it s now week three of the government shutdown. but president trump says he d rather call it a strike. whatever you call it, he says if a deal isn t reached this could last for months or even years. i m very proud of doing what i m doing. i don t call it a shutdown. i call it doing what you have to do for the benefit and for the safety of our country. later this morning, vice president mike pence will host a meeting with house and senate staffers. it aep s a followup to yesterda morning which reportedly started with a 15-minute profane tirade from the president where he cursed several times at congressional leaders. the president later called the meeting productive. democrats called it contentiouc. after the meeting, the president warned that he d go around congress if he wants and build a border wall using military funding. joining us with the latest from the white house, cnn white house reporter sarah westwood. what are you hearing this morning? good morning to yo
don t know where i am, and i need help. announcer: this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. so glad to have you here with us. it s official at midnight, you re now waking up to the longest federal government shutdown in u.s. history. yes, but the white house is now fighting another battle as news breaks that the fbi opened an investigation into whether actions by the president of the united states were a threat to national security. first reported by the new york times, this counterintelligence probe was happening at the same time as the obstruction of justice investigation. this all started after the firing of former fbi director james comey. the question behind both parts of the investigation was, was the president helping russia against u.s. interests. so, i want to get an inside look at how this part of the investigation started there. josh campbell is working for james comey at the fbi at the time. listen to what he said drives thi
planes will just sit on the ground. and this president, who likes to style himself as an expert in the art of the deal, right right there despite not having actually written this book, can t seem to make this deal. he can t seem to make it. and that may be because of his negotiating style, if you can call it that. it seems to be to take things away and then offer to give them back if you give him what he wants. so he takes it away, and then he says, oh, but i will give it back to you even though it was already in there, if you give me what i want. does that sound like negotiating to you? there are other words for it. the president s latest proposal on saturday was to offer temporary protections for some undocumented immigrants in return for $5.7 billion in funds for his border wall. he offered to restore temporary protected status for 300,000 people and allow 700,000 dreamers to keep their protections for three more years. so here s what you need to remember. this preside
she was hit in the chest and killed. he describes it as an accidental shooting. tonight the investigation. the public official who has resigned after pictures emerge of him on halloween wearing a shirt that says katrina victim. and a school superintendent trying to use her own health insurance to help a sick kid. who had been missing school because he had no insurance. she speaks out right here tonight. good evening. it s great to have you with us here on a thursday night. we begin tonight with new developments. just a short time ago, the president signaling he might be willing to reopen the government for three weeks while they continue to debate his border wall. at this hour, republican and democrat leaders in the senate are trying to broker some sort of deal. the white house had initially said late today the president would reopen the government for a time if there was a significant down payment on the wall. but a short time later, with our jon karl in the room, the
it seems everyone we are back to square one. let s start at the white house with jeff bennet, good to see you this afternoon. a lot of developments to say the least. talk to me about where we re about right now. here is where we are on day 31 of the shut down. the president says it is a common sense compromise. the democrats call it a nonstarter. one could say it is a good thing when there is a deal on the table, but democrats say it is not clear if this is a serious overture because they didn t check with the democrats before the speech. and nancy pelosi says she has not speaking to anyone from the white house since the saturday speech. the president wants that $5.7 billion for a border wall. in exchange he says he will give democrats a three-year extension of the legal status for the young undocumented immigrants and help for those seeking asylum. he saids he wanted less people from what he deemed s-hole countries a year ago from countries like haiti. this is samed to pee