i'm john king. thank you for sharing this important day with us. prime time from the oval office. the president makes a risky national address to press his case. the u.s.-mexico border is in crisis and force is necessary to get congress to give him his border wall. the key question. can the president sway public opinion and key members of congress despite what they say about immigration, and the security threat is simply not true. senator kamala harris wants you to read her new book. >> you think, what would mommy think? what would she think about all this? >> i think she would say, what is going on down there? it is a hot mess. >> and kamala harris can fix it? >> i was raised that you don't complain about a problem, you do something about it. >> a prime time spectacle and a test of the president. speaker nancy pelosi and the senate democratic leader chuck schumer will then get the democratic response. the president is making a trip to the border on thursday. with bigger venues and a bigger audience, the president can sway support for the border wall his way. that is a very hard s

i want to bring in john king, our national correspondent. it's so interesting the president talked about that. he tweeted today, call it a wall. a wall is a wall. it's not just enough that democrats might be open to a physical barrier, he wants it to be called a wall. it's the branding of it that seems so important. >> the branding of this, wherever we end up, is so important. this is sometimes the thinking of our president to abby's point. he said the shutdown set the table. people now understand. look at the polling numbers, bad before the shutdown, worse now. who do people trust on border security? nancy pelosi and the democrats more than the president of the united states who is absolutely right who says, if wasie lek eln this issue. he says the democrats are playing games, without a wall it doesn't work. yes, they will negotiate for the next two weeks, but we are headed toward some executive action, whether it's a national emergency or some other executive action unless he blin blinks again or changes his mind again because he's not goi

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. big senate votes this afternoon on competing plans to end the government shutdown, both almost certain to fail. the question is will the next step be a serious effort to negotiate? >>> plus the president blinks and backs down in a state of the union confrontation with speaker nancy pelosi. is it because his poll numbers are tanking or is there some other white house calculation? >>> joe biden is back in the arena. no clues on his 2020 decision but gaffe and his bipartisan stin instinc instincts. >> nobody doubts that i mean what i say, the problem is i often say what i mean. nobody has accused me of being coy. i read in the "new york times" that one of my problems is if i were to ever run for president, i like republicans. bless me, father, for i have sinned. >> back to politics in a moment, but we begin with a big and important new marker from the senate intelligence committee. a source close to the former trump attorney michael cohen telling cnn the intelligence committee has now su

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. the shutdown is over.nment getting back to full speed. president trump under fire from immigration hardliners and already predicting he won't like the border deal that congress must now negotiate. plus, is there a plan to end america's longest war? the white house reaches a draft peace framer with the taliban. it looks to slash troop levels in afghanistan. >>> and big 2020 news. starbuck's owner is talking of a

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i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. the shutdown is over. the government getting back to full speed. president trump under fire from immigration hardliners and already predicting he won't like the border deal that congress must now negotiate. plus, is there a plan to end america's longest war? the white house reaches a draft peace framer with the taliban. it looks to slash troop levels in afghanistan. >>> and big 2020 news. starbuck's owner is talking of a presidential run. this in the crowd of a rebuke of the current president. >> we are here because our american dream and our american democracy are under attack and on the line like never before. and we are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question. who are we? america, we are better than this. >> back to that in a bit. but we begin with some new information from the president's pick to be the attorney general trying to answer concerns on capitol hill about how much of the special counsel's report the american public will ultimately see. william barr answerin

((john king - dwr engineer))"nine inches of snow water content means we would be standing in nine inches of water right now if all the snow was to be melted." standup: "the department of water resources says today's survey results have a better outlook than this time last year.""while these results are below average, they are a stark contrast than where we were last year, where there was just patches of snow in this location."the dwr is monitoring snowpack at more than 260 locations across the state. one thing water managers are keeping an eye on - the potential impact of climate change."we have a number of programs in the department working with that, developing adaptation strategies and look to keep observations like this going to help us understand the changes." tag.of february. the beginning of february. tag. (ken) let's take a look outside right now... at our donner summit cam. chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the sierra forecast. karnow: it was another cold start to the day and by the afternoon some high clouds began to fill our skies. a strong storm can now be

i'm john king. thank you for sharing this important day with us. prime time from the oval office.t makes a risky national address to press his case. the u.s.-mexico border is in crisis and force is necessary to get congress to give him his border wall. the key question. can the president sway public opinion and key members of congress despite what they say

i'm john king.the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. democrats reject as far too little a new immigration proposal the president calls a reasonable compromise. so the government shutdown hits the one-month mark as the president holds firm in his demand for a border wall and hopes his new proposal might help shift the shutdown blame. >> both sides in washington must simply come together, listen to each other, put down their armor, build trust, reach across the aisle and find solutions.

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. big senate votes this afternoon on competing plans to end the government shutdown, both almost certain to fail. the question is will the next step be a serious effort to negotiate? >>> plus the president blinks and backs down in a state of the union confrontation with speaker nancy pelosi. is it because his poll numbers are tanking or is there some other white house calculation? >>> joe biden is back in the arena. no clues on his 2020 decision but

thank you for joining me program "inside politics" with john king starts now. ♪ ♪politics" with john olitics" with john kig starts now. ♪ ♪ >>> thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics." thank you for sharing your day with us. wall or no wall? the president says it's a waste of time if he doesn't get his wall money. plus, they are wrong. the president launches a morning tweet storm questioning the judgment and the smarts of his own top intelligence chiefs. and the battle of the billionaires. trump, bloomberg and now schultz. elizabeth warren, meet howard from the hood.

i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. democrats reject as far too little a new immigration proposal the president calls a reasonable compromise. so the government shutdown hits the one-month mark as the president holds firm in his demand for a border wall and hopes his new proposal might help shift the shutdown blame. >> both sides in washington must simply come together, listen to each other, put down their armor, build trust, reach across the aisle and find solutions. it is time to reclaim our future from the extreme voices who fear compromise and demand open borders. >> plus, unprecedented followed by unfathomable. the special counsel issues a statement challenging a big buzzfeed report about the russia investigation and the president, for once, anyway, has kind words for the man he routinely savages. >> it was a total phony story. and i appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night. i think it was very

i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. it's now the longest government shutdown on record. workers missed their paychecks. new polling finds the american people squarely place the shutdown blame on president trump and his demand for a border wall. >> you will have crime in iowa. you'll have crime in new hampshire. you'll have crime in new york. you're going to have human trafficking. you'll have drugs pouring across the border. you'll have ms-13 and the gangs coming in. >> we have a country that is under siege. you could actually -- a lot of people don't like the word invasion. we have a country that's being invaded by criminals and by drugs. >> plus new faces for the democrats as what will be a crowded 2020 presidential field begins to take shape. >> i have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week. >> we're going to make sure that the promise of america is available to everyone in this 21st cent

thank you for joining me program "inside politics" with john king starts now. ♪ ♪politics" with john start now. ♪ ♪"inside politics" with john kig starts now. ♪ ♪ >>> thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics." thank you for sharing your day with us. wall or no wall? the president says it's a waste of time if he doesn't get his wall money. plus, they are wrong. the president launches a morning tweet storm questioning the judgment and the smarts of his own top intelligence chiefs. and the battle of the billionaires. trump, bloomberg and now schultz. elizabeth warren, meet howard from the hood. >> i grew up in the projects in brooklyn, new york. i came from the projects. we were completely destitute. >> back to that in a moment, but we begin the hour with a big meeting on capitol hill with an agenda that seems like a mission impossible. finding consensus on the border security issues that just led to that partial government shutdown. a bipartisan group of lawmakers meeting this afternoon for the first time. their deadline, only 16 days away. president trump setting the tone on twitt

we have john king and now let's bring in gloria, dana bash. it's good to have here everybody. welcome. here's the first thing we know. not the most compelling from either side. >> i think you're safe with your job. >> so far. on that level. i was at that lunch this morning with president trump and the vice president, the content was off the record but i will tell you he's much more compelling making this case in person than he was on the teleprompter tonight. that's going to matter. on the good side for him, though, john, is they're not going to blow anybody away with their presentation either. so this comes down to who did more to assure their base that they're fighting the right fight? >> but is that all this is about? that's the key part of the question? did anybody move anybody who counts? did the president either solidify his support? we've seen some cracks. i don't want to overmagnify them. it's just a handful right now. some saying stop. this is starting to hurt the economy. do what the democrats say. reopen the government and negotiate over the border. it's cracks. did

((john king - dwr engineer))"nine inches of snow water content means we would be standing in nine inches of water right now if all the snow was to be melted." standup: "the department of water resources says today's survey results have a better outlook than this time last year.""while these results are below average, they are a stark contrast than where we were last year, where there was just patches of snow in this location."the dwr is monitoring snowpack at more than 260 locations across the state. one thing water managers are keeping an eye on - the potential impact of climate change."we have a number of programs in the department working with that, developing adaptation strategies and look to keep observations like this going to help us understand the changes." the next snow survey will take place at the beginning of february. tag. ( james ) ( james ) the college football national championship will kick off monday night at levi's stadium. clemson is taking on alabama. to celebrate the game ... the san jose convention center has been transformed into playoff fan central. there will be

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king said are you the boy from troy? are you john lewis? and i said dr. ng, i am john robert lewis, i gave him my whole name, but he still called me the boy from troy. >> dr. king told the boy from troy he'd need his parents permission to take on troy state, but they were afraid of the consequences and refused. as lewis returned to nashville he was determined to do something. and then he met the second role model who would change his life. >> tim lawson came to nashville, and he enrolled as a student at vanderbilt university divinity school. >> this unbelievable young man told us the philosophy and discipline. and he kept saying respect and dignity and the worth of every human being. even if someone beat you, throw you in jail, look them in the eye and respect them. >> lawson's group began sit-ins at lunch counters in downtown nashville in early 1960. lewis and the other students filled the counters, tried to order food, and then took whatever abuse was hurled at them. and the 20-year-old lewis was arrested for the first time in february 1960, his parents

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john king is off today. we are learning more details about the american detained in russia on espionage charges. his family insisted he is not a spy for the u.s. government. meanwhile, here in washington the president has bold predictions for his haters in 2019. the incoming freshman class is handing out lessons on how to win on social media. john cornyn said he couldn't beat this throw with dan crenshaw. the double ax three. very bold. everything and everyone is calm. enjoying the right. that's the president's hope for all of you this new year tweeting in all caps, happy new year to everyone including the haters and the fake news media. 2019 will be a fantastic year for those not suffering from trump derangement syndrome. he wraps up the tweet with this advice. calm down and enjoy the ride. great things are happening for our country. president trump is setting a few goals for 2019. the first is to remind everyone what a beautiful, winning year it's going to be. >> i just want to wish you a very, very happy

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john king is off today. as we speak the president is meeting with congressional leaders about the government shut down. will this meeting be more productive than earlier this week. the latest jobs report shows a surge in hiring. good news for the trump economy. is it good news for his federal reserve chair? after a democratic congresswoman uses an expletive in calling for the president's impeachment, the newly elected speaker downplays it as a generational thing. >> i don't want we should make a big deal of it. i really don't. that's why people talk around. i'm a grandmother and that's a different story, but words weigh a ton and the president has to realize that his words weigh a ton, too. >> we begin this hour at the white house on the 14th day of a partial government shut down. congestiressional leaders are meeting with the president in "the situation room" to try to find a path forward to funding the government and ending the stalema stalemate. expectations though could not be any lower. aides said zero

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us.al government shutdown now entering its second month. no end in sight as the second missed pay day for federal workers looms. on this national martin luther king holiday it takes a grant from a foundation to open the park in atlanta. >>> a junior senator enters the politician race, adding a woman to the growing field. >>> joe biden also testing the waters with michael bloomberg. they share a stage at an mlk event here in washington. >> i haven't had a chance yet to talk to the vice president at length yet today, but i did want to get some pointers from him for what it's like to live in washington, d.c. i actually

themselves although they were very happy to receive this help the 19th dixie and martin luther king got john f. kennedy elected and robert kennedy knew that. >> david margolick, author of "the promise and the dream: the untold story of martin luther king, jr. and robert f. kennedy." you can read his work regularly in "vanity fair." thanks so much. >> what a pleasure. thank you. .. >>. [applause]

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. big news from the supreme court. the conservative majority allows the president's ban on transgender military service to take effect, but a big loss for the president on another front, immigration, and the justices will debate gun control for the first time in nearly a decade. >>> plus partial government shutdown day 32. a second missed payday for 800,000 federal workers now all but guaranteed. congress faces a legal debate that is less on compromise. >>> a senator offers this blunt take on the president. >> we have a hater in the white house. the birther in chief, the grand witness of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. one thing we've learned is while jim crow may be dead, he's still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well. >> back to that provocative statement a little later, but we begin with a new majority on the supreme court delivering a verdict on the president. these are issues critical to the trump administration. the high court in a federal ruling says the trump administration bars a ban that bars transg

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. another giant story change from the president's top lawyer. rudy giuliani now says maybe trump campaign aides did communicate or collude with russians, but he says it's no big deal because the candidate himself didn't. >>> plus long-time fixer michael cohen says the boss directed him to rig polls to help generate fake news about trump's popularity. rigged polls. fake news. go figure. >>> and they're still sparring over who is to blame for the partial government shutdown, but today the president and the speaker of the house nancy pelosi united and taking time to pay tribute to four americans killed yesterday in that suicide bombing in syria. >> i want to take a moment to express my deepest condolences to the families of the brave american heroes who laid down their lives yesterday in selfless service to our nation. >> sadly, this week was marked by the great tragedy of our losing our brave men and women in uniform. they were killed in a terror attack in syria. so very, very sad. >> ame

king's leadership. and john didn't share that. john wanted to change the world. asn't thinking about credit. >> martin luther king was his hero and his example and model. >> i think they shared a total commitment. there was no moral compromise. they were fearless. >> when king's group organized a protest march from selma to montgomery in march 1965, sncc refused to join. but john lewis chose to march anyway at the front of the line. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation and hundreds of thousands of negro citizens of alabama denied the right to vote. >> his nknapsack had an apple ad toothbrush. he was ready to go to jail as he had so often before but he was also prepared for worse. >> he was always available to reach death and i don't think it was he wanted to die. it was the basis of his leadership was showing a fearlessness that encouraged others. >> when the marchers crossed the bridge out of town, a linebacker of state troopers confronted them. >> you are ordered to disperse, go home or go to your church. >> they refused to turn back. the violence

i'm john king. a big breaking news day. thank you for sharing it with us. u.s.n a marketplace bombing in syria. isis claims responsibility for that explosion after president trump says isis is beaten and it's time for american troops to come home. the government shutdown is hurting the economy and a new power play from the house speaker nancy pelosi. she calls on the president to delay his state of the union address or just submit a report in writing if the shutdown isn't resolved this week. >>> a new 2020 contender for the

i'm john king. a lot of moving parts this hour. thanks for joining us.dent heads to capitol hill soon for lunch with senate republicans. many of them are worried even after the big oval office address last night that the white house does not have a sound strategy to end the government shutdown. plus big developments in the special counsel investigation, one is was rod rosenstein making plans to leave his

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> a potential blockbuster.the president had evidence that the president told his lawyer to lie to congress about his russia business dealings. if true, it's a clause we're hearing today followed by words like obstruction and impeachment. >>> plus add a personal feud to the border wall policy divide at the core of the government shutdown. the president and the speaker sparring anew today as the shutdown approaches the one-month m

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> not guilty is roger stone's plea today as he joins a long list of the trump insiders indicted by the special counsel. the acting attorney general, however, raised eyebrows saying he believes robert mueller is close to wrapping up. so should we believe the president or his top intelligence officials. the intel is on capitol hill and contradicting the boss on iran, climate change and more. >>> two new books out there paint fresh pictures of trump white house chaos. one is by a former white house aide who says he helped the president with the enemies list. the book includes a scathing presidential tweet. >> he was nothing more than a gopher. >> nice. >> he signed a nondisclosure agreement. he is a mess. >> there it is. i knew that was a possibility when i wrote this book. i know who jesus says i am. it doesn't matter who donald trump or anyone else says i am. >> back to that a little bit later, but we begin the hour with roger stone in court. a

the critics point out that john king and sheriff gonzalez continued tweeting and promoting the whitearrative even after the credible type. and congresswoman jackson lee maintains that her hate crime statement was just fine. watch. >> absolutely not. nothing is irresponsible when it comes to the loss of a precious seven or 8-year-old. >> investigators say that jasmine's death appears to be a case of mistaken identity. >> at these people are so irresponsible. thank you for that clearheaded report, i appreciate it. that's it for us tonight, we will be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. good night from washington. sean hannity, live from new york city, right now. >> sean: tucker, thank you. great show as always. in this hour president trump will deliver a prime time addressed to all americans speaking about the crisis at our southern border. a partial government shutdown is still in effect as democrats bury their heads in the sand, close their eyes and pretend that america's borders are totally safe and secure.

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. president trump tweets his position on pulling u.s. troops from syria hasn't changed. his national security adviser, though, is telling allies pay no attention to the president's initial promise to withdraw quickly. >>> plus day 17 of the partial government shutdown and no evident progress. a white house letter to congress demands several things. democrats label nonstarters, not just the border wall. by the way, the president announcing he is headed to the border. >>> democrats take over the house. unapologetic, promising to push her liberal priorities and dismissing those who question her budget math. >> if people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, i would argue that they're missing the forest for the trees. i think there is a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct rather than being morally right. >>> the president now saying he will head to the southern board. the trip scheduled for thursday, according to the whi

((john king - dwr engineer))"nine inches of snow water content means we would be standing in nine inchesf water right now if all the snow was to be melted." standup: "the department of water resources says today's survey results have a better outlook than this time last year.""while these results are below average, they are a stark contrast than where we were last year, where there was just patches of snow in this location."the dwr is monitoring snowpack at more than 260 locations across the state. one thing water managers are keeping an eye on - the potential impact of climate change."we have a number of programs in the department working with that, developing adaptation strategies and look to keep observations like this going to help us understand the changes." the next snow survey will take place at the beginning of february. tag. (vicki) the deadliest and most destructive fire in california state history left behind ashes... the camp fire nearly burned down the entire town of paradise.(grant) but in at least one incident, a special story of friendship emerged from the rubble. nazy ja

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> president trump on his way to the u.s. end the government shutdown, but today is about making it clear it would have to include his wall. democrats repeat, the wall to them is a nonstarter. and on this day 20, they blame the president for the increasing stress on furloughed federal workers. one way out, some believe the only way out is for the president to declare a national emergency to take wall money from the pentagon, maybe other federal agencies. he says that might happen soon, but it's clear his immediate

john king is off today.meeting with congressional leaders about the government shut down. will this meeting be more productive than earlier this week. the latest jobs report shows a surge in hiring. good news for the trump economy. is it good news for his federal reserve chair? after a democratic congresswoman uses an expletive in calling for the president's impeachment, the newly elected speaker downplays it as a

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us.mp tries a hands-off approach when it comes to releasing the report. but it's hard to see the distress of his friend roger stone. >>> a

. >>> "inside politics" with john king starts right now. >>> the government shutdown breaks the recorda penniless payday. >> we have medical bills. we have mortgages. we have things that we need to take care of. >>> plus, the two key players proposals.g insults, not >> the democrats, they don't give a damn about crime. >> federal workers will not be receiving their paychecks. he thinks make they can just ask their father for more money. >> and testing the waters. the new candidate for 2020. >> i am a candidate for president of the united states of america. >> democrats prepare for a crowded

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. big news from the supreme court.ority allows the president's ban on transgender military service to take effect, but a big loss for the president on another front, immigration, and the justices will debate gun control for the first time in nearly a decade. >>> plus partial government shutdown day 32. a second missed payday for 800,000 federal workers now all but guaranteed. congress faces a legal

"inside politics" with john king starts right now. ♪ ♪ >>> thank you, kate and welcome to co"inside politics staying with us. day 33 of the partial government shutdown. democrats demand the president re-open the government before negotiations with border wall funding, plus the state of the union is uncertain. house democrats say no prime time platform for the president while the government is still shut down. the president will speak tuesday night. location and format,

john king is off. >>> president trump is on his way to new orleans this hour to speak at a farmers convention. that is new orleans, louisiana as he tweeted this morning. there is a field of questions not on the plate for farmers but whether or not he is working for russians. clemson champion will meet the president when he comes back tonight. he pre viewed the menu, naturally. >> i think we'll have some mcdonald's. >> the president's attorney general nominee is laying down a big and important marker, two of them, actually. one, the russia special counsel should finish his investigation. number two, that the american public should see robert mueller's report. more on that in a few minutes. but we begin with a straight-up denial from the president to a now burning question brought on by new reporting. mr. president, did you do the kremli kremlin's bidding inside the oval office? >> i never worked for russia, and you know that answer better than anybody. i never worked for russia. not only did i never work for russia, i think it's a disgrace that you even asked that question, because it's a whol

john king leads us with more nastiness between the president and the speaker of the house. >> reporter: in the last few minutes, president trump tweeting out a big announcement for tomorrow. he is saying, i will be making a major announcement concerning the humanitarian crisis on our southern border tomorrow afternoon 3:00 p.m. live from the white house. nobody tipping their hand as to what the president might be talking about but nancy pelosi may be glad she did not head off to afghanistan as was planned yesterday with this big announcement. all day today and yesterday, tan gelinas gential issues took place. the speaker of the house talking about her postponed trip to afghanistan. >> the tit for tat. >> we have the prerogative to travel commercially. we made plan toss do until the administration leaked that we were traveling commercially. >> reporter: in an interview with jesse watters, sarah sanders denied leaking details about pelosi's possible commercial air travel. >> that's outrageous. nobody is going to do anything to put the safety and security of any american, particularly tho

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us.tory change from the president's top lawyer. rudy giuliani now says maybe trump campaign aides did communicate or collude with russians, but he says it's no big deal because the candidate himself didn't. >>> plus long-time fixer michael cohen says the boss directed him to rig polls to help generate fake news about trump's popularity. rigged polls. fake news. go figure. >>> and they're still sparring over who is to blame

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> a potential blockbuster. buzzfeed reports the president had evidence that the president told his lawyer to lie to congress about his russia business dealings. if true, it's a clause we're hearing today followed by words like obstruction and impeachment. >>> plus add a personal feud to the border wall policy divide at the core of the government shutdown. the president and the speaker sparring anew today as the shutdown approaches the one-month mark and the stresses on those not getting paid intensify. >>> and for several democrats running for president in 2020 begins with an apology. >> in my past, i said and believed things that were wrong. and worse, they were very hurtful to people in the lgbtq community and to their loved ones. >> we begin the hour with a show-stopping report from "buzzfeed" that if true could cost the president his job. the headline president trump directed his attorney michael cohen to lie to congress about the moscow tower project. "buzzfeed" citing two law enforcement officials involve

i'm john king. it is a busy breaking news friday.to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing it with us. >>> a second missed payday for 800,000 federal workers and now flight risks the government says are due to a shortage of air traffic controllers. there are meetings on capitol hill but no signs of a breakthrough. >>> long-time presidential confidant roger stone is arrested from an apparent raid. he is talking with campaign officials with e-mail hacks. his first lawyer, his first national security adviser, his deputy campaign chairman and his campaign chairman. but -- >> all things that again have nothing to do with the president. just because they had some association with the president at some point doesn't mean things they did in their private lives and personal lives that may or may not have been right or wrong, that doesn't have anything to do with the president. >> back to that explanation in a minute, but we begin with the images you see. that is roger stone, fresh out of court. now free o

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> president trump on his way to the u.s.-mexico border. he says he's open to a compromise to end the government shutdown, but today is about making it clear it would have to include his wall. democrats repeat, the wall to them is a nonstarter. and on this day 20, they blame the president for the increasing stress on furloughed federal workers. one way out, some believe the only way out is for the president to declare a national emergency to take wall money from the pentagon, maybe other federal agencies. he says that might happen soon, but it's clear his immediate goal is to try to get the democrats to blink. >> i find china, frankly, in many ways to be far more honorable than crying chuck and nancy. i really do. i think that china is actually much easier to deal with than the opposition party. >> and we begin there with the president headed to the border this hour as both he and the democrats look much more interested in making points, not deals. talks to end the government shutdown have evaporated, that with the president'

i'm john king.ou for sharing your day with us. >>> not guilty is roger stone's plea today as he joins a long list of the trump insiders indicted by the special counsel. the acting attorney general, however, raised eyebrows saying he believes robert mueller is close to wrapping up. so should we believe the president or his top intelligence officials. the intel is on capitol hill and contradicting the boss on iran, climate change and more. >>> two new books out there paint fresh pictures of trump white house chaos. one is by a former white house aide who says he helped the president with the enemies list. the book includes a scathing presidential tweet. >> he was nothing more than a gopher. >> nice. >> he signed a nondisclosure

i'm john king. thank you for sharing this important day with us.oments we'll get back to the confirmation of william barr. he's the next pick for attorney general. if you've been watching the testimony, barr promising to uphold the justice department and to maintain his own personal independence as well. from everything we've seen in the past two years, he says he's promised the president nothing. >> president trump has sought no assurances, promises, or

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. the partial government shutdown now entering its second month. no end in sight as the second missed pay day for federal workers looms. on this national martin luther king holiday it takes a grant from a foundation to open the park in atlanta. >>> a junior senator enters the politician race, adding a woman to the growing field. >>> joe biden also testing the waters with michael bloomberg. they share a stage at an mlk event here in washington. >> i haven't had a chance yet to talk to the vice president at length yet today, but i did want to get some pointers from him for what it's like to live in washington, d.c. i actually thought that was f funifu funnier than you did. >> a quiet day for president trump so far, but there is hope for democrats wanting to evict him from the white house. paying a brief visit to the mlk memorial here in washington. >> good morning, everybody. it's a great day. it's a beautiful day. thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> the activity among democrats i