your reaction here to mark berman saying it wasn't me. there may be a mike berman who says, yes, he was at the four seasons, it's him. this kind of error does what or adds to the potential fuel of the president who says, you know, this book is phony, the author is, you know, wrong? what? >> absolutely. any kind of mistakes or errors will be fodder for the president and the president's allies to discredit the book. to say you can't believe any of it because these kinds of mistakes exist. obviously that's not necessarily the case. just because this error was made doesn't mean that the rest of it or much of it still remains true, but this is the risk of publishing a book that hasn't been thorough lily vetted and mt contain mistakes and wolff has a history where some of this sloppiness has been part of the work. again, it doesn't discredit the broader book and stories we're hearing, many of which ring true. >> the president has mott benot very happy about this book, he's been very critical of the author and also critical of steve bannon, now

so how accurate is this book for more let's bring in ethan berman who's a radio talk show host and a political commentator in los angeles good morning isn't. president trying to says that author michael wolff had no white house access and you know we're even seeing some top journalists and a former obama administration official slamming wolf as quote a sleazeball and a writer of fiction you know how credible is he and this book. well i mean we're we've yet to find out where i don't have my hands on the book yet we're going to find out a few hours how do how accurate it really is but here's what we do know is that this administration has had the highest turnover in its upper ranks in any administration in recent history thirty three percent turnover in the highest ranks sixty people of the senior staff in the first year in office so we know there's been chaos we know there's been challenges between personalities writes priebus the chief of staff was out very quickly and read almost record time we had michael slinn with so many scandals happening with this administration whether or not

john berman is joining me. >> it is a new day. new uncensored day. >> yes, it is really is here and of these comments donald trump denied making. they were racially charged of immigrants the president tweeted the language he used was tough but he claims he did not slam i am immigrants and africa and el salvador of people from blank hole country. the president did not deny that he made those remarks or either of the senators. >> you know who we have not heard from, republican leader paul ryan and mitch m

ari berman, welcome to democracy now! are you a u.s. citizen?k aboutut it. >> it sounds like a simple question, but experts i have talked to o say it will just roy -- given the claimant if you're with the trump administration, nobody, but noncitizens and citizens, want to answer the question for fear of how it will be used by the trump administration. if this questition is on the senses, itit will massively depressed responses among immigrant groups that will be to fewer seats, fewer resources for areas that have lots of immigrants are particularly to a credit areas, places like new york and california, and it will shift power even more to republican areas that arere whir and were conservative. this has very, very profound implications for our democracy. the 2020 census is already facing extreme number of problems him and this will make it that much worse. juan: with the legal basis or, in terms of the constitution and congress, u.s. is supposed to count every peperson in the unid states cannot every cicitizen. >> the senses is supposed to count

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm john berman.ust moments ago, "broken and unfair," those words from the president, reacting to a court ruling that blocks the administration from removing protections for some 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers, people who were brought to this country illegally as children, but have lived here, in some cases, for years and years, and have been protected up until now. president trump accused the opposing side of running to the ninth circuit, known for progressive decisions, in search of political victories destined to be overturned, he says. >> we will see the president again next hour, holding a cabinet meeting, later today. he will hold a press conference, of course, we'll carry that live right here. this as members of congress maybe scratching their head this morning, as much as we are, trying to figure out exactly where this president stands on a deal for d.r.e.a.m.ers and the wall. let's get to kaitlan col

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donald trump's lawyers are threatening legal action against former white house strategist steve berman they say berman has broken a non-disclosure agreement by making a number of incendiary planes on comments for a new book about the president has already struck by his former right hand man who claims among other things trump was not ready for the presidency the president sees bahman was never part of his inner circle only work to further his own interests and quote lost his mind after being fired the white house press secretary also weighed in on the issue. was curious were the first. orders so accurate. i think furious disgusted would probably make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president his administration and his family with a book the center of the sponsors called fire and fury enough inside the trump white house and it is quoted as saying that a meeting between members of trying to count on a russian lawyer during his election campaign was treasonous and patriotic he also allegedly had side the president's daughter ivanka trump well steve bartman l

i'm john berman.hour" starts now. >> i'm brianna keilar in for kate bolduan. >>> the house intel committee could vote today to release a memo spearheaded by committee chairman devin nunes claiming the fbi abused the surveillance law as it sought a warrant for former trump campaign foreign policy adviser carter page. democrats say the memo is just an effort to undermine the special counsel investigation into russian election meddling and possible collu

schedule but introduce our keynote speaker for the first part of prelaunch i want to introduce jerry berman for spoke about earlier today and jerry created all of this. it was his vision to create an organization that can cure to internet policy conversation where no one cared about it and jerry believes that this organization can treat this as if they didn't know it yet and we had a long long time that was not the case but people seem to be coming around and thinking this is important. terry and thanks to jerry and other boards on the directors and also meant congressman rick white and rick white was member of the state of washington during that time and rick, thank you for coming. [applause] our next speaker will succeeded chairmen congressman white but jerry berman founded the center for democracy and technology in our organizations been the driving force between good conversation between internet policy before anyone thought of support and so jerry will be our next speaker. [applause] >> is congressman here? you coming in. it's an honor for me to be here and to introduce congressman as

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i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. of the state of the union, is this some grand moment of bipartisan togetherness, or is it wednesday? you might want to bet on wednesday. the president's speech, all 80 minutes of it was well received by those who watched, a more republican audience. whatever partisanship might be short lived as evidenced by what the president said just after the speech. >> you'll hear about the key exchange berman notes.

>> i think i mixed up mike berman and a mark berman. for that, i apologize.he book speaks for itself. read the book. >> so that's the conundrum we're in. we have an author who had access, an author who had great quotes, but did he have great fact? joining me to talk about this is paenlt and white house correspondent maggie haberman who has interviewed president trump many times. she's remembered to by some as the trump with prefer. we're going to talk about what she thinks about this book next. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet. you know what's not awesome? when only certain people can get it. let's fix that. let's give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and these guys, him, ah. oh hello. that lady, these houses! yes, yes and yes. and don't forget about them. uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. >>> i think everybody is just staggered by your declaration that 100%, and those are your words -- >> 100%. >> of the people around the president believe that he is i

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, mark berman and somebody else berman who i seem to have transposed. you know, and to this i entirely cop to. my fault. but about donald trump, this book is as true as it gets. this is the man -- and i think it's one of the reasons that this book has -- this remarkable thing has happened to this book, that we all thought, and even i thought this writing this, i thought, we know donald trump. we've captured this. and it turns out, i think, that we hadn't, that the story of donald trump, this kind of emotional void, we had been sort of circling around looking into but not really being able to grasp what this thing is. and i think that's the accomplishment of this book. >> now, during an interview on msnbc with katie tur, i believe she asked you, because a lot of people were saying, well, if you've got tapes, recordings of these interviews, you should release them. with her, i believe that was on a monday or a tuesday, you said no. when i interviewed you on msnbc a couple days later, you sort of backtracked and said, you know, i'm kind of thinking about i

. >> i am john berman this morning. one question haunting the white house, who is going to tell the president he doesn't have an actual button, not to launch a nuclear war at least, and that's one question, and the more important question is bragging about button size and performance. >> that's a good question. the president wrote somebody should tell kim jong-un that trump also has a nuclear betten and it's more bigger and powerful than his, and my button works. seriously, the words of the president. >>> just, shaping up to be a big morning because one of the men closest to the president calls out that infamous trump tower meeting calling it unpatriotic, and this is from the new steve bannon book, and even if you thought it was not treasonist, you should have called the fbi immediately. our joe johns is at the white house with all of it. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. one tweet from the president this morning on iran, a theme he handled yesterday, yesterday very busy, of course, two tweets on north kor

i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow. the administration blasting a judge for blocking. president sticks to a bottom line demand for a wall after oscillating a lot in that meeting yesterday. >> the judicial order came overnight throwing things into turmoil just after the president's 55-minute public display of competency, so what feat of strength comes today. >> reporter: it is fascinating, john. it certainly adds a level of uncertainty to the tug-of-war over the d.r.e.a.m.ers. it's only temporary and, by the way, the justice department, the

. >> i am john berman. welcome to "fire and fury" friday, or maybe it should be called possible obstruction friday. at this minute the explosive new book raising alarming questions about the president's fitness is on sale despite the president's empty threats to sue to stop it, and this has "the new york times" raises questions about obstruction of justice. it says the president personally urged the white house counsel to stop sessions from recusing himself in the russia investigation. >> we will get to why in just a moment. and questions abound in the book after the world learned about donald trump, jr.'s meeting with the russians, and wolff rights, it was about adoption policy, and even though it was likely, if not certain, that the times had the incriminating e-mail chain and it's quite possible they knew "the times" had the e-mail chain. for the first time we are hearing from the author of the book himself, michael wolff, answering questions about how fit the people closest to the president think he is

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i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow. we begin with breaking news. what looks like a break through in the talks between north and south korea, both sides agreed to hold military talks. >> military talks. what does that mean? north korea says it will send a delegation to the winter olympics in south korea, and those games start one month from today. will ripley on the ground where these talks happened. what came from the talks? what can you tell us? >> reporter: probably the biggest announcement that came out within the last hour, john and poppy, north and south korea will be engaging in talks in the near future on de-escalating military tensions on the peninsula, which sounds like welcome news until you hear what the north korean negotiator also said is that north korean weapons are pointed at the united states and not south korea or china. they said the united states must learn how to peacefully co-exists with a nuclear armed north korea or face ruin, and the north korean official said that north korea denu denuclearization is not happening. so the

i'm poppy har bow. >> i'm john berman.ing news, new reporting and new evidence that the president is fuming. he just directly contradicted his chief of staff and declared himself completely unevolved. at least on the issue of the border wall he wants to build between the u.s. and mexico. in an early morning statement the president wrote, the wall is the wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived it. that is not

i have the problem with the berman brothers. and someone else berman who i seem to have transposed. into the site but about donald trump this book is as true as it gets. it's one of the reasons that this book has this remarkable thing that has happened to this book. that we all thought and even i thought this we know donald trump. we've captured this. and it turns out i think that we have it. the story of donald trump is emotional void we had been circling around looking into but not really been able to to grasp what this thing is. i think that is the accomplishment in the book. a lot of people were saying recordings of these interviews you should release them. you said no. when i interviewed you on ms nbc couple days later you backtracked and said you know i'm kind of thinking about it. so now that we are weak out where is your head in terms of the question i have always had sometimes you had tapes sometimes you had notes. sometimes you read to the bathroom to scribble what someone just told you. i've never in i have never in my career and ask for tapes before what i do is write se

i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow. we begin with breaking news.looks like a break through in the talks between north and south korea, both sides agreed to hold military talks. >> military talks. what does that mean? north korea says it will send a delegation to the winter olympics in south korea, and those games start one month from today. will ripley on the ground where these talks happened. what came from the talks? what can you tell us? >> reporter: probably the biggest announcement that came out within the last hour, john and poppy, north and south korea will be e

john berman here. so who else connected to the russia investigation does the president want fired this morning? this is no idle question. in the last 72 hours there have been reports he either tried to or mused about firing the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, the special counsel and the deputy fbi director. he did fire the former fbi director and the current fbi director threatened to quit. so this roster would not only make for a decent justice department basketball team with a couple of subs included but it also has some in congress saying they need to pass legislative protections for robert mueller. some republican allies see he no urgency. detailing alleged partisan abuses in the russia investigation. there is new word this morning that this memo specifically targets deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in its analysis. a key vote on whether this memo goes public comes in just a few hours. the president wants it out there. there is a good bet we could see this all very soon. our ka

john berman here.ing morning at the white house where up is down, black is white and there are serious questions about whether president donald trump knows the positions of president donald trump. in the span of a few minutes the president seemed to come out against a bill the white house supports. he used words a key aid claims he doesn't say, hillary clinton, and this is on top of pronouncing he might not answer questions that he 100% said he would. the breaking news is that the president seemed to suggest he opposes reauthorization of a key surveillance act. he wrote, house votes on

. >> i'm john berman. the breaking news, new reporting and new evidence that the president is fuming. he just directly contradicted his chief of staff and declared himself completely unevolved. at least on the issue of the border wall he wants to build between the u.s. and mexico. in an early morning statement the president wrote, the wall is the wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived it. that is not at all what chief of staff john kelly told fox news. in fact, it's the complete opposite. >> he has evolved in the way he's looked at things. >> apparently chief of staff kelly also does not think his boss is very informed when it comes to the wall. he told a room full of members of congress that the president was uninformed, his word uninformed, on the issue of the wall during the campaign. a source familiar with all of this this morning tells our caitlin collins that has left the president fuming ave. listening to all that john kelly said, that he hated his comments. caitlin col

. >> chris is off, john berman is here. >> happy new year. >> let's get to it. there is more protests and bloodshed on the streets of iran. president trump is tweeting his support for the iranian people quoting, it's time for change in iran. now the iranian leader is blaming the uprising on his enemies. >>> infrastructure bill, plan for the nation's d.r.e.a.m.ers that needs to be hammered out by congress. cnn covering every angle of this, starting with joe johns live at the white house this morning. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, john. the president back here at the white house after the long holiday break. his administration and congressional leaders now confronting many of the domestic issues they had to postpone in order to hit the road in december. however, it is the international issues that have been dominating the president's twitter feed so far this year. president trump returning to washington with a large legislative to do list and a range of international issues on his plate. >> everybody is going to love what's happening with our count

berman quickly refuted this. he tweeted, i have never had breakfast at the four seasons. never actually been there! there goes that one. then there is this. mr. wolff claims mitch mcconnell once blew off the president to get a haircut. you know what? another reporter, axios reporter, jonathan swan said in a tweet, i was told this exact story by a i suspect the same source as wolff used. i ran it down with other sources and couldn't confirm it. so i never published it. mr. wolff also claims that the president did not know who john boehner was, that the president is semiilliterate. wow. like i said, when you are journalist it is your job to get your facts right. you do not published things you have not triple-checked but apparently many things in this book were published without any kind of even double-checking! white house senior advisor for communications assistant to the president, mercedes schlapp. you know, mercedes, it bothers me tremendously, i tell you, i take my profession very seriously and i would hope other journalists do the same but when you have someone publi

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman.zying 24 hours in the russia investigation, no longer just inching toward the president. this morning it is more like careening. we know special counsel robert mueller wants to counsel the president and we know why. sources tell cnn the special counsel wants to hear

john berman here and as we sit here this morning, the government is shutdown. we could know in the next 60 minutes if will stay that way. at stake the jobs of 800,000 government employees, the future of some 800,000 people brought to this country as kids and also frankly, the very notion of competence. there is movement all over the place this morning so pull up a chair. this is where we stand right now. the senate reconvenes next hour but the real action is behind closed doors. senate democrats are expected to meet at some point to see if they can stomach the latest proposal on the table. that proposal an agreement to fund the government for three weeks in return for mitch mcconnell promising it is his intention and that seems to be the key word, his intention to bring the issue of immigration to the senate floor. is that enough for the democrats? >>> and moments ago despite pleas from members of his own party and his own staff to stay out of the fray, the president is dropping twitter bombs into the mix, writing, democrats have shut down our government in the

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman.esident is canceling a trip to florida, it must be serious. moments ago the white house announced the president will not leave for mar-a-lago unless a bill to keep the government running is passed. they might have to live for a while without some vitamin d. a republican congressional insider tells cnn this is going to get worse before it gets better. with less than 15 hours to go now on the official countdown clock, there is a full-scale standoff in the senate. >> my colleagues, where is the urgency here? the reason we're here right now is our friends on the other side say solve this illegal immigration problem right now or we're going to shut the

i wrote a book about donald trump -- >> mick berman or nick berman -- >> cnn is not the one that releasedhe dossier. >> that was completely untrue. >> cnn did not release it. >> they were first on the story. >> they reported on it, they did not release it. >> that's my point about that's the level that we're talking at here. >> i understand that, but as somebody who wrote a book before donald trump i was cautious that every single fact in there was correct, i didn't want anybody to say, your book isn't true because look at this tiny little thing. did you have a fact checker go through it? >> yes, i did. actually, three. >> why not open yourself up is my question. >> as i say, the so-called errors that you're talking about are the kind of men schois scho errors you're going to find in any book, even yours. i'm threatening the president of the united states. and, you know, bring it on is what i say. >> i understand that, and i appreciate that, and this book is very compelling, and there's a lot of it that reads true, that feels true, we are living in a time right now, where everyone is so a

. >> i'm john berman. if the president is canceling a trip to florida, it must be serious. moments ago the white house announced the president will not leave for mar-a-lago unless a bill to keep the government running is passed. they might have to live for a while without some vitamin d. a republican congressional insider tells cnn this is going to get worse before it gets better. with less than 15 hours to go now on the official countdown clock, there is a full-scale standoff in the senate. >> my colleagues, where is the urgency here? the reason we're here right now is our friends on the other side say solve this illegal immigration problem right now or we're going to shut the government down. >> there is an urgency. there's an urgency in their lives because of the uncertainty of tomorrow. whether tomorw wil mean deportation for themselves and their families, yes, there a re urgency. >> i find it rather disingenuous to say we're against this short-term continuing resolution because we want another short-term continuing resolution. >> this resolution kicks the can down the

john berman here. mind-bending morning at the white house where up is down, black is white and there are serious questions about whether president donald trump knows the positions of president donald trump. in the span of a few minutes the president seemed to come out against a bill the white house supports. he used words a key aid claims he doesn't say, hillary clinton, and this is on top of pronouncing he might not answer questions that he 100% said he would. the breaking news is that the president seemed to suggest he opposes reauthorization of a key surveillance act. he wrote, house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by previous administration and others. now, the president is wrong on certain fronts here, misleading on others which we will get to. maybe most strikingly, his own white house put out a statement in support of the same bill he just blasted. cn

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john berman here. a major new questions emerging this morning.st see the first signs that president trump will refuse to answer questions in the russia investigation? is this an outcome in search of a justification? keep that in mind with all the developments surrounding the top secret memo that arrived

. >> i'm john berman. in the wake of the state of the union, is this some grand moment of bipartisan togetherness, or is it wednesday? you might want to bet on wednesday. the president's speech, all 80 minutes of it was well received by those who watched, a more republican audience. whatever partisanship might be short lived as evidenced by what the president said just after the speech. >> you'll hear about the key exchange berman notes. first, with his big speech behind him, the president could make this controversial memo public at any time, of course, about the fbi and alleged abuses of surveillance, et cetera. this is despite fierce objections from the president's own justice department. white house press secretary sarah sanders just on cnn said the decision-making process is still taking place. listen. >> i do know that we're going through that process. i know it will be part of what's taking place at the white house today, and we'll certainly keep you guys posted, as i know you'll continue to ask unt

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. the president fired one fbi director and this morning new reporting that the current fbi director became so enraged he threatened to quit. >> axios said christopher ray fired the deputy director, mccade had been a public target of president trump for months, largely for his role in the hillary clinton investigation. cnn shimon prokupecz has more on this from

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. it is pretty clear that first week of the new year will end like so many weeks of the first year of the trump administration, almost entirely engulfed in revelations and controversies from russia and the russia investigation to a chaotic west wing. today the explosive tell-all that president trump calls phony and full of lies, well, it has been on sale everywhere and i mean everywhere now for an hour. days ahead of schedule. despite the president's best efforts to stop it. defending his reporting this morning the author of "fire and fury" says 100% of the people around president trump question his fitness for office. >> what's the suggestion there? because that goes beyond saying okay, the president's not an intellectual. what are you arguing there? you say, for example, he was at mar-a-lago and didn't recognize lifelong friends. >> i will quote steve bannon, he's lost it. >> but wait, there's more. this morning "the new york times" is reporting that the president personally ordered t

i'm john berman. new this morning the president sews new doubt in the russia investigation and then raises new confusion about where he stands on a key national security issue. this morning, the president writes, disproven and paid for by democrats,s do see yea used to spy on trump campaign, did fbi use intel tool to influence election? fox and "friends" where he may have seen this, did dems or friends pay russian. where are hidden smashed dnc servers and where are crooked hillary clinton e-mails. what mess. that statement one thing. the bigger might be all of a sudden he raised doubts about where he stands on foreign surveillance and then just as suddenly, he seemed to backtrack. kaitlan collins at the white house this morning where it is a bit of a confusing morning, to say the least. >> that's right, john. a lot of contradictions and cleanups going on this morning and it's only 10:00 alex marquardt he-- 10:00 a.m. at th white house. the president came out with a bill less than 12 hours after the wh

i'm john berman. the breaking news is this. want to show you live pictures of the senate floor. we were just told we're about to hear from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he will take to the floor to make some kind of a statement, perhaps to tell us if they are any closer to a deal to end this government shutdown. now, the latest proposal on the table is to fund the government for three weeks, in return for leader mcconnell saying it is his intention, his intention to bring the issue of immigration to the senate floor. is his intention enough for democrats though? democrats will meet in the next hour to discuss where they stand on all of this. >>> also new this morning, from the white house, what seems to be a choreographed series of statements that the president is very busy, very involved, both involved and busy, in all of the negotiations. this after reports that many republicans including administration officials would rather he stay on the sidelines during all of this, practice what is called a game of hide and tweet here. let's begin, though, on capitol hill. w

jeremy berman founded our organization. he's been a driving force for having deep conversation before anyone thought it was important. jerry will introduce our next speaker. jerry berman. [applause] >> is congressman goodlatte here? he is coming in. it is an honor for me to be here and to introduce congressman goodlatte. as many of you know, he is retiring this year after a long run success there of virginia. he worked tirelessly on encryption policy comer surveillance policy. we've dialogued over the years on these issues. but what was critical and it's been absolutely critical to the success of the internet education foundation, which runs because of bob goodlatte and tim morgan and they both deserve a hand just for that. [applause] for my last word before i turn it over to bob is back when we started this come in the big issue for the internet with spam no one, and we were a footnote, but going through free speech, what we learned as they were going -- there were going to be multiple policy issues that confronted it. but

i'm excited to say jay berman is the former chief of staff to senator birch bye. he was a congressional aide to the senator, working to get that constitutional amendment passed, which happened, of course. that is a rarity in and of itself. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. yes, it's very rare and it's even rarer, the fact that we have one senator who guided into passage two constitutional amendments. no one since the founding fathers have been responsible for that. so he had the 25th on presidential succession. and the 26th along with senator randolph, which was 18-year-old, and he almost had a third, which didn't, in fact, pass congress, came three votes short at one point for ratification in the states. and that was the equal rights amendment. >> huh. i feel like i'm back in law school. but i liked law school. don't take that the wrong way. i'm going to ask you about whether all of this could apply in this context with michael wolff reporting that trump aides are talking about it. but before i get to that, which is the application now, building on what you jus

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. >> i think i mixed up mika mike berman and mark berman. for that i apologize. but the book speaks for itself. read the book. see if you don't feel like you are with me on that couch in the white house. and see if you don't feel alarmed, as you say. >> i want to ask you about your access to the president. how many times did you interview the president for this book, and when was the last time you talked to the president for this book? >> you know, i spoke -- i have spoken to the president, as i've said, i have spoken to the president for about three hours through the length of the campaign up until i finished the book. and that's what i'm going to say. i think the president has said, no, you didn't do this, that's wrong. and i don't want to go -- i truly do not wnt >> let me ask, the white house -- the white house says the last time that they have a record of you speaking to him was in february of 2017, which is not even through the first 100 days. >> there were -- there was that moment, there were several other moments after that. >> did he not know that they w

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow.nt we will hear from president trump amid the scenic swiss alps. the president is in davos at a gathering of the business elite that businessman trump never got invited to. he is there for the first time as president. if he's as talkative as he was last night at the white house, we may hear a lot more about the russia probe, what he thinks obstruction is and isn't, a path to citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers and why it's, supposedly not a,

john berman here and as we sit here this morning, the government is shutdown.xt 60 minutes if will stay that way. at stake the jobs of 800,000 government employees, the future of some 800,000 people brought to this country as kids and also frankly, the very notion of competence. there is movement all over the place this morning so pull up a chair. this is where we stand right now. the senate reconvenes next hour but the real action is behind closed doors. senate democrats are expected to meet at some point to see if they can stomach the latest proposal on the table. that proposal an agreement to fund the government for three weeks in return for mitch mcconnell promising it is his intention and that seems to be the key