talks until the government is back open. Axios adds that even the moderates who sometimes break with the party like Democratic Senators joe manchin and chris coons are sticking with the leadership on this. But republican senator James Lankford said the president s offer is a straw man proposal that is not meant to become law. What i encouraged the white house to do and multiple others encouraged the white house to do is put out a proposal, they have listened to a lot of democrat and republican members for the last month, this he have heard all the demands, this he know all the background. Put out a straw man proposal, get something out there the president can say i can support this and it has elements from both sides, put it on the table then open it up for debate. The vote this week in the senate is not to pass the bill, it is to open up and say can we debate this, can we amend it and make changes . Lets find a way to be able to get the government open because there are elements in this that are clearly elements that have been supported by democrats strongly in the past. New developments in the russia probe. The president s legal team just extended the timeline yet again concerning those discussions to build a trump tower in mass could you. First Michael Cohen told congress that talks with russians ended in january of 2016, then it was thought to be later in summer of june of 2016, more or less, now the president s attorney Rudy Giuliani says there was a, quote, an active proposal with the russians until at least october or possibly november of 2016. In an interview with the New York Times giuliani quoted the president as saying that trump tower moscow discussions were, quote, going on from the day i announced to the day i won. Here is how giuliani phrased it yesterday on meet the press. Well, its our understanding that they went on throughout 2016, there werent a lot of them but there were conversations. Cant be sure of the exact dates, but the president can remember having conversations with them about it. Throughout 2016 . Yeah, probably up to could be up to as far as october, november. Our answers cover until the election, any time during that period they could have talked about it. As far as the president was concerned an active project to at least october or november of 2016, an active potential deal. Yeah, i would say an active proposal. As the times points out the timeline means that the active proposal for the trump tower moscow project was still out there when trump sought a deal to end sanctions on russia. When he pushed the putin talking point question questioning the legitimacy of nato, you remember that, and of course during his infamous, russia, if youre listening remarks about Hillary Clintons 30,000 emails. Rudy giuliani also added confusion to the question of whether President Trump spoke to Michael Cohen before cohens testimony to congress. Speaking with the New York Times about the president s written answers to special counsel bob mueller, giuliani said, quote, there was no question that he was asked by the special counsel a question that said did you talk to him before he testified. He said, quote, there were questions like, did you talk about the moscow project with Michael Cohen. To which he answered yes. But here is giuliani on sundays shows. Did President Trump or anyone on the trump team talk to Michael Cohen about his congressional testimony before he before he gave congressional testimony or after he gave congressional testimony . 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 then which they all believe was true. But you just ak nongd that its possible that President Trump talked to Michael Cohen about his testimony. Which would be perfectly no recall al. Which the president believed was true. So its possible that pd that, that President Trump talked to Michael Cohen i dont know if it happened or didnt happen or it might be Attorney Client privileged if it happened. Buzzfeed news is standing but its reporting that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress Despite it being disputed by bob muellers team. Muellers spokesman peter carr said buzzfeeds description of special statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohens congressional testimony, are not accurate. President trump said that he, quote, appreciates the statement from the special counsels office, but as we mentioned, buzzfeed stands by its reporting. Here is one of the storys coauthors speaking to cnn yesterday. Anthony, doo you have any why you evidence since thursday night that supports your story . I have further confirmation that this is right, were being told to stand our ground. Our reporting is going to be borne out to be accurate and were 100 behind it. Who is telling you that . Im not going to talk about my sources. I can tell you that, yes, indeed, the same sources we used in that story are standing behind it, as are we. So the sources in the report were described as, quote, two federal Law Enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the trump tower in moscow. The Washington Post writes, quote, people familiar with the matter said the special counsels spokesman told others in the government that he would have more vigorously discouraged the reporters from proceeding with the story had he known it would allege cohen had told the special counsel trump directed had im to lie, or that the special counsel was said to have learned this through interviews with the Trump Organization witnesses, internal Company Emails and text messages. There is a little irony in hearing President Trump say that the statement coming out of the muellers team is correct after bashing mueller consistently. Joining us now editor and chief of plit toe magazine blake hall southeast shall. Everybody i assume in washington and here they are talking about this buzzfeed debacle, if you want to call it that. What do you make of it . I think theres a debate about whether the special counsels office was denying just a specific aspect of buzzfeeds story or whether their intention was to wipe it off the map full stop. The Washington Post reporting suggests that the special counsel really wanted to dispute this central premise of the story, which was that that cohen was directed to lie by the president and that the special counsel had evidence of that. So we dont really know yet and buzzfeed is standing by its story, but i think its telling so far that other outlets have not followed their reporting, which suggests either that they have really burrowed in sources that only they have access to or it suggests that maybe they didnt get something quite right. I think the nuances here are extremely important. One thing we do know about President Trump is that he doesnt always give clear instructions and that also he doesnt use text or email. Its not like youre going to find some smoking gun, you know. Whats app message from President Trump saying, hey, michael, do she a solid and lie to congress. I think the way that President Trump gives orders is more indirect. So he might have said Something Like, you know, michael, i know youre going to do the right thing, and its ambiguous and thats why we really need to get exactly what the words were, if there were words. I think its telling that Rudy Giuliani kind of walked back the denials yesterday. That was pretty fascinating. Its not, you know, the best kind of lawyering ive ever seen in my life. I think a lot of people are saying it was similar to when President Trump told james comey the director of the fbi at the time i hope you can let this flynn thing go, the emphasis being on the word hope. It wasnt a direct order. Its also interesting the special counsel chose this specific story to speak out on. Theres so many other stories as to what the special is gathering and they have never come out and said this is wrong. Lets talk here about the president s deal, the deal that the president is trying to make and get the Government Back open, blake, with the daca offer to democrats over the weekend. Do you think thats sort of enough of a give on the president s behalf to get shutdown negotiations going again . Well, democrats are definitely saying its not and i think the tell here is if it were a serious offer you would have gone privately to schumer and pelosi and said, hey, listen, im going to give this speech on saturday, here is whats in it, i just want to gauge your reaction. Instead he kept it close to his vest and just sort of dropped it on a saturday afternoon, and that suggests what hes really trying to do is put democrats on their back foot and put the burden on them to reopen the government. As we saw, you know, from clyburn yesterday, they are not about to do a deal that trades a permanent wall for temporary relief from frankly the conditions that trump imposed on daca and these Asylum Seekers, tps. Three years from now, who knows who is going to be in power, but i think if you are a democrat youre thinking, you know, President Trump he cant play the arsonist and the fiber gate. He created this problem with the Daca Recipients and we need to give them permanent security in their lives, full stop, in exchange for even talking about Something Like a wall. We will find out tomorrow as well if the Supreme Court decides to take up that case. Thank you. We will talk to you again in just a bit. Still ahead, the president finally responds to Nancy Pelosis request to postpone the state of the union. We will have the latest on that. Plus snow, ice, tornadoes, just plain cold out there. We will have the mixed bag of extreme weather that is affecting much of the country. 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Security is no problem and my written acceptance while a contract is a contract ill get back to you soon. However, pelosis deputy chief of staff drew hammel responded to be clear the Speakers Office never received a, quote, written acceptance from the president. President trump attended the dig any if i had transfer ceremony for the four americans killed in last weeks suicide terror attack in syria which isis has now claimed responsibility for. Army chief foreign officer jonathan farmee, navy chief shannon kent, civilian Operations Support specialist and former navy s. E. A. L. Scott wirtz and gadir tahir were killed in the attack. Prior to departing on saturday he discussed what the ceremonies mean to him while giving an update on the status of isis. I think its the toughest thing i have to do, when im going to meet relatives of some of our great, great heroes that have fallen, i think it might be the toughest thing i have to do as president. When i took over syria was loaded with isis and, again, when you say to it and ive always said who are we killing isis for . You know, the worst enemy of russia, iran, syria, you look at it, is isis. So were killing isis for people that arent necessarily always in agreement with us. Lets put it that way. Weve done assad a very big favor. You do have to ask yourself were killing isis for russia, for iran, for syria, for iraq, for a lot of other places. So that attack occurred less than one month after the president proclaimed isis in syria defeated, something Vice President mike pence repeated hours after isis claimed responsibility for last weeks deadly attack. And we are bringing our troops home. The caliphate has crumbled and isis