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the north korean envoy kim yong—chol, beginning with the secretary of state, mike pompeo, and then moving quickly on to the whiteng with the secretary of state, mike pompeo, and then moving quickly on to the white house, where the president met for 90 minutes with mr kim, who was said to be carrying a personal message from the north korean leader, kim jong—un. so they agreed in this meeting to hold a summit, but there was no indication how that summit might break the deadlock in nuclear negotiations that has persisted since the two leaders last met, in june. look, we've continued to make progress, we're continuing to have conversations. the united states is going to continue to keep pressure and sanctions on north korea until we see fully and verified denuclearisation. sanctions is one of the main issues of disagreement. the united states says that they should be lifted only after the north koreans have fully dismantled their nuclear weapons programme. kim jong—un says they should be lifted in phases, beginning now. and it seems thithewasn’t getting to speak to the man at the top himself. as for mr trump, he may

we have mike vicara, first hans nichols at the white house. we have had several readouts of all of the senior staff meeting with those who are very key in the white house. >> reporter: what we're hearing from a democratic source dollar with the conversation is the vice president did not come off that $5.7 billion top line offer. it appears to be departure for mike pence who earlier last week offered 2.5, and the idea that the white house is digging in on this 5.7 billion number should make people less than optimistic about the prospects for a deal. now, at the same time, democrats are asking for the budgetary justifications. they want to know whether the number just came out of thin air or whether or not it actually has any sort of budgetary justifications, and i think that's going to be a crucial point moving forward. if you want to see some way out of this, maybe they can back fill and try to figure out just what they want to build and how much that could cost instead of focussing on the actual number. but democrats are also saying that as l

one official told the representatives for vice president mike pence and acting white house chief of staff who reached out to webb. he represented virginia in the u.s. senate and launched an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2016. >>> police revealing this video. it shows the suspect's car near the fatal shooting. tips have poured in to investigators, but the suspect remains on the loose. cnn's nick havevalencia spoke te victim's family. >> reporter: we sat down with the mother of jazmine barnes. both were in the car at the time of the shooting. in fact, alexis says she made eye contact with the suspected shooter. she says the description is slightly different from the man she saw. co choking back tears, they spoke to cnn. >> he just looked sick. he looked in the car and looked sick. like his face was really pale. that is all i can remember. his eyes were blue. his face was thin and pale. >> the next thing you know, i didn't hear the first gunshot. all i remember is my glass shattering. i turned the light on in the car and turned around and looked at my baby. she leaned over on the door and

white house officials including vice—president mike pence make no progress in a meeting with democratsovernment shutdown goes into its third week. also this hour: it is fa cup third—round weekend. league one strugglers gillingham have caused the biggest upet, knocking out premier league cardiff with a 1—0 win. and at 11:30pm, we will be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers, joe twyman and yasmin alibhai—brown. stay with us for that. the family of a man who was fatally stabbed on a train yesterday say he was honourable and would always help others in trouble. lee pomeroy, who was 51, was attacked in front of his teenage son, just after they boarded a train in guildford in surrey. a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, and a woman detained at the same time is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender. our correspondent chi chi izundu has the latest. today should have been lee pomeroy‘s 52nd birthday. but instead, his family are mourning his sudden death, witnessed by his 14—year—old son. in a statement, they said: after a 17—hour manhunt, at 6:00am thi

. >> reporter: last night the white house canceled its delegation strip to the world economic forum to switzerland. >> vice president mike pence and senior white house advisor jared kushner met with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell on capitol hill last night. mitch mcconnell said "we are still discussing the situation." >>> governor newsom has good news for the furloughed federal workers in california, they will be paid unemployment benefits. >> the unemployment benefits will last 26 weeks, a little over $450, and that is where we cap out. it will help with some of the anxiety and stress, but we cannot do everything. we will let the state of california help the state to the jobs you cannot do for yourself. >> they have been told by the labor department that pain benefits to the furloughed workers is illegal but says the state will do it anyway. they said they will reimburse the state when the workers get back pay. >>> the pg&e is blamed on the deadly wildfires of the last two years including the wine country wildfires. the judge wanted to the pg&e uninsulated power conductors and says when the conductors are pushed

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through caracas a streets with pots and pans a statement that reverberated all the way to the white house by mike pence the vice president of the united states and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people let me express the unwavering support of the united states is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power. he's never won the presidency in a free and fair election and he's maintained his grip of power by imprisoning anyone who dares to oppose him while protesters and the opposition have a powerful enough vocal ally but juror countered with a t.v. address of his own he warned vandals who attempt to cultural seem to named off the role of sarah the late socialist politician the only member that is going to capture them all they all went to prison and that some penalty for the fascists had hand to hand of sealing the jurors vice president then took direct aim at the us. simply because mr pence doesn't have a job now he wants to come and run venezuela handing out instructions on what should

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vice president mike pence meeting with white house officials and top congressional aides repeated the president's demand that any budget agreement include funding to build a wall along the southern border. a democratic source told nbc news the white house won't budge from a more than $5 billio request. a nonstarter for democrats.ea >> wey cannot resolve this retil we open up government. >> reporter: thedent confirming on twitter the meeting resulted in not much headway but he's confident government employees unable t t pair bills are in his corner. >> i think if you ever really se looked at t people, i think they would say, mr. president, keep going. this is far more important. same group t plans to meet again on sunday. chris pallone, n news. >>> unfortunately for us, we had the showers moving out o washington area as low pressure moved offshore and high pressure isow in control. outside for the evening, we will talk about how the temperatures will start to fall andy, it is januo well they should be falling. temperature temperatures, 51, 48. but the clear story s clear skies and big

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laura:le wn from vice president mike pence that the white house is weighing the legality of declaringtional so the president can get money -- national emergency so that the president can get thmoney foborder wall. from your reporting, how seriously is that being toluse:on serious discussion the white house legal counsel. it would be prettyof shocking ue residential power, unprecedented for this to be used for aational emergency, but it shows the level of frustration the president has not getting democrats on board and not gettg the funding for the wall two years into his presidency. this could be to the way that the president gets out of the quagmire by reopeninghe government andtrying to have the money without going through congress. obviously it would open up a number of legal lawsuits, but for the time being it would get us o of the shutdown just to make the fig happen in another venue which woulde in the courtroom and not necessarily in congress. tlaura:he president hasarned is that the view of democrats? toluse: democrats have said tent there has o progress made. there were talk

vice president mike pence aching with white house officials around top congressional aide repeated the demand that any funding nodes to include some to build a wall along the southern border whi is a non-starter for democrats. >> we can't resolvehis until we open up government. >> the president confirming on twitter the meeting resulted in not much headway but he's confident government employees unable to pay their brussels in hiscorner. >> i think if you ever really looked at those people, i think they w pld say mr.sident, keep going. this is far more important. >> reporter: the same group plans to meet again on sunday. chris pollone, nbc news. >>> now before the talks resume again you'll want to catch "meet the press" that comes up in just about 20 minutes right here on nbc 4. acting chief -- white house chief of staff nick mulvane wi talk with chuck todd about the ongoing negotiations and before that chuck will join meagan and i in the studio. >> anc pgeorge's county school board member wants to help kids whose parents are federal workers so he's proposing to make food free for kids

through caracas the streets with pots and pans a statement that reverberated all the way to the white house by mike pence the vice president of the united states and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people let me express the unwavering support of the united states is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom. nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power. he's never won the presidency in a free and fair election and he's maintained his grip of power by imprisoning anyone who dares to oppose him while protesters and the opposition have a powerful enough vocal ally majeure accounted with a t.v. address of his own he warned vandals who attempt a cultural scene to named off the role that sarah the late socialist politician a little member of that is going to capture them all they all went to prison and that's mum penalty for the fascists hard hand to hand of silda the jurors vice president then took direct aim at the us. simply because mr pence doesn't have a job now he wants to come and run venezuela handing out instructions on what sh

a white house team let by vice president mike pence met with congressional staffers to try and kind some common ground but they didn't make much headway. president trump is now proposing to build a steel fence along the u.s. border instead of a concrete wall in hopes of bringing democrats to the table. nbc's jennifer johnson has the latest. >> reporter: president trump now trying a new negotiation tactic to get his border wall built. a steel fence, not a concrete wall, built by american workers. more pressure on democrats. >> it will be less obtrusive, stronger, and we're able to use our great companies to make it. >> reporr: democrats say er he has made and it will be discussd. >> the president promised he'll get his wall with or without congress' approval. >> i may declare a national emergency dependant on what's going to happen over the next few days. >> reporter: many doubt that would work. >> the president would be wide open to a court challenge saying, where's the emergency? you have to establish that in order to do that. beyond that, a terrible use of department of defense dollars

there are two white. mike's. the system works really well in massachusetts i am told. >> it is. it is going to work in des moines. the idea is everybody gets a chance to ask a question. not just people who ran to the front. let's see if we can make this work. do we have somebody? go ahead. >> my name is amber sellers. i am from kansas. we traveled three hours to be here. >> oh. >> [ applause ] >> that is commitment. i am impressed. thank you. >> i want to say that you are probably one of the most natural feeling candidates that have met and that speaks volumes , and i hope this is not the last time we see you and that we see you in a more presidential position. >> [ applause ] >> thank you. >> i am a recent public administration graduate. i want to know as someone who was on the grassroots, who experiences housing inequality, who is rent burdened, who does not work a job, that will allow them to love the opportunity to own a home. please talk about it. i know this probably a lot of people who don't know about it. as someone who was on the ground, what can i do to keep pushing th

and the meeting at the white house was instructive. you had mike pence sitting across from staffers, not leadership. >> don't forget jared kushner was there. >> that's important too. but that tells me something really interesting. number one that democrats are holding firm and their resolute. that's very key and it's key to our base, number one. number two it also says that negotiations don't really mean a whole heck of a lot if donald trump himself is not in the room. >> that's what i wanted to ask you, because we have the vice president last week throwing out $2.5 billion. >> yeah. >> and meeting somewhere in the middle and then the president this week saying, no way, it has to be 5.6. >> yeah. >> if he's not there, is that a problem some if he's not in the room to negotiate? >> he's absolutely right. having jared there and mike pens there, pence there, you and i could have a meeting about reopening the government. if donald trump and the key players, the people who are actually in a position to make a deal aren't there, it's almost meaning le. a

. ♪ >> and we begin with a fox news alert, a weekend meeting with vice president mike pence senior whiteouse officials and congressional staffers ends with no deal. but they will be back at it again tomorrow. all this as president trump suggests the partial government shutdown could potentially drag on for months or even years. hi, everyone, welcome to brand-new hour inside of america's news headquarters, i'm laura ingle in for arthel neville. eric: welcome, laura, good to see you, i'm eric shawn, talks are not going anywhere as president and democrats refuse to give any ground over border funding, meanwhile the blame game continues in washington as partial government shutdown passes the 2-week mark, ellison barber live in washington in bureau with the latest with really no developments, hi, ellison. >> democratic leaders have said they agreed to continue conversations with the white house, we, of course, saw that today, we will see that later on this weekend as well. the white house, though, democrats said they told president trump a resolution is unlikely unless the government is open,

elected president declaring him to be illegitimate this is from the white house now this comes on the heels of a video statement from mike pence the u.s. vice president expressing support for juan guede oh this white house statement comes after these words from mike pence let's take a listen. mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision by one god to the president of your national assembly to assert the bodies constitutional powers declare madeira or your syrup or nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power now in addition to withdrawing u.s. recognition from the statement from the white house also expressed support for. quote efforts to quote restore constitutional legitimacy now many observers are looking on this and saying that this is essentially a call for the overthrow of the elected government of venezuela by saying that kwan wedo is the interim president and withdrawing and no longer recognizing the legitimacy of nicolas maduro as the president of venezuela this seems to be an indication on the part of the u.s. government they would suppo

today vice president mike pence alith white house officials and top aides to several members of congress are going to meet again around the negotiating table. >> yeah, this is another attempt to end thiov partialnment shutdown which is now into its third week. yesterday's two northamp-hour meeting didn't delive vice president pens mirrored the president's demand for any budget to have a southern bothered wall. president trump says he's confident that government employees who are furloughed during this time are in his corner. >> i think if you ever really looked at those people, i think would say mr. president keep ing. this is far from important. >> the president has said the eautdown could last down months or even if his demand for border wall funding isn't meant. >> as the shutdown stretches into another week, a prince george's county school board member wants to help kids whose parents are federal workers. he's proposing to make food frer ids until the shutdown ends. councilman alexander wallace says prince george's county school ceo monica golson can waive the cost m of thels on her

he says vice president mike pence and team just left the white house. briefed me on their meeting with the schumer/pelosi represent tifsds. not much head way made today. second meeting set for tomorrow. after so many decades must finally and permanently fix the problems on the southern border. it sounds like he's not giving in. so where does this go? >> well, the bottom line is the democrats don't want to give president trump a political victory because if this were really about money, then president trump probably would ask for way more than $5.6 billion. it's a far kriep from the $25 billion he requested earlier in 2018. it's going to be a game of chicken in which pow mounting pressure from federal employees who are furloughed and what they don't get their paychecks and can't pay the rent and their bills, that's going to put a lot of pressure on both sides to come to the negotiating table and come to a solution. i think what we have to remember here and acknowledge is that with the negotiation, both sides should be able to come away with a win. and, s

on our own reporting of what the president will say, joy. >> mike viqueira do we know who all was involved in crafting this inside the whitenow that donald trump is one advised by one stephen miller who is a hard liner against immigration. mike pence was involved. jared kushner, interestingly enough, can you give us any inside into the crafting of this and who decided this was the way to go? >> reporter: if you listen to democrats in the lead up to this the last few hours, democrats have made it clear that they have not been consulted and obviously they're going to need to sign off from nancy pelosi for starters. they also need a significant number of democrats in the senate to reach a 60 vote threshold as it appears right now the initial reactions are that's not going to be happening. democrats are treating this as a sucker punch from president trump. he takes to the air waves on a saturday, he makes this what appears to be a dramatic proposal, at least that's how it's being staged at this moment and democrats say they have not been consulted. knapp just out with a statement in the last few minutes. she calls it a compila

and all update you on that as meetings are happening at an annex building next to the white house vice president mike pence is involved in those meetings we saw him come and go from this building go back into the white house and he's leading these meetings with congressional staffers so. there's a lot of pessimism here in this city that these meetings today will lead to any sort of breakthrough in this because ultimately it comes down to two people and that's the president donald trump and the majority leader of the house of representatives nancy pelosi those are the two people that hold the key to all of this and by all accounts they will not be meeting this weekend so talks are going on but pessimism that will lead to anything this is really a stalemate and the bottom line here is that trump says he will not open up the government again until he gets that money for his border wall and pelosi on the democratic side said they are not going to give him money for the border wall they say they'll give him money for border security but that's not what trump wants and more specifically that's not what tru

. ♪ >> and we begin with a fox news alert, a weekend meeting with vice president mike pence senior whitels and congressional staffers ends with no deal. but they will be back at it again tomorrow. all this as president trump suggests the partial government shutdown could potentially drag on for months or even years. hi, everyone, welcome to brand-new hour inside of america's news headquarters, i'm laura ingle in for arthel neville. eric: welcome, laura, good to see you, i'm eric shawn, talks are not going anywhere as president and democrats refuse to give any ground over border funding, meanwhile the blame game connu i

vice president mike pence at the white house this fight is not about ideology this is a fight between democracy and dictatorship this is a fight between a dictatorship which is start early controlled by the cuban regime. against the freak world we cannot do this alone we have the main first possibility that venezuelans what we are asking for the free world to even a certain way when it's being colonized by the cuban regime on a sunday and yet he has more from bogota in neighboring colombia. responded just minutes after the attorney general's and now and he did so in front of the national assembly saying that while he was in downplaying the threat prison man he also can see the government action just more of the same just party said chain of attacks against him against other leaders of the opposition and the national assembly as a whole now it's not clear what the attorney general will be investigating or he didn't mention any specific crime he did the mansion however that it had to do with the rest following his decision to self proclaimed himself the interim president of venezuela an

vice president mike pence meeting with white house officials and top congressional aides repeated the president's aid demand any budget agreement include funding to build a wall alon a the southern bothere the white house won't budge for more than a $5 billionue r. a non-starter for democrats. >> we really cannot resolve thi until we open up government. >> reporter: the president confirming that the meeting sulted in not much headway but he's confident that government employees unable to pay his bills are in his corner. >> i have if y ever really looked at those people, i think they would say, keep going, this is far more im portant. >> reporter: the same group plans to meet again on sunday. chr chris pollone, nbc news. >> acting chief of staff nick mulvaney wl join chuck todd on "meet the press" this morning. >>> as the shutdown stretches into another week be a prince george's county skooschool boar wao help parents affected by the shutdown. while the cost of meals are fully funded in the school budget the council member says the money made for students paid down as the meal budget i

white house officials, including vice—president mike pence, make no progress in a meeting with democratshird week. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejoe twyman, who's the director of the polling organisation deltapoll, and the author and journalist, yasmin alibhai—brown. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. starting with the observer, which reports that the threat of a tory rebellion could mean a delay in the roll out of the government's flagship welfare reform — universal credit. brexit leads the independent — the paper says theresa may's hopes of securing legal binding changes needed to win her the support of her deal are fading as brussels diplomats say it's unlikely that the eu will hold a summit to sign off any changes. the mail on sunday leads on the story of an ex—wife forced to pay out £250,000 to her former husband after she apparently tricked him into thinking he was the biological father of their three children. the cost of obesity is the lead for the sunday times — with a 575% increase in operations f

at the meeting's conclusion he talked about the vice president and he is spearheading the white house team. mike pence and the team just left the white house briefed me on their meeting with schumer/pelosi representatives. not much headway made today. second reading set for tomorrow. after so many decades must finally and permanently fix the problems on the southern border. the problems obviously didn't begin with his officials but the white house is working to solve them once and for all. however the gulf between the white house's ideas and the democrats solutions is exceedingly expansive. does the working sessions over the weekend with the goal as you know of looking for common ground in a variety of possible solutions to end the now more than two -week-old impasse. as for today's session here's how the white house described it in a statement. secretary nielsen was able to provide breathing on the crisis at the southern border. the conversation looked productive and they agreed to meet again tomorrow. there was no in-depth conversation about the dollar figure that the priorities for security.

thank you so much from the white house. >>> to capitol hill now and mike viqueira. mike is there any clue as to whether either side is moving at all behind the scenes? >> well, i mean, regardless of what the white house calls it, a concrete barrier or steel slats or a chainlink fence or split rail fence or nancy pelosi would have it a beaded curtain, democrats feel as though they don't need to crede an inch here. nancy pelosi said the other day she's not going to give one dollar, won't agree to one dollar, for what the president wants to do on the southern border involving a barrier or a wall or whatever it is the he want to call it. democrats feel as though at this moment in time, alex, they are holding all the cards in this negotiation. they are not inclined to compromise or come to the president's position or give any money to this whatsoever. the game of chicken right now is, democrats keeping the pressure on. they're going to be putting spending bills on the floor again this week to send over to the senate, keeping pressure on senate republicans to see if they

they just met a short while ago with vice president mike pence. the whitesomewhat amenable to listening to discussions, but guess who is not in the room? democrats. every senior democratic aide i've talked to in the past 12 hours or so are basically saying there is no chance this turns into anything at all. they have all participated in the immigration debates with this administration. there is no trust whatsoever particularly on the issue of daca. so while there are talks going on with a small group, the best way to look at these talks is there is a group of lawmakers who are frustrated. frankly, they're bored. they're going to try to figure out some way so they'll meet. will it turn into anything? nobody really thinks so. if that doesn't turn into anything, the messaging wars, i think that's probably about the extent of what you'll see in the coming days. >> okay. we'll keep it at that, and as julie noted a little bit earlier, tomorrow about a million federal workers don't get their paycheck. two weeks after that, they don't get their paycheck. to phil's

mike pompeo. our correspondent barbara plett usher has been following developments in washington. the whiteaid the summit would take place near the end of february, but it didn't say where, although vietnam seems to be at the top of the list of possible locations, according to multiple reports. the announcement was made after a series of meetings with the north korean envoy, kim yong—chol, beginning with his secretary of state, mike pompeo, moving quickly on to the white house, where the president met for 90 minutes with mr kim, who was said to be carrying a personal message - north kim, who was said to be carrying a personal message - i" so h kim, who was said to be carrying a personal message - i" so they kim, who was said to be carrying a personal mi there 3? i" so they kim, who was said to be carrying a personal mi there 3? indication y summit but there was no indication break the has persisted - the met in june. leaders last met in june. look we've continued to make progress, where to have states 1ave states is ve states is going to continue sanctions on see ctions on denuclearisation.

mike: some suggest it could be tied up in the courts for a long time and perhaps the president may lose so a lot of questions there. steven nelson, whitese reporter for the washington examiner. thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. mike: for much more on all this, be sure to tune into fox news sunday, senators joe manchin and roy blunt will discuss whether the senate can find a path forward on funding for border security. check your local listing or tune in at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. >>> iowa congressman steve king appearing at his first public event since receiving a strong rebuke from republican leadership. they took action after his controversial interview with the new york times earlier this month. king defended his remarks about white nationalism during a town hall today. listen. >> it is stunning and astonishing to me that four words in a new york times quote can outweigh 20 some years of public service, not one soul has stood up and said steve king ever acted in a racist fashion, that he's ever discriminated against anybody. there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. mike: he wa

are pursuing from the trump white house critical information about how the security clearance process was handled for, among other people, trump national security adviser mike flynn, who, of course, has since pled guilty to lying about his conversations with the russian government. flynn is now awaiting sentencing. from elijah cummings' letter to the white house this week, we know that cummings and his committee, they want information on why the trump white house didn't yank mike flynn's clearance after they were warned repeatedly and explicitly by the justice department that flynn was compromised by the russian government and he was lying about his dealings with them. after they got that warning, they took no action in terms of restricting flynn's access to secret, top secret or even compartmentalized information, despite the fact that the justice department was telling them that the russian government had one over on him. so anything that he had access to presumably was liable to ending up at the kremlin. why didn't you yank his clearance? elijah cummings this week inquired with the trump white house about the security concerns over mike flynn, also mike

with us, we have veteran columnist mike barnicle. white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere. cute haircut. david ignatius. >> do not even ask how we did this. >> capitol hill correspondent and host of casey d.c. casey hunt. all right. we will talk about that later. we have a lot to talk about moving forward here. >> jonathan, we are reviewing the year. the story of the year, of course is the boston red sox. >> world series championships. >> we were consistent. this team is going to fall short. take that with a grain of salt as we predict 2019. >> i want to talk about, though, you are at a white house. you followed so many stories. looking back over the year, sum it up in 15 seconds. where do we find ourselves at the end of 2018? how much has the election of nancy pelosi, the speaker, how much has that changed the dynamics? >> more than anything, it's a year the wall creeped closer and closer to the president. he's under investigation on a number of fronts, not just the special counsel. we have probes in the inaugural

as news of the bombing flashed across tv screens, vice president mike pence repeated the white house claim that the militant network has been defeated. david martin begins our coverage. >> reporter: the attack was recorded on a security camera. a person wearing a suicide vest blew himself up in front of a restaurant where soldiers patrolling the city had stopped to eat lunch. two soldiers, one civilian, and one contractor were killed, and three more servicemen wounded. it was the single worst loss of into syria more than three years ago. gruesome pictures of the blood spattered aftermath, which showed many syrians had been killed as well made a cruel mockery of vice president pence's claim of victory delivered hours later. even though both he and the president had been briefed by then that americans had been killed. >> we are bringing our troops home. the caliphate has crumbled and isis has been defeated. >> reporter: the bombing occurred in the city of manbij, which had once been used by isis as a base for plotting and launching terroristic attacks in paris and in brussels. it was l

now back at the white house following his camp david retreat with staffers from the white house, but vice president mike pence stayed behind in washington today for a second straight day of border security negotiations with top congressional staffers. both the white house and democrats are holding firm on their positions with no deal in sight. >> we have a national emergency. just read the papers. we have a crisis at the border. >> i may declare a national emergency, dependent on what's going to happen over the next few days. >> threatening talk from the president he doesn't have the power to execute. >> we're asking for $5.6 billion. they're offering us zero. sounds like we're simply arguing about one variable. just how much are we going to spend on that barrier on the southern border, on the wall, steel slat fence, whatever you want to call>> it offered $1.3 billion would not include a concrete wall. the president could have accepted this earlier but said no. i'm got to shut down my own government. >> he says it's an issue of border security. it's an issue of his own political insecurity. >> meanwhile

all yesterday, the president -- i should say white house aides were telling me there's a plan b, that we have other venues. i ran into the vice president mike at the white house yesterday. he said the president has a constitutional duty to deliver the state of the union. all of that felt like okay, whatever, nancy, we're going somewhere else. then the president said we don't have a plan b. that tells you it was very frustrating for the president. now the white house is trying t strategy to end shutdown. vice president pence is talking to senators. part of the message i imagine is going to be hold the line. we need republicans not to be giving into democrats and we need money for the wall because there are conservatives all over the country who are worried the president might give away amnesty, a path towards citizenship or that he might cave and say, okay, forget the wall. >> the most interesting thing about the tweet he put out was he talked about not being able to compete with the history and tradition of doing this in the house. a president who, frankly, has been very blunt about and feels very good good fabout flying in face of the hist

members will caved when asked to vote on the individual funding bills to limit the white house' leverage. >> dana: mike emanuel, thank you. let's bring in bret baier, anchor of "special report" at the white house and also just inside the white house. and i wonder if you can give us a flavor, i don't know what the groundrules were, for your meeting there at the white house, maybe you can give us the flavor of it. >> bret: sure. it was an off the record lunch with the president and the vice president, other officials. nothing i can quote from that lunch. i can tell you, that the quote i can use is it was wonderful having lunch with you today. we had ceasar salad and ice tea. >> dana: i admire. >> that's i'll give you a flavor for where the white house is, i can't give you quotes. you know this very well, they have a sense, like they are in a position of power. they believe that this issue is one that works for them. not only with the base, but with republicans across the board on capitol hill. there is kind of an entrenchment as far as making this presentation to the american people tonight. that will be

is in washington from capitol hill but we begin tonight with ellison barber live at the white house. reporter: mike, good evening to you. mick mulvaney says that number, 5.7 billion, is not a made up one. he says that that is the number experts are telling the president that they need. the white house thinks that some democrats are actually willing to approve funding for a physical barrier at the southern border, even though democratic leadership continues to say they have been clear on the wall and that their party is against it. the legislation president trump signed on friday does not include funding for new construction of a border wall, it's missing the very thing the president said was necessary to reopen government, here is president trump on christmas day president trump: i can't tell you whether government is going to be open. i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they'd like to call it. i'll call it whatever they want. reporter: something mr. trump gave into democrats others say the shutdown was a power struggle at the expense of federal workers,

that would allow him to move forward on building a wall without congressional approval and mike pence said the white house counsel's office is looking into it but democrats say they would fight a national emergency declaration all the way to the supreme court. >> we would certainly oppose any attempt by the president to make himself a king and a tyrant by saying he can appropriate money without congress. that is perhaps the most dangerous thing he has talked about since he became president. we would challenge it in every way we could. in congress, in the courts and otherwise. >> over the last two days administration officials have been claiming terrorists are pouring into the us from mexico by the thousands. here is the white house press secretary giving a fact check. >> we know that roughly 4000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally and are most vulnerable point is our southern border. >> i studied up on this, do you know where those 4000 people are captured? airports. >> not always. >> there hasn't been any terrorists they found. >> the homeland security secretary clarified

vice president mike fence says that the white house's council's office is looking into the legality ofust this morning he was asked point blank do you expect president trump to declare a national emergency during his prime time address tonight. here's how he answered. >> well, i expect the president will do tonight, is explain to the american people that we have a who man tearian and security crisis -- humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. >> he didn't rule it out. but democrats are already vowing to fight this in court and in congress if president trump does decide to declare a national emergency tonight, or at any other point in an effort to try to end the shutdown. >> shepard: kristin fisher live, thank you. let's get the legalese of this, bob bianci, is an attorney, former prosecutors. emergency? national emergency? humanitarian crisis? democrats say there's no evidence. but if he declares an emergency the courts will decide, is this how it works? >> eventually it'll get filed with the courtship. the congress has given so much power to the president to act in ter

mike pence said the white house is looking into the legality of declaring a national emergency in order to begin construction on the border wall. there is a little sign of any deal to get government employees back to work as the president gets ready to make his case to the country. >> reporter: as the shutdown drags on, we are learning trump is going to take a trip to the southern border as he continues to say the u.s. needs a physical wall. the trip is planned for thursday as the president is considering whether or not to declare a national emergency in order to get his wall funding. >> the president has no authority to usurp congressional authority of the purse. >> reporter: a letter was sent to the appropriations committee outlining what the president wants. billions for a physical barrier and to support thousands of detention beds. millions for immigration judges and support staff. more border patrol agents and law enforcement officials and to address urgent humanitarian needs. >> if democrats really want to work with us, got to recognize that border security is at the heart of this

betty white up for any play. >> mike, what is your deal, man? oh, come on man, you've been riding me all day. >> reporter: betty white turned 97 today. >> isn't it simply beautiful out there? >> reporter: more beautiful with betty. tonight, her rep saying she'll be playing poker tonight with the same friends she's been playing with for decades. the rep adding, as for her birthday wish, betty is waying for robert redford to call. she's never worked for him, but she's long had a crush. america has been in love with betty for decades. forever golden, as rose on "the golden girls." >> the older you get, the better you get. unless you're a banana. >> we remember her hosting "snl" after a campaign from her fans. >> i'm 88 1/2 years old. it's -- well, it's great to be here for a number of reasons. >> reporter: happy birthday, betty. thank you for making us smile for so long. happy birthday, betty white. i'm david muir. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. from all of us here, have a good evening. good night. good night. >>> well, the latest stor