from the tisch wnet studios at nlincoln center iyork, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening and ank you for joining us. uo days before he delivers his state of ton address, and less than two weeks before another deadline to come up with a way to fund federal agencies, the president is not ruling out another governmetdown. >> well, we're going to have to see what happens on february 15th and i-- i think-- >> you'r table?king it off the >> i don't take ything off the table. i don't like to take things off the table. >> thompson: in a wide ranging interview on cbs, mr. trump also said he is still prering to withdraw u.s. troops from syria despite opposition from congressional republicans, b said he wants to keep u.s. troops in iraq to monitor iran. >> i wan iran. able to watch all i want to do is be able to watch. we have an unbelievable and expensive military base built in iraq. it's perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled middle east. >> thompson: on this superbowl sundaythe president also weighed in on football, calling it "a dangerous sport" that

newshour weekend's megan thompson has the story. ♪ ♪ou >> reporter: armstrong: one of the most famousinfluential musicians of the 20th century. a genius on the trumpet, who also had one of the world's most recognizable voices. but that wasn't all. >> he was thperson whodi coed what we now call jazz. he did, in a certain sense, what chaucer did for english literature. >> his improvisations were just light-years ahead of everybody at the time. he had this loose rhythmic feeling that we call swing. and after he, you know, demonstrated how to really approach this music, here comes bing crosby, etzgerald, frank sinatra. and anybody who sings that kind of music today, they're doing what louis armstrong was doing in the 1920's. >> reporter: born a poor family in new orleans in 1901, armstrong went on to appear in more than 30 movies, recd hundreds of albums and perform thousands of shows for crowds around the world. il 1943, he and his wife l moved into this modest house in the working class new york city neighborhood of corona, queens. today, the home is perfectlyhe preserved asouis armstro