Trump admin updates: White House asks court to stay order to ground deportation flights

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to significantly narrow nationwide injunctions issued by three different federal judges blocking his order redefining birthright citizenship in the U.S.

The emergency applications ask the justices to take a "modest" step and rollback the judges' restriction on President Donald Trump's Day 1 order, allowing federal agencies to move forward with developing guidance and preparing for implementation if, at the end of litigation, the president prevails.

-ABC News' Devin Dwyer

As the clock ticks toward a government shutdown at the end of day Friday, President Donald Trump was asked if he'd get directly involved in negotiations with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

"If they need me, I'm there 100%," he responded.

He went on to preemptively blame Democrats if a shutdown were to occur and lauded the stopgap measure passed by House Republicans earlier this week. He said the bill was a funding "extension," but "ultimately we want to vote for one big, beautiful bill where we put the taxes in, we put everything in."

"Any chances you'll bend on the tariffs on aluminum and the ones that are planned for April 2?" a reporter asked President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.

"No," Trump responded, repeating his administration's main argument that the United States has been taken advantage of in trade deals with other nations.

"No I'm not going to bend at all. Aluminum or steel or cars. We're not going to bend," he said.

The president railed against Canada, saying it "only works as a state" and that the United States doesn't need their lumber, energy or cars.

"There's not a thing that we need. Now there'll be a little disruption, but it won't be very long," Trump said. "We have to do this, I'm sorry."

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked President Donald Trump if he had plans to talk directly with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

"I'd love to meet with him or, talk to him, but we have to get it over with fast," Trump responded as he spoke about ceasefire negotiations.

The president also reacted to Putin saying Russia was open to a ceasefire but had questions and concerns about what it would entail.

"He put out a very promising statement, but it was incomplete," Trump said on Thursday.