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Thursday, January 10, 2019　

1) From ABC News, I’m Scott Goldberg. There’s still no end in sight to the partial government shutdown after negotiations with the White House today lasted only 14 minutes. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Trump slammed a table and walked out of the room when Democrats said no to his demand for a border wall. “He asked House Speaker Pelosi ‘Will you agree to my wall?’ She said, ‘No.’ and he just got up and said, ‘Then we have nothing to discuss,’ and he just walked down.” The President on Twitter called the meeting (in quotes) “a total waste of time.” More from Sen. Schumer. “Again, we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn’t get his way and he just walked out of the meeting.” Karen Travers, ABC News, the White House.

2) Before that meeting, the President met with Senator Republicans on Capitol Hill and urged them to stay united. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said his party support the President’s insistence on $5 billion plus to enhance the wall along the southern border. “We’re all behind the President. We think this border security issue is extremely important to the country. And we appreciate your leadership on it.” Several Republicans including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Shelley Moore Capito and Cory Gardner have been urging the President to reopen the government and separate it from the debate off the border wall. Ali Rogin, ABC News, Capitol Hill. The Mayor of McAllen, Texas Jim Darling said the wall may help some cities but not his. He says the murder rate was zero last year and there are little security concerns. “We are the safest city and we are a progressive city, and it’s an advantage we live at the border, not a disadvantage.” President Trump said he expected to visit the border tomorrow.

3) Attorney General nominee Bill Barr‘s telling one prominent senator he won’t fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller if he’s confirmed by the Senate next week. “I can assure you, based on what I heard, that he has a high opinion of Mr. Mueller, believes that Mr. Mueller is doing a professional job, will do a professional job.” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who has been overseeing the special counsel investigation is expected to step down in the coming weeks. You’re listening to ABC News.

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From the Fox Business Network; it’s a choppy session on Wall Street with stocks closing in the green but losing steam into the close after there was a breakdown in government shutdown talks. Tech, energy and industrials were among the gainers while consumer staples and utilities lagged. The Dow leaders today include Boeing, Apple and Microsoft. The major averages posting a fourth straight session of gains for the longest winning streak in two months with the Dow closing up 92 points, the NASDAQ up 60, S&P 500 up 11. // And after 25 years of marriage, Amazon’s founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are calling it quit. Bezos is one of the world’s richest men, maybe announcement today on Twitter three days before his 55th birthday. The two married in 1993 after they met at a hedge fund in New York where they both worked. MacKenzie is a 48-year-old novelist and supported her husband’s move off of Wall Street and into e-commerce. With the Fox Business Report, I’m Hilarie Barsky.