At 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, we are seven days in now, and no end in sight. The partial u. S. Government shutdown drags on. The u. S. President continues to dig in, and congress has gone home for the year. In the middle of it all, some 800,000 government workers unsure of when they will be paid next. Cnns abbey philip picks it up from here. Reporter with the government still partially shutdown and no end in sight, President Trump was back at the white house and tweeting after his surprise trip to iraq. After claiming this week the federal employees supported the shutdown many of those workers have said to me and communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall. These federal workers want the wall. Reporter the president is now taunting democrats in a tweet by claiming, without evidence, that most of the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown are democrats. That comment prompted backlash from one of the largest unions representing federal employees. The
Want to go to cnns Boris Sanchez at the white house. Boris, apart from the president s threats, were also hearing a new attempt to shift blame to the presumptive new speaker of the house. Yeah, thats right, jim. This morning, the incoming acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, said he had a gut feeling that Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer wanted to strike a deal with republicans over the Government Shutdown, but he believes that its nancy pelosi, the House Minority leader, the likely future speaker of the house, who is Holding Things back because he believes she doesnt have the votes to become speaker. Effectively, the white house is at a standstill in discussions with democrats over border wall funding. Mulvaney confirmed some reporting that the white house made an offer to democrats that included less than the 5 billion that the president demanded for his wall. Mulvaney would not give a specific figure, but that lines up with what cnn reported in the last few days, that an offer
Crews are working to fix a massive centurylink outage affecting emergency calls. It knocked out 911 services in several states. No end in sight to the government shutdown. President trump threatening to close the southern border entirely if democrats do not fund his wall. Were in this for the long haul. A miracle rescue in the french alps. A 12yearold boy survived being trapped in an avalanche for 40 minutes. What is that . Holy bleep a technical malfunction at a power station in queens caused this eerie blue glow. Many speculating an alien invasion. This was on the site which raised some questions. The oldest world war ii veteran in the United States has died. Richard overton served at pearl harbor just after the japanese attack. Im just a person, im not a hero. I aint done nothing nobody else couldnt do. Brown good evening. Jeff glor is off tonight. Im james brown, and this is our western edition. And we begin with the capture of a sustained cop killer in california. Authorities say
Lets bring in cnn White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez. What was the president tweeting about . Hes certainly not in a festive mood. The christmas wreaths installed here were removed this morning. He is inside alone and angry, taking aim on twitter. The president not joining the first lady melania and the rest of his family for new years eve. Officials confirming hes planning to spend the holiday here until the shutdown is resolved. Now, the present, as you noted, was on twitter earlier, aiming at democrats. He writes, im in the white house waiting for the democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security. From what i hear, theyre spending so much time on president ial harassment they have little time left for stopping crime and our military. Two notes on that. First, mick mulvaney, the incoming acting chief of staff told reporters on the northern lawn of the white house yesterday that no invitation had been extended to Democratic Leaders nancy pelosi and the minority lea
Own any accurately thats perpetrated by individuals that came into this country illegally. Who are you most looking forward to in 2019. As many members in the trump family in orange jump suits as possible. [laughter] well have a house party we dont need nobody turn your tv off bring that boom box out well wake up all the neighbors pete party. Rachel im waiting for ed to go and do that dance that the guy did at the airplane. [laughter] ed i miss you guys. I was away a last week. Pete did you go to hawaii. Ed nancy pelosi is in hawaii. My son is looking at college already which is scary. Rachel how old is he . Ed he is 17. It goes by fast. Got a little bit of fun in florida but also did a little bit of work and family time, so it was nice. Pete nice. Welldeserves. Pete merry christmas, happy new year, sort of. Rachel im glad you are back. Ed i got a christmas text from pete i thought maybe he misses me. Pete i did. I said merry christmas. I have news we will get to that relates to ed. Ra