i'm fredricka whitfield. thanks so much for being with us this sunday. right now lawmakers meeting on the hill trying to figure out how to get u.s. government working again. let's listen in to makowsky of alaska. >> we recognize that as a group of bipartisan legislators, we need to be working with our respect active leadership teams to have them come to a level of consensus. we want to be able to provide support for that consensus. >> let me just add one point. when was the last time you saw 22 senators meeting day after day, and the number of senators keeps growing with each meeting that we have? and each one of them is committed to getting to a solution. and that to me is very encouraging and we haven't seen that around here for quite some time. >> senator, do you have buy-in from your leadership? the tone on the floor from mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer is different from what we're hearing with you guys. are they on board with what you guys are working up here? >> they are certainly very much aware of o

i'm fredricka whitfield. president trump meeting with legislators and setting their 2018 legislative agenda. and he held an impromptu press conference addressing far more than his 2018 goals. >> reporter: mr. president, did you ask the white house counsel to ask the attorney general sessions not to recuse himself? >> everything i did was 100% proper. the story in the "times" was way off, or at least off. everything i do is 100% proper. i guess the collusion now is dead because everybody found after a year of study there's been absolutely no collusion. there's been no collusion between us and the russians. now, there has been collusion between hillary clinton, the dnc and the russians. unfortunately you people doesn't cover that that much. the only collusion is between hillary and the dnc and the russians. >> president trump also asked about his loyalty to attorney general jeff sessions. >> reporter: do you stand by jeff sessions as your attorney general? >> yes. >> and will gary cohn continue to remain -- >>

i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with the argument over what the president did or did not say. the conflicting reports over use of vulgar language. >> a gross misrepresentation. >> senator durbin has been very clear, senator graham has told others that the reports were basically accurate. are you saying the president did not use the word so widely reported? >> i'm telling you he did not youz the word. i'm telling you it is a gross misrepresentation. >> i didn't hear that word either. >> so you're saying in that room you didn't hear any of this sort of lumping everybody together. >> i did not hear derogatory comments about individuals or persons, no. >> so this sentiment is totally phony, as well, that is attributed to him. >> i was in a meeting afterwards where those who presented to the president spoke about the meeting and they said those words were used before those words went public. so that's all i can tell you is i heard that account before the account even went public. >> the president is at his flori

i'm fredricka whitfield. president trump is in washington preparing for a major milestone in his presidency, delivering his first state of the union address that happens in two days and immigration is expected to be at the forefront as the president sells his controversial plan. let's get straight to cnn's boris sanchez live for us at the white house. boris, what is likely the theme of the speech? >> reporter: hey there. the them of president trump's speech is building a safer, stronger and prouder america. white house officials tells cnn this is an optimistic speech one in which the president will try to appeal to people that are outside of his base. he's going to do that by touting his success on the economy citing a boom being stock market and dwindling unemployment figures and then he's going to shift and talk about the future. specifically infrastructure. he is said to ask congress for a billion dollars in infrastructure funding. then talk about national security, as well as trade. but really the most cr

i'm fredricka whitfield. "vital signs" with sanjay gupta starts right now. >>> 26-year-old lalita kumar is three hours from home, and she got here by carrying her son in her arms and bag in the other. in nepal, she is waiting. for sundesh this may be the only chance to get an operation to shape his life. help is on the way, but it is not easy to reach them. we are along for the ride, for "vital signs" from nepal. ♪ >> nepal is a stunning country. home to the himalayan mountains, and bordered by india to the south and ti bett to the north, but the same beautiful landscape presents a challenge, and effectively cutting off those who live in rural areas. nepal has a total population of more than 29 million people, but consider this, just over 1 million live in the capital city of kathmandu, and only 19% of the total population lives in an urban area. the rest are in rural communities. >> i come from a very remote area, and so i understand how difficult it is to access the medical care in nepal. >> reporter: the d

i'm fredricka whitfield live from our nation's capitol. welcome back to our special live coverage from the nation's capitol. today is the first anniversary of president trump taking office and the u.s. government is shutdown. republicans wholeheartedly blaming democrats, just moments ago majority leader kevin mccarthy said this. >> for the idea that they would shut this down for a program of daca that is -- we've been in negotiates and a meeting and bipartisan and bi-camera where everybody in that room agreed to working on four issues with dealing with it. the daca, the border security, the change migration and the merit based and we've been having those meetings. even they walked out of my office the day before saying there was good progress. they weren't able to make the meeting yesterday. but the turn-around and shut the rest of the government down over something not shut down, that is irresponsible. >>> let me bring in my panel to discuss this. david swordly and matt lewis and jim kessler, the former legislative policy director for sen

>>> 11:00 on the east coast, i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. the anger and the backlash against president trump continues to mount, both here at home and across the globe. world leaders and organizations are slamming his comments as racist, shameful, and outrageous. many african nations demanding an apology after the president reportedly made vulgar and derogatory comments about immigrants. many world leaders are also calling in u.s. diplomats to explain the remarks by the president, who has issued only a vague denial. so far, no apology from trump, but he did send out a tweet this morning saying, "america first." that coming from his florida resort, where he is spending the weekend. meanwhile, his vulgar remarks may also be impacting that already fragile immigration talks and negotiations to avert a government shutdown. let's begin now in washington with cnn white house correspondent abby philips, who joins us with more on the fallout from the president's remarks and what he's tweeting about now. hello, abby. >

>>> hello, i'm fredricka whitfield live in washington, d.c. as the president marked one year today in office, the u.s. government is shutdown. right now house republicans and democrats are meeting separately behind closed doors. the senate will get back to work today, senate minority leader chuck schumer is asking the president to meet with him along with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, house speaker paul ryan and minority leader nancy pelosi. no word from the white house whether that will happen. all of this in the midst of so much finger pointing. >> president prutrump, if you a listening, it is almost as if you want a shutdown. >> they are feeling proud of themselves. their very own government shutdown. >> and the president blaming democrats, tweeting this. this is the one year anniversary of my presidency and the democrats wanted to give me a nice present. hashtag democrat shutdown. all of this as activists across the nation are participating in the women's march. marking the anniversary of that historic turnout one year ago. let's

i'm fredricka whitfield.rump and top republican leaders on a weekend getaway at camp david to set the 2018 agenda. the president speaking last hour. >> got a lot of work done. a lot of great work for the people. security discussed. infrastructure discussed. military and all types of

i'm fredricka whitfield.h sanjay gupta starts right now. >>> 26-year-old lalita kumar is three hours from home, and she got here by carrying her son in her arms and bag in the other. in nepal, she is waiting. for sundesh this

and outside whitfield elementary school granted may be not be sticking to the playgrounds grounds, but a lot of shaking going on meaning the temperature of 25 will probably feel that much chillier any time you feel that win blow. going all the way out to the shore points. yes, coastal flood advisory up and down the delaware wear beaches, jersey shore line, now allowed to expire. but the high tide has since receded, too, minor flooding issues ooh, still very damp in this area. 32 degrees the temperature at the boardwalk plaza in rehoboth. even though it looks like it is mainly just damp roads from rain, it is technically falling as snow, just melting on contact, in a lot of spots, leading to again the ponding, damp roads out there. so still going to have to contend with this for the next couple of hours, already back edge setting up back to the north and west most suburbs, and zoom it out, notice, that there is two separate pieces of energy, one making it full departure there is second guy move in late this morning, and it continues to cross the region now. in it wake, it does clear out

outside whitfield elementary school here's one of the spot that is will see the snow first. in berks county this is technically just next door to reading in west lawn pa things are very quiet. i don't think the kids have school in this district here today. meanwhile the rest of the afternoon best we're in the low 30s here so it is cold. later on tonight, other than that straight flurry or snow shower far north just clouds. we'll dip down to 27. so it's almost 10 degrees milder by comparison if you call 27 mild but better than it was early this morning. although you don see much rebound here because once more these clippers reinforce that cold. we're just stuck in the 30s for the next couple of days. again, the snow will linger as late as early wednesday before starting to clear back out. come thursday the sun is back. it's still cold. however, friday we finally crack a seasonal value. 40 degrees the expected high and look at warming trend. 51 never looked so good. and with a big game coming up on sunday there might be rain showers but since we are so far out, i guarantee som

in the recent days that's not going anywhere, at least not yet. 13 is the current temperature at whitfieldlementary school. school not in session right now but this is a good idea of what you'll see in a lot of different parking lots if you're going out doing post holiday shopping here perhaps you'll run into this. here are your actual air temperatures. you'll notice the wind bars coming out of the northwest. that northwest wind flow keeps things feeling extra chilly. that's what you need to count in for a wind chill here today but technically we're into the teens almost everywhere. as the day progresses, the daytime high, well, we're actually pretty close to where we connect to top off today. the temperature 19 for the high, in full sunshine at least but brutally cold air will continue to be a running theme for our area. now, in the days ahead, yes, there will be at least a modest retreat from the worst of the chill that we're facing right now but it will eventually get reinforced and we will in fact also have to deal with the possibility of snow come midweek, too. there's a nor'easter th

that right now but look close you can see the flakes flying over the darker areas of the camera at whitfieldd henry school next-door to reading in >> something coming right now working its way through in the next few hours. >> the temperature will climb another cup of of degrees. >> it means it holds back, in the just one kind of precipitation. >> even by 1:00, 2:00 much hasn't reached new jersey, that's why your winter weather advisory in these areas isn't even going to take effect. but look at this. as this over spreads the portion of the i-95 corridor and immediate vicinity, you have got yourselves a nasty little batch of icing coming through. now it is not going to accumulate very much. it would be, you know, in that regard, it is not going to be super hefty ways down power lines, causes power outages, it is not that kind after system. it is more of a travel issue. and trying to walk around, on the sidewalk, glazed over, could be real dicey for you ment even as this sticks around, beyond, 5:00, 67:00 at night it shouldn't accumulate too much. it just leaves behind slick spots, then out o

look at the temperature, though, outside whitfield elementary school, 62 degrees the current temperature, off in the distance, this is not the best representation we have in our slew of camera shots, but there is little hint of haziness, some fog settled in. the visibilities not ideal everywhere. so, expect that you might run into that. there is light wind, so much moisture to work, with and all of the snow melt. you can get this 60 though from allentown, to lancaster, here in philly, and even in mount pocono, 54 the current temperature. you actually hit record high yesterday in atlantic city of all places, but today is going to be paying trade off kind of day, round of rain herly coming through maybe few rumbles every thunder but daytime highs easily mid 60s, and that's just your theme throughout the day. so have your umbrella ready to go, also spiggot it will feel incredibly warm. meisha i know you said you put your parka on the way out the door. just don't need it on a day like today. light jacket is probably good move. but just too warm for anything that heavy today. >> yep, that's m

i'm fredricka whitfield. ana cabrera is up next. >>> hello, i'm ana cabrera. you are live in the cnn newsroom. it was hard to know where to start the show today between big new developments in the russia investigation, a bombshell book and now questions aboutme menta. we begin with lawmakers looking to push their 2018 agenda and instead questions about this message from president trump writing "now that russian collusion and one year of intense study has appeared to be a hoax on the american public, the fake news mainstream media are taking out the old ronald reagan play book and screaming mental stability and intelligence. i went from very successful businessman to top tv star to president of the united states on my first try. i think that would qualify as not smart but genius, and a very stable genius at that." those tweets an apparent response to the instant best selling book "fire and fury" by michael wolff in which he claims trump's closest aides have referred to him as an idiot, a moron. president trump responded from camp david. >> i went to college, i

. >>> hello, again, everyone, thanks so much for being with me, i'm fredricka whitfield.e launching new efforts to protect special counsel robert mueller from the white house. the move follows the bombshell reports from several news outlets including cnn that president trump tried to fire mueller last june. the president is calling the stories fake news. some lawmakers are taking the threats to the special counsel very seriously. senate democrats are now pushing legislation to prevent any official from undermining the russia investigation and protect mueller from being fired by the president. let's go now to cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez at the white house. so boris, democrats are, you know, very concerned. how far are they willing to go to try to protect mueller? ? very far

i'm fredricka whitfield.ump is in washington preparing for a major milestone in his presidency, delivering his first state of the union address that happens in two days and immigration is expected to be at the forefront as the president sells his controversial plan. let's get straight to cnn's boris sanchez live for us at the white house. boris, what is likely the theme of the speech? >> reporter: hey there. the them of president trump's speech is building a safe

i'm fredricka whitfield. both the house and senate back in session while senator lindsey graham is working on a compromise or at least talking about a compromise that his colleagues, bipartisan colleagues are working on that could be a breakthrough. senate leadership still playing the blame game as well, and the last hour, senator graham spoke frankly about the standoff, and he believes an agreement can happen as soon as tonight, but he believes the president's staff is standing in the way. cnn's ryan nobles is there for us. ryan, really strong messages coming from senate leadership about being optimistic, but at the same time, not necessarily counting on any direction from the white house staff nor the president really. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the sense that we're getting here on capitol hill that if a deal is going to be struck by the end of the night tonight to get the government back open monday morning, that it's going to come from senators and they have decided that the white house doesn't need

i'm fredricka whitfield.e is a bombshell report from news outlets, including are cnn that president trump tried to fire robert mueller. while the president is calling it fake news, some are takeing the threats to the special counsel seriously. there is to be a ledge are slags to go in to stop people from undermining the russian investigation and prevent mueller from being fired. we go to white house where we find our correspondent boris sanchez. is the president or the white house respond fing to the the n efforts to prevent him from firing the special counsel? >> we have reached out to the ask about the democrats pushing for these bills to be in talks as some democrats have indicated they may do, but no response from the white house. these bills were introduced in august, and there are two separate bills and both of them cospore cospore -- cosponsored for the republicans in this legislation in the past summer and fall when there were assurances are from the white house, prand the administration ta that there

i'm fredricka whitfield. majority leader mitch mcconnell was on the floor attacking minority leader chuck schumer and schumer using his speech to criticize the president of the united states. >> on friday the democratic leader made the extraordinary and destructive choice to filibuster our bipartisan deal and guarantee the american people a shutdown of their federal government. now it's the second day of the senate democratic filibuster and the senate democrats shutdown of the federal government. because the president wouldn't resolve months of ongoing negotiations over massive issues in one brief meeting and give the democratic leader everything he wants, my friend across the aisle has shut down the government for hundreds of millions of americans. >> it all really stems from the president whose inability to clinch a deal has created the trump shutdown. i agree with majority leader mcconnell. the trump shutdown was totally avoidable. president trump walked away from not one, but two, bipartisan deals. and th

i'm fredricka whitfield. that scathing tell-all book about life inside the trump white house remains front and center. the fallout continues this hour. steve bannon issuing a statement saying his comments in the book about donald trump jr. are inaccurate, and he expressed regret about not responding sooner. bannon writing this in part, donald trump jr. is both a patriot and a good man. he has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and

. >>> 11:00 on the east coast, i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield.ht now. the anger and the backlash against president trump continues to mount, both here at home and across the globe. world leaders and organizations are slamming his comments as racist, shameful, and outrageous. many african nations demanding an apology after the president reportedly made vulgar and derogatory comments about immigrants. many world leaders are also calling in u.s. diplomats to explain the remarks by the president, who has issued only a vague denial. so far, no apology from trump, but he did send out a tweet this morning saying, "america first." that coming from his florida resort, where he is spending the weekend. meanwhile, his vulgar remarks may also be

i'm fredricka whitfield. that scathing tell-all book about life inside the trump white house remains front and center. the fallout continues this hour. steve bannon issuing a statement saying his comments in the book about donald trump jr. are inaccurate, and he expressed regret about not responding sooner. bannon writing this in part, donald trump jr. is both a patriot and a good man. he has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around. i regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting on don jr. has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in first year of his presidency, unquote. but it may be too little too late. president trump drawing a line in the sand calling allies and friends making it clear they must choose between trump and bannon. the president has returned from his weekend at camp david. so boris, bannon didn't just say his comments about don jr. were inaccurate, he also went after former campaign m

i'm fredricka whitfield. president trump and top republican leaders on a weekend getaway at camp david to set the 2018 agenda. the president speaking last hour. >> got a lot of work done. a lot of great work for the people. security discussed. infrastructure discussed. military and all types of military situations and applications discussed. general mattis is here. general kelly. a lot of good military input. very important. discussed funding for the military, which is so important. we also obviously went into budgets. we went into daca. and how we're going to do. and we hope that we're going to be able to work out an arrangement with the democrats. i think it's something that they'd like to see happen. >> the president also responding today to questions from reporters about that new tell-all book about the life inside the white house, whether the president still supports the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions and whether trump would be willing to meet with robert mueller personally if requested. >> there's

i'm fredricka whitfield. majority leader mitch mcconnell was on the floor attacking minority leader chuck schumer and schumer using his speech to criticize the president of the united states. >> on friday the democratic leader made the extraordinary and destructive choice to filibuster our bipartisan deal and guarantee the american people a shutdown of their federal government. now it's the second day of the senate democratic filibuster and the senate democrats shutdown of the federal government. because the president wouldn't resolve months of ongoing negotiations over massive issues

i'm fredricka whitfield. >>> in just two days in what could be one of the biggest moments of his presidency, president trump will deliver his very first state of the union address. will he play to his base, or will he try to bridge the country's divide? at the top of the priority list, we understand, immigration. the president plans to pitch his controversial plan. let's go straight to cnn's boris sanchez straight from the white house. boris, what more can we expect from the president? >> a white house official telling cnn this will be an optimistic speech. the main theme will be building a safer, stronger, prouder america. the president is expected to appeal to people that naturally aren't in his base, and he's going to do that by touting some of his successes, specifically in the booming economy. he's going to talk about the growing stock market, dwindling unemployment numbers, and then transition to talking about the future. the president is expected to ask congress for about a trillion dollars for his infrastructure plan. then the most critical part of his speech coming at a crucial tim

. >>> hello, everyone, it's 11:00 on the ieast coast, i'm fredrica whitfield.p republican leaders are meeting at camp david. their plan, set the 2018 legislative agenda. but upstaging the day's planned events, president trump's bruised ego. he has been unleashing on twitter, defending his intelligence following the friday release of a tell-all book that questions his mental stability. trump on twitter saying now that russian collusion after one year of intense study has proven to be a total

>>> hello, everyone, it's 11:00 on the ieast coast, i'm fredrica whitfield. this weekend the president and top republican leaders are meeting at camp david. their plan, set the 2018 legislative agenda. but upstaging the day's planned events, president trump's bruised ego. he has been unleashing on twitter, defending his intelligence following the friday release of a tell-all book that questions his mental stability. trump on twitter saying now that russian collusion after one year of intense study has proven to be a total hoax on the american public, the democrats and their lap dogs, the fake news mainstream media are taking out the old ronald reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence. actually, throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. crooked hillary clinton also played these cards very hard, and as everyone knows, went down in flames. i went from very successful businessman to top tv star, to president of the united states. on my first try. i think that would qualify as not sma

i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. >>> world leaders are slamming president trump's comments as racist and they're demanding an apology after the president reportedly made vulgar and derogatory comments about immigrants. many world leaders are calling u.s. diplomats to explain the remarks by the president who has issued only a vague denial. so far no apology from trump but he did send out a tweet this morning saying, quote, america first, from his florida resort where he's spending the weekend. meanwhile, his vulgar remarks may be impacting the already fragile talks and negotiations to avert a government shutdown. let's begin on all of this in washington with cnn white house correspondent abby phillips with more on the fallout from the president's remarks and what he's tweeting about now. >> reporter: hi, martin. it's another day of outrage over comments that are frankly not safe for children. the president's comments implying in a meeting with bipartisan congressmen and lawmakers that he does not want immigrants from countries like africa, el salvador, haiti, places that are

morgan stanley >>> hello, i'm fredricka whitfield live in washington, d.c.ffice, the u.s. government is shutdown. right now house republicans and democrats are meeting separately behind closed doors. the senate will get back to work today, senate minority leader chuck schumer is asking the president to meet with him along with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, house speaker paul ryan and minority leader nancy pelosi. no word from the white house whether that will happen. all of this in the midst of so much finger

it's m coming down well at a good club here outside whitfield elementary school and i'll show you therries around and there's a decent cutoff where the snow is falling and it's mainly falling where you end up with heaviest totals that makes sense. bulk of accumulation for philly even though we seen a few flakes holds off until tonight. e ng with expected values of 1 to 3" and 3 to 6 as you head further north and west and snow is coming down good already this morning and meanwhile moving forward we clear back out and also warm up nicely. so any snow that falls has a chance to melt by week's end. >> katie thank you so much. we're looking outside now. bumper to bumper conditions in delaware county 95 north and highland avenue you see the residual backups too. this is the backup shot. all vehicles headed to the accident. and again that's 95 north highland avenue and certainly want to give yourself extra time in that area. disabled vehicle here schuylkill eastbound past taylor avenue and moving in eastbound direction and that cleared. headlights traffic volumes now and bumper to bumper con