they -- they are -- nature poses a riddle and only by studying twins can we unsolve that -- can we solve that riddle. >> thanks for helping us appreciate it, lawrence wright. thanks so much for joining us. the original film "three identical strangers" airs this sunday night right here on cnn. erin burnett, "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, breaking news, the president tonight asking for a large down payment on his wall in exchange for ending the shutdown, isn't that what he's been asking for the whole time? this as cnn learns exclusively the white house is preparing a draft national emergency order. also out of touch, the commerce secretary sending off a firestorm with his comments about federal workers and you'll hear president trump's defense of them. plus deutsch bank now cooperating with house investigators on its ties with trump. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett.

the breaking news, stay tuned, that is what the house speaker is saying at this moment after two big failures in the senate today and the president throwing out his latest catch phrase. >> one of the ideas suggested is they open it, they pay sort of a prorated down payment for the wall, which i think people agree you need, you need the wall. >> prorated down payment for the wall? what is that? i mean, there's no definition to that. the $5.7 billion the president has said is do or die for him is already a small down payment for a wall that trump's own government says will cost $25 billion or more. so when he says a large down payment, what's he talking about? part of the 5.7, with an agreement to get there or what? and nancy pelosi responding to this idea of a down payment by saying, quote, that's not reasonable. in other words, nonstarter. the president in terms of his threats could be back to square

one threatening alternatives like declaring a national emergency. >> we have a lot of alternatives. we have a lot of alternatives. there are a lot of people that want this to happen. i have other alternatives if i have to and i'll use those alternatives if i have to. we want to go through the system, but we have a lot of alternatives. >> couldn't be more clear? if you don't go through the system we're talking then about executive orders, national emergency and we have exclusive reporting from cnn at this hour, the white house is preparing a draft proclamation for president trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border. sources telling us the administration is found more than the $5.7 billion trump asked for, so he asks for 5.7. he wasn't getting that. the administration apparently we are reporting has found $7 billion that could be used in the event of such a declaration. our dana bash is reporting that when the president keeps saying i've got other alternatives, he is actively still considering executive action to build the wall because simply the truth is this, he has not budged on this

promise. >> we have to have a wall in order to have border security. you cannot have border security without a wall. >> the big question tonight, though, remains at what price? and i'm not talking about dollars, okay? tonight the former homeland security officials including trump's own former chief-of-staff john kelly a warning about a security crisis that is having a detrimental effect on america's ability to respond to acts of terror. we're 34 days on a shutdown that could be a matter of life and death and when it comes to the ultimate price of the shutdown, the white house today did not have answers. >> if a plane crashes and people are killed because of this shutdown, is the wall worth that? >> well, i will say that at this point what the president and -- what the president wants to do is have the democrats come to the table. the democrats -- >> is a plane crash -- the president is the one who's making a demand --

>> no, no. the demand is -- the democrats demand is not going to work. >> if the shutdown leads to a terror attack that gets americans killed, is the wall worth that, yes or no? >> again, i'm going to say that the democrats need to come to the table. >> abby phillip is "outfront" live at the white house. does the president have a real idea, this whole idea of a large down payment, other alternatives, of what he really wants right now? >> reporter: it's not clear that the white house is really nailed down what his bottom line is or if they do know what it is, they're not really telling anyone including republicans on capitol hill who are eager to know how this all ends. what we're seeing from the white house today is them saying really for the first time that they might be willing to open up the government for a short period of time, the price, though, is going to be some amount of money that they have not specified, that we believe is a portion of the $5.7 billion that the president has asked for

for the border wall. now, when sarah huckabee sanders released a statement today, she actually released two statements. the first one said, a down payment on the wall, the second one said, a large down payment on the wall. so you see here the white house trying to kind of inch up in terms of the how large this down payment ought to be but they have not been specific about what that means and the president added this idea of it being prorated which also doesn't really have any sort of meaning here in washington in terms of appropriations. i think that it's going to be a matter of what they can work out in that room. one key development has been that the white house is allowing mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader and chuck schumer to work out some kind of negotiation and the president said today at the white house that if they work something out and it has some money for the wall, he'd be willing to support it. can they keep him -- can they take him at his word on that is anyone's guess given how these negotiations have gone in the past? >> obviously. it empowered mike pence to do a

deal, the deal was done, they voted and it was no. thank you very much, abby. passions are running high on the senate floor over the shutdown and today democratic senator michael bennett of colorado said this. >> this idea that he was going to build a medieval wall across the southern border of texas, take it from the farmers and ranchers that were there and have the mexicans pay for it is a joke. that's why we're here. >> senator bennet is out front. he's a member of the finance committee. i'm trying to understand what we're actually talking about here because two measures failed in the senate, right? the white house says there's no deal unless there's a large down payment, that was as you heard abbey said a down payment, then it's a prorated down payment. will you vote for that some sort of a down payment? >> we'll have to see what it is, but your point about what are we

talking about here i think is exactly the right point. we have been consumed with this broken promise that the campaign promise the president made for 34 days. i'm not saying we politicians, we the great country of america have seemed to have concluded that this is the single most important issue that we could be working on. not figuring out how to get millions of people health care, not figuring out how to educate children in my old-school district, not trying to figure out how to build infrastructure, we can't even keep the lights on around this place much less focus on the things that we actually should be focused on and that is what distresses me about this. i assume people are going to come to some conclusion here that will maybe temporarily keep things open. that's better than having them closed. but at a certain point, we need to govern the country again and it's been a long time since

we've been able to do that. >> to your point, it has completely taken over and that's -- look at the signature campaign promise as you say. i guess -- i'm trying to understand, though, when he comes out there today, 34 days in and he starts talking about prorated down payments. do you even have any idea what he is talking about or is this just like, hey, let's just see what sticks? >> i don't think anybody knows. it's my view. i was on the gang of eight that wrote the immigration bill in the senate in 2013. we pass it had here with 68 votes. it had a massive amount of border security in it, $46 billion worth. i was part of the gang of six that tried to put a deal together with the white house on the dreamers and authorized money for the wall, but which provoked the president to then refer to african-american countries the way he referred to african countries. i actually think -- i hope we solve this. we need to solve this, but i do think with respect to the wall, it's as likely that the president wants the issue of the wall to campaign on than he does

the accountability of actually having to build anything down there. he hasn't built anything. >> and then show that it stops things from happening that he says it will, about how drugs come in, et cetera. >> right. so if he can -- if he can -- by the way, he should be accountable on the truth of the matter with respect to what's coming across our border in our border, but that's a whole other thing. on this i think it's likely that he'll end up declaring an emergency and it's likely that he'll get sued and it's likely that he'll be able to run for re-election saying we still need the wall, they wouldn't let me build the wall. that's what -- if i had to guess if there is any strategy at the white house, i would guess that that's the strategy. >> i'm interested, though, what you just said senator that it's likely he declares an emergency. he said today, right, i have other alternatives, i'll use those alternatives if i have to. i don't know if you just heard the reporting there that we have that they're preparing this draft for a national emergency,

which would have $7 billion for the wall, more than what he asked for, i don't know if you interpret that as a threat, i don't know if you don't give me 5.7, i'll take 7 billion from other things. you think that's his likely path is the emergency route? >> i think it could be a threat and it's a likely path. i also think that it's ridiculous that we're having this conversation because they haven't spent the money that's been appropriated for the wall. there was 1.6 billion that hasn't yet been spent building any of the wall and the other thing erin that is just so striking about this debate is that we have a president threatening to declare an emergency, to build a wall at the border and to take the land of american citizens by eminent domain to build that wall, i can tell you if a president of the united states suggested he was going to do that to the state of colorado, there is not a single elected politician in the state who would say, that sounds like

a good idea. >> and you brought that up today. i played a clip of your passionate speech on the floor but you brought up eminent domain because the whole thing was prompted before ted cruz who came before you. your state was in the midst of floods, you stood up and says that cruz's shutdown led to people being killed, houses being destroyed and small businesses ruined forever. that shutdown was 16 days. we're at 34. john kelly and others have warned that we could have a major security crisis in this country because of where we are right now, that people could die. mercedes schlapp would not answer that. how real are the risks right now and i'm talking about the price that matters, people? >> first of all, i want to be clear that i said the flood had killed people in colorado, i didn't say that cruz's shutdown had killed people, but my point was that it was outrageous when we were flat on our back in a flood, everybody's trying to do everything they can to rescue each other in their communities that he would be on the floor of

the senate shutting it down and reading green eggs and ham or whatever it was. i mean that's not the way this all is supposed to work and you are absolutely correct that it creates huge vulnerabilities for us when the government is shutdown and federal employees can't be at their jobs, can't be at their stations, can't be at their desks to say nothing of what happens to them when they can't get paid, you know. to anybody who's been in the airport in the last week knows what kind of stress people are under as a result of the shutdown. >> all right, senator, i appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. thanks for letting me come on. next, the trump administration showing little sympathy for the 800,000 american out of work. >> there are reports that there are some federal workers who are going to homeless shelters to get food. >> well, i know they are and i don't really quite understand

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ross after ross said this -- >> mr. secretary, there are reports that there are some federal workers who are going to homeless shelters to get food. >> well, i know they are and i don't really quite understand why because as i mentioned before the obligations that they would undertake say of borrowing from a bank or credit union are in effect federally guaranteed, so the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldn't be able to get a loan against it. >> people are supposed to go to the bank and do that and figure all that out whatever that is. when asked about ross here's how president trump responded. >> i haven't heard the statement but i do understand perhaps he should've said it differently. local people know who they are

when they go for groceries and everything else and i think what wilbur was probably trying to say is that they will work along. i know banks are working along. if you have mortgages, the folks collecting the interest and all of those things, they work along and that's what happens in times like this. they know the people, they've been dealing with them for years, they work along. the grocery store. that's probably what wilbur ross meant. >> steve cortez is with me now and jen sake. jen, i want to start with wilbur ross. after he said what he said. you're supposed to get some kind of guarantee against your pay and everything was fine. ross then went back and did another interview and says people are experiencing hardship. he was just trying to make sure they were aware of other things

that they could do. does this make it all okay? >> erin, this is a stunning lack of connection of what 800,000 federal workers are going through right now. it's not just them. there are american families, millions of them living paycheck to paycheck who don't know how they'll pay for their next set of groceries. this is not just wilbur ross. this is a pattern. we saw comments by lara trump and comments by larry kudlow, donald trump himself thought you needed an i.d. at a grocery store several months back and the issue here over the long-term for them is that, one, people who elected donald trump and thought that he was going to be fighting for workers and families and are looking at him and thinking he has no idea what they're going through. >> what wilbur ross said today was pretty stunning. i'm not even sure exactly what he was referring to. the president, by the way, acting like everybody's dealing with a small local bank that can give them a loan is equally

ridiculous. they act like you're going into a bank and do all this. it's not just ross. others in the president's orbit have said this during the shutdown. >> it's not fair to you and we all get that, but this is so much bigger than any one person. it is a little bit of pain but it's going to be for the future of our country. >> huge share of government workers will get to take vacation day between christmas and new year's and we have a shutdown and so they can't go to work and so then they have the vacation, but they don't have to use their vacation days and then they come back and they get their back pay and they're in some sense better off. >> is this pattern a problem, steve? >> look, erin, i normally strenuously advocate for this administration on your show, but i'll also admit when something is bone headed and this clearly is.

i'm somebody in the business of political messaging and a very good rule of thumb is don't sound like montgomery burns from the simpson and that really is who wilbur ross sounded like today. this is a really serious issue. a lot of people are hurting and they're hurting terribly and not a little bit. so we can't try to diminish that. i would say in defense of the administration, defense of the republicans, house republicans voted last week to pay these people, only six democrats came over. they said we will keep the government shut, nonessential departments are still shut but paychecks will go out. the democrats were not willing to play ball with that. we should never diminish the very real human pain and this was terrible messaging. >> yeah. i guess -- i think -- i want to strike home for this, this is what these people think when they're off the cuff. jen, that is the truth, right? wilbur ross didn't come out to be insensitive, he just is

insensitive. he doesn't get it. >> i'm old enough to remember and i certainly wouldn't put him in the same category but when john mccain couldn't remember how many houses he owned and he was a war hero who was beloved by many, but that sent a message, if you talk to any of his campaign advisers they'll say that was the beginning of the end for him and his campaign because she was showing he was disconnected. he didn't know what people were dealing with, what it was like to live paycheck to paycheck and not be able to buy diapers and that's what we're talking about right now. we're also talking about that with many families living like that when the government isn't shutdown. that's the big problem here because it's just not relating to what many people in the country are dealing with. >> on that point -- >> i want to play something else for you. i know you've thought about this. the president came out and said, okay, nancy pelosi, i am not going to deliver my state of the union. you canceled it, i'm okay with that and i'm not going to fight to do it some where else or in some other way. i'll wait. i want to be respectful to the

country and to the venue. all right. very clear. so this is what happens from the right wing of your party. here's rush limbaugh. >> so the news is the president folded, the president caved on the state of the union. he backed down to pelosi who refuses to open up the chamber. >> is that helpful? is he doing the right thing? >> i sure think he is. i'm very puzzled by what the president did last night. i don't get it. if nancy pelosi wants to pout and be petty and partisan, he should not acquiesce. he has a constitutional responsibility to give the state of the union. he should give it in the senate or in the heartland. it's not her house -- >> she's the one with the ability and the right to extend the invitation. >> she has a legal right to but we also have an america -- america our republic's a lot bigger than nancy pelosi and she's bucking a 100 year

tradition, a ritual, a pageant of our democracy. if she's going to act that irresponsibly, i don't think the president should then say, okay, i'll take my time and wait for you nancy. i think it was a mistake and rush is exactly right. >> jen, what do you say? she's saying once it reopens -- >> once it reopens -- >> they were both being adult. go ahead, yeah. >> i think this sign of a good negotiator is knowing what your opponent's vulnerability are. donald trump loves to speak publicly, he loves attention from the media, he loves being on a big stage. nancy pelosi knows that and i think she knows that if she threatened him with the state of the union, she could maybe open the government sooner. i hope that's the case. >> we'll see what happened. the president just did one little thing and slammed by the right in his party. next, breaking news, michael cohen's subpoena by the senate intelligence committee. that's a big deal. they've got a very serious investigation going on. what do they want from him?

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giuliani and trump to his family. shimon prokupecz, the senate intelligence committee that's the bipartisan russia investigation, very respected and now he's going to comply with a subpoena, go before that committee. how significant is it? >> it's definitely hugely significant. one thing to keep in mind, this is the committee that michael cohen lied to, he pleaded guilty, he admitted in court that he lied to them and why he lied to them is because he was doing it to protect the president. that doesn't seem what the plan here is any longer. he's going to come in freely and talk about whatever it is that they want him to talk b. the only thing that could potentially stop this is mueller and if mueller says to him, i don't want you talking about certain things or if the committee says, you know, we're not allowed to ask you this, mueller has asked us not to. obviously with this committee has been mostly focused on is the russia interference, a key part of what mueller is looking at, so we'll see and certainly his knowledge, michael cohen's knowledge of the russians, the business dealings and that moscow project which is front and center now and what did the

president know and when he knew it and all the business dealings surrounding that, that is going to be the topic that i would think the members of this committee are going to want to ask him about. >> absolutely and obviously if it's behind closed doors which you understand it will be that will be hugely significant. i want to emphasize for everybody watching, this is the senate intelligence committee. this is a bipartisan subpoena, burr and warner. this isn't one party going rogue. this is bipartisan and i want to go out front now to the former new jersey attorney ann annmi m annmilligram. it's also loud and clear, yes, he lied to them but there's a lot of specifics they want to get that's worthy of a full additional testimony. >> completely. they are absolutely going to want to ask about the things that he lied about and they'll want to ask about other things and conversations he had with the president and i think shimon said it right, is there anything

that mueller's restricted, what, if anything, won't he be able to say? he'll have counsel with him. they'll want to have a lot of answers because they've been doing this russia investigation, so it's not just michael cohen, it's the whole investigation they've been doing. they'll want answers. >> he lied to them, right, about trump tower moscow and they're going to want to know why. he's already said i'm not going to be a villain in this story for the president who's a liar. there's a lot he wants to say and now we do know he's going to say it. >> he's not going to take the fifth amendment or take any other actions but he's going to go back and really, this is the right thing to do. he's now been convicted of lying to this committee and he owes them an honest answer to their questions and it looks like that's what he'll do. these are not held publicly and we may not see the transcript for some time or maybe ever conceivably, but one would assume that the mueller team and maybe the southern district

prosecutors as well will get access to it. >> here's the thing, when cohen was going to the house oversight committee which he was going to do on his own and it was going to be public, okay? they said you can't talk about russia but he was going to go any way and a source close to cohen said, told "the wall street journal," he would tell the story of what it's like to work for a madman. that's what cohen wanted to say. is he still going to say all that? he was going to have a full testimony without talking about russia of things that would be the least hugely embarrassing for the president. >> first of all, i think it would be very interesting and it's possible he does talk about that before the senate intelligence committee. remember, we still don't know about the house intelligence committee and the house oversight committee. i fully expect the house oversight committee will also subpoena him for testimony and so i think -- and that would be public most likely. i fully expect at some point we may see that. it could be months away. it's hard to say how that would play out. i don't think that piece is over yet. >> to that point, okay, he

canceled his appearance before the house because he said the president and rudy giuliani were threatening his family when they kept bringing up his father-in-law and insinuating he had been involved in criminal activity. the chair of the committee says, basically, they're going to subpoena. here he is. >> i promise you that we will hear from mr. cohen. we will get the testimony as sure as night becomes day and day becomes night. >> okay, that's the subpoena if we need to. >> that's what it sounds like and, look, the threats from the president may change cohen's motivation or his desire to do this, but congress can subpoena him. it's not clear other than the fifth amendment what his basis to object to that kind of subpoena would be. the threats are serious. he should tell law enforcement about the threats and explain what else we may not know if anything about those threats that encouraged him to withdraw from his voluntary testimony. >> and just to be clear,

obviously, he's set to go to prison on march 6th. if that subpoena from the house comes later, it doesn't matter if he's in prison. he could still go and testify. there's no deadline on this. >> it's a federal prison and the federal congress. if the congress wants him, they will pull him out of prison. it's a little more complicated logistically, because there's no reason he couldn't testify. >> the president didn't want cohen to testify, okay, and as of this morning, he didn't think he was until the subpoena -- until cohen said okay. trump tweeted, so interesting that bad lawyer michael cohen who sadly will not be testifying before congress is using the lawyer of crooked hillary clinton to represent him. sadly will not be testifying before congress. how big of a deal is it when the president has found out, of course, yes, he is? >> i think he's going to be disappointed. the victory lap tweet was premature. these are obviously -- the president shouldn't be talking like this. nobody should be talking like this. this is a witness potentially against him in some proceeding.

he should not be making threats or taking victory laps. >> and he kept saying look at his father-in-law, look at his father-in-law, repeatedly and then cohen does not testify for a few hours, we think he's not testifying and the president says, who sadly will not be testifying, it's clear that he's saying, i got what i want. >> completely. >> from a legal perspective, is that -- >> i think michael cohen testifying is terrible for the president. it's certainly terrible politically. michael cohen has said in open court that he committed a crime at the direction of the president with the campaign fraud and so it can't be a good thing for the president. >> i want to make it clear when the court filed they said not only did michael cohen said that but they had corroborated that with other materials. thank you both so very much. is trump's long time bank with russian ties, the bank people have been talking about for years about to become a big problem for the president? congresswoman presley is out

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new tonight, deutsch bank admitting its in talks to cooperate with two house investigations focused on the bank's ties to president trump. deutsch bank is important. it has a two decade long relationship with trump including loaning trump businesses over $300 million for a golf course and hotels when other banks would not. trump's son-in-law jared kushner also has an unsecured line of credit for between 5 and $25 million and the bank paid more than $600 million to settle a money laundering scheme with russians. "outfront" now congresswoman presley who sits on the house financial services committee which is one of the ones investigating this bank, that they're cooperating with. congresswoman, what can you tell us tonight about what your committee is trying to find out

from deutsch bank. >> first, i just want to say how appreciative i am to have been appointed to this committee under the leadership of chairwoman maxine waters. this house is the only checks and balance right now we find ourselves the country at a crossroads at a time where corruption is at a height and we're very polarized. the american people deserve truth and this committee will pursue that. we've got a full agenda. there's a lot of emphasis on the current occupant of this white house and this entire administration is daily undermining and threatening and rolling back civil right and protections and so i'm happy to have been appointed to this committee so i can address those issues of consequence to the american people and especially the massachusetts seven from consumer protection to student loan debt to the impact of red lining and the like. >> and look, i understand that. on this issue of deutsche bank, what can you tell us specifically that you're looking at? this is a bank a lot of people

have been pointing to for a long time and now we're hearing they're cooperating. what are they providing? what are you asking for? >> i believe that news broke as i was coming here. i look forward to confirming with the committee, the point is that both committees that i have the honor of serving on both respectively with chairwoman maxine waters and elijah cummins for oversight, in particular. the republicans gave this administration a free pass and those days are over, so we will be pursuing answers for the american people. they deserve to know the truth and i'll be doing that in both capacities both with financial services and with the oversight committee. >> on that capacity, i want to ask you about the government shutdown tonight. nancy pelosi saying stay tuned. you today tweeted out this video, you went to the senate to demand that they vote to end it, obviously the senate bills both failed today.

it all comes down to the wall. today the president said he has other ways, other ways to get that wall and he kept using the word alternatives. i wanted to play it for you. >> i have other alternatives if i have to. and i'll use those alternatives if i have to. we want to go through the system. we have to have a wall in this country. we have a lot of alternatives but we need border security. >> so he kept saying alternatives, alternatives, alternatives repeatedly. do you know what those are? >> he doesn't know what they are. this is unconscionable that he has continued to frame this shutdown in the context of border security while every day threatening the health, the safety and the security of the american people. this tsunami, this manufactured crisis, what happened to his campaign about america first? so in what way is america first? first to be held hostage by this

administration? this is unconscionable and this is -- there's a residual and reverberating effect here not only for the 800,000 furloughed federal workers but i just introduced legislation to support those federally contracted workers hourly low wage workers, service workers, custodians, food service -- >> which is important. they're not getting back pay. at the end some people get back pay. a lot of people will not and it's important to make sure people understand that. >> and then a member of his cabinet has the audacity today so tone deaf, another demonstration of the lack of empathy and compassion and connection to the struggles and the hardships of the american people -- >> secretary ross are you referring to? >> secretary ross to say the people should just go get a loan from the bank. if you're making 27,000, $32,000 a year, what bank is going to give you a loan? the point is that they have created this hurt for the american people and framed it in

this trojan horse of debate about security and they're compromising the health and security of the american worker and family every day that this shutdown goes on. the house has done its job. we have passed bipartisan legislation. i voted on my 11th bill today to move on, to move forward, to fund this government and we need to get to legislating. we have a legislative body for this country and we cannot legislate. we need to have a policy debate about immigration reform, a comprehensive, compassion pathway to citizenship. shut down is not policy, but we can't have that debate while the government is shutdown. this republican senate needs to do its job. they're not employees of trump tower. >> thank you very much, congresswoman presley. i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. and next, senator harris is heading to iowa. why trump has held back given nancy pelosi one of his

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a powerful voting bloc there, black women. kyung lah is "outfront." >> reporter: at a home in suburban maryland, these college friends reflect on their past as one of their own makes a run for history. >> we were all just right there together. we were just all just, you know, regular girls. and now here's kamala. >> reporter: or as the public calls her, senator kamala harris, now a presidential candidate. >> that's why i'm running for president of the united states. >> reporter: on the heels of that announcement, the senator is making her first campaign stop. not in iowa or new hampshire, but in south carolina for her national sorority. what does this sisterhood mean politically? >> it is a fact that there are close to 300,000 women in alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated, and that is a fact. so it's not rocket science.

>> and these translate into votes and bringing other people in? >> i think that's a fair assessment. >> reporter: these women are the foot soldiers of a powerful voting bloc. cnn exit polling shows black women supported democrats more than almost any other voting subgroup, helping drive democratic wins in last year's midterms. a fellow sister, the first black woman to enter the 2020 fray. >> it translates into a ready made group of people who will come when she calls. >> reporter: this isn't just a friendship or a sisterhood. we're talking about political power. >> we're talking about political power, and we have it. we have it. and we're going to leverage it. and you'll see. it's going to make a difference. >> reporter: you're looking at a built-in infrastructure, and here's why. >> there was a connection that was made back on the campus of howard university that has transcended miles and years that brought us here today. >> reporter: a bond crossing more than three decades. in 1986, 38 women became line

sisters. they were all students at howard university, a historically black college, and joined alpha kappa alpha, the first black sorority in the u.s., formed more than 100 years ago. >> when you think about it, in 1908, people were just a few ticks off emancipation. so now they find themselves in college, and what are they trying to do? it's really an uplift mission. >> reporter: bound by that history, they forge their own paths, year after year their lives weaving together. >> we were down at the senate. she had her formal swearing in. at the time vice president biden had sworn her in. >> this is a very recent picture. >> this is a recent picture, yes. this picture was at her gw book event, and we were there to support her. >> you're also aka. >> yes, i am. >> she talked about being a member of alpha kappa alpha, and the room exploded. the appropriate response was a ski wee.

>> and fans are in the room as well. >> you can see by her response and our response that it's all love. >> reporter: felt most by those who know kamala harris best, but shared by a national sisterhood eager to help one of their own. >> next gathering, next sleepover, next girls night in, we at the white house? yeah, we're all going to be there. >> reporter: senator harris is expected to be in south carolina for the pink gala. how politically important is this event, erin? in 2008 then candidate obama thought about skipping the gala. one of his advisers said to him if he wanted to win the south carolina primary, he would go to the gala. he showed up and he won by double-digits. erin? >> kyung, thank you very much. 300,000 people. all right. "outfront" next, jeanne moos on why trump has not given pelosi a nickname. place, the xfinity xfi gateway.

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jeanne moos is brought to you by salon pas. try it for your pain. . >> here is jeanne. >> she's coming. >> she is speaker of the house nancy pelosi, who we've just nicknamed no nickname nancy because of what president trump failed to do, live up to his reputation as a master nicknamer. >> little marco, little rocket man, crooked hillary. >> lyin' ted, lyin' ted. >> but was the president lying down on the job when he said -- >> nancy pelosi, or nancy, as i call her. >> reporter: twitter called him out. that's her name. bet she's never heard herself called that before. >> she's the only person he hasn't given a nickname to.

pocahantas, elizabeth warren. lyin' ted. nancy pelosi, or as i call her, nancy. >> reporter: but what was the president thinking? theories range from he considers using just her first name to be an insult to it's an unexpected show of respect. or maybe he's scared of madam speaker. it is possible the president has lost his knack for nicknames? last year he tried to tiger his high tax, high crime nancy pelosi. he also tried to brand her as soft on gangs. >> the ms-13 lover nancy pelosi. >> reporter: but the lover of nicknames failed to make those stick. she has broken his corny nickname generator. a comparison was made between the president's comment. >> nancy pelosi, or nancy as i call her. >> reporter: and this line from austin powers. >> allow myself myself to introduce myself.

>> reporter: but if the president wanted to introduce a nickname for nancy, he seemed to run into a wall. jeanne moos. >> don't worry about it, little marco. >> reporter: -- cnn. >> or nancy, as i call her. >> reporter: new york. >> and anderson starts now. good evening. tomorrow is once again a payday in name only for 800,000 americans who work for the federal government. tonight president trump was asked about it. >> what's your thoughts that federal workers are missing another paycheck this week? >> i love them. i appreciate them. i really appreciate the great job they're doing. they -- many of those people that are not getting paid are totally in favor of what we're doing. >> totally in favor of what we're doing, so sayeth the president. he spoke to reporters after a pair of bills to reopen the government failed in the senate. now the republican measure got fewer votes than the democratic one. he