By Mark Berman and Brady Dennis
January 26 at 12:26 PM

... On Saturday morning, the president took to Twitter, saying that “21 days goes very quickly” and once again vowing that the promised wall would be constructed. ...

The man who had campaigned as a business savant and master dealmaker emerged from the unprecedented shutdown looking, above all, ineffective. It was that image that he and the White House seemed to be trying to avoid Saturday, insisting instead that the wall would still be built and that the president deserved praise for reopening the same government he had brazenly closed more than a month earlier.

For the 800,000 employees who have not been paid during the 35-day shutdown, that pain will not end immediately. It will likely take until late next week before they receive their payments, delays that will cause continued hardship for the employees who struggled to pay bills during the longest shutdown in history.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-surrendering-in-shutdown-standoff-trump-again-vows-to-build-wall/2019/01/26/a5f674b0-217d-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html

By Justin Sink
January 26, 2019, 4:00 AM EST
Updated on January 26, 2019, 10:35 AM EST

... His agreement to reopen the government until Feb. 15 without any guarantee of money for his proposed border wall left some of his allies furious.

But events earlier in the day could prove even more consequential ...

Video of FBI agents in ballistic vests raiding Stone’s house threatened to dominate morning cable news coverage ...

But the 9 a.m. hour offered a new jolt for Trump, courtesy of one of the nation’s most notorious airports. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop at LaGuardia, citing an increase in sick leave at air traffic control facilities that coincided with federal workers’ second missed paychecks. Airports in Philadelphia and Newark, major hubs respectively for American Airlines Group Inc. and United Continental Holdings Inc., were also impacted by the staffing shortage, roiling air traffic across the country ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/trump-s-bad-day-stone-arrest-airport-chaos-shutdown-surrender

Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 1:59 p.m. ET Jan. 26, 2019

... "What I said to the president is when the government is opened we will discuss a mutually agreeable date," Pelosi said, adding "I'll look forward to doing that" and welcoming Trump in the House chambers when that is done.

It's unclear whether Pelosi and the White House have since discussed another date for the annual address, which hosts all members of Congress, the president's cabinet and Supreme Court justices.

Trump, at first, lashed out at Pelosi after she canceled his address, claiming that the speaker "doesn’t want to hear the truth. She doesn't want the American public to hear what's going on."

He added that Pelosi's decision was "a great blotch on the incredible country that we all love" and called it a "horrible mark" and "negative part of history" ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/26/state-union-tuesday-government-reopening-pelosi/2688484002/

Let's hope he's so humiliated that it's the last time he lashes out at Speaker Pelosi. "Country that we all love" -- obvious misuse of the word "we".

Until then ... we’ll, he can just have a tantrum

January 26, 20197:00 AM ET
PHILIP EWING

... Prosecutors say Stone and at least two of his associates served as intermediaries between Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and "Organization 1" — as WikiLeaks is referred to in the court document — which fenced material stolen by the Russian government as part of the Kremlin's scheme to wreak havoc in the 2016 White House race.

After WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee in July 2016, "a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone" to ask what else WikiLeaks had planned.

Stone then pinged "Person 1" — conservative commentator Jerome Corsi — and instructed him to "get the pending ... emails" from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

That was the start of what appeared to be weeks of indirect communication between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks through Stone and his associates, according to the indictment — and, via WikiLeaks, with Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/26/688834291/roger-stone-indictment-raises-more-big-questions-about-russia-trump-2016-campaig