justifications for the $5.7 billion wall. but the president himself says no progress is expected at that meeting. and trump has made it clear he will not back down on his demands for wall funding. this is a very important battle to win from the standpoint of safety, number one, defining our country and who we are, also from the standpoint of dollars. this wall will pay for itself many times during the course of a year. the money we re talking about is very small compared to the return. do you think i like doing this? i don t like doing this. but we have no choice, we have to have it. let s check in with cnn correspondent boris sanchez. what more can you tell us about kne these negotiations and even talks at camp david? what s happening? sources are presenting to democrats that official justification you mentioned, basically an explanation of how they plan to spend the $5.7 billion that president trump has requested for his border wall. acting chief of staff mick mulvane
well, the partial government shutdown in the united states is now in its third week, and there is still no end in sight. another day in talks for a border wall ended sunday without any progress. and as boris sanchez reports, president trump is not backing down. reporter: as has been the case for several days during meetings between top administration officials and lawmakers to reopen the federal government and potentially fund some sort of border barrier between the united states and mexico that president trump has been promising, we re hearing two different sides about what happened during these negotiations. on one hand you have president trump tweeting out that this meeting was productive. on the other hand we re hearing multiple accounts from people behind those closed doors that things did not go all that well. one source telling cnn that republicans presented to democrats the official justification for spending $5.7 billion on the president s long-promised border wall
car by mistake, thinking someone else was inside. it wasn t until they saw the coverage of her murder on the news that they realized they had attacked the wrong car. with that information in hand, authorities actually pulled over eric black in a traffic stop yesterday. he had changed lanes without signalling. they brought him in on a charge of possession of marijuana, but as the questioning began, eric black admitted to driving the car that another man sat in the passenger seat of and fired his gun at that car that jazmine barnes was in. through the course of his probable cause hearing this morning, we learned that the man with eric black is only by the name the initials l.w. because eric black is the only man that s been arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with jazmine barnes killing, authorities have not yet named him. but we know overnight another man with the initials l.w. was brought in to police custody, also arrested on charges of possession of ma
newsroom . talks to end a u.s. budget impasse are at a stalemate with the partial government shutdown now in its third week. president donald trump is not backing down on his demand for more than $5 billion to build a wall on the southern border. and he s threatening to bypass congress to get the money if needed. boris sanchez has an update from washington. reporter: as has been the case for several days during meetings between top administration officials and lawmakers to reopen the federal government and potentially fund some sort of border barrier between the united states and mexico that president trump has been promising we re hearing two different sides about what happened during these negotiatio negotiations. on one hand you have president trump tweeting out that this meeting was productive. on the other hand we re hearing multiple accounts from people behind those closed doors that things did not go all that well. one source telling cnn that the republicans presen
the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we have major breaking news this hour. house democrats are opening up a new front in their investigation of president trump going after his very tightly guarded financial information. in a letter obtained exclusively by cnn, the house ways and means committee chairman is demanding that the irs commissioner hand over mr. trump s personal tax returns and some from his business over a six-year period from 2013 to 2018. i ll talk about this with a minimum of the ways and means committee, democratic congressman dan kildee and correspondents and analysts are standing by. first let s go right to cnn politics congressional reporter lauren fox. lauren, you re learning about this letter. tell us more about this the letter that you ve obtained exclusively for cnn. reporter: well, that s right, minutes ago the house ways and means chairman richard neal sent a letter to the irs commiss