Trump says he needs to deal with Dem leaders to end shutdown

President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday that weekend shutdown talks led by his vice president would not break an impasse, as newly empowered House Democrats planned to step up the pressure on Trump and Republican lawmakers to reopen the government.

Heading to Camp David for staff meetings, Trump showed no signs of budging on his demand for $5.6 billion for a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Undercutting the staff-level talks, Trump declared that only he could make a deal with Democratic leaders "in 20 minutes, if they want to."
Said Trump: "If they don't want to, it's going to go on for a long time."
After another round of talks led by Vice President Mike Pence with senior congressional aides, Trump tweeted that the session had been "productive."
Trump said earlier in the day that he was hoping for "some very serious talks come Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday."
While insisting he wanted to make a deal, he also declared he would not give an inch in his fight for funding for a border barrier, saying: "There's not going to be any bend right here."
Trump said Democrats "don't like concrete, so we'll give them steel."
"Let's get those reopened while the negotiations continue," Collins said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that if the shutdown continues into Tuesday, "then payroll will not go out as originally planned on Friday night."
Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff called the idea a "nonstarter."