this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good saturday morning to you. the partial government shutdown is entering its second week with no sign that president trump and democrats are preparing to compromise. >> now more than 800,000 government employees are currently out of work or reporting to work with no promise of a paycheck despite a monopoly on power in washington president trump and the

republican-controlled congress failed to reach an agreement this week meaning any agreement will likely come in the new year when the democrats take back control of the house. in the meantime, the president escalated the shutdown saying he'll close the border with mexico. president trump has repeatedly tried to downplay the impact of the shutdown saying federal employees are happy with the shutdown or they're all democrats. >> we're looking at how this impacts employees finding themselves without pay. >> reporter: with president trump unable to secure funding for his border wall. >> it's not going to be open until we have a wall or fence, whatever they'd like to call it. if they don't have it, we're not opening. >> reporter: the government shutdown will likely continue into the new year affecting 25% of the federal workforce.

280,000 employees are furloughed and another 420,000 are working without pay. the smithsonian and zoo will be closing its doors january 2nd. >> the federal workers want the wa wall. >> reporter: the president said they' want the shutdown. but the employees we talked to are fed up. >> extracurricular activities putting food on the table for their kids, those are things that make it more disgusting what's happening with the federal government right now. >> reporter: lawyuren is a loca steward with the epa that shut down friday at midnight. she like other employees

received this e-mail. the opm thursday tweeting suggestions for workers to send to creditors, landlords and banks if they can't make their payment on time, like trading maintenance work for rent payments. >> federal workers are going to be penalized for not paying their bills on time when we want to go back to the jobs we were hired to do. >> reporter: the president tweeting most workers are democrats but they're saying it shouldn't matter. >> we're hired to protect human health and the environment. if he wants to imagine that we are democrats instead of us being human beings and civil servants, that's his problem and i hope congress is able to step up and be the adult in the room. >> it's important because as we have this conversation about who's responsible, the money for the wall, if it's a wall or a

fence and all of that, we have to remember this is about people who are not getting paid. we want to talk about one person right now. lila johnson, her bills are adding up quickly, one of thousands of federal workers who will not get a paycheck because of the shutdown if it continues. >> she's a janitor at the department of agriculture. because she works on a per diem basis, she may likely not get back pay like other federal workers. >> my last paycheck will be 16 hours coming up this tuesday on the 31st. i won't be able to pay my bills. i won't be able to put food on the table for my two great grands. >> republicans are ending their lock on power in washington having failed to deliver on

president trump's top campaign promise which is building this wall at the southern border. members of congress left the capital, president trump stayed and berated democrats for refusing to build the wall. boris, president trump, he is not budgiing from his demands. nobody else is in washington. is the fact he's staying just for optics? >> reporter: potentially. we heard from officials yesterday that he would not join melania as she headed to mar-a-lago for the new year's eve holiday. the president deciding to stay in washington through the holiday as long as the government is shutdown. with the government here -- rather with the president here at the white house alone, he is digging in, pointing fingers and making new threats. yesterday suggesting that the united states should shutdown the entire southern border with mexico, something with enormous ramifications for the economy

and not to mention the volatile stock market. the president also suggested that the united states should return to prenafta days, that trade agreement he's constantly railing against. unclear whether he should undo the new nafta he has bragged about and is quite proud of. mick mulvaney told reporters here on the front lawn that talks have broken down. there is a belief that democrats are not willing to make a deal until nancy pelosi is sworn in as house speaker. mulvaney believes that pelosi is not eager to deal because she doesn't have the votes to become house speaker. our voting indicates she had the votes before the shutdown began. republicans had gone down from that $5 billion demand for

border wall funding in their talks with democrats, mulvaney said, he said when they presented a deal to democrats, they didn't present a counter offer and said the talks stalled there. nancy pelosi and other democrats said after january 3rd, the first measure is to reopen the government, none of which have money for the border wall. >> boris sanchez, we appreciate the update this morning. thank you. let's bring in cnn political commentator earl lewis. . >> good morning. >> let's start here with what be're hearing about the framework. we're hearing from mick mulvaney, from the president, others, it's not really senator

schumer who doesn't want to deal, it's nancy pelosi. what do you make of that framework and the effectiveness of it? >> look, the politics are certainly different in that the republicans have a majority in the senate. they also have dealing with slightly different politics, political concerns. but it doesn't really matter. the reality is they're going to have to make a deal with somebody, whether it's nancy pelosi or chuck schumer, it doesn't change, you have to get it through both houses, through the senate with 60 votes so you have to pull 6 or 8 democrats to your side. whoever they can get a deal with, they have no interest in dragging this out. so presumably they're going to make that deal soon or not at all. >> let's talk about this threat that the president made if he doesn't get the money for his border wall or the wall he wants along the southern border, he's going to shut down the entire southern border with mexico. what's the potency of a threat

like that? and let me get this in, mick mulvaney said this is the only way to get the democrats' attention. does a threat like this get the attention from the democrats? >> not necessarily because there are a lot of lawyers who work for the democrats and they'll say that u.s. citizens have a right to enter the country. so shutting down the border entirely is not something you can do. people have a right to go back and forth. their movements can't just be restricted willy nilly in that way. that's going to be the first problem. the second is there's tremendous economic damage that the country wouldn't stand for. thirdly, how do you do it? on what basis? there are treaty obligations that have the force of law that say only in a national emergency can the border be sealed off, shut down in that way. i've seen no such emergency or prospect of one. so if the president wants to try to do this, he'll be in court,

there'll be an injunction and the entire thing will be thrown out on day one or two. if they want to go through the process, i suspect they don't want to, but i guess they could if they wanted to. >> there is this talk about a potential larger deal, including daca recipients and the border wall. i want you to listen to this exchange between jim acosta and outgoing gop senator jeff flake which he talks about a deal for that. >> sounds like you'd like to see a dreamer for border wall compromise, people advanced that in washington, you'd like to see that? >> yes, i think that is a deal that could be done. >> so, errol, it sounds great but there was a larger deal with billions more on the table earlier that the president shutdown. and the president did this about face in signing this continuing resolution to get the government

through february after he was criticized by people on the right, including ann coulter who called dreamers amnesty, and said she'd rather deport dreamers for ms-13, so what would be the intennive to take the deal now? >> what you're pointing to is the tough politics of the situation. the reality is president was willing to deal, the reality is anyone who sizes up the situation sees that. the democrats are willing to deal, you get a little here, give a little there. you want more wall, you give on this question of what to do, for example, of young people born in this country, have citizenship rights but their parents are not legal residents. so you want to make that deal, fine, right where we are right now. the deal has always been obvious, but the politics are tough, victor, because if you look at the polls, they show a really wide gap, one of the

widest i've seen in a long time where republicans overwhelming favor the wall. democrats and independence overwhelming do not favor the wall. something like 71 democrats don't want the wall, 60% of independence. so if the president wants to play to his base, be in good favor with the right wing talking heads on the radio and fox news, he's doing what he needs to to keep them at least happy. on the other side of the ledger is a humanitarian crisis developing for the people trying to enter the country and increasingly for federal workers, which is tragic. >> we'll continue to talk about the consequences of the shutdown throughout the morning. thank you. >> thanks. new government finding on coal power plants could lead to more toxins in your air. the environmental protection agency has new rules, they say

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for talking on the phone with his mother. he tweeted no one should be treated this way and i hope this serves as a catalyst for necessary changes that address discrimination of all reforms. >> we have the latest of what happened and the fallout from this incident. >> reporter: germane said he returned from a concert went back to his hotel, found a quiet place in the lobby to call a family member concerning an emergency and then he said the security guard started harassing him. >> do you want this issue, earl? >> the police will be here in a minute. >> i'm waiting. they're coming why? >> escort you off the property. >> because i'm staying here? >> not anymore. >> i'm staying here. i have a hotel. i didn't do anything to you. i'm sitting over here taking a

phone call. >> massey said he had the evidence he was a guest, he showed them the card key envelope with the date on it and his room number. it didn't work. they still called the police, police escorted him up to his room and he was kicked out. massey's lawyers say the next step will be a strategy that involves both political possibility and a litigation possibility. they say their client is overwhelmed and one thing he does not want this to happen to anybody else. interesting in all this, the lawyers also say that massey has justice department experience in both human resources with a specialization in discrimination. he also works for amazon right now in human resources. as for the hotel, it issued a statement, essentially an apology, saying it was sorry and it wanted to sit down and talk to massey about all this. here at cnn we also reached out to the two employees who were

responsible for kicking massey out and they have not returned our phone calls. back to you now. >> paul, thank you so much. don lemon interviews massey on cnn tonight. here is how he described what happened. >> i was approached by the security guard you see in the video, and he asked me was i a guest at the hotel and i affirmed and told him yes. shortly thereafter he stood there and he said, you know, what room number are you staying in? i told him, i don't know the room number. and then at some point i showed him my room key, and he continued to harass me and ask me questions on what my room number was. and from there, i told my mom i would call her back and i started recording the incident. >> so you ended up eventually leaving the hotel, right?

>> yeah, i left the hotel. >> you said you could have gone to jail if you responded differently, right? >> yes. absolutely. they gave me two options when the police arrived, i asked them what were my opportunities here. they told me i could either stay and ignore their requests and be arrested. or i could comply and go pack up my room and leave the hotel. >> what have you heard from the hotel about this incident? >> i've heard corporate public relations and corporate gobblely gook. we've asked them please explain in writing publically why this man was approached, why was he interrogated? why was he trespassed? why did you call him in your initial response a security threat? we've not had a straight answer from them. i anticipate we're going to get a straight answer when we put

some people under oath. >> but the employee, the people you claimed harassed him or racially harassed him, they have been put on leave, correct? >> yeah, it doesn't mean much. we're looking at policy. why is a security guard deciding to exclude anybody from a public place in an open hotel in the lobby? why is he targeting this guy? why, when he says i'm a guest here does he have to answer that question? why when he shows a key is he still being harassed? there's something going on here that has to do with policy. >> again, two hotel employees have been placed on leave. double tree portland released a statement, we will take the appropriate measures to ensure this doesn't happen again. we have a zero-tolerance policy stance on discrimination of any

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cnn has more. >> reporter: the man hunt is over for the suspect in a police officer's killing. now we're hearing from his devastated family. less than 48 hours after losing his brother, his hero, his friend, reggie singh stepped to the mic. he learned his brother's killer had been caught. >> he's not coming back. but there's a lot of people out there that misses him. and a lot of law enforcement people that i don't know worked days and nights to make this happen. >> ronil singh came to this country as an immigrant from fiji. he was living his version of the american dream. he wanted to become a police officer and he did just that. he dreamt of a family. five months ago he and his wife welcomed their son into the

world. but at 1:00 in the morning, the day after christmas, singh's dream bankruabruptly ended. >> i did not know christmas morning at 4:00 in the morning when i said good-bye to him and sent him off to his family that it would be the last time that i saw him. >> reporter: police say singh was killed by gustavo perez arriaga, who unlike singh, had come into the country illegally. deputies caught up with him at a home in bakersfield, california, after a massive man hunt. >> this criminal, gustavo perez arriaga, crossed our border illegally into arizona some time ago. he is a criminal. he has two prior arrests for dui. >> reporter: several people were arrested including his brother and a coworker who were accused of lying to authorities and impeding their ability to find him faster. the sheriff could not contain his outrage over california's

so-called sanctuary city law. >> under sb-54 in california, based on two arrests for dui and some other active warrants that this criminal has out there, law enforcement would have been prevented, prohibited from sharing any information with i.c.e. about this criminal gang member. >> some law enforcement officials say the law disagree saying the law encourages people to come forward. but the sheriff's sentiment has been embraced by others, including the man with the largest megaphone. president trump tweeted about the case using it in his battle to bill a border wall to keep illegal immigrants out. no matter who wins the political battle, there is little that can ease the pain of the singh battle. one solace is his k-9 sam will

welcome a family pet. police have arrested about six people in connection with this case, and they say there may be more arrests to come. >> thank you, sarah. so kevin spacey is hoping he will not have to do a perp walk essentially when he's arraigned next month. spacey is accused of getting an 18-year-old drunk and then groping him at a bar back in 2016. we have more on the investigation and on spacey's response. i want to forewarn you, it's early in the morning, but this story does contain sexually explicit language. >> you trusted me even though you knew you shouldn't. >> the video titled let me be frank, posted to kevin spacey's

twitter account shortly after charges on an 18 whose mother spoke out on his behalf last year. >> in july 2016, actor kevin spacey sexually assaulted my son. >> reporter: spacey in his video doesn't address the charges. he performs the video in a kitchen, santa claus apron on, and in frank underwood character from the netflix show "house of cards" that spacey starred in for five seasons until he was fired after several allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. >> you wouldn't rush to judgments without facts, would you? did you? >> reporter: netflix had no comment about the video, whose timing, tone and substance were jarring given the charges the actor knew were coming. there was a hearing in the case four days before spacey posted

the video. >> conclusions can be so deceiving. >> reporter: one piece of evidence spacey's accuser has against the 59-year-old actor says the complaint is video of the assault itself. the accuser's girlfriend when interviewed by the police said she received a snapchat video from her boyfriend showing spacey touching the front of the accuser's pants by his crotch. >> kevin spacey bought him drink after drink after drink. and when my son was drunk, spacey made his move. >> reporter: her son, the accuser, admitted to police he told spacey that night he was 23 not his real age of 23, according to the complaint. he said the assault happened late night after his shift at the club car restaurant. >> the victim, my son, was a star-struck straight 18-year-old young man. >> reporter: the accuser claims

after several drinks spacey asked sexual questions, exchanged numbers, and then tried to get him to his house 37 and then spacey used his left hand and rubbing his thigh, sexually assaulting him for about three minutes. >> nothing could have prepared my son for how that sexual assault would make him feel as a man. it harmed him and it cannot be undone. >> cnn legal analyst joey jackson has a lot to say about that one. thank you for getting up early with us. i want to ask you, his lawyers filed the request yesterday that he not be arraigned next month. do you anticipate he's going to be able to skip that arraignment? >> good morning. i do not. an arraignment is part of the process. for those unaware, an

arraignment is the official step where you are apprised of the charges you're facing, offered z an opportunity to enter a plea, which is generally not guilty, and bail conditions are set in terms of your release, whether there will be bail, what your conditions will be. so the attorneys previously tried to get the case dismissed saying there was no probable cause, they had a hearing, they were cross-examining the officer who was investigating, making the arrest, they did not have success with that. i would suspect he'd be arraigned as any other defendant in a case would be. >> cnn has obtained audio of that hearing you spoke of, where spacey's lawyer is arguing here that the victim didn't fight back. that's part of their strategy. let's listen to some of it. >> said of walking away or moving away or moving back or grabbing the wrist or slapping

the hand, he indicated to you, during that three minutes time period that he was texting and snapchating. >> that's correct. >> is there a defense here, joey? >> i think there's a viable defense. in a courtroom there's always two narratives and it's up to the jury to make the determination and what happened and whether spacey is guilty or not guilty. from the prosecution's position they're saying it was an assault, something done without consent. the case lies in the area of consent and that's what that cross examination was all ability. the defense will point this out as men flirting at the bar. look at the context, this is not on set, at a star bucks, in a cafe, this is a bar where they're drinking together, speaking with each other, apparently spacey's number is given to this person or vice versa, and the state of mind of spacey, in terms of the text

thereafter, he said i thought i lost you when he left. the defense will say when he had his hands on your thigh, there was a chance to escalate, was any lack of consent given at that point? everyone acts differently, and none of us can say how we would act, but a reasonable person would not allow somebody's hands in their pants for three minutes doing something they would object to. >> i have to ask about the video we saw of kevin spacey as he took on the persona of frank underwood. do you believe that's going to come into play here somehow? does it matter? >> i do not think it will be. he has a right to get onto twitter, youtube, facebook, tv to say what he wants to say. i think what will happen is the evidence will be limited to what occurred that night at the bar, was it consensual, not con sen

shlg, and he has the right to fight back, spacey does, in the court of public opinion. at the end of the day these are people empanelled to decide. i think a lot of this case for the prosecution will be them trying to admit prior bad act evidence. they'll have to admit -- they're going to have to try to admit into evidence points that spacey is not a good guy, he's done this before. so rulings pretrial are going to have a lot to do with it, so if a injujury hears you did it bef you may be guilty. but at this point he's innocent until proven guilty. let's see what a jury does if it gets that far. >> thank you. >> thank you. mass shootings, sex assault allegations. there were several crime and misconduct stories in 2018 that made the top headlines. a look at the top eight stories of the year. ♪

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there have been some really big political stories this year. environmental stories, sports stories. but a lot of the big stories this year have been about violence and criminal conduct. multiple massacres, sexual abuse allegations and those pipe bombs. >> we reveal the top eight crime and misconduct stories of the year. >> reporter: decades-old murders, hollywood crimes, sexual abuse and gun violence, all are part of the top eight crime and misconduct stories of 2018. number eight a decades old suspected serial murder finally caught. captured, finally authorities early today arrested a california man they believe is

the notorious golden state killer. investigators say james joseph d'angelo, a former police officer killed 13 people and raped more than 50 women between the years 1975 and 1986. all across the state of california. police finally caught up with him in april after they matched dna evidence through a public genology data base. dee angelo now 73 years old is in jail awaiting his trial. number 7 a pregnant mother murdered at the hands of her husband. >> please bring her back. >> 33-year-old christopher watts pleaded guilty in the killing of his pregnant wife and his two young daughters. >> the victim's family agreed to a plea bargain, trading the

death penalty for multiple life sentences without parol. >> you have to live with this vision every day of your life and i hope you see it every time you close your eyes at night. number 6, pipe bombs cause chaos just weeks before the midterm elections. >> the packages have been described as, quote, devices -- >> while they were discussing pipe bombs sent to the homes of hillary clinton, barack obama, and others around the country. >> we're going to jump in, there's a fire alarm here. >> reporter: they were evacuated from cnn's new york headquarters after security discovered a pipe bomb in the building. 16 pipe bombs in all allegedly sent by this man, cesar sayoc, a trump supporter. sayoc was arrested in south florida living in his white van which was covered with images of donald trump and targets on

prominent liberals. sayoc who has pleaded not guilty faces up to 48 years in prison. number 5, disgraced media mogul harvey weinstein charged. dozens of women came forward accusing him of sexual assault. >> there's so much power and money and prestige in hollywood in handcuffs right there. >> reporter: wine seen the was charged with six counts of sexual acts, including two counts of rape. >> he has denied any of the allegations. >> reporter: in october one charge was dropped because of an consistencies with an accuser's story. five charges remain. number four, predator priests back in the spotlight. >> an explosive report of

coverups -- >> reporter: the report issued by a grand jury in pennsylvania found evidence that more than 300 predator priests have been accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims. here's just one example, a priest sexually assaulted a little girl as he was visiting her in the hospital after she had her tonsils out. days later pope francis responded saying we showed no care for the little ones. we abandoned them. number three, more sexual abuse of our youth. this time at the trusted hands of a doctor for the nation's greatest gymnasts. larry nassar. more than 150 victims spoke out on the a sentencing hearing after he pleaded guilty to seven

counts of criminal sexual conduct. >> you do realize now that we, this group of women you so heartlessly abused over such a long period of time are now a force and you are nothing. >> reporter: his sentence 40 to 175 years in prison. he will serve that after he completes a 60-year sentence on federal child pornography charges. number two, america's dad convicted. >> guilty, guilty, guilty. >> reporter: after a lifetime creating laughter, bill cosby's downfall shocked the nation. the actor and comedian found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault after prosecutors successfully argued that cosby drugged and sexually assaulted andrea constand in 2004. >> accusers of bill cosby, they

were in the courtroom and let out audible cries in that moment. >> reporter: his previous trial ended in many a hung jury in 2017 but the second trial came after the me too movement took off. cosby this time faced testimony from five women. >> i can say that although justice was delayed, it was not denied. >> reporter: cosby's pr team called the guilty verdict racist. he is appealing the conviction from prison. and the number one crime story of 2018, mass shootings. four of the deadliest single-day mass shootings in the past 70 years took place in 2018. from a high school in santa fe, texas. >> 10 people are dead. >> to a popular college bar in california. >> 12 dead in yet another mass

shooting. >> reporter: to a synagogue in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> 11 people were killed and six were wounded. >> reporter: and to a high school in parkland, florida. >> 17 people are now confirmed dead. >> reporter: the deadliest shooting of the year rests at the hands of a former student, nichol nicholas cruz walked into his school on valentine's day and killed his classmates. amid the statistics, a spark has ignit ignited, turning young people into gun control activists, will the numbers rise or will the most recent activism bring about change in 2019? >> let's lighten it up a bit because i know so many of you are waiting for the college football semifinals, which are here. >> alabama is the favorite but you know something we don't. >> the tide are heavy favorites over oklahoma. but coming up you'll hear why

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semifinals tonight, alabama is the favorite over oklahoma. but corry wire says don't speak too soon, people. >> this is fascinating. alabama has been one of the most dominant forces in sports since nick saban took over in 2007, five fascial titles, he's been a superman of coaches, but he has a crypto fite he's one and four against heisman trophy winners. this year they face heisman winner kyler murray. he's so athletic that he already

signed a pro baseball contract this may be his last football game. he tells cnn he'll be going all out today. and bama tells us even though they're favored by two touchdowns they're not lacking motivation either. >> i'm not worried about what the odds are or anything like that. time to play, we'll be ready to play. >> we approach every game as underdogs. i think that's kind of ironic being the number one seed but our approach to every game is we feel like we're being doubted, like we have something to prove. >> good news for bama fans, their quarterback, tua tagovailoa is expected to play after undergoing ankle surgery two weeks ago. in the cotton bowl, clemson faces notre dame without one of their best players, dexter

lawrence was suspended after a test showed substances. this game is to prove history can be made now, something every notre dame players know when they put on the helmet. >> there's always someone talking about back when we used to win championships. so everyone wants a piece of that. it's a long grind for us for sure, especially this team. we're ready to win one and it's going to take a lot for us. >> one of our favorite thing about the bowl games is the senior's it's their last chance to play, they give out all effort. >> thank you. he's going to have a good day. listen, you may feel rich to buy president trump's -- >> something we don't hear often. >> maybe you're bothered by his

relationship with the truth. >> but one group they're not falling under his spell. the writing today is excellent. witches. here's genie moss. >> reporter: they don't fly on broomsticks. they tend not to be bewitched. by donald trump. >> you know i call it a witch hunt. and it is a witch hunt. >> reporter: modern day witches are hard to categorize. >> are you a good witch or a bad witch. >> i'm a witch which is how i make my living, yes. >> which kind of witch are you? >> on the liberal side of things. >> witches tend to side with liberals. you know what they want president trump to stop saying? >> it's a witch hunt. russian witch hunt. this is a witch hunt like nobody has ever seen before. >> the witchcraft activism

author calls it -- >> it's awful. >> closer to home there was the sal sal salem whith trials. >> nevertheless, it does demonstrate his ignorance as usual. >> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >> but if the president stops saying, witch hunt, he'd have to hunt for a new term. tweeted someone, i guess he would have to start referring to it as a wiled goose chase but that might offend geese. the last time witches got mixed up in politics, a losing candidate had to pro claim. >> i'm not a which. >> reporter: after saying she dabbled in witchcraft in high

school. witches would rather put a spell on president trump than fall under his spell. >> it is a witch hunt. >> cnn, new york. >> look what you've done! i'm melting! your finances, your future. how do you solve this? you partner with a firm that combines trusted, personal advice with the cutting edge tools and insights to help you not only see your potential, but live it too. morgan stanley.

>> announcer: this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> happy "new day" to you at 7:00 here. we are in day eight of the government shutdown and the number of federal agencies closed for business is growing this morning. >> funding ranout overnight for the