>> science rocks. "early start" continues right now with the likelihood of yet another shutdown. let's have a shutdown. we'll do a shutdown, and it's worth it for our country. i'd love to see a shutdown. >> congress is inching toward deals on a budget and immigration, but will comments from the president and his chief of staff throw a wrench into delicate talks? after seeing this spectacle in france, the president wants a military parade in washington. objections are being raised over using weaponry and american troops as political props. [ cheers ] and a beautiful, successful launch for most powerful rocket since the "apollo" missions. the spacex rocket already passing beyond the orbit of mars. >> you're too excited still. >> i know. those -- the rocket boosters that came down so beautifully.

ah. loved it. >> an amazing sight. >> it was. welcome to "early start," i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. ground control to major tom, the words that are blasting through space. wednesday, february 7th. we start with another government shutdown. running out of money in about 43 hours. leaders of both parties say they're near a deal to fund the government for two years. leaders huddling to hash out differences on defense and domestic programs. sources say immigration and a deal on daca have not been a part of the spending talks. >> negotiators on both sides got a brief scare when the president jumped into the issue. >> if we don't get rid of the loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill, gang members -- we're not just talking about ms13. there are many members we don't even mention. if we don't change it, let's have a shutdown. we'll do a shutdown. and it's worth it for our

country. i'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of. >> the white house later saying the president was "not advocating for the shutdown." he said, "i'd love to say a shutdown." the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, turning the president's shutdown comments back on to democrats saying if they want to hold the government hostage over immigration, the president welcomes the fight. in case a budget deal is not settled by midnight tomorrow, the house passed a short-term bill funding most agencies through march 23rd, and a pentagon for a full year. senate democrats likely to oppose it, but that may not matter. budget negotiators are on track to announce a two-year deal as soon as this morning. with the latest, we'll turn to phil mattingly. >> reporter: there's no question the clock is ticking down to the government running out of money, essentially needing to extend a short-term funding agreement. but the biggest development that's occurred up to this point is not the usual kicking the can down the road.

at this point in time, aides on the republican side and democratic side of the senate and house tell me they are on the verge of a major budget deal. something that would increase spending caps for defense and nondefense discretionary spending up to $300 billion. the type of deal that would lock in a two-year budget agreement. it would include an increase of the debt ceiling. it includes more than $80 billion in disaster relief for hurricane-ravaged florida, texas, and puerto rico. it would include health care spending, as well. this is the kind of thing that lawmakers have been pointing to as a possibility, essentially clearing the decks of all these major items. looks like they're finally there. the big question now is what are house democrats going do? democrats for a long period of time have held up the possibility of doing a deal like this because they want a daca resolution and need leverage to get that daca resolution. that's what aides in both chambers have been saying. senate democrats on board. house democrats wary. house democrats are going to be needed if it's going to move through the house.

a lot of republicans are uncomfortable with the large number of spending increases, which means speaker paul ryan will need republicans, will need a lot of democrats, too. >> all right. capitol phil mattingly. you coined it, i like it. we should get a twitter handle. digital director zach wolf joining us. good morning. the likelihood of a shutdown and funding deal. >> it's the turn the key and lock them in a room to do the deal. that sets aside the immigration issue that democrats are arguing over. that was important from weeks ago. >> how likely is the deal --

saying this about potential issues. >> the president sent over what amounts to be 2.5 times that number to 1.8 million. the difference between 690 and 1.9 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses but didn't sign up. >> okay. >> still shocking to hear that every time you hear it. we're used to the president's rhetoric throwing a wrench in negotiations. we're not used to john mcca edd doing so. what is the criticism? >> i think the criticism clearly is putting -- using such language about these people. and they were never guaranteed a legal pathway or anything like that, it was basically a wink and a nod by the obama administration saying come out of the shadows, we'll take care of you. little did we know that president trump would be here essentially canceling the program, and congress still can't figure out how to fix it.

>> yeah. >> i think lazy is clearly the wrong word to use in this case. is that going to, you know, hurt things in the future? i don't think it's going to help certainly. he's trying to say president trump is doing something for these people by, you know, doubling the -- more than doubling the number who would have eligibility to a pathway. this is not helpful language. >> it's also $500 to file for the paperwork. some people frankly don't know about it honestly or don't want to do it. there are reasons other than sitting on their ass. according to the "washington post" the president wants a big military parade. we're told maybe 4th of july or some big celebration of america's forces. this is what the "washington post" says -- "the marching orders were i want a parade like the one in france." this is not something we typically really do in this country. we have a proud separation of the military and the civilian-led government. tell me what the scuttle butt is. the pentagon saying they're

looking it over, looking for dates. >> right. and you know, you think of we have done this thing in the -- this kind of thing in the past. you think of the ticker tape parades after world war i, world war ii, after we've won wars. now there's no -- u.s. troops are deployed, don't get me wrong. there's no u.s. victory, no declaration, there's no reason for this. it's. something we traditionally have done. the pentagon actually i think are some of the ones that have been the ones to do this sort of thing. >> i think everyone agrees we should honor the military. some feel a better way to honor them and cheaper is to visit our troops abroad. obama did that in his first year, bush did that in his first year. any word of the president heading to iraq, afghanistan, any of these places? >> that's a great question. we'll have to stay tuned. he has not done that. that's -- other presidents, you can think of every other president has done that in recent memory. >> i can't recall one not doing

it. we'll see. >> so far the role has been mike pence, the vice president, doing those things. he's the one that's take than role. come back in a few minutes. we'll talk more about this. steve wynn stepping down as ceo of wynn resorts following allegations of sexual misconduct. wynn has denied the accusations first reported by the "wall street journal." now he says he cannot be effective in his role claiming the environment pushes for a rush judgment over the facts. as this news broke, miguel marquez was speaking with charlotte arrowsmith, a plaintiff in a 1998 case involving allegations against wynn. she celebrated with a champagne toast. >> oh, hallelujah, thank you, lord! something positive has finally come from this. you have -- i know it doesn't hurt him. i know it doesn't hurt wynn resorts. he has other licensees, i know all of this. but i'm going to tell you something -- after all he put us through, he needs to be

humiliated. >> the accusations also cost wynn his job as finance chairman of the republican national committee. his president matt maddox becomes the new ceo. former vice president biden going after president's relationship with the truth. he told chris cuomo if he was the president's lawyer he would advise talking with robert mueller. >> the president has some difficulty with precision. >> that's one of most subtle things i've ever heard you say, joe biden. >> one of the things that i would worry about if i were his lawyer is him saying something that was simply not true without him even planning to be -- to be disingenuo disingenuous. >> you think he has that little control over whether he tells the truth or not? >> i just marvel at some of the things he says and does. like, what, two days ago, anybody didn't stand up and clap for him was un-american, and

then maybe even treasonous. >> he said tongue-in-cheek. democrats can't take a joke. >> let me tell you, he's a joke. >> the president's allies say he is still eager to speak with the special counsel's team. even as his lawyers try to delay or stop a potential sit down. to markets now. volatility is back. markets around the world adjusting to a new reality, the era of low interest rates is over. u.s. stocks tanked, then they roared back for a big gain. overnight looks like the anxiety is returning here. some asian markets fell. u.s. futures turned lower. look at that, now down less than 1% here. europe, though, is higher, but not by much. let's watch that and see if it turns. yesterday was remarkable. the dow swinging over a trading range of 1,200 points. changing directions, dave, 29 times before closing up 567 points. 2.3%. the s&p 500 up 1.7%. the nasdaq rose about 2%. the sell-off sparked bay a few things. rumblings in the bond market,

concerns about wage inflation, and whether that will force the federal reserve to raise interest rates sooner than planned, posing a risk to the bull market that is nearly nine years old. as stocks turned volatile, the cheerleader in chief, president trump, has kept quiet. he's taken credit for every big rally. testifying on capitol hill yesterday, the treasury secretary steve mnuchin said the economic fundamentals of the u.s. are quite strong, and he was asked if the trump administration would accept blame for the recent drop. >> i think we'll still claim credit for the fact that it's up over 30% since the election. >> he's referring to the dow up 35% since the election. >> if you're the president you should continue to focus on the positive, not dwell on the negative. vice president mike pence meeting overnight with japan's prime minister, vowing to stand shoulder to shoulder in the face of north korean threat. we're live in south korea next. how do you win at business?

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message that the international community must continue to isolate north korea, and that message was bolstered by the japanese prime minister who went so far as to say there can be no meaningful dialogue with north korea until it begins to disarm its nuclear weapons. take a listen to an excerpt of what the american vice president had to say. >> this week as the world knows, north korea is sending a delegation to participate in the winter olympics. they'll march under the same banner as south korea. we should not forget that north korea and south korea have marched under the same banner before only to see north korea continue its pursuit of threats and provocations. >> reporter: he went on to promise that the u.s. was about to unveil what he described as the toughest and most aggressive round of sanctions against north korea ever.

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using weaponry and american troops as political props. [ cheers ] and a successful launch for most powerful rocket since the "apollo" missions. the spacex rocket passing beyond the orbit of mars, and a tesla roadster rocking out to david bowie. so cool. welcome back, everybody, i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. the federal government runs out of money in about, oh, 42.5 hours. leaders from both parties say they are near a deal to fund the government for two years. the republican and democratic leaders in the senate huddling to hash out the remaining differences on defense and domestic programs. sources tell us immigration and a deal on daca have not been a part of the spending talks. >> negotiators on both sides got a brief scare when president trump cannonballed into the

issue. >> if we don't get this, gang members, not only ms13, if we don't change, it let's do a shutdown. it's worth it for our country. i'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of. >> i'd love to see a shutdown. the white house later saying the president was not advocating for the shutdown. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders turning the president's shutdown comments back on to democrats saying if they want to hold the government hostage over immigration, the president welcomes that fight. in case a budget deal is not settled by midnight tomorrow, the house passed a short-term bill funding most accegencies through march 23rd and the senate for a full year. budget negotiators are on track to announce a two-year deal as soon as this morning with. with the latest, phil mattingly

on capitol hill. >> reporter: there's no question the clock is ticking down to the government running out of money, essentially needing to extend a short-term funding agreement. but the biggest development that's occurred up to this point is not the usual kicking the can down the road. at this point in time, aides in both the republican side and democratic side of the senate and house tell me they are on the verge of a major budget deal. something that would increase spending caps for defense and nondefense discretionary spending up to $300 billion. the type of deal that could essentially lock in a two-year budget agreement. it would include an increase of the debt ceiling, includes more than $80 billion in disaster relief for hurricane-ravaged florida, texas, and puerto rico. it would include some health care spending, as well. this is the kind of thing that lawmakers have been pointing to as a possibility, essentially clearing the decks of all the major items. looks like they're finally there. the big question now is what are house democrats going do? democrats for a long period of time have held up the possibility of doing a deal like this because they want a daca

resolution and need leverage to get that daca resolution. at least that's what aides in both chambers have been saying. right now senate democrats on board. house democrats wary. and house democrats are going to be needed if it's going to move through the house. there's a lot of republicans who are very uncomfortable with the large number of spending increases which means speaker paul ryan will need obviously some republicans, he's going to need a lot of democrats, too. >> thank you. let's welcome in digital director zach wolf. good to see you, sir. with every political negotiation i harken back to the art of the deal. the president said, "i always go into the deal anticipating the worst." how do we describe the negotiating deal of both sides of the aisle when the president says something like this? is it ignore the president? >> i think clearly. he's talking about immigration, saying let's have a shutdown over immigration. you'll notice the one thing two sides on capitol hill, the leaders are not talking about, is immigration.

>> or a shutdown? >> right they're moving beyond him and working around that essentially, assuming he's going to sign whatever they send him, if it doesn't involve immigration and funds the government and deals with the debt ceiling, does all these other great things they want to do, i'm sure he will. >> speaking of immigration, the present chief of staff with some kind of shocking comments about people who qualify would qualify to be dreamers but didn't sign up. listen -- >> there are 690,000 official daca registrants, and the president sent over what amounts to be 2.5 times that number, to 1.8 million. the difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too laysy to get off their -- lazy to get off their asses but didn't sign up. >> is this revealing at all about what's happening behind closed doors in this administration talking about

dreamers and daca? >> the comments clearly don't i think take into account what these people are going through. the sort of wink and a nod. the promise from the federal government to sign up for this. there was no legislative framework behind daca. it was -- >> also a $500 application fee. that's something. >> there was something to do. you see with the way they're treating the death of the colts player with these comments -- the comments from the white house chief of staff, sort of demonization of these daca people as immigration becomes something that democrats are stepping away from as a bargaining chip. this was the one thing we're supposed to do is save the daca people, and now they're apparently not going to do, it at least not in the spending bill. >> in the case of the tragic death of the colts player and uber driver he was with, that was somebody they deported from the country two times -- >> once -- >> you could argue that was the immigration sell. he'd been kick -- immigration system. he'd been kicked out twice. not a dreamer, but conflated. >> donald trump's political

identity goes to, you know, building walls and creating an other of people. this is part of that, i think. also news in the "washington post" that the president would like a military parade, one that tops what he attended in france, the one on bastille day. we don't do these military parades -- >> very often. >> here's what sarah huckabee sanders said about the notion of a military parade in the nation's capital. she released a statement. "president trump incredibly supportive of america's great service members who risk their lives every day to keep our country safe." certainly everybody would like to see us celebrate our troops more and honor their service. is this the right way to go about it? what's the criticism? >> i think in the past when we've done this it's been to celebrate a victory. there's no victory that i know of right now that you would be celebrating. not the end of world war ii, not the end of the gulf war in 1991. the other thing is that the u.s.

has traditionally not done this. we spend so much money on the military. we are so powerful. >> you don't have to show it off. >> exactly. theodore roosevelt, speak softly and carry your big stick. we have the big stick, we don't need to show it au this is a new thing -- show it off. this is a new thing. do you do it on a political day on, veterans day? the "washington post" was reporting they're looking for the right time to do this. the president said he wanted it repeatedly, so they're trying to make it happen. >> this year is the send technical -- centennial of the end of world war i. you could use that to mark it. we haven't done it often, but when we have done it, it's been criticized as bragging. >> north korea will do it tomorrow night, on the eve of the olympics. >> nice to have you in the studio. chief of staff john kelly says he expects recommendations by tomorrow on how to handle the democratic memo, rebutting republican claims of surveillance abuse by the fbi.

kelly says the democratic memo is lengthier than the gop, somewhere around ten pages, and claims the white house is not leaning in either direction when it comes to releasing it. he did offer this warning -- >> where the first was clean relative to sources and methods, my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean. but at the end of it all, it will be guys like rod rosenstein, chris wray from fbi, certainly the national security attorneys at the white house given the president a recommendation on it. >> remember the fbi advised against releasing the republicans' nunes memo, but the president did it anyway. the president met tuesday with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about the democratic memo. the president targeted rosenstein after the nunes memo was released. trump received the democrats' document monday night and is working with a five-day window to make a decision. the inspector general of the justice department ending his investigation into the fbi's

actions during the 2016 election on. tuesday, michael horowitz briefed a group of bipartisan lawmakers on the status of his probe which includes scrutiny of hillary clinton's emails as well as the conduct of former fbi director james comey and former deputy director andrew mccabe. plan congressman trey gowdy attended the briefing and called it "useful and objective." horowitz's report expected to be done as early as next month. that date could be pushed back. volatility is back. markets around the world adjusting to a new reality, the era of low interest rates is over. u.s. stocks tanked, then roared back for a huge again. overnight now the anxiety has returned. some asian markets fell. hong kong and shanghai are closed. u.s. futures have turned lower. dow futures down about 200 points. we've got european markets slightly higher. so anything could happen here at the opening bell when it rings in a few hours. yesterday was remarkable. the dow swinging over a trading

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vice president mike pence in tokyo overnight with shinzo abe. he vowed to stand with japan in the face of north korea's provocation. ivan watson in pyeongchang live where members of the north korean delegation are arriving for the olympics. >> reporter: that's right. vice president pence has been vowing that at every stop on his journey to south korea to lead the u.s. delegation at the opening of the olympics in a couple days' time, he said he's going to tell the truth or his version of the truth about north korea. and in his speech alongside the japanese prime minister, both of them basically said do not be taken in, do not be fooled by the friendly face north korea is showing by participating in these winter olympics, albeit at the last minute. listen to an excerpt of what he had to say. >> this week as the world knows

north korea is sending a delegation to participate in the winter olympics. they'll march under the same banner as south korea. we should not forget that north korea and south korea have marched under the same banner before only to see north korea continue its pursuit of threats and provocations. >> reporter: pence also went on to say that the u.s. will soon unveil what he called the toughest and most aggressive round of sanctions on north korea ever. meanwhile, we've learned that the north korean delegation which is already now approaching 500 people, its top officials will soon arrive, and they will include the sister of kim jong-un, the north korean leader himself. she was sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department in january of 2017. and she's be the first of the kim, ruling kim dynasty from north korea to ever pay a visit here south of the demilitarized

zone. >> tomorrow night we'll see some figure skating. right now, politics remains the main event. ivan watson, live for us, thank you. time to money and cnn "money stream." volatility is back. markets around the world adjusting to the reality that the era of low interest rates is over. overnight, the anxiety returned. some asian markets fell, u.s. futures turned lower, dow futures down about 200 points, europe is higher. that's what yesterday looked like. yesterday remarkable. the dow swinging in a range of 1,200 points, changing directions 29 times, then up 567 points. that's 2.3%. big swings and big closes higher for the s&p 500 and the nasdaq, too. snapchat's stock is soaring 20% after ending its earnings losing streak, posting sales and user growth for the first time since going public last year. sales grew 72% from a year ago. snap credits moving to an

automated ad sales auction, proving to advertisers its app can be a rival to google and facebook. spacex has launched the world's most powerful rocket, pulling off a seamless first-ever launch of "falcon heavy." it took flight yesterday from florida's kennedy space center before a crowd of thousands. the success stunned founder elon musk, calling it surreal. the launch not the only achievement. it also guided two first-stage rocket boosters back down to earth. very cool. a third booster was supposed to land but crashed. president trump tweeted, "congrats. this achievement along with nasa's international partners continues to show american ingenuity at its best." as the rocket heads to space, on board musk's personal tesla roadster playing david bowie's "space oddity" on repeat. >> >> elon musk, native of south

american. u.s. citizen in 2002. proud american immigrant in the best tech and science background. >> that's what they want, merit based, right? >> thank you for joining us. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. new days starts right now. see you tomorrow. >> i'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this taken care of. >> we're making real progress on a spending deal. >> i don't think we expect the budget deal to include specifics on the tkpwraeubgz reform. >> we're back in the ball game. >> where does the level of political discourse gone in this country? >> this is a different memo. >> the first one was very clean. this is a lot less clean. >> an enormous political price if he refuses to reveal the whole story. >> despite