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call, i will shut down the government. >> okay, we disagree. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i am not going to blame you. >> he got his wish. the government is partially shut down days before christmas. both the house and the senate adjourned late friday night but will return on saturday. i want to go to brian stelter and phil mattingly and hello to all of you. that sound that you hear which is crickets in washington. that's the government shutdown for the third time this year. how long do we expect this going on? >> i talked to a veteran, he made what i thought a point.

the reality is there is no elegant way out. there is no way that every party involved can claim a win. the reality of the matter is somebody is herbessentially goio be bludgeon and have to cry mercy. as we are in a partial shutdown, is anybody willing to cry mercy. is the president willing to blame. when you look at the dynamic as they sat the last couple of weeks. the president wants $5 billion for his border wall. negotiations are willing to come down a little bit of that. democrats are making clear they are not budging of what their numbers have been. if nobody is ready to blinked, there is no resolution for the future. if congress wants to make something work and the president is willing to sign, things can come together rather quickly. the problem right now when you talk with republicans and capitol hill, i believe one key

ingredient of that does not exist. this is not just an hours long shutdown. one that may actually last weeks at a time. >> kaitlyn. >> did you get special dispensation to stay on the white house. by 10:15, we got to get her off the lawn. this is the curfew. >> ten days ago, kaitlyn, president trump told democrat leaders that he proudly owns the shutdown. now, he's blaming the democrats. do we know what he would sign to reopen the government? >> no. >> no one would go that far to say what it is. such a last minute meeting that some of them could not get their secret service when they first arrived. what is the president going to support? we started out with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell believing the president was going to sign that short term spending bill and they were not feeling

confident about it, mcconnell telling reporters there will not be a shut down and here we are at midnight. the president said his vice president mike pence and mull vein mulvan mulvaney. they are parking on these negotiations and talking about what they want. they want more than 1.4 billion for the border wall. they can't negotiate all they want and it will all comes down to whether or not the president is going to support tsomething. that's what house republicans will be watching the next few days. >> brian, are we here because of conservative host revolted and got under trump's skin? >> a big factor. radio host and tv host combined and pressuring the president to fulfill the campaign promise. that was rooted and misinformation.

the promise there had to be a wall and invasion coming in from the south and all that is rooted in a lot of misinformation. >> the president believed it and promoted. here we are two years in his presidency and the third shutdown in less than a year. this is how the gop is going to end eight years. this is how they're going to end it by showing the government is down. it is a sad day. the country deserves better than that. better employees, screwed over christmas. >> elena, was it a mistake for president trump to say $5 billion for the wall given the votes don't exist in the senate? did he play this wong? >> you know don, i think one point that keeps oncoming back to me over and over especially today as i have spoken to force sources on the hill and in the white house. donald trump had two opportunities earlier this year to accept the deal for $25 billion for funding for his border wall over the course of several years in exchange for a

pathway of citizenship for recipients. that's not something that republican leader and trump turn their backs both times. it was likely a big mistake on their part to not take this deal. what i am hearing from the trump campaign is that coupled with the idea that trump likely will not get the $5.7 billion he wants for the border wall. this pus him ts him into a huge predicament heading into 2020. >> i am wondering do you think that the one that they had will still be on the table once democrats take over the house? >> no, absolutely not. that deal is off the table and pelosi will say this to reporters as well. they don't trust the president anymore when it comes to

negotiations over daca. he does not follow through so they're not going to start on that road again. >> interesting. >> phil mattingly. what are your republican sources telling you about the president? he's shifting position. do they feel they have any guidance here? >> no, they don't, i think kaitlyn hit on this. with the understanding that they'll continue this fight once the democrats took over the majority. they were completely under cut. they would not make that deal if they did not think the president is going to support it. there is something here that can't be over stated. it seems obvious but it is a crucial point. given that and given senate

republicans and majority leader mitch mcconnell feeling completely under cut and where house republicans stand especially heading into the minority. there is no separations. republicans told me repeatedly over the course 24 hours, until the president tells us what he wants, we are not willing to move something to the floor. they're not willing to under cut him or go on faith or go on the word of the vice president or in coming chief of staff or son-in-law. it will take the president will toll th tell them what they want. >> let's talk more about that, kaitlyn, he mentions the son-in-law and vice president pence and mulvaney who once said that the wall was simplestic.

what's the white house's next move? >> they're kind of sitting back and watching. president trump's plan going to mar-a-lago and he's still here at the white house. they believe he'll stay until a vote happens. they got to give 24 hours notice to give back to washington to vote when they do feel they have an agreement. they don't think anything will happen until sunday or so. they're waiting to see what's going to happen and as phil says, they don't believe they're closer to a deal right now so they're kind of sitting back and waiting to see what it is that's going to happen next because they do very well feel that a shutdown could go on for several days. they feel confident that if it only happens for a few days, they can take this is the president fighting for the border wall and that's why the government is shut down. they got a few days do buy themselves some time. over the weekend, not many people are working over the weekend. you don't see people sitting at home typically will be going to

the office. this stretches out to several days and weeks and going long after the holidays. that's going to be a problem for them. by the minute, they are losing leverage because of the newly empowered house democrats are going to take over and things are going to be different for them. they're well aware of that. they are waiting to see what the president is going to say. >> pence and kushner up on the hill today are discussing with president trump before leaving tonight and now they're waiting to see where they go from here. >> i am looking at the weather forecast at palm beach, 66 tomorrow and saturday and sunday. >> a great weekend in mar-a-lago. >> wow. >> listen, brian. >> cold in washington compares to that. >> even the president that really likes chaos. this could not be helping him. >> even people try to tune out the news and not pay attention to all the scandals and

controversies could not ignore what's happening this week between mattis and the markets melting down. it is a week that's different. heading antoninto the weekend, are the polls are going to show. a democrat's shutdown. the sound byte we talked about trump owning the shutdown, we played it over and over again. the government is shutdown. that's how it will be played out. remember in january, there were talks about shutting down the government and how it is going to affect the midterms? it did not. they don't have long-term consequences. >> in congress, maybe it has some. >> this is the third time of the year and if any, it is going to be blamed on trump. does he have the stomach for that and as he sits to the white

house and can't go to mar-a-lago. he was planning to go to mar-a-lago for more than two weeks, i think. i am sure he's missing his friends and family there right now. >> will the president be blamed for this shutdown? >> absolutely. i want to push back a bit on brian and say that i do think that this shutdown could have long-term consequences for %-p who last week set out this moment as a huge inflection point for presidency he's on the record to say this is my last opportunity to get the wall funded and fulfill my promise to the american people. again, if he does not and the base revolts, that's based on a promise that trump set up himself. i spoken to an administration official, don, who was on the campaign told me today he almost regrets supporting the president because so much of his desire to

get involved in the administration say about what you will was based on his promise to secure the southern border. if that bleeds into his base and more republicans ahead of 2020. this has a disasterous effect for the campaign. >> thank you, all, phil, and kaitlyn, get your sleep now. you are going to need it. thank you both. thank you all, i appreciate it. >> the federal government is partially shut down as of mid night eastern. what does this mean? how are americans are affected? we'll look at the numbers.

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mitigates the impact of whatever that's going to happen here. but, in theory this will or would have some impact for people, big travel time right n now. tsa workers would be working with pay delay and transportation, 24,000 air traffic controllers would stay on the job and railroad inspectors and state departments are still issuing passports, if you are trying to get in a passport office in a building where they have a lot of people furloughed, you may find the building close and you can't get in one of those particular locations. if you are coming to the capitol, the museum of smithsoni smithsonian, they have funding through the first of january but after that in case of a shutdown, we don't know what's happening with them. the justice department will do

what it does. the russia investigation, notably would continue. the agriculture department will continue but shut down in certain departments. the interior department, the national parks, this is a mix bag. some services of some parks will be closed like restrooms or visitor centers and others will be open for the time being. while we are on that subject, there are holiday treats out there. santa and his llamas will visit the olympic nationals for us no matter what happens. the polar express will continue to run at the grand canyon because it is operated by a third party. >> tom, thank you very much. president trump says he would be proudly to shut down

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the federal government is officially a partial shutdown. president trump would proudly do it and he did. >> let's talk about it now. we are always here late for a shutdown or a late vote that's always down on the wire. here we are. listen. a lot of people would be affected by this. this little ins convenience is nothing. alex, this is what our colleague tweeted this. from a republican's perspective, a government shutdown is better than the white house. he believes the president threatens global stability. does he have a point? >> sure. >> from the president's standpoint, what we have here is short term pain for long-term gain when it comes to his key campaign promise. i never thought he's going to build a wall and mexico would

pay for it but a lot of his base did. when we realize that mexico is not paying for it, the president does need to follow through on this. this is a key pillar of how he's elected as president and how he runs as administration. he met earlier with key senators and he told them. i spoke with them. look, i want to go under $5 billion if we need to. right now i need to stay firm on that and show and come from a position of strengths. he won't have quite the bargaining power. right now he's standing firm on that. >> okay. all right. so you said short term paying for long-term gain. >> right. because he wants to have a negotiating chip to work with in order to get the funding that he wants. in the long-term he feels as though this will pay off from those standpoints. >> so the government is shutdown, january 3rd, with the new congress coming back.

does he have less power? >> absolutely. he's using it now and standing firm on this. he'll go back. you will give us 1.6 and i want $5 billion. let's meet in the middle. >> i am trying to figure out the in incentives for democrats to do anything when he's already shut the government down, i own the shutdown. the government will be shut down for at least i am saying if you are democrats who are negotiating. a week and a half which is bearable and you come back and you have more power, why is there any incentive for democrats to move on this and agree to anything or anybody, tell me. >> well, let me just say this. >> honestly. hold on -- i don't want to move on. what's the in scentive, scott? >> there is none. all they have to do is bear it

for a week. >> there you go. >> it is bearable. so they need to get to january 3rd. i am sure they will unless they decide to work on something this weekend here. i am chuck schumer, i would turn my phone off and sit by the pool some where and wait until january 3rd. >> okay, that's all i am asking. scott, thank you for your honest city. >> no. i think it is democrats. we had a deal made and i think that even mcconnell, leader mcconnell had a deal made with the president of the united states but he was listening to the end cultures and the rallies of the world. that's the facts. the bill o'reilly, they run -- >> he does. >> he was just at the white house not that long ago at the christmas party taking pictures with don jr. and melania. when they begin to weigh their influence into the white house,

that's when you saw this trajectory change. that's why we this issue right now. there was a deal made to keep the government running and keep 800,000 people who work for us every single day. the irony is one mexico is not paying for the wall. number two, while we are in a shut down, we are taking people who are protecting our border who are not paying them for the work they are doing. this is what happens when you have a republican leadership that can't govern. you have three shut down downs year. it is unprecedented. >> did you want to say something juliet? i want to ask a different question. >> go ahead. >> this is what bloomberg is reporting. how concerning is that to you,

julia? >> in the same way that it is concerning of what he did to the fbi director, comey, this is a man that does not take responsibility for the consequences of his policies. the stock market and the economy are as they are because of a ridiculous tax hike that we now know has not worked and there is no talk of ahm middle class tax relief. so you know donald trump and donald trump , his first job he ever had and he has to see the consequences of what he does. getting to this point of where we are right now. this is the consequences of the president who has walked away from deals that republicans and democrats together had agreed upon and he throws his own party under the bus. >> right now we are talking about, can we wait a week or whatever, there are human beings known as federal employees who

are going to be asked to work without pay or going to be told to stay home. >> i was one of those employees once in the 1990s. it is not fun. the average tsa workers, the people that you are going to see at the airport because you are going to go on your fancy trips, they're getting paid 30,000 or $32,000 a year, you are telling me they're not impacted by a single week delay. this is on donald trump. this is also quite personal to a lot of people around the country who are going to wake up on christmas morning not actually having a paycheck, not being fired. how bizarre is that donald trump created for us for the holidays. >> i want to get back to firing the fed chair here. >> can you roll it back, please? >> that's four times. thank you very much. >> bloomberg reported tonight, we are not reporting it as

bloomberg that president trump discussed firing the federal reserve chair jerome powell after this week's interest rates. is that concerning to you, scott? >> well, i don't think he can fire the fed chair. >> b, i guess it is concerning and accept that the president is paying attention that the market is not free fall. there is a number of factors that had gone into this. and this is just general jitters in the market because of the way things are going in the country right now. it is not a good way to measure the health of the economy based on what's happening. middle class people who lives in the suburbs -- they're sensitive to these things. if we have jittery market for

the next two years, even if the economy feels pretty good, it is going to feel uncertain for these folks. >> i am glad he's paying enough attention to it. it is a real threat to his election if he does not calm his post down. >> i don't think the president can fire the fed chair once they are appointed. i am not sure about that. >> yeah, i don't think they can either. to point while we are talking about walls and the fed chair, the only walls we need are between the president of the united states and the fed chair and the department justice. it is amazing that he can't see or does not have a basic understanding or grasp of the role of the president of the united states of what he can and can't do. the bumper rails that we thought he had, jonah mattis and john kelly and etcetera, are all leaving. they're not even any bumper rails next. which is the reason why you are

having republicans who are peeling eye wpee peelipeel away from this. people are going to start to feel this pain and this is all because of donald trump's doing. that's unfortunate. real people are suffering. >> alice, i want to ask you something because you have people who say they are upset because they did not think the president is strong enough to get the border wall. he had two years to do it with the senate and the republican congress and you had people who are saying they are backing into it and they are done with him. you have other folks because of mattis and the chaos. i have a friend who's a strong trump supporter and he said i gave up on trump. he's off the deep end now. i gave my resignation to him like mattis did. he's off the deep end now. we have to stop him. >> what do you think the basis

s is saying? >> the base is with him 80%. >> that's not going away. this is a mul-- >> is it "fox and friends" and you mentioned o'reilly. >> all of those are trump supporters and they are all criticizing him. what are you doing? you advocated. >> that's exactly why he did such a stand firm on billing those walls and trying to make it happen at the expense of shutting the government down. all the names you mentioned, laura ingraham and the fox life sp lineup, those are his base. they are telling these voices that you mentioned, make sure the president understands why we voted for him and how we'll

stand with him in 2020. that's why he's doing that. there is a lot of others that are frustrated. as i said, certain of these issues i knew he was never going to get accomplished but the key issue for me, supreme court justices, he followed through on that. regulations following through on that. israel and standing by israel, he has followed through on that. a lot of people are looking at him and thinking a much better pick than hillary clinton. >> you got to go quick. >> can i say something? >> i mean i was talking about the wall is about trump's ego and not about national security. we have a president who needs to educate his base that the wall is not going to make us safer. there is no discussion of this security implications of the wall verses other things.

we are at a 25% creadecrease fr last year of illegal crossings and we have hundreds of miles of walls built and we have agents, a president who was strong would educate the american public why we are not doing a wall. we all know and allison applies it, this is about ego. it is not about security. >> it is about opinion rather than facts. none of those people i mentioned are a journalist, they're all opinionated people. they're not dealing with facts. everybody stick around. the government shutdown for the third time this year. this has not happened since the 1970s. we'll talk to doug brinkley about shutdown's past and how presidents have found a way out.

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we are just 40 minutes into our third shutdown this year. it has not happened in a decade of three times in one year. douglas brinkley is joining us

right now. it is historic, it is the third time and it has not happened in a while. the third time of the past four years. what does it say of the level of dysfunction in washington? it tells us how congress has 15% of approval rating and why donald trump are the lowest rating of all time. this is going to be known in history as the trump's christmas shutdown of 2018. he does not have the art of the shutdown pockact. we had a 7% drop in the dow this week and there is all sorts of jitters, he's closing the government and employees closing down parks and memorials around the united states and on and on,

it is not good for the trump's presidency. it shows that you can't govern when you do these shut downs. the big question is, is this a five-day shut down or does it move into the january or the stock market continues to go down? >> is this what he promise though when he said he'll shut down washington? >> i don't think it is a promise. all he says is win. i don't see the dow is winning. bill clinton, one was a five-day shutdown in 1995. but in 1996, there was a 21-day. that's what i am worried about bill clinton hung in there for 21 days and clinton won reelection over bob dolan. what if trump says, i am not

giving up my wall. i prefer not to. i prefer not to keep the government open. anything like that could happen. let's hope that chuck schumer and donald trump do right by our country and make sure that our government employees, these incredible men and women that are working for us are given a proper holiday, paychecks given to them. >> absolutely. >> do you sense that republicans are getting fed up with this president? when you look at this week, the entire period since the midterms, but this week had been just really crazy. >> you know, don, the other day i guess yesterday you put a list of republicans saying oh my gosh, look at what they have done in syria and now mattis is leaving. republicans are terrified right now. lindsey graham is at war with this president and he had been

very close to him for a long time. you are starting to see a real -- a corrosion in trumpism and maybe 80% of the base will still be behind him. i think it stripped down to about 70%. trump is in trouble here because he was not able to deliver the wall. he promised metroplex coxico wa pay for it. it did not happen. he had two years to recover republican as and congress. it did not happen. he does own this and he says it is my mantle and it looks like a president nobody really likes. the world is angry at us. there is no new peace with north korea and the middle east is disarr disarrayed. i like to see the united states to get some kind of win here at the end of the holiday and a

shutdown is not that. >> do you understand this right now? >> i don't. he's so attracted to fox news and o'reilly and russians involved and cultures. he's listening to that and there is an echo chamber. he's a survivalist. what he does is he keeps ongoing. we are about to go to prison and he escapes apprehension. he thinks that at all costs, he can't give up that he's building the wall. if pelosi comes in and democrats don't give him these billions, he may try to demonize democrats and see if it works for him. he should have skated past the week. he rather be talking about government shutdown and the border wall than he would with the mueller report of what happened with general flynn this week and mattis' harsh letter

towards him that's embarrassing the president. it is a week of hard stories comparing to the rest of them and as long as we talk about the border wall, he thinks he keeps his base in place. >> douglas brinkley. thank you. >> you too as well, don, merry christmas. >> merry christmas. we'll be right back. it's your last chance this holiday season to join t-mobile and get the iphone xr on us. from capital one.nd i switched to the spark cash card i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. what's in your wallet?

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colter. third time this year the federal government has partially shut down. it's anyone's guess for just how long. back with me. alice stewart. bakari sellers juliette kayyem and scott jennings. bakari let me read this. "new york times" wrote a letter to the trump official who wrote the infamous times op-ed in september. he writes. until now you may have convinced yourself that real honor lay in putting up with it. with the craziness of the boss and the disdain of your

neighbors because the good of the country as you see it demanded it. until now, you had mattis to serve as role model. he's going and the argument can no longer be sustained. you must know by now that you are no longer keeping a bad thing from getting worse. all you're doing is disguising how bad it is, there by helping it to become worse. wow. disguising how bad it is and helping it become worse. is that how you see it? >> i don't have a lot of faith in people right now. in the republican party. with all due represent to scott and alice. i don't have faith in the white house. listen. >> say that again. it's a very important point. you don't have faith in a lot of people. including people you -- >> yeah. i feel like -- most americans are at a point we had an election, we were vested we

wanted chin tclinton to win she lost. everybody wanted trump to be something he hasn't been for 70 years. we're at a point now we're not talking about bigotry or his words. we're talking about the fact the country is taking a nose dive. it's taking a nose dive on every level. mattis left this week. north korea is not denuclearization. we know with pulled out of syria on a whim because he woke up and felt like it. the stock market. every indicator we have at home and abroad shows we're having issues and the problems there's not a republican who is willing to stand up. everyone is like okay, we'll get a jus it is a justice. or this will happen. and tax breaks. what we're in the paying attention is what's good for the country. sometimes people have to stand up for what's right. i wish there were more republicans willing to do that.

>> i want to get everybody in. juliette, with mattis gone is there anyone in the administration that you trust to question the president's impulses. >> no. i'm fine with that. at this stage i'm with brett stevens. tear the band aid off. the idea of the adult in the room was a mythology that we wanted to believe to make us feel better that trump in some way was a suitable president of the united states. i will to bakari's worrisome. i want to give hints things are changing between khashoggi. and syria. mattis and the shut down. you are starting to see sort of dents in the republican wall. and it may continue. in other words this maybe this is a very bad week for trump. and i do think that as he and his supporters and enablers and people who shea i want to take the good, he does two good

things but 100,000 bad things. i really like the two bad things. history will be written. whether this president was a suitable president of the united states of america the greatest country on the earth is something everyone -- what side were you on. this week raised that question for a lot of people. >> final thoughts please. scott. >> there's a flip side to argument to this. people out in the middle of the country who supported the president in 2016. who are still standing with him wanted a president who was non-traditional and make different decisions. they are not fond of intervention. they don't mind the shut down. they're not in hysterics. i think depending on your point of view and the pris m. you may be getting exactly what you wanted.

to make everybody in washington mad. the syria decision was bad. i don't like walking into a fight for which you have no strategy end game. but there tr people out there who don't mind it when he's missing off washington d.c. >> the frustration people have. a crazy week is the tone and tenor of the president. which caused people like mattis to say i'm done with this. his base stands behind him because of the policy and not the way he performs. the real elephant in the room we can acknowledge that is robert mueller. what happens with the probe and how will that impact the presidency. it could go one way or the oh. depending on that whether or not the president hands out pardons as a result. that will be a big influence. >> thank you, all. merry christmas. >> i began the show by saying that it is the darkest day of

the year. winter officially arrived. tomorrow we'll wake up hopefully to a pribrighter day. i'll be enjoying time with my family and i hope you can spend time with yours. thank you for watching. coverage continues.

tonight news supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is recovering from surgery that removed cancer nodules from her lung. there's no lingering in her lung or her body. ten years later she was treated for the early stages of pan crease cancer. she cost her vote with the majority today that upheld a federal judges order that blocked the trump administration new asylum restriction. that would have banned migrants who illegally crossed into the united states from seeking asylum outside official