The Shut Show:In what he offered as a major compromise to re-open the government yesterday, President Trump offered a three-year extension to immigrants who came to the US illegally in exchange for $5.7 billion for his border wall.

  Democratic leaders immediately rejected it. Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Trump’s plan as a “non-starter.” The President tweeted this morning, “Nancy Pelosi has behaved so irrationally & has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat.”

  The President spoke live on television at 4 pm. What Trump is offering is basically a hostage trade. He’s putting up 800,000 unpaid federal workers, plus uncounted contract employees, and 700,000 young illegal immigrants, in exchange for his border wall.

  Trump proposed what he described as a big compromise in unenticingly combative language. He said, “The radical left can never control our borders. Walls are not immoral.”

  He said his proposal includes humanitarian relief for refugees, new technology to guard the border, plus more border agents and immigration judges.

  He said that if he gets the money, he could build 230 miles of border barrier this year. “If we build a powerful and fully designed see-through steel barrier on our southern border, the crime rate and drug problem in our country would be quickly and greatly reduced. Some say it could be cut in half.” 

  Again, as always, he didn’t reveal who those “some” people are.

The Buzz:The website Buzzfeed is still out there alone with its story that said President Trump ordered his lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump’s attempt to build a tower in Moscow. Although the story has been discussed endlessly on cable news, no other news organization has confirmed it.

  The office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller described the story as “inaccurate,” but didn’t go into detail.

  Under a President accusing virtually all of journalism of being “fake,” the entire profession is feeling the heat.

  Trump tweeted, “Many people are saying that the Mainstream Media will have a very hard time restoring credibility because of the way they have treated me over the past 3 years (including the election lead-up), as highlighted by the disgraceful Buzzfeed story & the even more disgraceful coverage!”

  An entertaining sidebar to this is that Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and her husband George are on opposite sides. George tweeted to Trump, “What about all of the things the media has reported, and that you denied, that turned out to be true? Can someone put together a list of those?”

  Kellyanne, on the other hand, wrote this: “Dear Media Types, Your job is to get the story, not get the President. If you dove into #buzzfeedheadfirst yesterday, you own it, too.” 

  It’s not an unfair criticism. CNN talked about it all day as if the report is true, without any firsthand confirmation that it is.

Mexico Nightmare:The number of people killed in a gasoline pipeline explosion outside Mexico City has grown to 73. People were collecting free gasoline from a gushing break in a pipeline when it blew. Most of the victims were unrecognizable.

Make America Great:A Catholic school in Kentucky is threatening to expel some of its students after they confronted and taunted an American Indian man while he was performing a ceremonial song in Washington.

  The students, many of them wearing “Make America Great Again” caps, were from Covington Catholic High School and were in DC to attend Friday’s anti-abortion rally.

  One student in particular stood only a foot away, staring and smirking face-to-face with  Nathan Phillips, who fought in the Vietnam War. He said, “It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: ‘I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,’” Phillips said. “I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way and we were at an impasse.”

The Obit Page:Nathan Glazer, the urban sociologist who spent his life embroiled in issues of race, ethnicity, immigration and education, has died at age 95. Early on, Glazer was a co-author of landmark studies and commentaries on American society. He helped to write “The Lonely Crowd,” about American conformity, and with  Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1963,“Beyond the Melting Pot.” 

Sticky Situation:David Waldstein notes in The NY Timesthat there’s been a dramatic increase in miraculous one-handed pass catches in the National Football League. Receivers are catching balls that would have slipped from a player’s hands forty years ago.

  The reason is that players are wearing a new generation of super-sticky silicon polymer gloves. The chemistry is fascinating. The surface of the glove acts as both a solid and a liquid. They are “deformable,” almost melting into the surface of the ball. It’s made for many highlight reel moments.

  Of course, it has nothing to do with whether you hate Tom Brady. 

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