Terrorist's Response to Trump; Georgia Man Arrested In Plot To Blow Up White House; North Korea Top Envoy To Deliver New Letter To Trump
CHURCH: Welcome back to CNN Newsroom. I'm Rosemary Church with the check of the headlines this hour. British Prime Minister, Theresa May, is expected to present an alternate Brexit plan to Parliament on Monday. She survived a no- confidence vote on Wednesday, one day after MPs rejected her original deal. Mrs. May is calling on all political parties to work together on a compromise. ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack Wednesday in Manbij, Syria, which killed at least 19 people, including four Americans, two of whom was service members. Now, this comes just a few weeks after President Trump said ISIS was defeated and U.S. troops would start coming home from Syria. Al-Shabaab militants say their assault on a hotel complex in Nairobi was a response to Donald Trump's decision to recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. A warning, these next images you will see are graphic, surveillance video shows the moment one of the terrorists detonated a suicide bomb at the hotel, men armed with guns and explosives then burst into the complex, at least 21 people were killed in that attack. More now on Brexit and you might expect only uncertainty around Britain's exit from the European Union to bring economic chaos, but just hours after Prime Minister May survived a no-confidence vote, the Europe markets are now starting to react. So, let's bring in our Anna Stewart, who is live this hour in London. We got a little peak at the numbers. It looks like there's been a little bit of a negative response.</s>ANNA STEWART, CNN PRODUCER: Yes, we are seeing some negative sentiment on the European market. Today, you will see all of them there in the red. But to be honest, I think, a lot of this just follows on from Asia, which also had a lower trading day and a lot of that has to do with other elements that play an alleged investigation from the U.S. into Huawei, the continued trade tensions between the U.S. and China. But more interesting really, Rosemary, when we think about Brexit, is the British pound and how that reacts because this has been a lot more sensitive throughout the last 2.5 years. But as you'll see, it's fairly stable and it has been all week before the vote, after the vote came through last night as well. It's really interesting to see the lack of reaction there. And there are a few reasons for this. Firstly, the overwhelming crushing defeat for the Prime Minister shows several things. Firstly, no deal is looking less likely because Parliament is likely state more control of the process. From the vote we had last week in Parliament, it's quite clear that the majority of people there do not want to see a no deal Brexit and that is the biggest short-term risk for markets. So, that seems to ease those tensions a little bit. Also, there's more optimism that Article 50 will be extended that, if Theresa May has to get any deals together, if she has to get cross party support, that's going to take time. So, potentially, the risk is also just move back further into the year. So, that's the reaction with the markets, very, very different story altogether when it comes to reaction from business leaders. Now, they have really lambasted this week's developments in Parliament. They are very frustrated that Parliament couldn't come to any agreement yet. And it just means that a period of uncertainty has really been extended. There was a phone call between the U.K. finance ministers right after the big vote on Tuesday night hundreds of business leaders, also on that call, the Brexit Secretary, also in that call the Treasury Secretary. Now, we knew yesterday from speaking to some of the business leaders on that call that there was a great sense of frustration, that they didn't feel like it was the very unified message, but we're finding out a lot more about the Cord statement (ph). This is the Telegraph newspaper. Now, they say they have a leaked tape of the conversation that went on and have a transcript in state's paper and part of it is showing that the Finance Minister has essentially told business leaders, according to this, that no-deal is very likely off the table, that they can -- they don't have to worry about that, that Article 50 is likely to be extended, except the problem was we got a very different message on the same call from that Brexit minister. He says if we don't have a no deal option, it's going to be harder for the U.K. to negotiate. So, you have to fill business here. You have to make investments. You have to plan, forge ahead on all this level of uncertainty. And frankly, some of them went on this call and said we already spent a huge amount planning for no-deal Brexit. Do we have to keep planning for this? Do we have to keep spending our capital? All boards need, you know, more information. We need to know what's going to happen next. And they just didn't get any sense that the government was unified in this. So this is a big concern for businesses and will be going for it. There's huge calls from them for no-deal to be taken out -- taken out of the equation altogether, which is something that is, of course, reflected by many in Parliament, perhaps not the Prime Minister.</s>CHURCH: Yes, so to be used politically to apply a little bit of pressure, but interesting to see what the business leaders want to see come of this. Anna Stewart, always great to chat with you, many thanks. The U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sending a message to President Trump, this is my House. Pelosi tells the president to postpone his State of the Union Address set for January 29 or deliver it in writing as president used to do. {03:35:12] The Speaker cited security concerns due to the government shutdown, but others say the real reason is politics. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports from the White House.</s>KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: The State of the Union, to be determined, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested President Trump postpones his scheduled address until the government reopens or deliver it in writing.</s>REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER: This is in -- requires hundreds of people working on the logistic and the security of it, most of these people are either furloughed or victims of the shutdown.</s>COLLINS: Pelosi citing security concerns in her letter to the president, adding he still welcome to make the address just not on Capitol Hill.</s>PELOSI: He can make it from the Oval Office if he wants to.</s>COLLINS: The Department of Homeland Security secretary pushing back on Pelosi's claims, tweeting that the department and secret service are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union. Canceling the State of the Union means Trump won't be able to make his case for the border wall during the primetime television address, as aides were planning on it, the shutdown was still going. But Pelosi's letter, which she said was just a suggestion, creating confusion on Capitol Hill.</s>STENY HOYER, HOUSE MINORITY WHIP: She has said as long as government shutdown, we're not going to be doing business as usual and --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So the State of the Union is off?</s>HOYER: The State of the Union is off.</s>COLLINS: Despite CNN reading the letter to Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, the Congressman's aides are now saying, he misspoke. On day 26 of the record-breaking shutdown, Trump lunching with a group of bipartisan House members name the problem solvers caucus, though officials weren't expecting a breakthrough and the White House only issued this statement after, saying, we look forward to more conversations like this. As the shutdown starts to take a toll on the country even Republican lawmakers are getting frustrated.</s>SEN. SUSAN COLLINS, (R) MAINE: I am sympathetic to strengthening our security at the border, but shutting down government is not the way to achieve that goal.</s>COLLINS: That frustration causing senators to circulate a letter on Capitol Hill today, calling on Trump to reopen the government for three weeks and then debate funding the border wall, but that proposal doesn't look promising. And sources tell CNN, White House officials were privately urging lawmakers not to sign it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you know what the White House strategy is to end the government shutdown?</s>SEN. JOHN KENNEDY, (R), LOUISIANA: No, I don't think there is strategy by either President Trump or Mrs. Pelosi.</s>COLLINS: Now Pelosi had invited President Trump to speak on January 29th, but she hadn't formally introduced the legislation that would make the time and the date official. Now, once she does that, both the House and the Senate have to pass it. But if Nancy Pelosi doesn't introduce that resolution, there will be no presidential address to Congress. It's in several hours since Pelosi publicly released her letter suggesting the president move the date of the State of the Union this morning, yet there is still been no White House response. Kaitlan Collins, CNN, the White House.</s>CHURCH: A man in the U.S. State of Georgia is behind bars charged with plotting to blow up the White House and other federal buildings in Washington. Authorities say Hasher Jalall Taheb plan to attack the presidential residence using explosives and an antitank rocket. They executed a search warrant at his home Wednesday night. Law- enforcement had received a tip from the public suspecting to Taheb had become radicalized. He was arrested Wednesday after he tried to trade vehicles for weapons with an undercover FBI agent. Well, as the Russia Probe continues full steam ahead in the United States and despite his denials, questions linger about whether the American president possibly acted as a witting or unwitting agent for the Kremlin. As our Fred Pleitgen reports from Moscow, Russia is coming to Mr. Trump's defense.</s>FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Russian official defending President Trump against those in the U.S., raising questions about his relationship with Moscow, a top Kremlin aide sounding a similar note to the White House and ridiculing the question about Trump possibly working for Russia and the Foreign Minister even arguing that the U.S. Congress is illegally trying to hamper the president's foreign policy agenda.</s>SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): The U.S. constitution gives the president the right to determine and execute foreign policy. We do know that this right has been coming under attack from the Congress. The issue was covered extensively. However, this does not make these attacks constitutional and it does not make them less illegal either.</s>PLEITGEN: As the Trump administration grapples with the ongoing government shutdown and one of America's top allies, the United Kingdom, faces a messy exit from the European Union, which President Trump supported, on one of Russia's top political talk shows and analyst claiming President Trump is in the battle against the so- called Deep State in the West.</s>ARAIK STEPANYAN, POLITICAL EXPERT (through translator): Battle of the Western world is in the deep crisis, this liberal in capitalistic world is in the deep crisis. Trump and his actions is a saving grace for America because there's that deep state or the Democrats Party wanting to make the USA a global policeman and stick its nose anywhere, but Trump says the American people do not need that.</s>PLEITGEN: All this as the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign increases in tempo. A top Russian senator telling CNN he believes his country is the victim of political infighting in the U.S. and of President Trump's critics.</s>ALEKSEY PUSHKOV, RUSSIA SENATOR: Russia is a victim of this anti- Trump campaign. He is -- I think it is the first time that the interest of those who would like to bring down the American president, stand (ph) with the interest of those who would like to have a better relationship with Russia.</s>PLEITGEN: And while improvement of the relations between Russia and the U.S. hardly seems insight, Moscow vowed that American pressure would never make it change its policies. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.</s>CHURCH: Plans for a second summit could be moving forward. Coming up, North Korea's top nuclear negotiator heads to Washington with a message. Plus, a story that's captivated a nation, a race to rescue a small child who fell down a deep well in Spain.