"A senior administration official told @MajorCBS that President Trump will present what the White House believes could be a deal to end the shutdown The deal was largely influenced by talks between VP Pence, Senate Maj. Leader McConnell and Jared Kushner" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-to-make-major-announcement-on-border-saturday/

SCOOP by @Byrontau @AlexandraBerzon: A lobbyist for Adelson sent a memo to top DOJ officials, arguing that a 2011 opinion that benefited gambling was wrong. Then the DOJ announced its Office of Legal Counsel had, in an unusual move, reversed its position. https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-departments-reversal-on-online-gambling-tracked-memo-from-adelson-lobbyists-11547854137

UPDATE: The special counsel's office has taken the rare step of issuing a statement in response to our report on Michael Cohen being directed by Trump to lie to Congress: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation

In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing.

At least 20 dead, 50 injured in the pipeline explosion, according to Hidalgo Governor @omarfayad. #Mexico

Didn’t know about @BuzzFeed report when I asked questions of Barr but I did it to get AG nominee to clearly state his view that if a President asks someone to commit perjury or change testimony, it’s obstruction of justice..and (I thought) within the realm of possibility! https://twitter.com/philiprucker/status/1086127896966639617

All your base (are) belong to us 👾 https://twitter.com/nymag/status/1086477575189393408

Virginia’s lone black statewide official sits out Robert E. Lee tribute https://wapo.st/2FzLD2O?tid=ss_tw-amp

From @carolrosenberg: The former commander at Guantanamo Bay has been arrested/indicted. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article224158005.html

An unreal dinner in Paris last night with @danbalz -- we were talking, and then the guy at the table next to us handed us a cell phone with @realDonaldTrump on the other end of the line. Like, actually. Dan wrote about it here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/would-you-like-to-speak-to-the-president/2019/01/19/bcde9398-1bd7-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html

Trump: “Everybody knows that walls work. You look at different places, they put up a wall, no problems. You look at San Antonio, you look at so many different places. They go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities immediately, immediately”

Law is on the side of Indigenous hereditary chiefs in pipeline dispute, say legal experts. #Unistoten @unistotencamp #Delgamuukw #SCC Supreme Court of Canada https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/17/law-is-on-the-side-of-indigenous-group-in-pipeline-dispute-say-legal-experts.html via @torontostar

Five new Americans welcomed in what @POTUS says is the first-ever naturalization ceremony in the Oval Office. (Radio pool photo: @Jduckham)

"Meth, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl" pouring into the US from the southern border, according to @POTUS.

🚨 Utah: Republican legislators are trying to "repeal and replace" the ballot initiative that expanded Medicaid to more than 150,000 Utahns. Voters supported it 53% but the politicians are cooking the books to excuse their total disregard for voters. 1/ https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900050749/changes-may-be-coming-to-voter-approved-medicaid-expansion-utah-legislative-leaders-say.html?fbclid=IwAR2IUIsORCdGhzNQBDayx-ezfAA7UlN9xfmlIsV_a9eoulBnsblQmLyrS8g

No deal, per @SenSchumer: “It was the President who singled-handedly took away DACA and TPS protections in the first place – offering some protections back in exchange for the wall is not a compromise but more hostage taking,” he says in statement.

KUSHNER told reporters the speech clarified what Trump will support. "This is something that this White House stands behind," he said, nothing that the speech included what he called "overtures" for more comprehensive immigration reform down the road.

CONSERVATIVE SPLIT COMING ON TRUMP DACA PROPOSAL: While immigration hardliners are likely to oppose Trump's DACA offer, an executive for the Koch bros network wants TRUMP to go further, & to make the protections for Dreamers permanent. ---> https://twitter.com/imjamesdavis/status/1086748485360193536