press secretary sarah sanders spoke about the arrest this morning. ( darya ) stone is expected to make an appearance in federal court later today. ( darya ) senator dianne feinstein released a statement about stone's arrest and indictment this morning reading in part quote: "the indictment and arrest of roger stone is the latest sign that the special counsel investigation of russian interference in the 2016

that came from sarah sanders. does sarah sanders have a point? >> i think that again we don't see the words white house. we don'tee the words donald trump in the indictment, but i think that all the fingers and all the arrows are starting to get pointed in that direction. we have to see again what do trump campaign officials who were supposedly referenced in this particular indictment have to say. of course, we don't know the communications between the president and mr. stone. >> do you have one trump campaign official in mind that you would like to see in light of this indictment come before your committee to answer some question snz. >> no. i don't have anyone in particular in mind. we know that paul manafort, of course, the chairman of the campaign. i don't know whether the timing coincides exactly with his tenure. as you know, there are a lot of other people on the trump campaign. >> a lot of people that fill the bill of a senior trump campaign official. you are on two key committees considering the conversations we are having right now. the

the president likes sarah sanders. he likes seeing her on tv, just not in briefings. >> where else would it be? >> television interviews. >> stick around. more news we're following. an american man appears in a moscow courtroom as his lawyer reveals the alleged evidence that has russia calling him a spy. and just chow down midday? -you mean, like, lunch? -come on. voted "most likely to help people save $668 when they switch." -at this school? -didn't you get caught in the laminating machine? -ha. [ sighs ] -"box, have a great summer. danielle." ooh. danielle, control yourself. i'd like to slow it down here with a special discount for a special girl. danielle, this one's for you. . >>> we're learning new details of the case against an american man accused by russia of spying. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is joining us live from moscow. fred, you were there when paul whelan appeared before a russian court today. what happened? >> reporter: well, it was the first time, washington, we saw paul whela

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hang around, liz, adam, both while we wait for sarah sanders. republican congressman bill johnson from ohio kind enough to join us from capitol hill. good to see you, sir. i mentioned a moment ago the longest shutdown we had was 21 days back in the 90's. we'll have big meeting tomorrow. apparently what sarah will talk to us about at the white house. how long is too long this tile around? are we almost reaching that threshold from your point of view? >> you know i certainly think and i hope our democratic colleagues come to the table willing to negotiate yesterday in a white house briefing about the crisis on our border. the secretary of homeland security could not even get through her briefing without being interrupted by nancy pelosi, completely throwing the meeting into chaos, talking about they will not fund anymore for border security. so the president's made it very clear, border security is a priority. house republicans have made it clear. senate republicans have made it clear. it depends on whether or not they come to the table negotiatin

one facet was the sarah sanders. the other is the president saying steel slats. >> barrier. >> slats is such a great word. >> it is but i don't know if we've lost that if now we're at a steel barrier, like a flat steel barrier, i just can't tell anymore. >> i can't tell either. but, joe, $6 billion include 234 miles of new fencing or new barrier. the democrats this we've had on, right, you ask them would you allow for any new fence something well, maybe. so is there a deal from the democrats side if there's give and take here, cot democrats give some new fencing? a missile ne a mile of new fencing? >> sure. i think if you could make the case that it helped border security to put five miles here and ten miles there, they would. er in not going to now without getting something in return, and i think scott's right, that's a deal on daca and dreamers. i think the pressure is steady going to ramp up this week as the democrats and the house underspeaker pelosi start trying to pass these separate appropriation bills that. r

>> it doesn't matter, sarah sanders engaging with chris wallace. it doesn't matter. at the end of the day we're going to see and hear and know tomorrow night from the man himself. and he will ill communicate the conversation with the american people. and if the democrats are smart, they will take their time. take it all in, get the proe appropriate video and file records and then start whatever process they're going to do. >> let me press you though, how do you undo the damage with the people who believe the lies? >> look, there comes a point in any relationship where if you want to continue to harm yourself, there's not much i can do, right? if you continue want to take in bad information and act on that what i'm telling you, no, that match tip is hot. you don't want to touch it and you continue to do that, there's a point there's nothing i can say any longer that's going to help you help yourself. >> let the toddlers play with the fire crackers. let me reach out with breaking news from julia ainsley, who's with us now and get your thoughts p. u.s. customs and borde

the president says he pulled the plug on having so many press briefings because he says sarah sanders is being treated unfairly. this is "mediabuzz." it's fair to say everyone is relieved that after a 35-day shutdown, the president reached an i agreement to open the government. he said it could close in mid-february or he could use his emergency powers to build the wall. beverly hallberg, mollie hemingway, and jessica tarlov, a fox news contributor. mollie,ing a stinging defeat for trump. the "daily caller," trump caves. poll require objectively was a defeat. mollie: it objectively was a defeat. the president tried to get more personnel, technology to -- to interdict drugs. you have dozens much democrats saying they want to vote on this now that the government is open. we'll have to wait and see how serious people were about wanting border security. there was a failure at this point. but the larger issues, the responsibility can't just lie on the president. other people have to get involved. howie: there was an increasingly intense focus on the hardships' on the federal employees and

take a listen to this as some of my colleagues in the briefing room pressed sarah sanders on whether or not roger stone could actually receive a presidential pardon from president trump. it sure sounded as though over the last few days roger stone is campaigning for one and here's how sarah sanders answered that question earlier today. >> you said, i'm not aware of that, when asked if the president had ruled out a pardon for roger stone. so, does that mean he hasn't ruled out a pardon? >> i'm not aware of any conversation regarding that or a need for it. >> sarah, just to follow up, can you guarantee that the president won't pardon roger stone? >> again, i'm not going to talk about hypotheticals that are just ridiculous of things that i haven't talked about. >> reporter: and anderson, so you saw there, sarah sanders was trying to turn to me for a question there in the briefing room, but she never really ruled it out, and i think that basically indicates that this is a live option for the president. when i was able to ask sarah sanders a question, i asked her whether or not, you know,

sarah sanders joining us from the north lawn. another slow news day, sarah -- [laughter] thank you for joining us live. >> thanks so much for having me.

sarah sanders said it was categorically false. a press spokesperson here at the white house said that essentially it wasn't true. other aides here at the white house said, we are bringing up the credibility of buzzfeed, talking about michael cohen saying he's a proven liar, saying this is another egreenlous exampegreengious example of leakers. that's the attitude here at the white house. we should note -- you did point out in the lead to me that buzzfeed has come out basically asking the special counsel to identify what exactly it is disputing. ben smith, the editor in chief said in response to the statement from the special counsel's spokesman, he is saying we stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it and we urge the special counsel to make clear what he is disputing. make no mistake here, it's extraordinarily rare for the special counsel to release a statement like this and they probably wouldn't do such a thing unless they were knocking down the premise of the story which is that there is evidence corroborating the

which means sarah sanders fields the questions about credibility. her credibility. >> good afternoon. >> every official that speaks for this white house gets questions about their credibility because there have just been a number of statements that have been said at the top, from the president himself, that have just been simply not true. >> do you want to correct the record on your statement from august? >> in august of 2017, sanders said the president did not dictate don junior's statement about the 2016 trump tower meeting with russians. >> he weighed in, offered suggestion, like any father would do. >> ten months later it became clear he did dictate his son's statement. but sanders went silent on the topic. >> i'm not going to comment on the outside counsel. >> you said something from the podium. was it accurate or not? >> i'm not going to engage on matters that deal with the outside counsel. >> why should we be able to trust that the information we're getting from this administration is accurate? >> i think that if you spent a little bit more t

sarah sanders will speak ahead of that. mentioning the president. he called the market plunge yesterday a little glitch. was it a glitch? i think i get the thrust of what he's saying. things will settle out. >> i think the market settles out when the earnings come in. we're still at 8% earnings growth for 2019. nobody believes that. the market doesn't believe it. >> neil: nobody believes that. that good or that weak? >> that strong. >> i agree. >> neil: so less than that, they're right to sell again. >> what you're seeing now is the market pricing in essentially a 4% earnings growth here. you don't get a huge multiple on 4% earnings growth. by the way, we haven't actually priced in any reduction in the energy patch. if you think of energy at $45 a barrel for three or four months, those earnings are coming in. so you get close to no earnings growth for next year. that's what the market is pricing in. >> neil: a lot of people follow looking at earnings forward and reverse and say the earnings are cheaper, more affordable to you and it's overdone or wh

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>> reporter: it's a one-two that you heard from sarah sanders in those clips. when it involved paul manafort, when it involved michael cohen, the move is essentially to say it has nothing to do with president trump and then to reiterate how these individuals had other relationships with other political candidates. in this case sarah sanders talking about how roger stone had advised other presidential candidates and other people in the political sphere in the past. but the reality of president trump's relationship with roger stone is, of course, that all of this was happening in the context of president trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and in fact, the indictment makes clear that what roger stone was indicted for lying about were things that had to do with his discussions with people associated with the campaign during the presidential campaign and about things that potentially would have benefited president trump. so it's clear that sarah sanders is omitting a whole trough of information here, but it's once again just a pattern of behavior from the white hou

sarah sanders just said no they're still looking at a possibility. your thoughts on that. >> i thought one of the reasons he didn't do that is because there is not a national emergency so it's real hard to declare when that doesn't exist. this is a man, the only crisis at the southern part of the border is the monetary importer that he helped create. we have already lost two children who have died because lack of proper care because of the systems he has not put in place that ought to be put in place of the border. if he wants to talk about border security, democrats are more than willing to talk to him about that. if you wants to continue to insist a wall or nothing, then i don't know that there's going to be a lot of common ground, because we don't share that view at all. and again, for, just as his sake the wall has now become symbolic of something. >> the wall has become symbolic for democrats as well? >> yes it's become a symbol and a metaphor for his nativist policies. >> does that mean that you can't allow any mile of the wall to be built? >>

we read some tweets from the president, and hearing from press secretary sarah sanders. >> reporter: that's right, christi. president trump and the white house are slamming the fbi in the wake of reports that counterintelligence agents were looking in why trump did things that seem to benefit trump when he fired fbi director james comey, and when robert mueller was appointed special counsel. as you know, that counterintelligence probe was an aspect of the obstruction inquiry that was folded into mueller's broader investigation of russian meddling in 2016, so it is unclear how long that counterintelligence probe went on. nonetheless, the white house is responding forcefully to news of its existence, sarah sanders saying this is absurd. james comey was fired because he is a disgraced partisan hack and his deputy, andrew mccabe in charge at the time was a known liar fired by the fbi, unlike president obama who let russia and other adversaries push us around, president trump habitually tough on russia. he is claiming they opened the counterintelligence inquiry with no proof, calling them

. >> sarah sanders, thank you very much for coming on. as i said, robert mueller threw us a giant curve ball today and you still agreed to come and take questions. we commend you for that. >> thanks, john. >> it's a busy morning at the white house between the shutdown and the arrest of roger stone. our cameras were there. she didn't have to come on. we appreciate her coming to represent the white house's position. >> it is a very busy day with developments left, right and center. cnn newsroom picks it up now. >> very good friday morning. i'm jim sciutto in washington. john berman pressed sanders repeatedly and said did the president encourage a senior aide to reach out to wikileaks and she didn't answer the question. >> again, a very telling interview there between john berman and sarah sanders at the white house. really direct questions about communications roger stone had with wikileaks about getting stolen information. there was a lot she didn't answer. we'll play some of it for you. >> it would have been an easy one to answer definiti

so it will be interesting to see how sarah sanders frames this. we've noticed she's just trying to stay away from those questions about the russia investigation all together. and one thing final lly back to the shutdown, nancy pelosi, the house speaker, really emergeded at the end of the process late friday as somebody who you know, even conservative allies of the president agreed that had really just sort of taught the president a lesson and so one of the things i'll be listening to keenly is whether or not the white house will even admit that they did not come out ahead on this whole standoff over government funding and the wall down on the border. they've been trying to insist over the last few days and the president did this over the weekend in a tweet that this was not a con scession on the part the president. that's kind of an assessment, just not dealing with reality. we were talking about this on friday when watch iing the rose garen speech from the president. it will be interesting to see whether b sanders and the team here have come back

we are sure it's going to be sarah sanders? >> no. i just asked the deputy press secretary hogan who would be coming out and he said sarah sanders. it's been a lot emptier in the west wing so if we see her it will be the first time in days since the holiday she's come out in person in this room at least. we've seen several white house officials, of course, coming out in these impromptu discussions on the driveway outside the west wing. and the line today so far has revolved mostly around those talking points from the white house about the border wall, border security and how the president is not budging from this demand. the white house officials we've talked to, including kellyanne conway just today have not nailed down a number the president would be comfortable with to reopen government. if sanders does come out here, that will be a question folks want to ask. i covered this administration since day one. i don't think i've ever seen a briefing room this empty and that speaks to how improommptu this is. so we expect some action, hop

so is it totally unlike sarah sanders to lie on behalf of the white house? was this some sort of fluke? no. in fact, the white house press secretary has actually told falsehoods that are easily refutable, sometimes with videotape alone. for instance, when asked about heated rhetoric in the political atmosphere following the congressional baseball shooting, sanders told this outright lie. >> the president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. >> well, sanders also repeated the president's lies. here she is telling president trump, telling trump's lie that he had no knowledge of a hush money payment made to stormy daniels. >> there was no knowledge of any payments from the president. >> the president has denied the allegations. >> the president has denied and continues to deny the underlying claim. >> so we know that's not true. and investigators know too. according to court documents, michael cohen illegally made the payment to stormy daniels acting in coordination with and at the direction of individual 1. individual 1 is donal

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that's a little different than what sarah sanders at the white house said. there's got to be a large down payment on the wall. so there seems to be some inconsistencies between what lindsey graham, strong supporter of the president, is saying as opposed to the white house. >> one of the big questions on capitol hill -- i'm sure kaitlan has more insight in it than i do. what do they mean by a large down payment for the wall? that's where republicans are as these conversations continue to commence. not necessarily what the number is going to be but whether the white house will back down entirely. i can't stress enough, when you talk to democrats in the wake of those failed votes they continually point to the fact that the president's plan got fewer votes than the democratic plan. the president's prerogatives don't carry water in the senate. according thaides at this pointn time feel like they have no incentive to give right now. talks are ongoing. the idea that democrats will give on a bearrier, whether a large down payment or as senator graham discussed seems

. >> sarah sanders would not directly answer cnn's question whether the president would veto the democrats' plan. >> if it gets 60 votes, is the president going to veto that bill? >> look, the president has a proposal on the table. he has laid out what he would like to see and he has made in a clear time and time again. the real question is why are democrats not supporting the president's proposal. >> democrats pushinging back saying the republican plan is one-sided and made in bad faith. house speaker nancy pelosi tweet going if trump gets away with shutting down the government to get what he wants, he will do this again going forward. he will continue to hold workers hostage to his demands. >>> fbi agents sound going the alarm oefsh over the shutdown, say serious damage is being done to their counterterrorism and anti-gang operations. dozens releasing a report that includes the impasse is weakening national security. the president of the fbi agents association calling on lawmakers to figure out a solution fast. >> realistically, fbi agents should not have to go work at a store stocking s

today the white house press secreta secretary, sarah sanders, was asked that by our jim acosta. >> can you assure the american people that during these conversations that roger stone had with wi can kileaks individuals tied to the dumping of that material, that at no time the president had any interactions with roger stone, that nobody close to the president had interactions with roger stone who may have told the president what was going on in those conversations? all of this when it comes to roger stone is a complete surprise to the president? he didn't know about any of this. is that what you're saying? >> what i can tell you is that the president did nothing wrong throughout this process and the charges of the indictment against mr. stone have absolutely nothing to do with the president. >> of course that didn't answer the question. and while we do not know mueller's exact timeline for completing the russia investigation other than that he's close, according to the acting matt whitaker, we do know that the president's former fixer, michael cohen, has agreed to testify before the hou

in a moment, we will speak with white house press secretary, sarah sanders. but first, let's bring in kevin quirk, live at the white house with the latest on the talks between the two sides. >>reporter: with no end to the shutdown, top white house officials meeting with the president at camp david for a 2019 strategy session. youcan imagine at the top of the list, ending the shutdown . from the situation room, rose garden, refitting and cabinet rooms and this weekend, the eisenhower executive office building. president trump carefully crafted a forward leaning posture during the shutdown this week. but for all the tweets, crime statistics and letters to congress in imploring lawmakers to fund border security including a wall, an ominous realization over the nation's capital but with no sign of movement in the negotiations of partial government shutdown is unlikely to end anytime soon. >> it's very hard to see how progress will be made unless they open up the government. >>reporter: now, 16 days into the shutdown, it's clear despite increased face-to-face enga

but again, sarah sander, the press secretary, framing this as a national security issue saying that the president wants to go to the southern border to see those on the front lines of this humanitarian crisis and national security crisis. of course all of this happening as there is really an impasse still on this third week of the government shutdown in terms of what will both sides come to, what will they agree to. there were these negotiations over the weekend between mike pence and leadership on both sides of tfof the aisle, but so are telling cnn that basically both sides are just sticking to their talking points. but there is a real human impact, these nearly 100 million -- sorry, 1 million rather i should say federal workers who are impacted by this. some telling cnn that they are concerned about making ends meet. the president in response to questions about that said that those federal workers will make adjustments. >> we'll talk to one of those workers in a minute. pamela, thank you. and in talking with this negotiation that went over the weekend and this impasse, sunlen serfaty

and listen to sarah sanders. listen to her dodging questions today in the first white house press conference in 41 days. were there any conversations about a pardon for dirty trickster and trump ally roger stone? >> i'm not aware of that. haven't had any conversations regarding that matter. i'm not aware of any conversation even regarding that or a need for it. >> can she guarantee that the president wouldn't pardon stone? >> i'm not going to talk about hypotheticals that are just ridiculous. >> did you hear a denial there? me neither. and i'll bet roger stone didn't either. and then she shifted to playing the blame game. let's listen to this riff on wikileaks. >> i think every outlet that you all represent looked for and searched for information that wikileaks was providing, including reporting on it. so i think there's a responsibility by members of the media. >> blaming reporters for asking questions about wikileaks. that is doing their jobs. let's not forget it was donald trump himself who said this during th

and then you saw sarah sanders say that nearly 4,000 terrorists come into the country every year and, you know, that's not true either. how can the american people trust the president when he says this is a crisis, when he says things over and over again that aren't true? >> well, look, the american people aren't as concerned about the political debate as they are concerned about what's really happening at the border and -- >> this is credibility. the white house said nearly 4,000 terrorists come into our country. that's not true. >> jon, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists were apprehended attempting to come into the united states through various means in the last year. >> overwhelmingly at airport, not at the border. >> but 3,000 special interest individuals, people with suspicious backgrounds that may suggest terrorist connections, were apprehended at our southern border. last year alone, 17,000 individuals with criminal histories were apprehended at our southern border. literally, billions of dollars of narcotics flow through our southern border. 90% of all of the heroin th

and joining me now here in the studio, white house press secretary sarah sanders. sarah, welcome back to "fox news sunday." just be too great to be with you. >> chris: so what is the latest on the negotiations? did they make any progress yesterday? >> sarah: they made some progress yesterday. at the fact that they are sitting down at the table is some progress in and of itself. they've got a long way to go. if democrats set on the first thing that one of the individuals from the democrats side said in the meeting, we are not here to make an agreement. this is the beginning of a conversation that still has i think a lot left to be worked out. they are going to meet again later this afternoon and hopefully they will continue to make progress and continue to move the ball down the field. at the end of the day though, democrats have said over and over again that they support border security, that they support protecting american citizens. now it's time to fulfill some of those statements they've made, work with the president, let's get this done and open the government

sarah sanders now tells us to do something of a p.r. push there. there is talk of the president wanting to make a primetime address sometime this week. but, look, expert after expert has told us that what's happening at the border is not a national emergency. illegal border crossings are at an all-time low. the only reason we've been talking about illegal immigration the past 16, 17 days is because donald trump has set the terms of the debate. he gets to do that as president. that does not constitute a national emergency, however. >> if you're telling people 37 hunterists almost got into the country at the national border that could strengthen your argument that that is a emergency. >> ali, if you are an america first patriot, a national emergency would be 800,000 people who are federal workers who are not getting paid. >>> garrett, take us to capitol hill. we know that the president has had a lot to say and we've watched the white house kind of weave and scramble to make sense of what he's saying. but what are you hearing on both sides of the aisl

the sixth briefing of sarah sanders since september. president trump tweeted last week that he told sanders don't even bother with the briefings that much anymore. the white house correspondent's association responded. more ahead. first, the standoff over president trump's border wall continues even now. because the president told the "wall street journal" the odds of congress coming up with a deal that he can accept are less than 50/50. the parent companies of the journal and fox news share common ownership. president trump signed a bill on friday night you'll remember that reopened the federal agencies until just until february 15. so now hundreds of thousands of federal employees are going back to work after missing two paychecks because of the longest government shut down in american history. so might it happen again? we have team fox coverage. mike emanuel reporting from capitol hill. first, john roberts reporting from the white house. >> shep, good afternoon to you. the conferrees will be meeting wednesday with expects on ice, bor

as for the state of the union, press secretary sarah sanders said only ... "we'll keep you posted." (grant) if the shutdown continues for another week... next friday will mark the second paycheck that federal employees will not receive. (ken)we're now learning that the office of special counsel robert mueller is disputing a report about president trump's former personal attorney michael cohen.a recent article by buzzfeed claimed president trump directed cohen to lie under oath when being questioned by congress. specifically about the timing of plans for a trump tower project in moscow.but friday evening, a spokesman for the special counsel's office released the following statement, quote:"buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate."it is extremely rare for a special counsel's office to comment on stories published in the press.buzzfeed responded to the report in a statement that reads, quote: "we are continuin

there hasn't been a press briefing by sarah sanders since december 18th. the face of the white house right now other than the face of the president is really rudy giuliani going out day in and day out. every time he says something that's not true, has to clean it up so it hurts the credibility of the administration. i agree with a. b. >> a lot of that is intentional. >> i agree with that because i think there's also this effort i believe by giuliani and trump to create a confusion campaign among the public where there's so much disspir rit and different information being out out inaccurate or false and has to be corrected that the applicant digest it and fully understand what is going on in russia. >> it would be old news when it's finally revealed. >> you make a point about the face of the white house versus the face of the president's legal team. sarah sanders and other white house officials dob go on fox news a lot.almost every day. they are speaking to somebody i guess. >> some folks. >> bob, there's a piece in the ap article that talks about the presi

sanders the press secretary speaking to reporters on the white house driveway i did catch some of her comments initially and she certainly is defending this as being something separate from the president she's saying that in fact this has nothing to do with the president she's hopeful that when it comes to prosecution for false statements that in fact the same standard by the special prosecutor will be held to democratic supporters not just republican supporters and associates of the president because we know that roger sort of was in fact a long time donald trump associate she further went on to repeat what donald trump himself has always repeated that she says there's no collusion or wrongdoing but she certainly said given she's not a lawyer that she believes she should not to get quote into the weeds in terms of this indictment only saying that she believes this president has been tough on russia from the beginning and maintaining that that is the case in terms of posture coming from this white house what she didn't answer and she did tend to evade questions was with regard to some

we are expecting that sarah sanders is going to announce a press conference. she has said she will. treasury secretary steven mnuchin is expected to make an appearance at the press briefing. we think that's going to happen in about 21 minutes. it's expected that mnuchin will announce sanctions against venezuela's embattled president nicholas maduro aimed specifically at freezing his wealth. there's word that he has control of a lot of gold reserves in the uk and that the uk may shut off his opportunity to take those gold reserves and bring them back to venezuela. so he can share them with his people. no. so he can abscond with them, perhaps. >>> meanwhile, the senate gavelled in moments ago. you are looking at live pictures of the senate floor as congress gets back to work. it now has less than three weeks to come to an agreement on border security that president trump will sign and you know this, the president told the "wall street journal" he doesn't think that will happen and if it doesn't happen, he will shut down the government again. the congressional budget office officially

sarah sanders/ white house press secretary:"the president is taking them at their word in hopes that they'll negotiate in good faith."to capitol hill...sen. chuck schumer/ (d) minority leader: "president trump touched a hot, hot stove and hopefully he won't do it again."a group of bipartisan lawmakers in charge of hashing out a border security deal that can not only clear both chambers of congress -- but win president trump's signature.sen. dick durbin/ (d) illinois:"i think we can find bipartisan answers to most of the issues involving border security, but if the president has the last word it may not be enough."the potential dealmakers have until february 15th to reach a compromise.the white house says trump isn't looking for another shutdown...sarah sanders/ white house press secretary:"the president doesn't want to go through another shutdown."but if there's no agreement, say he'll declare a national emergency.sarah sanders/ white house press secretary:"it needs to be fixed and the president is going to do what it takes to address it."though that's a move that would likely face l

so i think that's what you can anticipate from sarah sanders throughout the day. at this time, no briefing schedule. not a big surprise. but that's going to be the critical question. who, in fact, gave that direction, hallie? >> as we now take a live look at fort ladder dat. lauderdale. roger stone arrested, indicted this morning, in this predawn raid by fbi officials. julia ainsley covers national security for us. i want to read from the indictment here. on the link between stone and the trump campaign. stone has denied connections, right. during the summer of 2016, stone spoke to senior campaign officials about wikileaks and information it might have had that would be damaging to the clinton campaign. stone was contacted by senior campaign officials to inquire about future releases p s by wikileaks. based on this indictment, julia, it sounds like the campaign was actively looking for information from wikileaks, from roger stone. >> that's what it looks like. as you can see from the posturing from the white house already, they're distancing themselves from roger

finally sarah sanders took to the podium. connell: she was asked, as we expected would be about the shutdown. didn't rule out another shutdown when the next deadline of 15th of february comes up. the questioning veering off to the mueller investigation. roger stone. a lot of time to. let's get markets closed up and when we had a selloff throughout the day on wall street. all three major averages ending in the red. with the china tray concerns out there, global growth fears out there, we came off the lows. the dow closing down 208. it was down 400 plus early in the session. not bad at all, when you look at that perspective, s&p 500, nasdaq also in negative territory, snapping a three-day up streak. the s&p down 21. nasdaq down by 79. good to have you with us as we come on here after the news conference. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." let's go straight to deirdre bolton on the floor of the new york stock exchange. tell us about today's trade. >> you called it. we closed lower. our v

sarah sanders said earlier today again he wants tosee funding including a border wall. are you prepared to fu least in part a border wall? we have been very clear on this, you know, we want evidence-based solutions. in someer areas, are fiscal barriers that exist. if there needs to be replacement, those are things that we can look at, but we are not in the business of funding his sea to-s shiniwall he said during the campaign, he alsoaid mexico would pay for it. we want reasonable solutions to thissues. there are plenty of areas lacking investment,watt that the we can get to use of technology to the poiofs entry to detect crossings, those are the types of things we can do when we work together. the senate has already done some of this work. we look forward to picking up in that. >> nawaz: congressman, earlier sarah sanders said ryone greecagrees there's a problem tt needs to be fix opened the emrder. what is the pro you think needs to be fixed ton boredder? >> we agree there's a humanitarian problem. that i will agree with the white house on. we need to make sure that w

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as for the state of the union, press secretary sarah sanders said only ... "we'll keep you posted." (ken)as the deadlock between congress and the president continues, one bay area congresswoman was speaking out today.( pam ) congresswoman jackie speier was in san mateo this afternoon... she is calling on president trump to end his demand for a border wall ... and allow federal workers to return to their jobs. kron 4's charles clifford is live tonight in san mateo county with details. charles. . . well, negotations between congress and the president have not gone well. . to say the least. longtime bay area congresswoman jackie speier has been a vocal critic of the president and today she called on him to change course. san mateo county, charles clifford kron 4 news. (ken) about 100 furloughed nasa ames employees staged a protest outside of the research park in mountain view earlier today. holding signs blaming the president for the shutdown, they're demanding an end to it ... saying they just want to go back to work. (pam) they are in danger of losing their second paycheck next week.

so sarah sanders is wrong. this case and the larger investigation certainly is about the president, whether he was up to his eyebrows in wrongdoing, entirely innocent in every respect, or something in between. and you would think if he did nothing wrong the president would welcome the scrutiny. joining me now is democratic senator from connecticut richard blumenthal. senator, is what's happening to roger stone in any way a legal lynching, which is what he called it? >> hardly. it is really the result of an extensive and expansive investigation. and the search that was conducted is in many ways perhaps as important as the indictment of him. >> how so? >> but one way or the other -- well, they were looking for documents and other evidence that had to be in fact raided because they were fearful that he would destroy those documents and other evidence as part of an obstruction of justice. and that search indicates that this investigation is far from over, contrary to what acting attorney general matt whitaker said,

we'll see if he wants to speak directly to the american public. >> did we just hear sarah sanders say at the end of her sound bite there was no collusion on his part. is that what she said? >> reporter: it is what she said. you talk about moving those goal posts, those goal posts are outside the stadium. she is really echoing rudy guiliani who earlier this month said he couldn't rule out collusion between the campaign and russia. he could only speak for the president. he only represents the president. as far as he knew the president didn't collude with russia. didn't speak on behalf of the campaign. >> julia, we should remind our viewers and listeners what roger stone told chuck todd back in may. all right. we don't have it. we'll try to pull it out and play it when we get it. julia, tell us about this indictment specifically any mention of the trump campaign. >> absolutely, craig. so all through this you can see the bread crumbs that mueller's team is leaving as they talk about people who are trump campaign supporters, even high level trump campaign officials. and even one who was di