Donald Trump has publicly contradicted his own chief of staff over the Mexican border wall as tensions frayed ahead of an impending government shutdown. 

The US president disputed John Kelly’s claims that his views on the barrier had “evolved” and that he was not “fully informed” during the election campaign. 

Mr Kelly’s comments, made behind closed doors but confirmed in a Fox News interview, came as Republicans attempted to broker a deal to keep the government funded. 

Democrats want protections for “dreamer” migrants who came to America illegally while children, but Republicans want money for border security including the wall. 

The deadline is midnight on Friday. Failure to agree a deal will trigger a government shutdown, meaning staff at non-essential government programmes cannot work. 

The stand-off has escalated splits within the Republican Party and seen Mr Trump criticised for refusing to make his stance on key immigration issues clear. 

The president s facing the political challenge of following through on hardline immigration promises while also needing Democratic votes to approve future spending. 

In a bid to break the impasse, Mr Kelly talked to a group of Democrats – the congressional Hispanic caucus – to hear their demands.  

Leaked comments from the meeting appeared to reveal Mr Kelly taking a more moderate stance on immigration than Mr Trump had before the election. 

Mr Kelly reportedly said a wall would not be built along the entire Mexican border, admitted Mexico would not directly pay for it and called Mr Trump “uniformed” during the campaign.

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Numerous US media outlets cited the comments.  Mr Kelly did little to challenge the reports in a later interview with Fox News, saying that Mr Trump was not “fully informed” on the border wall during the campaign. 

He said Mr Trump’s thinking had "evolved" since taking office and added there are parts of the border where a physical wall would not work, such as mountainous areas. 

Writing on Twitter, Mr Trump contradicted the suggestion his thinking had changed amid claims he had been angered by the remarks. 

The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it. Parts will be, of necessity, see through and it was never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018

….The Wall will be paid for, directly or indirectly, or through longer term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has a ridiculous $71 billion dollar trade surplus with the U.S. The $20 billion dollar Wall is “peanuts” compared to what Mexico makes from the U.S. NAFTA is a bad joke!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018

The spat is not the first time Mr Trump has clashed with colleagues in public. Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, and Steve Bannon, a former adviser, have all been previous targets. 

However it reflects tensions between Mr Kelly, a retired four-star general handed the job to bring order to the White House last summer, and the president. 

There have been reports that Mr Trump can grow frustrated at Mr Kelly’s fatherly tone, which is sometimes perceived as patronising. 

On Thursday, Mr Trump undermined his own party’s attempts to secure a deal to avoid a government shutdown. 

On Twitter he appeared to criticise the extension of a children’s health insurance programme, which was being used to convince Democrats to give their support. 

Friday’s midnight deadline could be pushed back if Republicans and Democrats agree a temporary delay – something that happened just before Christmas. 

Mr Trump tweeted: "A government shutdown will be devastating to our military…something the Dems care very little about!"

Carles Puigdemont was officially proposed as the new Catalan president on Monday as Spanish authorities failed in a last ditch attempt to secure the detention of the fugitive leader during a risky trip to Denmark.

A fresh standoff now looms in the independence crisis after Roger Torrent, the new speaker of the Catalan parliament, defied warnings from Madrid to declare Mr Puigdemont “the only candidate” for the presidential inauguration due next week.

Requesting a meeting with Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, Mr Torrent said he was conscious of the difficulties surrounding Mr Puigdemont’s inauguration, but insisted on the “absolute legitimacy” of his return to power. 

The announcement drew an angry response from Catalan opposition parties, which demanded Mr Torrent reconsider his decision. 

Ines Arrimadas, the Catalan leader of Ciudadanos, said it could not accept the nomination of a president who was “a fugitive from justice”. 

Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, spokesman for the Spanish government, rebuffed the offer of dialogue, reiterating warnings that it would appeal any attempt at a long distance inauguration. 

Earlier in the day, Spain’s attorney general had requested the reactivation of a European Arrest Warrant for Mr Puigdemont after he left his self-imposed exile in Belgium for the first time in 80 days to speak at a debate in Copenhagen. 

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But the Spanish Supreme Court rejected the petition, judging that Mr Puigdemont’s arrest could play into his hands. 

Judge Pablo Llarena noted that his detention could qualify him to participate in the parliament via a delegate, which is permitted in the case of incapacity and already granted for three jailed politicians back at home.

Mr Puigdemont was seeking to “provoke” his own detention in order to “force the context” in which he could delegate his vote, Mr Llarena said. 

Demanding Mr Rajoy respect the results of the 21 December election, he said it was time to “end the repression and seek a political solution”.

Mr Puigdemont once again called on the European Union to address the Catalan crisis, which he said was as crucial to the future of Europe as Brexit. 

He accused the EU of double standards in its treatment of different member states, suggesting that the "cover" given by the bloc to the Rajoy government was motivated by political alliances.

There is a rumor going around that a Dean Ambrose heel turn has been proposed around the writer’s room that would lead to a match at WrestleMania next year with Seth Rollins.
Supposedly discussions amongst the writers are that to have Ambrose doing a turn against Rollins after the Shield reunion has ended and that the tension would return to the team, possibly over losing the tag titles. Dean would then turn on his partner leading to a feud between them. This would take them all the way to Wrestlemania and possibly beyond.
This is all speculative of course. There is still a lot of time until Wrestlemania and plans can change quickly in the WWE, especially when it comes time for the granddaddy of them all. These two has also met and had a program before, so doing another one wouldn’t have the same effect, even if the storyline is different. A heel Dean Ambrose would be different though as Ambrose has worked face ever since the Sheild break up. He is one of the WWE’s most popular stars, so a heel turn would possibly open up some new possibilities

We shall see if anything comes of it.