adrianna: rick klein, thank you for your time. until next time. rick: thank you. adrianna: we could see the capitol behind him and that live shot. steve: at least we could see it. the visibility early this morning, with the fog and cold temperatures -- it was slick by the potomac river. as i was walking my dog, we were slipping and sliding. a relatively short walk, but it was ok. rehoboth beach, the snow beginning to melt. the blizzard from last week long gone. the temperature at reagan national stands at 37 degrees. the wind not much of a problem. feels-like temperature we will take considering how cold it has been around here. visibility looking good right now. we need to get the clouds to move out of here. temperatures are rebounding. middle 40's in winchester and leesburg. lower-40's in lawrence and. 42 in andrews. leonardtown road at 42 degrees. at 42l show you -- degrees. if you're looking for the colder air, had north and west. pittsburgh and columbus, feels-like temperatures are still in the middle- and the bump -- that is the warmer air -- upper-20's. the

rick klein of abc news is quoting senator cory gardner "maybe they got a pinky swear, but they could have done the same thing friday and avoided a shutdown." let's get to phone calls. democrat line. caller: good evening. i am in my mid-40's. i have children that are grown. i grew up in this country. i am an american. happening,this having a president have these types of communication with the and the government fighting each other is very sad because my children see this and i think this is how our country is supposed to be run. it is not. i would extend an invitation to donald trump to call me. i would like to talk to him. morenk we need a lot 40-year-old mother's in the government. i have a solution to all these problems. like to talket -- to donald trump and have a one-on-one with him to tell him that my great great grandfather wrote the constitution. i take this very personal. i love my country very deeply. i am not going to do the tit-for-tat bashing my government and the president. everyone has their own personality and traits. -- he is notni helping us, we the people. we have

mere is rick klein. >> reporter: a shutdown accomplished even less when it was finally settled. the status quo around immigration and a vague agreement to discuss these issues down the road. this is a big win for president trump. he stuck to his guns and got the democrats to concede to most of his demands, opening the government again with a promise from democrats that they might support a border wall. that would be a huge policy victory for him. democrats, including chuck schumer, they don't feel great. they overplayed their land and frankly it was a bad land and they had to fold it and they did not get much other than to say that the lights are back on. and it will be an intense spotlight over the next 17 days, that is the deadline that democrats are giving republicans to come to an agreement on immigration. otherwise there will be a series of votes where it is anyone's guess. but those 17 days will be filled with issues that haven't been solved for more than 17 years. so not a lot optimism that this will suddenly break the issues around imxwragmigration and muc more. >> the d

i'm here in the white house briefing room with my friends, abc political director rick klein and senior congressional correspondent mary bruce. we have got the nearly impossible task of coming up with a highlights reel for the year that was, so no pressure. you first, rick. what stood out to you the most? >> it turns out the great dealmaker actually doesn't go and cut a lot of great big deals. remember how he governed, an independent voice that was going come in and drain the swamp. work with democrats and work with republicans. he has governed in a very ideological way to the right. those deals are out there but he hasn't made a lot of calls to chuck and nancy. >> remember all the talk of unified government. it has been a very long time since they have had republicans in control in this building and on the hill. they made big promises, everything from health care reform to building that wall. they did just have a big victory on tax reform but in a lot of ways their own republican infighting blocked them at a lot of turns this year. >> the clock ran out for them, and of course, that me

more insight from abc new political director, rick klein. >> he practically torched the white house.dency come out against a president, his mind-set, his decision making, his family members all wrapped up in this book "fire and fury". donald trump said bannon didn't just lose his job but his mind. it's harder to get much stronger than that. one agent says they could be back on the same page before long, but the bottom line is steve bannon has left donald trump and his presidency some uncomfortable baggage around the investigation. and around the very functioning of the presidency. >> he hasn't tweeted about all of it as of yet. >>> north and south korea have reopened a military to military hotline. officials have tested the line to make sure it was working properly. the conversation went something like this. the south koreans asked the northerners if they had anything specific to talk about. the northerners said no. and that when they did, they'd let the south know. clearly they're using like modern technology there with that phone line. something out of ozzie and harriet. >> the com

i'm here in the white house briefing room with my friends, abc political director rick klein and maryruce. we have the nearly impossible task of coming up with a highlights reel for the year that was. no pressure, you first, rick. what stood out the most? >> it turns out the great dealmaker actually doesn't go and cut a lot of great big deals. remember how he governed, an independent voice that was going to drain the swamp, work with democrats and republicans. he's governed to the right. those deals are out there but he hasn't made a lot of calls to chuck and nancy. >> remember all the talk of unified government. they made big promises, everything from health care reform to building that wall. they did just have a big victory on tax reform but in a lot of ways their own republican insighting blocked them at a lot of turns movement with so many women around the country coming forward, accusing men of sexual misconduct. it happened right here in this town. a lot of members of congress lost their jobs and this president had to face his own accusations. that certainly was a highlight for

the back of this news we have seen the japanese yen strengthen and the topix klein almost 4% this month. rickto see you this morning. thanks for joining us. would turn to the boj move, is this still tightening from the boj? is this just a small technical tweak? rick: i think most people think it is probably the latter. the market reaction to it i think is interesting. presage what is likely before us over the next couple of years. as the big central banks wind back there stimulus and start tapering. i think we can have a lot of comfort that central banks are going to be if it all possible, very moderate, gentle, and certainly careful, presuming they can precipitate a really big drop in bonds or big rally in the u.s. dollar, that's the thing, from whatever they do. manus: good morning to you. if i look at the markets i'm going to show the veer what i got here, which is again rising and the yield rising -- the yen rising and the yield rising. rising bond yields are not at catastrophe. rising bond yields drives the banks. it may be just a precursor to a little bit of a fade in the qe move that m