the dominos will fall. i think lit be it will be on th president's add vierzs. >> all right. we'll be watching. excellent reporting. thank you very much. barbara thank you. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. the president's new threat. warning he may shut down the entire southern border if he doesn't get his wall. this as he tries to shift the blame for the government shutdown. help wanted. democrats are recruiting lawyer, lots of them as they gear up to investigate donald trump. republicans raising new concerns about the russia investigation. well teal you what they are taking issue with tonight. good evening. shut it down.

this time i am not talk about the government. the president tonight threatening to shut down the entire southern border. all 48 points of entry. that is if he doesn't get the money he wants for his border wall. tweeting this, we will be forced to close the southern border entirely if the obstructionist democrats do not give us the money to finish the wall. in the shut down's 7th day this is the new wrinkle. more money or else. just how much money will the president settle for? 2 billion, 5 billion. more or less? the white house now unwilling to say. >> you give us any idea what the president will be willing to accept financially for border security for his border wall where you could reach a deal if democrats would get there? >> we made that clear to the democrats. the president has been willing to negotiate on this point. >> really? pretty much all the evidence proves otherwise. it was just over a week ago that the president spiked the senate

approved deal. the daily to avoid a shut down all together. it's not like democrats have been willing to negotiate at this point either. even now the president is still not clear about what he rae wants. just about 24 hours ago the president tweeted this. this isn't about the wall. remember that. prior to that, let's just play the tape. >> we have a bit of a shutdown because we believe in walls. if you don't have that, then we're just not opening. we're going to one way or the other get a wall. the wall will get built. we have done a lot of wall already. >> maybe it was about the wall. i'm not sure. with that the president is returning to an old threat. if he doesn't get the money, he'll shut the whole thing down. do we know how real this threat

is? the new one, the old one? >> reporter: we know he's been tweeting about it all day long. we saw a flurry of tweets early this morning going through the morning. you showed some of those. talking about his threat to shutdown the southern border to mexico. in up with of those tweets he was talking about how he believes america is losing millions of dollars in the nafta deal and this would be considered a profit creating move. he will consider it a profit making move to shut down the border. there's no evidence to support that claim. he is talking about it again and again and online, on twitter. he's been saying that is his hard line. that $5 billion for the wall. what we do know is that president trump is here at the white house tonight. white house add vievisers telli he was in the oval office today. he was making phone calls. he was having meetings. it's unclear what those were about or to whom those phone calls were going to but he was working from the white house.

he also learned a bit about their strategy. part one, blame nancy pelosi. they have been saying she's not going to be able to deal with them because she's trying to line up votes to make sure she's the speaker when the new house convenes january 3rd. all evidence is she likely has those votes and will be speaker. the other thing is that they are keeping president trump here in washington. he was scheduled to go to mar-a-lago for christmas. he cancelled those plans. he was scheduled to be here for new year's eve and new year's day. they normally have a big, fancy party there. hard to align that. >> optics is one thing but starting to talk, negotiate and getting the government open is a different deal. thank you so much.

the president threatening to shut down the entire border. you sate it was disappointing to be leaving congress in this way with the government shutdown. i do wonder how do you feel tonight? >> i mean this struck me as an angry 8th grader's tweet. i don't really any how to make sense of it because i don't think he can do this even if he wanted to. it probably violates nafta. i don't think he'll have much, if anything support, in congress. nor do i think he would be able to implement it. when you start throwing out threats like this, people stop taking you seriously in terms hoof how you go about negotiating. i understand the desire to point the finger at nancy pelosi and

say this is your fault or this is your shutdown. i am a republican. there's been plenty times where i can point to nancy pelosi and say i disagree with her. i think the ball is in her court but remember the president said this is his shutdown and i'm not clear on what amount of money he needs in order to sign a funding bill. i am disappointed i'm leaving congress with the government being shutdown but i don't know there's anything i can do about preventing the shutdown at this point or any members of congress because the ball is in the president's court and we have no clarity on what he's willing to accept or what he might sign. >> the congressman raising an important point at this point. what do you want? first it seemed clear. 5 billion dollar, nothing less. they have not shied away from setting their standard or bar before. when the president was in iraq,

reporters asked him if it was room. 2.5 billion and the president dodged the question three times. not one to dodge a question. do you think that is where things are headed? what do you take from that? >> he is saying that he's making these phone calls and talking to people. there's these oftuvertures goinn but according to nan scy pelosi office they are not talking to her. >> nancy pelosi hasn't talked to him since that oval office meeting. >> the reality is president trump, the more he talks about the wall, the more he talks about that's what he wants, it's money for wall, whether it's 5 billion or 2 billion or less, his problem is the democrats are pretty united in not being willing to give money for what he can come away and call a wall. when you -- >> this steel slat.

i don't mean to diminish it but now that they are parsing words. >> the sunny slats is different than the big beautiful wall that no one will get over. when you hear the president talking about border security and no longer using the term wall that's when it seems like the republicans and the president will start shifting and caving. on border security, they have won before. it's him hunkering down on the wall that will be a real problem. >> i want to drill down on something that you were talk about on whose to blame. nancy pelosi. there's a clear attempt at a new tactic on this. let me just play you a bit of what i'm talking about. >> nancy pelosi is calling the shots. >> this comes down to mrs. pelosi's speakership.

they are protecting mrs. pelosi. >> she's unwilling to do anything until she gets her speakership. >> i talked to some of the smartest reporters on the hill today and say this isn't the case. there's not daylight between schumer and pelosi on this. why do you think the white house is going down this road? you can see what they are trying to do but why? >> i see what they are trying to do. i serve with mick mulvaney and he's extremely smart. they have the team in place to get to the finish line and do a deal when the president is willing to get a deal done. >> you know that. it is the president. that's it. >> correct. let me just respond to your point. i do think there may be a bit of difference between schumer and pelosi. they will stay aligned but i do think you can move some senators a bitbit easier than you can mo

democratic members of the house. some of which the white house is correctly pointing out but having said all of that, if we were going to do a deal, the time was when you had claire mccaskill and highkempt and others. not when you enter into a new congress with a democratic majority house. even if there's daylight, the reality of the situation is, the better deal from a border security republican perspective would be to have done the deal prior to the new congress being sworn in. it's very difficult to argue with that proposition. >> that's a good point. i'm not going to argue with it. patrick, there's this one thing i've been thinking about. heading into the new congress, democrats listed out what their priorities were in the house. big, bold, gun control, infrastructure, protecting obama care. >> voting rights.

>> you name it. what they are having to face at the beginning of a new congress is getting the government open again. i do wonder in a strange way, is the president have a win here because he has -- i won't say hijacked but he's changed their agenda going in. >> right. the republicans shutdown the government. president trump shutdown the go government so now the democrats have to deal with it. i don't think it's a skunk at the garden party. it's a chance it seems like speaker pelosi to come in later next week and probably see the democrats pass a bill that would re-open the government, that would provide money for border security. maybe some fencing but not for a wall. then kick it back. probably a bill similar to what the republican controlled senate pass. >> we have seen this game before. you passed it. why won't you pass it this time? >> there's going to be a legislative schedule for all the other democratic house

priorities that they want to send. until the shutdown is resolved and until the wall fight ends, it's not worth trying to bring media attention to voting rights. they know that isn't going to get a lot of attention. they would rather get whatever kind of win to bend. >> they can wall and hchew gum t the same time. >> they don't do it. >> thanks so much. next, as demonstrate democrat prepare to take over the house they are staffing up and looking for a few good lawyers. the mysterious robert mueller. he has no interest in the spotlight even though he's center stage in washington. the republicans questioning the handling of the clinton and russia investigation. what are their concerns?

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house democrats basic activ staffing up, looking to hire a batch of attorneys for what may be the largest investigation of a sitting president. how do we know? no further than the job postings. one looking for attorneys with experience in criminal law, immigration law, constitutional law, intellectual property law, commercial and administrative law or oversight work. everything except divorce attorneys.

we learned that nancy pelosi hired a new general counsel. what does all this say? >> the scope will be broad. the staffing will be many. the target will be plentiful. i think that's the reality now when you talk to democrats. they have been meeting for months trying to map out targets. trying to map out committee jurisdiction making sure one or the other doesn't step on each other's toes. they will be almost doubling their staff on the investigation side. they can start hiring on january 3rd. there's people willing to take major pay cuts to come in and take part in these investigations. what are they looking into? there's a lot of people with a lot of ideas. they have narrowed them down to a couple of things. potential financial crimes. people applying for jobs related to money laundering. you have people trying to do investigations into cabinet

officials. you have the intelligence econo committee looking more into the russia investigation as well. democrats know they need to have the staff. they need to have the personnel to actually do the investigations and not just in a circus like atmosphere but try to make them count. these things can spin out of control quickly. they need the talented people that can pull the weight to make these things work. you mentioned the hiring of the general counsel. doug letter is a 40 year veteran of the justice department. he's worked with both administrations. both republican and democratic administratio administrations. i've covered the justice department before in past life. he's very well respected as a career official over there. bringing him on, what that means, he will be the point person on all litigation fights.

when you bring somebody with that level into the ball game, you realize democrats are taking this seriously. >> you're going to sleep, maybe some. great to see you. thanks. great to see you. does the white house, do you think, appreciate what is going to be coming at them come january? >> i hope so. i worry at times they don't. i worry the white house staff might not realize the political wave about to happen in 2019. this is the political version of the crips and blood. they are getting ready to fight. they're hiring lawyers. they are. they're getting ready for a brawl. >> a wild mental image. >> if the dems win, i still

believe they are hell bent on impeachment. the best case se nar ycenario w an investigatory circus. that will commence next week. i think we'll see the pace of this increase. the democrats earned the right to do this. they won the house. it's the constitutional -- i've said this for a long time. congress is supposed to be the check and balance upon the executive branch. i would say this. as an american, it worries me they will over reach and don't have an agenda outside of resistance. resistance and antagonism is not an agenda. >> the first thing nancy pelosi is doing on schedule is introducing hr 1. it's package of voting reforms. campaign finance reform. election rights. she surveyed her members.

she's not leading with impeachment or even with investigations. i think the truth is and i'm glad to hear you say you agree, they are the new majority. i would say paul ryan fell down on the job and deferred too much of the president. there's plenty of them to investigate. i think they have to do both. they have to put forth a legislative agenda that lets them keep the house in 2020. it's a background for what will be a feisty presidential nominating campaign. th that's got to be scary to republicans because he is respected on both sides. she's not going to go crazy. she is looking to somebody that will be very sober. >> they are respected by both sides until they're not. until we don't like what they're

doing. >> a current example of why i don't think they are serious about an agenda, in this government shutdown in the fight over the wall, the president, according to another network's reporting. the president has cut his number in half. >> we have that reporting that pence went to the hill and said 2.5. >> congress answer was krcricke. nancy pelosi is vacationing while the president skipped his vacation. >> poor him. >> if they're not willing to talk. >> they'll talk. >> in exchange for protecting daca which they claim is paramount to them. >> i do like how you're bringing it all together. here is the one that i think that he doesn't have. republicans in the senate were ready. they approved, passed a deal with no additional border money in it because the president was on board. he pulled back. he is the one who reversed.

that is the problem that you've got. >> thank goodness he did. i think he did in part because a lot of people like me out there who support this president, believed that he will continue to fulfill his promises as he does and a foundation promise. >> isn't there a foundation promise to keep the government open. >> and have mexico pay for the wall. that was the foundation. >> wait, wait. let me play -- that's too far. he did say it and he said it again and again and again. let me play what president trump said on christmas day. getting back to investigations. let me play this. >> it's probably presidential harassme harassment. we know how to handle that. i think i handle that better than anybody. >> this gets to steve's point are democrats going to be able

to help themselves? his comeback is ready. >> mueller is a witch hunt. this is presidential harassment. it's not. they are doing their jobs. they don't know what they'll find. we the american people, the mueller investigation i supported. i believe he has rights. i think he's within his rights. there's also a realm where we need public testimony. we need public accountability where people can see. they can see whether the democrats go too far. >> i wonder if the president knows the difference between the job of congress, which is oversight and presidential harassment. i wonder? >> i don't think so. >> one of the easy lines and my advice would be matters that related to his candidacy or presidency is relevant. his personal life, his taxes before entering politics, if the congress goes there, my advice is they have to fight back. >> that will look really bad. >> they are co-equal branches.

the president has rights as well. he should instruct the justice department to frustrate overreach and go to court and fight these matters. >> you know his business dealings matter. whether he was working on trump moscow during the campaign up into the period he was nominate. that matters. i don't care what he did with pent ups before but if the payments were made on the eve of the election, that matters. >> we have a little preview of what 2019 in congress will look like. thanks so much. next, republicans questioning the fbi investigations tonight. what are their concerns and he may be the most famous attorney with the lowest public profile ever. who is robert mueller? gentle means everything,

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concerns about the thoroughness and impartiality of the probe. what are you learning about this and what does it say about mueller investigation? >> what they take issue with is the fbi and the department of justice. they take an interesting look at what the special counsel is doing. they say the work the mueller team is doing is important. they say that they have made no e effort to discredit the work of the special counsel. they say whatever the special counsel does, whatever work, whatever it is they do, whether it's this report, indictments that work needs to be trusted by the american, by people in this country. it is an interesting way for them to express their support of the special counsel's investigation. they were looking at how the clinton e-mail situation was investigated versus the russia

inv investigation and they said they have issues with how different the two were investigated. >> as we know it was basically wrapped up in every other way than by name and now it's official. great to see you. thank you. >> happy new year. as republicans say the mueller investigation should be allowed to continue, it's a reminder that his is name you've heard nearly every day but you've heard his voice next to never. tom foreman is out front with a fascinating look at the mysterious robert mueller. >> reporter: robert mueller may be the most famous invisible man in washington. president trump can't stop talking about the russia probe. >> i call it the rigged witch hunt. >> reporter: the man in charge holds no press conference, gives no interviews and is caught on camera so rarely this photo at an airport with donald trump junior passing caused a sensation. most of mueller's comments on

camera are old leek his thougiks on having survived being wounded in vietnam. >> you want to make the most to contribute in some way. >> in a city where every one rushes toward the spotlight, the idea of basactively turning awa from it baffles some people. >> reporter: he grew up in the northeast, attended prince ton and dedicated his life to the justice system handling some very big cases along the way. he has served every president since ronald reagan, republicans and democrats alike. >> he's apolitical. he's nonpartisan. he is become quite clear a pretty law and order guy. >> reporter: that has made him the hope for democrats, the bane of republicans and fodder for comedy shows. >> i've waited for this moment for a long time.

>> mr. mueller i've been meaning to come talk to you but golf. >> reporter: mueller's real life script remains a closely guarded secret in a town as leaky as a rotted row boat his team has given up virtually no details of their work until filed in court. >> it is the most airtight operation that we have seen in modern american political history. >> reporter: mueller has been married more than 50 years. father of two daughters. he goes to work early. enjoys golf, dislikes chitchat. understands not just the law but the impact of crime as evident in the speech about the bombing of an airliner over scotland in 1988. >> i'll never forget the visit i made where i saw the small wooden warehouse in which were stored the various effects of your loved ones. >> reporter: some here in d.c. argue maybe mueller is the only person who can conduct this investigation precisely because

he's not overtly partisan. he doesn't try to grab headlines and lets his work do the talking and so far it's saying plenty. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> thank you so much. it is remarkable how little every one has seen or heard from mueller in this day and age in washington. when this investigation ends, do you think we'll hear much from mueller anymore than we're hearing from him now? >> it's likely we'll hear from him if his report is contested and the congress calls on him to explain some of the material in the report. that's the most likely way. i don't think he will have a press conference. he is among the true workhorses rather than show horses of washington. i think he'll let the document speak for itself. there are issues that the

congress may well want to get into. >> i would not be surprised one bit. if you look at 2018, it wrapped up with indictments, guilty pleas, jail time for many people around donald trump. what then are you looking or watching for in 2019? are there any signals that you think would indicate where things are headed? >> sure. we're seeing the cooperators get sentenced in terms of cohen who tried to cooperate and michael flynn who did cooperate. his sentencing was delayed but it wasn't delayed forever. he'll be sentenced in first few months of 2019 one would expect. there's been open investigations into roger stone and maybe jerome corsi relating to actual connections between these folk who is are linked to the trump campaign and who are also

connected to quiwikileaks. that will be an interesting subject. the fact we're seeing the cases begin to end in terms of flynn and cohen and manafort that even though this may not be the end, it may be the end of the beginning and maybe the beginning of the end. >> stay tuned to stay tuned. more indictments are on their way. one of the flares in this, the republican face that is talking a lot is rudy giuliani for donald trump. he's been all over the place lately. for example, on the question of will trump answer anymore questions from mueller here is what rudy giuliani said two weeks ago. >> when you say good luck you're saying no way. >> they're a joke. over my dead body. >> over my dead body. yesterday, he told the daily beast the talks are still open. they are still open to it and still talking about it. also heading into 2019, what does rudy giuliani do for the

president? how is he helping him? >> that's a very good question. he is his own theater in this whole episode. i think what rudy is doing, he's doing it pro bono. he's not charging the president anything. he's getting some attention on himself and his relationship with the president which may help his business, his security business, that he peddles around the world. i think that's what's driving him. he doesn't seem to be well briefed on what is happening on any of these cases. doesn't appear well informed by the lawyers who are working for trump. i think it's show but not much tell. >> on the day that the mueller drops, assuming it is public, what are you looking for? >> the first thing i'm looking for is what is the evidence of the connection between the trump campaign, trump and his circle, his family, his business

associates and russia. are there financial ties uncovered as a result of this investigation that helped explain some of the conduct we have seen. trump at the summit with putin. are there answers to these mysteries in the report. the second thing i'll be curious to see is the unanswered questions and the open questions. >> they have been concluded. >> exactly. >> when i say what they haven't concluded,c concluded it. is it the absence of evidence. witnesses are unavailable effectively to the government. either through taking the fifth amendment or because they were oversees or is there some other reason why. >> it's amazing there will still been unanswered questions. great to see you. thanks. next, president trump claims that closing the entire southern border would be a profit making operation. what is he talking about? the people affected by the

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president trump is threatening to shut down the entire southern border if he doesn't get the money and saying

this. i will consider closing the southern boarder, a profit making operation. profits for whom? honestly. great to see you guys. the wilson center puts it at $1.6 billion in trade. can you make the case that shutting down all of that would be a good thing for the u.s. economy? >> no. you can't. that definitely prosper. both nations benefit from the trade that goes across the boardboar border. this was a declaration of frustration by the president. it's one thing to say we should have trade and immigration and a free flow of people across the border, for sure. it has to be orderly and regulated. i think trump is very frustrated that democrats don't seem to

have any interest in any kind of border security or wall provisions. i think that's why he said what he said. >> stephen, i understand he said what he said but what you got to advise him to say something else. this is ill advised. >> do you really think i can regulate donald trump's tweets? >> yes, i do. hope springs eternal. >> i can't. i think his point is really he is trying to put the pressure here on pelosi. let's get something going here. let's try to do something with respect to border security and this is trump being trump. i'm not going to defend it. i think it would be very harmful for the american economy to shut down our southern boarder. -- border. >> a top trump official reached tout a well known investor for advice on the volatile stock

market. you have cnn's reporting that trump made calls aboard air force one to celebrate that remarkable gain in the stock market on wednesday. does this sound, when you hear that, does this sound like a white house that is confident or worried about the economy right now? >> well, i don't think there's any question that the white house is very worried about the financial situation after christmas eve. that was a horrible day for the stock market. in the week following the feds decision to raise interest rates the stock market fell by 1500, 2,000 points. that's massive sell off and everybody was nervous. i'm not snur it was reported who it was that checked with some of these top wall street advisers. how bad is it? is this going to be a blood bath. this week, later in the week for now it looks like the sell off is stopped. >> what do you think?

>> what was interesting about this cnbc story is the advice to the white house was that trump should stop tweeting about the fed. trump should end the trade. shump should end his trade war with china and there should be less turnover with the white house. i think i know who the secret investor was. >> who? >> it's a murder on the orient express solution. it was all of us. every one has been saying this for months. i know why you would need a top secret investors to give trump this advice unless trump isn't listening to those around him. i think that's the solution. >> kathryn is right that the big overhang on the economy right now is clearly the china trade situation. that's the unknownable. whether trump can pull out a victory. i think that will be so

reassuring. there are 60 days left in that 90-day deadline. we'll know by february whether that happens because i'll tell you this, if he doesn't get a deal in 60 days trump is moving forward with those higher tariffs. >> i have an idea. i think you agree with it. we talked about it before which is the transpacific partnership. >> that would help. >> that would have helped. >> trump already pulled us out. this was a 12 country pact that obama signed us onto that trump basically his first or second action while in office was to pull us out of. the whole point of this deal was not only to have a free trade zone within these ally countries but to gang up on china. >> it is something that donald trump ran on.

it's something he promised. >> he ran on getting tough on china. those goals are intention. >> what he's trying to do to clarify is do individual deals with countries like japan, korea. like australia and so on. i'm fine with that too. i agree with kathryn's main point is we want to isolate china as the bad actor here and go after them. this is not a fight that trump can't back down on. the country can't back down on. >> you were saying you want to see him stop tweeting. on the issue of profit manging -- making, i have heard from some folks that investors have just stopped listening to his words. now they have stopped listening to the words, listening to the tweets and the threats and they just wait for the policy. >> in this particular case he probably doesn't have the legal authority to shutdown or close

down the entire border. it would not be legal for a number of reasons including it would violate nafta, including there are u.s. citizens in mexico who we have to let back in. beyond that it would be a stupid idea because how does it make us richer to stop buying tomatoes and avocados and laugh of cars. there's a good reason for investors to ignore that particular tweet because he doesn't have the authority to act on it. some of these other things, he's regularly abused his trade authorities including by claiming national security concerns to raise tariffs against other countries. we do need to pay a little bit of attention to that because he's been very liberal in his interpretation. >> it's just the beginning of the end. >> very important tweet that trump sent out two weeks ago for every american to buy tru

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furloughed. another 420,000 are still working, without pay, including the tsa and the coast guard. the smithsonian museum and national zoo will close january 2. even the panda live supretream going dark. the president said federal workers support the shutdown. it's causing families we spoke to to worry whether they will see their next one. >> i have two mortgages. i haven't looked at how my checking account is going to balance out. i don't have children. for people who have kids in school, extracurricular activities, food on the plate, those are things that make it even more disgusting what's happening with the federal government. >> reporter: the epa will shut

down tonight. she received this e-mail referring employees them for additional guidance. tweeting suggestions to send if they can't make a payment. trading maintenance work, like painting and carpentry for rent. >> that's unrealistic. federal workers are going to be penalized for not paying bills on time. we just want to go back to work and do the jobs we were hired to do. >> reporter: thursday, the president tweeting, without evidence, that most federal employees are democrats. workers say their politics shouldn't matter. >> we are civil servants. we are hired to do our work at the epa. workers are hired to protect human health and the environment. if he wants to imagine we are democrats instead of human beings, that's his problem. i hope congress steps up and is able to be the adult in the room. >> it's likely at some point congress will pass legislation that will make sure that all of the federal workers impacted will ultimately get paid once this mess is taken care of.

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