INTERVIEW – MARK KRIKORIAN – nationally recognized expert on immigration issues, and is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

• Immigration group files suit to force Southern Poverty Law Center revoke ‘hate’ label. Center for Immigration Studies files racketeering lawsuit against watchdog
• Pelosi Asks Trump to Reschedule State of the Union Amid Shutdown
• SEC. NIELSEN: The Department of Homeland Security and the US Secret Service are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union. We thank the Service for their mission focus and dedication and for all they do each day to secure our homeland.
• TRUMP MEETS W/PROBLEM SOLVERS CAUCUS: The meeting with both Democrats and Republicans comes the day after the president invited a group of rank-and-file Republican and Democrat members to the White House for lunch. No Democrats took the White House up on that invitation, which was viewed on Capitol Hill by some as an attempt by the White House to create fissures within the Democratic Party – though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave approval for Democrats to accept Trump’s invitation.
• BIPARTISAN ATTEMPT TO END SHUTDOWN FAILS: By the end of the day, the letter’s signers were stalled far short of the 20 senators in both parties that supporters were trying to accrue. Many Republicans wanted more of a commitment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to move forward, and others thought it was pointless to endorse it if there was no signal from Trump that he might accept it. Senators tried to set up a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday afternoon, though the meeting never occurred.