WEBVTT 00:01.933 --> 00:04.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: The day's other major story: the partial government shutdown, now in its 00:04.233 --> 00:06.700 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% fourth week. 00:06.700 --> 00:09.933 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor has been following the president on that front. 00:09.933 --> 00:13.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Shutdown day 24, and no end in sight. 00:13.866 --> 00:18.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Today, President Trump said he is still looking to make a deal and doesn't want to act alone. 00:18.066 --> 00:21.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: I'm not looking to call a national emergency. 00:21.266 --> 00:23.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% This is so simple, you shouldn't have to. 00:23.333 --> 00:25.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: As he left for an event in New Orleans, he also insisted the shutdown 00:25.700 --> 00:28.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% is now entirely the fault of Democrats. 00:28.200 --> 00:32.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP: The Democrats are stopping us, and they're stopping a lot of great people 00:32.800 --> 00:35.400 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% from getting paid. 00:35.400 --> 00:37.766 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: But some in the president's own party are now calling for him to compromise 00:37.766 --> 00:42.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% on his demand for $5.7 billion for his southern border wall. 00:44.666 --> 00:47.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% On Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longtime ally of the president, 00:47.800 --> 00:50.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% said Mr. Trump should at least temporarily end the shutdown. 00:50.700 --> 00:52.833 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% SEN. 00:52.833 --> 00:54.800 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), South Carolina: I would urge him to open up the government for a short 00:54.800 --> 00:59.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% period of time, like three weeks, before he pulls the plug, see if we can get a deal. 01:00.566 --> 01:03.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% If we can't at the end of three weeks, all bets are off. 01:03.000 --> 01:05.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: This morning, Mr. Trump rejected the idea. 01:05.066 --> 01:09.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP: Well, that was a suggestion that Lindsey made, but I did -- I did reject 01:09.633 --> 01:10.633 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% it, yes. 01:10.633 --> 01:11.633 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I'm not interested. 01:11.633 --> 01:12.800 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I want to get it solved. 01:12.800 --> 01:13.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I don't just want to delay it. 01:13.900 --> 01:15.900 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I want to get it solved. 01:15.900 --> 01:18.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Democrats say it's up to the president and Senate Majority Leader Mitch 01:18.066 --> 01:20.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% McConnell to make a deal. 01:20.033 --> 01:24.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Today, Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland spoke at the Baltimore Airport with employees of 01:24.300 --> 01:26.400 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% the Transportation Security Administration. 01:26.400 --> 01:31.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% They are among nearly 400,000 federal workers required to work without pay during the shutdown. 01:31.700 --> 01:34.333 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% SEN. 01:34.333 --> 01:37.633 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% BEN CARDIN (D), Maryland: It's extremely challenging when people say why don't you compromise when 01:39.666 --> 01:42.833 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% you're dealing with the president of the United States, who's holding America hostage, and 01:44.700 --> 01:48.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% when the president himself undermines his own negotiators over and over again. 01:50.300 --> 01:53.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Today, TSA said that, on January 3, two weeks into the shutdown, a 01:53.033 --> 01:58.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% man got through security at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport undetected with a gun. 01:59.466 --> 02:01.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% The agency said the security checkpoint was fully staffed. 02:01.533 --> 02:06.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But, today, across the country, including at airports in Atlanta and Houston, travelers 02:06.466 --> 02:09.000 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% faced long TSA lines. 02:09.000 --> 02:12.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Meanwhile, in New Orleans this afternoon, at the American Farm Bureau Convention, Mr. 02:12.900 --> 02:14.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Trump addressed the concerns of farmers. 02:14.633 --> 02:16.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% DONALD TRUMP: We're fighting very hard for you. 02:16.633 --> 02:18.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% We're making a lot of progress. 02:18.666 --> 02:23.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So I'm asking all of our citizens to call your Democrat lawmakers and ask them to pass 02:25.000 --> 02:29.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% a bill that secures our border, protects our country, and now reopens our government. 02:31.066 --> 02:33.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: The shutdown means many farmers are unable to get critical federal 02:33.600 --> 02:37.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% data or loans they will need to plan for spring planting. 02:37.400 --> 02:39.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Yamiche Alcindor.