be sure tonight to tune in to see the original film "love gilda." it is the incredible story of comedy great gilda radner in her own words at 9:00 p.m. only on cnn. we really cannot resolve this until we open up government. >> i'm very proud of doing what i'm doing. >> we told the president we needed the government open. he resisted. in fact, he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time, months or even years. >> absolutely i said that. i don't think it will, but i am prepared. >> let us work without having anxiety over our next grocery bill. >> all those things already pre-budgeted. when something like this happens and you're not going to get your next check, it's like, okay, what do i do. this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good saturday morning to you,

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 you.

>> reporter: good morning. what we heard yesterday emerging from the meeting in the situation room is two very different messages from democratic congressional leaders and from the president. he word democrats say they wanted -- we had word democrats say they wanted to reopen the government while the discussions continue. and the president saying he wanted to keep the government partially shuttered indefinitely. he's inflexible on his demand for border funding even as he's increased flexible about what might actually constitute a wall, whether that's a fence, whether that's steel slats, nobody seems to know. the president has reprised his demand for the $5.6 billion sum that house republicans passed in a spending bill as one of their last orders of business in the majority right before the shutdown. president trump is now saying that he's considered declaring a national emergency in order to get funding for his border wall. if he's not able to get it legislatively. take a listen to what he had to say yesterday. >> we can call a national emergency because of the

security of our country, absolutely. we can do it. i haven't done it, i may do it -- i may do. we can call a national emergency and build it very quickly. >> reporter: congressional democrats are already pushing back on this prospect. democratic congressman adam smith, the new chairman of the house armed services committee, said in a statement opposing that move last night by abusing this authority, president trump would be saying that he does not actually believe all the money he requests for our country's defense is needed for legitimate national security purposes. that would raise major questions about his credibility when he requests his next defense budget from congress. trump is likely to face a lot of headwinds if he attempts to get money by declaring a national emergency. but heading into this meeting today, here on the white house complex with vice president mike pence, secretary nielsen at homeland security, and jared kushner negotiating on behalf of the president with the staff of congressional leaders, there's not a lot of expectation that we'll see a breakthrough given

that both sides are very entrenched, and democrats now are not feeling the political pressure to compromise. >> all right. sarah westwood, appreciate the update. thank you. all right, joining me to discuss this, wesley laurie, national reporter at the "washington post," and steve rogers, member of the donald trump campaign advisory board. welcome to the show. >> thanks. >> a pleasure being here. >> steve, let me start with you. two officials said the pentagon believes there is roughly a billion to $2 billion that could be set aside for construction of the wall. do you believe that the president should consider declaring a national emergency and going around congress in this process to build the wall? >> yes, without a doubt. i spent my entire life in the united states navy, military intelligence, and in law enforcement. this is indeed a national emergency. it's a national emergency because of what is crossing that borders. the fbi recently in their report said that there were 3,000 criminals that were apprehended,

and some of them could have had terrorist connections. indeed, he must do what he has to do -- >> some of them could have or some of them did? >> well, some of them did, and some of them could have. keep in mind that there are still investigations going on. the point is there are criminal elements crossing that border. he has been very consistent from day one that he is going to protect the people of this country whereas the democrats have not gone down that road. he's been consistent and will keep his word in protecting the american people. >> wesley, we heard something similar from homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen yesterday talking about 3,000 people flagged by homeland security or by i.c.e. coming into the country. set us up with the facts on what's happening at the border and who is being apprehended there. >> it's difficult in part because there have been times where the administration has made claims about who's crossing over on the border or who, for

example, is included in the caravans that were coming. only for later upon scrutiny those claims to kind of fall apart. i mean, what is unquestionably true is that there are certainly border crossings and people who approach who have criminal records. in many or some of the cases, the very least, the criminal records of the person is they have been previously deported from the united states of america. that their criminal record amounts to illegally crossing the border. it's certainly true that there are folks who approach our southern border in the attempt to traffic drugs or people. there are some legitimate national security concerns. there's a real question, though, about whether or not the amount of border crossing happening currently, at relatively low levels compared even to very recent history, moobamounts to something that the president could use national emergency tour to implement his preferred policies for. the question of whether or not the president could declare a national emergency is one of

presidential power. it would speak to potential expansion of presidential power in typically a way republicans would be opposed to. >> steve, let me ask you this. there are two bills passed by the house democrats on the first day of this new session. there was one specifically that was a continuing resolution for homeland security. the department through which the wall would be built and funding would be handled. another that would fund the rest of the departments impacted through september 30th. h.r. 21. what's the virtue of not passing that bill that deals with the epa, transportation, the interior? let's put up the departments impacted. agricultural, all the other departments. why not open these and fully fund all of these departments? and if you still want to fight over funding for the wall and although most people want everyone to get back to work, fight over the homeland security bill, but get these people back to work. why not --

>> look, okay, why not the democrats, these are the same democrats who were crying for border security, crying for the wall, calling for the fences before donald trump was elected. what changed changed -- >> those departments have nothing to do with funding a border wall. you're not going to need agriculture to fund the border wall. why not fully fund the epa agriculture, state? >> neither does building a bridge in a desert. they attach pork-barrel projects to hinder the ability for the president to get what he needs. people, yes, it's -- unfortunately, these departments will suffer. people are suffering not because of the president of the united states, but because of politics as usual in washington, d.c. >> politics, again, puts the departments back up. >> okay. >> these departments have nothing to do with funding the border wall short of homeland security, that seal is there.

you see parts of state, parts of transportation, the epa, agriculture, interior, hud, health and human services. why not fund those departments and continue to fight on the wall? >> because what the congress is doing is holding these departments hostage. they're putting those bills attached to that border wall bill -- >> yes, the republican senate is doing that. the house passed a bill to fund them through september 30th. >> the fact of the matter is this is a national security issue that congress has a responsibility to help the president protect the american people. politics as usual, my friend, they've been doing this for years. there's a new sheriff in town. he's not going to tolerate this. give them the money. they agreed to fund the wall before he got elected to office. that's an absolute fact g. back to all your videos and you'll see they did. the gives he's the president, and they're using this simply to hinder his ability to do what he said he must do to protect the american people. >> wesley, two cracks in the wall for the republican senate.

you've got senator cory gardner, senator susan collins saying, listen, we need to reopen the government and continue the fight over the wall. at what point does mitch mcconnell have to say if the president is thinking months, years, the 2020 election, i've got to protect my majority, and we've got to get this thing moving again? >> it's a logistical matter. the government, the federal work force, cannot be out of work without paychecks until the 2020 election. the implications for the economy, much less of the american people, i mean, that's something that would be catastrophic. when you think about it, my colleagues at the "washington post" reported last night that the trump administration had not considered that the money for federal food stamps runs out next month. that without a treasury department being fully funded, tax refunds cannot be processed. that's millions of americans who will not be receiving thousands of dollars that many budget around. you have people who are already entering their second or third

week. they have missed a full paycheck. cnn reported yesterday tsa agents who were not showing up because they're being asked to work without any pay and this is going to potentially cause massive slowdowns at major airports. that as this stretches on, the real-world impact for additional americans increases exponentially each and every day and each and every week. that is going to continue to build political pressure. if you are not only potentially vulnerable republican, someone like cory gardner or susan collins, but safer republicans, if you're rob portman in ohio, how long, you know, how many food stamp recipients in ohio need to call your office before you go to mitch mcconnell and say, hey, we need to do something about this? >> steve, can we clarify, get truth on one of the president's lies from the rose garden? i'm going to play what he said yesterday and what he said during the campaign. let's watch. >> as far as concrete, i said i was going to build a wall. i never said i'm going to build a concrete -- i said i'm going

to build a wall. i'll tell you what it's going to be made of. hardened concrete. you know the concrete plank that goes 60, 70, 80, 90 feet, concrete plank, garage floors, it's precast. you put a foundation, you put a rut, put up, you make it beautiful. you put a little design in the concrete. you can do that easily. someday you we come it's going to be called, right? the trump wall. we have to make it beautiful. >> what he said yesterday was a lie, it was not, steve? >> i would not characterize what he said as a lie. to begin with, there are certain areas of that border which the border patrol officers said should be made in concrete. he didn't lie. there is -- >> he said yesterday, i didn't say it would be a concrete wall. we just played -- i'm not reading from a document that they e-mailed. we played the president, then candidate, saying out of his own mouth it's going to be a concrete wall. how was that not a lie?

>> let me ask you something -- instead of focusing on something like that, why don't we focus -- >> truth? instead of focusing on truth? >> i'll give you truth. the truth of the matter is there is a national security crisis on that border. that is what the american people care about. there is a national security crisis. that's what we should be focusing on. he did not lie, okay. he made it very clear that areas of that border should be made in concrete as at the recommendation of the officers who put their lives on the line there. >> it was a lie. and mexico will pay for it. steve rogers, wesley lowery, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. following breaking news out of southern california this morning. at least three people are dead and several others wounded after a shooting at a bowling alley in torrance. officers say there were multiple people with gunshot wounds inside the building. listen to what witnesses say happened. >> a lot of people ran into -- back into the bar area, behind the seats and on the floor, under the benches. people were crying.

it was not comfortable. people were looking for their parents. this is a family league. you've got mothers, fathers, sons, daughters. everybody's friends in that league. >> authorities have not yet identified a person of interest. of course, we will bring you more information as soon as it comes in. >> yeah. it looks as though robert mueller isn't done with the russia investigation. the special counsel's grand jury just gave him an extension. we'll tell you what happened. ellen degeneres is pushing comedian kevin hart to host the oscars despite the backlash over his past remarks. so will he host after all? we'll have more. i don't have a homophobic bone in my body. i know i've addressed it. i know that i've apologized. hey, thomas. if you were choosing a network, would you want the one the experts at rootmetrics say is number one in the nation? sure, they probably know what they're talking about. or the one that j.d. power says is highest in network quality by people who use it every day? this is a tough one. well, not really, because verizon won both.

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months. its term was set to expire this weekend. it's not clear how long the extension will go. it could be for up to six months. so far the grand jury has voted to indict roughly three dozen individuals and entities on charges ranging from hacking to lying to the fbi. page pate, federal and constitutional attorney, with us now. what do you glean from the fact that they have another six months? does it give an indication as to the status of the investigation? >> clearly the investigation is not over. this is not an automatic extension. the judge has to find there's good cause for it. that the extension is in the public interest. remember, these are regular citizens. they've been called in to serve on this grand jury, takes time away from their job, their day-to-day life. thrive been doing it for 18 months -- they've been doing it for 18 months. the judge says you can keep them for up to six months. so to me, it suggests that the investigation is very much ongoing. there are additional witnesses the grand jury needs to hear from. additional evidence they need to

see. potentially additional indictments. >> i was going to say, any documents you anticipate? what does it tell you when you say they have more on, what does it tell you that would be? >> it could be roger stone. it could be any of the individuals that have been part of the earlier investigation. there is absolutely no reason to keep a grand jury in session unless you're going to consider further indictments. this investigation has been going on for over a year now. the grand jury has scene heard from many witnesses. they've looked at a lot of documents, they returned a lot of indictments. there is no reason for the special counsel to say i need more time unless he's planning for more indictments. >> i want to play some sound from the president yesterday as he is debating whether to employ the national emergency idea to try to get funding for the wall. listen. >> we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely.

no, we can do it. i haven't done it. i may do it. i may do it. but we can call a national emergency and build it very quickly. >> fact check that for us. how much truth is there to that? >> it's potentially true. the president has the authority to declare a national emergency. if he does that, then he has the ability to use existing funding to build something, military construction, that's necessary to deal with the emergency. but the law says that that emergency has to be the type of emergency that needs armed forces. >> okay. that's my question to you -- what kind of evidence does he -- does he need to provide evidence that there is a national emergency? >> that's where this is going to get interesting. provide evidence to whom? he doesn't have to go back to congress and get approval to do it under the law. he can just start doing it. so what's going to happen is i assume someone's going to challenge this in court, we're going to have a district judge somewhere probably along the border, determining whether or not the president has the authority under this particular law to start building this wall

that congress will not approve because he says there's a national emergency. i think a court's going to require that trump show that this national emergency actually has to do with something like war. we need armed forces. we're under a threat. an immediate threat that requires the construction of the wall. >> all right. page pate, we've run out of time. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> same here, appreciate it. victor? in the ongoing government shutdown, thousands of air traffic controllers are working without pay. coming up, why their union says the shutdown could threaten traveler safety. i like chillaxin'. the united explorer card makes things easy. traveling lighter. taking a shortcut. woooo! taking a breather. rewarded! learn more at the explorer card dot com.

vice president mike pence will meet with negotiators from capitol hill at 11:00 this morning to try to get closer to a deal to reopen the government. >> yeah, the government shutdown in its 15th day as you're waking up here. there appear to be few signs republicans and democrats are any closer to reaching an agreement. during a meeting yesterday, the president made it clear he would not compromise on the $5 billion-plus he's demanding for a border wall with mexico. meantime, the president had this to say to those who are feeling the frontline effects of the shutdown, and these people without paychecks. you're saying months and possibly a year for the shutdown. do you have in mind a safety net for those who need their checks? >> the safety net is going to be having a strong border because we're going to be safe. many of the people you're discussing, i believe that they agree with what we're doing. >> among the hundreds of thousands of government employees working without pay are the thousands of air traffic controllers. join me is dan mccabe, national

representative of the air traffic controllers situation. as we're having a discussion about politics, the union endorsed hillary clinton in the 2016 election, important to disclose. the president said -- i don't know if you heard because we were talking when it happened -- the president said when asked about the safety net for tnew york working -- the federal workers working without pay, he said we're going to have a wall so the great majority will be safe. and he said a great majority agree with what he's doing. do you? >> the organization that i represent, we're not really in the game of placing blame as to what's going. on we're so busy in trying to get to a solution to get the government open that we're not listening to the rhetoric. my opinion is whatever it takes to get the government open is what we need to do. >> how is this affecting your members? >> in multiple ways. number one is the human impact. we've got people working who

don't know that they're going to get paid. we were last paid december 31st, the next scheduled paycheck would be january 15th. we've been told that if there's no resolution by january 11th, that paycheck will not come. you're already in a highly stressful -- in a very stressful job, and now when you go home, you're thinking about how am i going pay my mortgage, how am i going to pay for childcare. it changes the dynamic at the dinner table for the families of the controllers. >> what did you think when you heard, the president confirmed there, that this could go on for months -- >> i shuddered. i shuddered, shuddered at the thought of that. that's not a sustainable answer. we're in the middle of a 30-year low in staffing, in air traffic control. we went through a shutdown similar to this in 2013 with the sequestration. any time that there's a shutdown like this, the faa academy in oklahoma city which is the

single point for new hires to go through it closes. and closing something like that is like stopping a freight train at 80 miles per hour and then starting it up again. we're still feeling the implications of closing it in 2013. >> 5.5 years later? >> 5.5 years later. when you miss a hiring goal, it filters down over and over and over. you can't just hire someone to be an air traffic controller and turn them loose in a week and say "go do it." it takes years of very skilled training to get them ready to go. and this is something that we won't feel today. we'll fee the paychecks today -- we'll feel the paychecks today. we won't feel the staffing implications for years. >> it will go on for years. >> it could go on for years. >> in atlanta, hartsfield jackson national airport, the busiest airport in the world. the super bowl in a little more than a month, less than a month actually. and you say that that's going to be a major problem if this -- this continues -- >> huge problem.

>> how so? >> something the size of the super bowl. an event like that, you plan on an influx of extra aircraft that you're not used to seeing. so as you can imagine, having atlanta hartsfield and a lot of other busy metropolitan airports around, it's very busy airspace. some of the busiest airspace in the world. we're looking at adding what we believe to be about 1,500 extra flights per day into the system around atlanta. and that's for a few days prior to the super bowl up to a day to two days after the super bowl. so for the better part of a year, we've been planning how do we get the airplanes in, how do we get the airplanes out. how do we do it at the margin of safety that's acceptable to us, 100%. how do we do it without reducing the efficienciy that everyone in the atlanta neighbor has come to expect from us? and those meetings have stopped. we can't meet with outside entiti entities. we can't meet with the nfl or the airport authorities of different airports. we can no longer meet facility to stifacility.

we can't train the work force in the building i represent because there's no one to send the computer-based training to explain what processes have been put in place. we can't even test the processes they want to put in place because the meetings have been scrapped. >> if this goes through february 3rd, that -- that frame, that week could be chaotic. >> it could be absolutely chaotic. >> okay. dan mccabe, thank you very much helping us understand the -- very much for helping us understand the gravity beyond washington. often we talk in a d.c. metro framework, beyond washington, what this means to the people and the agencies impacted. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. one newly elected michigan congresswoman says she's just being herself. quote, the little sass and attitude. why she's not apologizing for her controversial profanity. that's next. welcome to britbox.

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such a great job that there's no way he could be impeached. the democrats, some of them at least, seem to disagree with that. >> now that they have control of the house, talk of impeachment is getting louder and louder. here's cnn's jeff zeleny. >> reporter: some democrats have been calling for president trump's impeachment for months. >> i said he should be impeached, and they said, don't use that word. >> reporter: now they are part of the house majority making that word carry far more weight and political peril. at a celebration after being sworn in as a new congresswoman from michigan, rashida tlaib renewed her cry for impeachment with the "f" word. >> when your son looks at you and says, "mama, look, you won. bullies don't win." i said, "baby, we don't. we're going to go in and impeach the [ bleep ]. ". >> reporter: fallout felt from around washington from the white house to the capitol. highlighting a divide over the wisdom of impeachment. >> i'm convinced that

impeachment is not dead. >> reporter: house judiciary chairman jerry nadler is trying to put the brakes on the impeachment talk. >> i don't like the language. i disagree with what she said. it is too early to talk about that intelligently. >> reporter: it's one of the first and perhaps most consequential tests for democrats in the new era of divided government. speaker nancy pelosi has repeatedly called impeachment premature. yet she's not ruling it out. >> we have to wait and see what happens with the mueller report. we shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason. we can shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason. >> reporter: last month a cnn poll showed 43% of americans saying trump should be impeached and removed from office, half saying he shouldn't be. among democrats, a whopping 80% favor impeachment, a conundrum for the wide field of potential 2020 presidential candidates. we caught up with california congressman eric slawell, among

those eyeing a potential bid and prefers trump leave office by defeat. >> i think it's better for democracy that he loses at the ballot box. if he's made himself a martyr, i think we've lost. >> reporter: made himself a martyr. >> yeah. i don't want to see him make himself a martyr saying, you know, they have tried to impeach me and he comes out more popular. >> reporter: the president believes impeachment isn't warranted and hopes it could backfire on democrats. >> you know what, you don't impeach people when they're doing a good job. and you don't impeach people when there was no collusion. >> reporter: of course the president doesn't have final say in whether there was collusion or whether he will be impeached. that is in the hands of congress. it is also one of the central questions hanging over the 2020 democratic presidential race. will this wide field of candidates listen to their base or urge their base to follow their political instincts? jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. representative rashida tlaib, who you saw there in jeff's story, is standing by those comments after facing some harsh criticism.

in an exclusive interview with cnn affiliate wdiv, the michigan congresswoman defended that language. >> i think no one expects me to be anything but myself. the girl from southwest detroit, the little sass in attitude. i think, you know, president trump has met his match. i can tell you i've talked to a number of my colleagues including congresswoman maxine waters and al green and others who were very, you know, smiling and telling me, we love your spirit. we welcome it. >> we want to not forget all of the times president trump has used some colorful language. the "washington post" reports the president apologized to nancy pelosi during a closed door meeting for cursing so much. the former chief of staff to nancy pelosi, he's with us now. good morning to you, sir. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me. >> absolutely.

so we know that just before we get into some other news, we know that representative pelosi, speaker pelosi, seems to be supporting representative tlaib. do you think that she should? >> i think what the speaker has said is she's not going to, you know, put a kind of a language barrier for her colleagues. i don't believe that's the language that the congresswoman should have used. here's the issue -- you don't want to be the story. and that's the most important thing for these -- especially for the newly elected members to remember. that currently we are in a shutdown fight with president trump. the government's shut down for now the third week. we are dealing with a president who is committed to building a wall while, you know, one-third of the federal government and the federal workers are not getting paid. and you don't want to lose track of that. but then when you make yourself to be the story and the focus is on you, look, i'm here talking

about that instead of talking about the shutdown and how we could get out of the shutdown. >> okay. speaking of the shutdown, there's a meeting today, 11:00, vice president mike pence will be there. staff from the house and senate will be there. leadership will not. speaker pelosi will not be attending that. what is her strategy at this point? do you have any insights? >> sure, look, i mean, i think if you look at these types of -- of crises, they have -- there are ebbs and flows. there's language that is cont d contentio contentious, there are press conferences and so on. and then quietly at the end the staff begins to meet and begins to find a way out. it seems to me at this moment we are just in a contentious time. that this meeting is happening just to have a meeting. democrats are not going to give the president any money for the wall. >> is that why, do you think that's why speaker pelosi is not attending today? >> no, i don't think so. i think that was maybe a

decision that was made at the time of the meeting. i'm not sure why. it's only a staff -- staff meeting. but look, you know, democrats only get stronger during this fight. and republicans seem to be getting a bit weaker. and the president is getting more and more isolated in this environment. having the staff sit down together, maybe there would be a breakthrough. look, the big decisions are going to be made by the principles. i think the president is going to camp david with his senior staff this weekend except for pence and kushner to negotiate -- who are going to be sitting down with the staffs to talk about this. look, i don't see a breakthrough. >> i wanted to ask you, we know that speaker policy is adroit at -- pelosi is adroit at many things, fund-raising, dealing with her caucus. "time" magazine wrote, "during the current shutdown fight she told house dems behind closed

doors that his fight for a border wall," referring to president trump, "was, quote, like a manhood thing for him. in an interview she compared scaled back plans for the wall to a beaded curtain." she perfectly capable of verbally punching back it seems. you know her very well as her former chief of staff. president trump, we want to remember, tweeted at one point that he wanted her to be speaker. he said, i can get nancy pelosi as many votes as she wants in order for her to be speaker of the house. see that deserves this victory. she's earned it, but there are those in her party who are trying to take it away. she will win. do you believe that she is underestimated in her ability maybe to be as snarky as he is? and beyond that, what does that have to do with trying to pass policy? >> look, she is very, very calculating when it comes to every single word that she says. like i state, she gets stronger during these types of negotiations. i believe the president really has not sat down for a true

negotiation with anyone like nancy pelosi. she will wear you down. and those words perhaps that were said in caucus and then later, you know, became public, are there for a reason. >> this is a -- sorry to cut you off. we only have a couple seconds left. >> sure. >> there is -- this is quite a significant fight right out of the gate. >> that's right. >> for her. and for the president. are you saying that you think she can wear the president down? >> she can, absolutely. she's done it before with other presidents. she's -- she's a capable negotiator going back to president bush and with president obama, with the republicans and with mitch mcconnell and others. she has had this experience. this president has only been doing this for two years. and he doesn't get into details. the difference between nancy pelosi and donald trump, she knows the details. he doesn't. >> all right. we appreciate you being here so much, sir. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much.

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stocks have bounced back, ending the first week of 2019 in the positive. what a volatile month it was last month. >> yeah. certainly was. the rally is fuelled in part by a strong jobs report. here's cnn's alison kosik. >> reporter: good morning. 2019 kicked off much the same way 2018 ended, with more volatility in the stock market and several triple-digit moves by the dow in the first week of the new year. investors are getting mixed messages. a surge of hiring in december suggested the economy remained strong. a warning from apple raised fears about a global economic slowdown. and a u.s. manufacturing index showed activity grew in december, but suffered a sharp decline. apple cut revenue forecasts citing slowing iphone sales in china. shares tumbled on thursday, its

worst day in almost six years. and now investors are asking which companies are next. from iphones to autos, global brands rely on china for growth. a slowdown in china, the world's second biggest economy, puts their earnings at risk. and the slowdown in global growth could be taking its toll on the u.s. economy as the manufacturing report shows demand for american-made products fell last month. it could put pressure on the federal reserve to pause rate hikes. the strong december jobs report makes that case harder. the u.s. economy added a much better than expected 312,000 jobs in december. the unemployment rate rose to 3.9%, but that's because more than 400,000 people came into the labor force. and wages moved higher at the fastest pace since 2009 and beat economists' expectations. at a panel discussion on friday at the american economic association, fed chief jay powell said the economy has good momentum, but he also said the central bank will be patient about raising interest rates,

indicating more flexibility compared to comments made last month when the fed hiked rates for the fourth time in 2018. his comments lifted the dow more than 700 points. during the discussion, we got the first reaction from powell about president trump's dissatisfaction with powell's decisions. trump's constant complaints about powell have worried investors that the president would try to fire the fed chief. powerful said he -- powell said he wouldn't resign if the president asked him to. back to you. >> thank you. coming up, to host or not to host? comedian kevin hart may, may host the oscars despite backlash over his past controversial tweets. ellen degeneres is now behind the push for him to do so. hey, batter, batter, batter, batter.

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well, comedian kevin hart says he's evaluating things after ellen degeneres said she wanted him to host the oscars. >> that she believes in second chances. remember hart stepped down amid controversy over homophobic remarks he made years ago. the academy asked him to apologize, which he did, but only after stepping down. >> i know i don't have a homophobic bone in my body. i know that i've addressed it, i've aapologized. >> and good to see you. thank you so much. what kind of value -- i mean we know ellen degeneres is a huge star but what kind of value does

she bring specifically to this conversation? >> well, she's one of the biggest stars in the world and one of the biggest voices in the lgbtq community. so to have her practically beg kevin hart to not only host but considers him to be one of her dear friends is important both to the kevin hart brand and to the oscars. >> do we know what goes into this decision making process for hart? he talked about this being an effort to destroy him, not just the oscars but him. the oscars is a little more than a month away. >> interestingly enough right before his sit down, he told variety that ship had sailed and he was done and the only time he would appear back on that stage was when he was winning an oscar but after having ellen spend the

better part of half an hour basically beg him to take the job, he said he would possibly consider it. ellen clearly wants him to do it, the ellen audience seems to be all for him returning. so now it's up to kevin hart whether he does indeed want to step on that stage. >> and glad weighed in on this. kevin hart should not step down. he should step up and send an unequivocal message of acceptance to lgbtk youth that matches the force and impact of his initial anti-lgbtq remarks. >> he's said the reason he stepped down is he didn't want to distract from the winners, from the oscar winners or putensh ittp potential people in the audience.

he wanted it to be about the performers and their talent. i thought that was an interesting choice to say it was about me. and essentially an opportunity to use that platform to again apologize to the lgbtq community and let people know he is indeed an ally. >> if not kevin hart, who steps in to host? >> i think -- excuse me. i think whoopee goldbering would be a great host. she's an egot. an emmy, a grammy, a tony. she's hosted the grammies and the it tonies. and she's expressed interest in doing it. can you imagine all the free publicity the oscars would have if she talked about hosting the it oscars every day "the view" and she's a feisty grandmother. and right now feisty grand mom's

are winning. i think she should take it. >> all right. >> what about ellen degeneres? >> i have to say when i was watching heir beg kevin thoort take the job, i had to say ellen, you talk the job. i mean she's hosted twice. she was fantastic. who can forget that epic selfie she took? i mean i think she'd be fantastic. if not kevin hart, my first choice is whoopee goldberg, my second choice, ellen degeneres. what are you guys doing? >> no, they don't want us. >> i would tune in. >> we would get ourselves in trouble at some point, i'm sure. >> we've always said we should have a late night show because of the conversations we have during the break. >> share them with the world in february.

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