>> i'll see you guys down in times square. >> yes, we'll be there. >> i'll be back here in an hour so i'll see you in 60 minutes. >> hello, i am chris janicing in for stephanie ruhle. we start with the breaking news. one of the names everyone has been talking about for 2020 announces her exploratory committee. >> we organize target. if we fight together, if we persist together, we can win. we can and we will. >> today is the 365th day of the year and the 10th day of the government shutdown with no end in sight. president trump is digging in, blasting democrats publicly while the deal maker in chief has yet to reach out for an agreement. but the thing that got us here, the wall, well, he's fighting back as his allies try to walk back his concrete position. >> the wall has become a metaphor for border security .

what we're talking about is a physical barrier where it makes sense. >> two of the president's generals set to depart, leaving major questions about the fate of the middle east policy. another former general is blasting the commander in chief and not just his isis strategy. >> you think he's a liar? >> i don't think etells the truth. >> immoral in your view? >> i think he is. >> the breaking news, the highest profile democrat yet officially wading into presidential waters. in just the last half hour, senator elizabeth warren announced the launch of a 2020 presidential exploratory committee. the democrat from massachusetts releasing a 4 1/2 minute bio graph call video ending on this note. >> no matter where you live in america and no matter where your family came from in the world, you deserve a path to opportunity.

that's why today i'm launching an exploratory committee for president. if we organize together, if we fight together, if we persist together, we can win. we can and we will. >> we have been playing this game for quite a while. who was going to get in first. who was going to make the first jump. now we know it's elizabeth warren. what can you tell us? >> that's right, with all due respect to john delaney and julio castro who have already taken more of this for 2020. it's not a surprise she's announcing today. we've expected this for some time. but when she says in her announcement video the american middle class is under attack, that political corruption is poisoning our democracy. in an e-mail to supporters, she says the american people deserve

a debate about how to restore the middle class and who best to lead that debate. they say she wanted to make this announcement today for two reasons. one is, it's actually a technical reason, she doesn't have a leadership pact like some others do. this allows her to start raising money. and maybe doing some political travel which we might see in less than a week. the other point they want to send is warren is really going to run her own campaign on her own terms. they're going to stick to their playbook and run the kind of campaign they want to do. warren of course was just re-elected to a second term in the senate. she'll be sworn in for that second term on thursday. it will be interesting in the senate to see her interact with the likes of cory booker, camilla harris, some of the other big-name democrats we expect to get in the race soon. we expect she'll be heading to some of those early states. >> where it's cold in cambridge,

thank you. let me bring in my panel. charlie sikes. doug burnel. i want to ask you both to look at warren and doug, i'm going to start with you, in a minute or so, give me the pros and cons of her candidacy. >> she's popular with the progressive base. a lot of folks wanted her to run in 2016. i think she has the ability to raise grassroots money. she's got a history of taking on wall street. has been a vocal critic of donald trump. and her proximity to new hampshire helps with being close to -- being a senator from massachusetts, that will help with the first in the nation primary. it's clear to me she has a message. which is helpful in a presidential race. i think thshe starts out in

certainly the top tier. a lot of things will happen in the next few months. >> i think the message in her video is not surprising. she says america's middle class is under attack. corruption is poisoning our democracy. when you look at her as the first of what may be 12, 15, 20 democrats who are going to run, how does she stack up as somebody who can win the nomination and b, beat trump? >> her big problem is she can get lost in that crowd. doug's absolutely right. all the boxes he checked here. keep in mind there was that suffolk university pole recently asking who democrats were excited about running and only 27% of democrats said they were really excited about warren. 33% said they would rather she did not run. so she was six points under water there. this is going to be a very crowded field. she may not have the star power

of a camilla harris or cory booker. bernie sand sers going to be competing for that progressive vote. one of the reasons i think she got out early was she needs to distinguish herself. otherwise she, in fact, might -- the buzz might turn about -- you know, negatively because of some of these soft polls for her. >> this is somebody who does have a rolodex of a small donor base. i think she raised about $42 million in 2012. didn't have quite as tough a race in 2018 but i think she still raised a little over $30 million and was able to transfer 15,000 to her presidential campaign. does this give her advantage in terms of just getting it going? starting to get the kind of ridiculous subjects of money that everyone's going to need if they're going to be a serious contender? >> it helps to get out early. it also helps with staff. you have a lot of folks who -- a

lot of these campaigns are -- or campaigns to be are talking to talent and staff and personnel. folks are on the sidelines sort of waiting to see who jumps in. i think that will help in getting staff. also in key states like iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. yes, look, money is not going to be as easy for her to raise as it was in a senate race because she's going to be competing against other progressive stars. she needs to get out there early and establish herself. and also get her name i.d. raised in states out in places like iowa, south carolina and others where she may not be that well known. >> she's stood by her comments about her american ancestry. "the new york times" says, advisers close to warren say she has privately expressed concern she may have damaged her relationships to native american groups and her own standing with

activists, particularly those who are racial minorities. the advisers say ms. warren will have to confront the issue again if she announces a presidential campaign. is this something that really is worrisome in the big picture? is this something that will resonate with early voters? or maybe by then it's all going to have blown over? what do you think? >> we have very short attention spans but this was the defining thing for her. she would rather be talking about her economic plan then the dna test which did not play well. one of the questions democrats are going to ask is how will she match up with donald trump? does she know how to counter punch against trump? almost seems like she took trump's bait. s she comes out with this dna that kind of backfired. i do think that raised some questions about with she's ready for prime time. again this whole campaign is going to be about testing. they're going to have to walk

through fire in order to get through that nomination. that's something, you know, right now if you were to ask the average voter, what do you know about warren, i'm afraid a large percentage would mention that particular issue. >> people have been talking about the three bs, biden, bernie, beto. in iowa, 32% favored bien. 19, sanders. 11% liked beto. having said that, she's not the only woman running. at least i think one person of color. having said that, doug, does it matter she's a woman? does it help her with this momentum following the year of the woman? the three people looked at as front-runners are white men. >> i don't know if it helps her

or not. i agree with charlie in terms of they'll be different lanes. i think she's going to be -- i think she's in a lane -- e thi k she's in a bracket of women and progressives. i don't know if it's so much going to help her or hurt her. it's always been challenging for women to run on campaigns. just sort of attacks they face that men don't face. something she's fought and won over her career. i would never say it's going to be easier for her but i do think she's got a -- i think getting out like she has, communicate ago clear message is going to be helpful. really i think ultimately what a lot of democratic donors and what personnel and others are looking at, you know, is what vice president biden is going to do before a lot of decisions are going to be made.

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morning digging in on border security. disputing john kelly who says the administration abandoned the idea of a concrete wall early on in the administration. here's where things stand. a partial government shutdown is now entering its tenth day with the chances of a breakthrough about as likely as you hitting tomorrow's $415 million mega millions jackpot. this headline from "the new york times" says it all. trump digs in. darkening hopes for a deal to end the shutdown. the tooips reporting that the president who campaigned on his ability to cut deals has not reached out to democratic leaders. produce nd no meaningful progre. but the sense of distrust continues. fueling that distrust, president trump's first public statements on the deaths of two migrant children in u.s. custody. he's blaming the democrats. after a two-hour lunch meeting with president trump yesterday,

his ally is floating a proposal he says could end the standoff. >> the president didn't commit. but i think he's very open minded. i know there's some democrats out there. who would be willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca population and tps people. >> nbc's geoff bennett is at the white house for us. last date for john kelly, the outgoing chief of staff. the president says huh-uh, what you just said in that interview, not true. >> here's some context. because it's important for people to know that dhs officials and border patrol authorities have been saying for years. i covered congressional hearings in 2016 where there were representatives from the dhs who says when you talk about building a barrier, you need what's called situational awareness. you have to be able to see the other side of that barrier. that's why they preferred metal

fencing over a concrete wall. that's what informs john kelly's to the l.a. times when he says this. to be honest, it's not a wall. the president still says wall. he'll say barrier or fencing. now he's tended towards steel slats. but we left the solid conceal wall early on in the administration. when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it. we talked about the substantive part of it. the political part is we've seen time and time again the president's top aides and allies trying to create an off-ramp for him. so in the event he does accept border security funding that democrats say they're prepared to give him, it won't look like he's caving. apparently, that wasn't good enough for donald trump. earlier, he tweeted this. he says, an all concrete wall was never abandoned. as has been reported by the media. some areas will all be concrete

but the experts at border patrol prefer a wall that is see-through. makes sense to me. well, we know this border wall is a nonstarter for democrats. it appears in some ways we're back at square one. the president is talking about this border wall he wants that democrats say they will not give him. >> let's talk more about what we know happened in that building behind you when senator graham sat down with the president yesterday. what's this possible dcompromis he's talking about? >> he's reintroducing daca protections. he says he wants to see a deal that will give work permits and legal authority to qualified undocumented immigrants in exchange for the billions of dollars that donald trump wants for a border barrier. might that be acceptable to democrats? perhaps. here's the thing, as we've just seen from this tweet, only donald trump can speak for donald trump. not lindsey graham, not john kelly, not kellyanne conway. as garrett knows, you have

senior republicans on the hill who felt burned by donald trump who has said things and signaled he would agree to things only to find out that wasn't the case. so, again, not clear donald trump will sign off on it. >> what donald trump says, whether or not it comes to fruition, is always a question mark. any democrats you know of feeling a little heartened by what they heard from lindsey graham? >> no, not particularly. the bottom line to democrats up here is they don't believe the president is in favor of something until it comes out of his mouth and even then it may not be the case. graham is a deal maker but he also freelances. he'll float ideas that are his ideas, try to build support for them. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. the fact he came out of that oval office meeting and said the president was supportive but not ready to sign off doesn't get very far. the president often has people

leave meetings with him convinced that he supports what they support. that doesn't turn out to be the case. democrats will ultimately need the president to do much more about what it is he wants. affirmatively what it is he wants, not what he'll oppose. they felt burned the last time that immigration reform, sort of the bigger picture immigration reform that came up last spring, got undercut by the president at the last minute. the idea of striking a bigger deal isn't particularly appealing to democrats when they can't even nail the president down on what he wants with this relatively small section of the argument we're having here about a wall versus a fence versus steel slats. >> again, such a minute part of the budget that's still keeping those 800,000 people out of work or at least out of a paycheck. guys, thank you so much. let me bring in shannon pettypiece, white house reporter for bloomberg. my panel, charlie sikes and doug

thornel. senator shelby was on. i thought he looked some combination of just exhausted, frustrated. let me play what he had to say when it comes to the shutdown. >> it's a question, when do we get off the blame game and get to serious negotiations? at the end of the day, all of this will end. we don't know when. in negotiations. it's not a question of who wins or loses. nobody's going to win this kind of game. nobody wins in a shutdown. we all lose. we kind of look silly. >> we kind of look silly but, charlie, i guess is the calculation here that the price they would pay for settling is higher than not settling? >> yes, that's probably the calculation the president is making. this controversy is so dumb. the amount of money is barely a rounding error in the federal

budget. it's becoming obvious that the wall is a boondoggle. it's a scam. there's bait and switch involved. and who's going to pay for it and what it all is. it is fascinating to me -- >> didn't president, charlie, just essentially confirm what we heard from john kelly which is, you know what, all along, from the beginning of the administration, the people who have to guard the border said this concrete wall is not a great idea. that's not what we need. we need some border security in terms of fencing of some sort but we need personnel. he is seeming to acknowledge in his tweet that a wall is a wall isn't a wall. >> yes, but that's what he's talked about. at the rallies. because that became the symbol. that became the met fa for.

that was the what was for the bubbas he threw out there. throws out these ideas of a compromise involving daca. that will last up until the moment that anne coulter begins to write about it. does not want to antagonize, and there is no end game. >> his game of course is to blame the democrats even though he sat in the oval office and said he's happy to accept why. he's not calling this, shannon, the schumer shutdown. the white house and its allies are also of course blaming nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi needs to come back from hawaii. more money for funding our border security. they need to to the table and do their job. a fully functioning democracy demands both parties come together and the congress and the executive branch work together.

>> i thought the nancy pelosi strategy didn't work in the midterms. >> well, i mean, they've been trying to do the blame game since before the shutdown even began. a shutdown ends when one side is beaten. that's how these ended in the past. because it's the holidays, a lot of people are away, that political pressure hasn't ramped up. january 8 is when the first paychecks are going to be missed for those federal workers. as far as who's going to get the game and what the public criticism is, it's going to come around that date. i think, you know, until january 3 when congress comes back, no one feelings the political pressure that much. pelosi will get the opportunity. then it gets to be an issue of whether democrats are going to take the blame.

they only have a week from then before the public pressure. people missing a paycheck. really, how many americans c s handle missing a paycheck and still paying your bills for that month. >> the vast majority cannot. they do live paycheck to paycheck. they do not have months of mope in the bank. while the president blames democrats for the shutdown, he is also blaming them for the deaths of those two migrant children in u.s. custody. he never even spoke of them until that tweet blaming the democrats. he never expressed sympathy of any kind. kellyanne con vway blames the democrats. is this resonating out there? >> i think it's disgusting. it shows there's something broken inside of this man. the tweet to their parents or just acknowledging their deaths,

he didn't even do that. he's using it for political purposes. it's sad but it shows what's inside of this man. >> we will find out what happened here and if it's our fault, we will fix it. >> absolutely. >> that's what most voters would look for. >> that's what people want to hear -- >> if there's a problem, we need to fix it. >> that's what they want to hear from their commander in chief and what he put out today is just -- i think it's just reprehensible. the reality is that this is the third shutdown under this president. as far as i know, the congress is still run by republicans. and so it's not just -- it's not just nancy pelosi or chuck schumer. they own this. it would be nice instead of tweeting all day if the president picked up the phone and called speaker-elect or speaker pelosi or future speaker pell ho

pelosi. they can talk all they want about her coming back from vacation, but the reality is, he's the commander in chief. he's, you know, he should be leading here and he's not. he's failing. >> i think ideally shannon, feel free to correct me, a lot of democrats feel like best case scenario, they come back, they get this done, nancy pelosi looks like she has come in from a position of strength, right. suddenly you have the house led by democrats and they're able to do something that the president can sign on to. do the democrats risk looking like this too? >> if you go back to the shutdown with bill clinton and newt gingrich, gingrich was vilified for decades after that. as far as what democrats have

been doing, there has been a lot of back and forth. and the white house was really under the impression there would be a counter to the proposal the white house sent to the hill. i think it was thursday night the democrats basically said we're not going to do anything. that sort of caught the white house off guard. i think that's part of the frustration that's coming from the president now. he feels he's in this holding period until the democrats, until this new congress starts. will spend that time trying to get his agenda through until that new congress starts. >> i think we really probably need all of you to go get ready for your big party tonight. i think guys are coming back with us. appreciate it. up next, the word of the year on

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the dow is up almost 200 points to kick off the last day of trading in 2018. today's optimism thanks in part to president trump's tweet, claiming big progress in china trade talks after a long and good call with president xi jinping. the dow is looking at a drop of nearly 1700 points or 6.7% for all of 2018. the biggest one-year decline since 2008. joining me, cnbc senior analyst and commentator ron insana. so as you look back, ways your big takeaway? >> i think the market got a lot of what it wanted early in the year and really discounted all of it in january. up 8% in january. the tax cut. there was a lot of deregulation that allowed more businesses to make more money because their compliance costs went down. unemployment crdropped further. it seems like the market very early in the year priced in peak economic activity and was now since february, has been since

february, discounting something of a slowdown and maybe a bit of a pullback in profit growth in 2019. >> so i was curious today when i saw steve rattner had a piece in "the new york times," an op-ed looking at the year in charts. what stood out is job growth in the last year. job growth has been slightly slower than it was during the last 22 months of president obama, 4.2 million americans hired under trump versus 4.8 million under mr. obama. in fact, manufacturing workers would of course their votes in key states helped elect him. their share of total employment has not improved. has he kept his promise to be the greatest jobs producer ever? >> ever is a long time. we've had periods in market history. in bill clinton's two terms, 22 million jobs created. so that's a number to reach for. it may be unattainable giving the shrinking size of the labor

pool in the united states. immigration policy that keeps people out of the labor force. the birth rate is at a 70-year low. the population growth rate. there's a lot to do to get that kind of job growth back. we have the mel lennials and gen-z coming up through the ranks. it's hard to make those promises and deliver because no president has full control over the economy or the pace of hiring. the economy's strengthened a bit but it really hasn't been a dramatic improvement. it's not like there was enormous turnaround as the president has claimed from time to time. it's been an extension of what we saw over the last several years. >> i also want to look at one more chart which looks at the nation's debt and where it's headed under trump's policies and tax cuts. the federal budget deficit now on track to receive $1 trillion in 2020 to exceed the entire gdp in a decade. look, this is something that real conservatives have been

railing against. >> right now there don't seem to be serious consequences. if you were to have a fiscal crisis, a budget crisis of some sort that traditionally would drive interest rates up and the value of the dollar down. that would be a big deal because you would see interest rates spike. it would make the cost of doing business more expensive. it's not what we've seen thus far however. the deficits are rising. interest rates are actually coming down as the global economy slows. inflation expectations drop. so you could also end up in a situation like japan where you get so indebted you can't grow your way out of the debt and economic growth slows too much and you get more abundant economies. if i were a betting person, i would say our next big crisis will be one that involves the size of the federal debt. >> there you go. up next -- thank you, ron insana. up next, outgoing james

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today is defense secretary's james mattis' last day at the pentagon. what may be an about-face by

president trump on syria. senator graham says the president's plan to withdraw 2,000 american troops has been slowed down. graham, an outspoken critic of the pullout, signaled a change of heart after lunch at the white house on sunday. >> the president is thinking lock and hard about syria, how to withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interests which is to make sure isis is destroyed, they never come back, our allies, the kurds, are protected and iran doesn't become the big winner of our leaving. >> retired army admiral, happy new year, if to see you. >> always good to see you. >> what do you make of senator graham's comments? do you think that the president was pressured because of the criticism he received? ways going on here? >> i think that's part of it. let's face it, lindsey graham has emerged on national security

with issues as the trump whisperer, chris. he seems to have the ability to go into the room with the president and if not really reverse course, at least get the bow of the ship pointed in the different direction. everything senator graham has said is what we would want. to keep the pressure on the islamic state, slow, or even stop withdrawal from syria and go after this terrible terrorist group which has inflicted so many casualties on us and on argue allies. so i'm for senator graham. he would be a terrific secretary of defense by the way. i'm sure he's in the running for that job. >> so the president tweeted this morning about syria and there's a lot to unpack. so let me read it. if anybody did what i did in syria, they would be a national hero. isis is mostly gone. we're slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families. while at the same time, fighting isis remnants.

i campaigned on getting out of syria and other places. now when i start getting out, the fake news media or some failed generals who were unable to do the job before i arrived liked to complain about me and my tactics which are working. just doing what i said i was going to do. i'll let you pick what you want to start with because there's many things there. >> it's hard to know where to go. as an admiral, i have to say, it's pretty amazing to watch the generals get thrown overboard from the ship. it's general flynn, general kelly, general mattis, general mcmaster. i think president trump is, in fact, kind of tired of generals. having said that, these generals delivered him the right strategy, which by the way, began under the obama administration. that's when this was closing and the territory was being taken away from the islamic state. what president trump is proposing now is foolish. which is if it were a forest fire, chris, we wouldn't just

walk away having put out the flames but watching the ground still smolder and the ground is still smoldering there. there's still tens of thousands of islamic state fighters in the field. we still got a job to do. the president ought to stay the course. that's why i support for graham and his ability to shift the course of the president. >> of course, it was the surprise announcement on twitter to get out of syria that let defense secretary mattis -- i think it was one of the main things, he decided finally he was going to resign. retired four star general stanley mcchrystal called the mattis resignation letter valuable. i also want to listen to what he said on abc about trump. >> if you were asked to join the trump administration? >> i'd say no. i think it's important for me to work for people who i think are basically honest. who tell the truth. as best they know it.

>> you think he's a liar? >> i don't think he tells the truth. >> is trump immoral in your view? >> i think he is. >> mcchrystal calls him immoral and essentially a liar. john kelly has reportedly suggested on many occasions that trump isn't up to the task of being president. mattis i think in the kindest interpretation of his resignation letter took issue with trump's approach to security issues. if four-star generals won't stand by him, who will? i ask in this context, in addition to defense secretary, there are a load of senate confirmations that are going to have to happen. high-level positions in this administration. and who's going to fill them, admiral? >> i think you're going to find a great deal of difficulty getting retired military back in this administration. i think people like general kelly, general mattis, general mcmaster, they went into this thinking this was going to be

mission difficult. what they have all discovered it's apparently mission impossible to try to get the president to shift course, to get him to do the hard work of reading and understanding the briefs. this is how the military process works. i don't think you're going to see retired military lining up to join this administration. i hope there will be individuals like senator graham, senator cotton, those who understand the national security calculus who are willing to step in. boy, it's a tough mission. to stan mcchrystal's point, think the "washington post" came out today with an analysis of the last year, and found that the president misstated the truth about 15 times a day. that's a tough boss to work for. >> and i want to finally go to the memo we just got. i know you had a chance to take a look at it. it reads in part, our

department's leadership, civilian and military, remains in the best possible hands. i'm confident each of you remains undistracted from our sworn mission to support and defend the constitution. our department is proven to be at its best we times are most difficult. hold fast along side our allies aligned against our foes. i mean, it is a message to the troops, right, a message to the department. but i also read that as kind of a message to the rest of the united states of america. saying don't worry, we're going to still have your back. >> that's quintessential jim mattis. he is as state as an arrow and sails true north. the important thing, he also quotes lincoln sending a message to general grant in the civil war. link lincoln said to grant everything

that transpires back in washington, ignore it, continue the march, continue the mission. that's what mattis wants, an apolitical, nonpolitical military that continues to protect this nation. he's been an ex-empler of that. >> i very much look forward to working with you in 2019. how did it get to be 2019? >> wow. wait until 2020, chris. looking forward to it all. >> let's not go there yet. it is already 2019 in some parts of the world. we'll go to times square to see how authorities are preparing to keep more than 1 million people crammed into times square safe. as the ball drops. including drones and anti-drones. nes. here is another laundry hack from home made simple. do you want ready to wear clothing without all the hassle? you can, with bounce dryer sheets. simply toss two sheets in the dryer to iron less. we dried one shirt without bounce, and an identical shirt using bounce. the bounce shirt has fewer wrinkles, less static,

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that are known to cause changes in heart rhythm. tell your doctor about any changes in medicines you're taking. the most common side effects are swelling of the arms and legs and confusion. we spoke up and it made all the difference. ask your parkinson's specialist about nuplazid. new york city police say they are ready for the biggest night of the year. up to 1 million people expected to descend upon the times square area to watch the ball drop and bring in 2019, even with rain in the forecast. stephanie gosk has the latest from times square. happy new year, stephanie. >> reporter: hey there. you probably had to stand out

here on new year's eve, i have. there have been nights where it is inhumanely cold. right now, it's not. it is going to turn for people that come out in droves because the rain is going to start late in the afternoon and get heavy and go into the night. among the rules for security on the ground here, no umbrellas. long before the new year even begins, law enforcement officials in new york city are working on their resolution to keep times square safe. while millions of revelers look up at the crystal ball in times square, the nypd will have eyes everywhere else. >> the new york city police department will have the largest numbers anyone in new york city. >> reporter: reinforced by

bomb-sniffing dogs, blocker vehicles and 1200 cameras, which include drone technology for the first time ever. >> we are using drones because they are go in lower than a helicopter and concentrate on an area. >> reporter: detectives will take position in hotels to prevent attacks like in las vegas. this year, va gegas officials a leaving nothing to chance. >> officers on every hotel and sniper watch. >> reporter: in los angeles, the hollywood sign will have extra security. back in new york, officials say there are no known special or credible threats, they are urging revelers to remain individu vigilant as they ring in 2019. >> be ready if you see something

or something doesn't feel right, tell somebody so they can have the information to act on it. >> stephanie gosk, thank you so much. coming up, the latest on the shutdown talks or lack there of. trying to give the president a way out and he's undercutting them on twitter. ercutting them on twitter.

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square. journalists will be on the stage to start the official countdown, including the opinions editor and nbc's own lester holt. they chose the committee to protect journalists to celebrate the importance of press freedom. we can all celebrate that. absolutely. that's going to wrap up this hour. look who is here. >> good to see you, thank you. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for halle jackson. the government shut down sending mixed messages over the border wall funding. >> the wall is become a metaphor for border security. >> he's accepted to making a deal if it secures the border. >> what donald trump wants to do

is waste $5 billion in taxpayer money in an ineffective medieval border wall. >> backlash of critics of president trump. >> if you pull american influence out, you are likely to have greater instability. ready to run. senator elizabeth warren launching a presidential exploratory committee, becoming the highest democrat to take a potential 2020 run. >> we can make our democracy work for all of us. we can make our economy work for all of us. >> we begin this hour with the partial government shutdown entering the tenth day and president trump digging in disputing john kelly who says the administration abandoned the