to me, it would suggest a lack of urgency for things they might need would assume everybody knows it s happening. many states decided to spend this money on things that have nothing to do with covid bet on projects they have wanted. the irony of that is we are going to this whole infrastructure battle right now. some of the mayors went right t the idea that he needs to fix roads. that s not what the american rescue plan was about, it was about covid and coming out of the pandemic. get one if you could take that money and say to the progressives on the hill, we artie did this and maybe add that to the infrastructure anyway. i see a compromise brewing. i don t think will do it, though . probably not. as study other charlotte, north carolina. watch. we can figure it out, or we can just send you back to louisville without your chair. a quadriplegic man says eigh american airlines refused to load his chair because there wa
with our jon karl in the room, the president signals that down payment was just one idea. so is there movement tonight? our senior white house correspondent jonathan karl to lead us off. reporter: compromise brewing? tonight president trump tells us he is open to a temporary deal to reopen the government and didn t rule out supporting it without money for the border wall. would you support a temporary spending bill without money for the wall? just to reopen? i wouldn t be happy with it. i wouldn t be happy. we have a lot of alternatives. even if it has no wall money? does it have to have wall money? look, look. i have other alternatives if i have to. i ll use those alternatives if i have to. we want to go through the system. we have to have a wall in this country. reporter: this comes less than 24 hours after the president backed down from his showdown with house speaker nancy pelosi over his state of the union address. now the president told us the speaker s demand that the