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joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent alli vitali who will be the next host of "way too early." alli, we were showing footage around capitol hill.ag you're in the background of all the shots trying to get the latest reporting as to what is going on.stto so give us the freshest update here before the sun is up on this friday.p how close are we? is there any chance at all that we could avoid a shutdown? >> i wish i were coming to you with better news for your last show because teyou really do deserve it, and so do the american people, but at this point it's not what we have. we left the capitol last night e unclear of where the speaker s going to try to move this vote next, and that's very much still the case. he is without a plan c. plan b spectacularly failed on the floor last night. and you're right to point out that republicans are in the posture right now of trying to lay this at the feet of democrats, and it's a really tough sell s just given the way vethat 38 republican members, people 3from within their own ranks, also did not vote for this bill.te but it also sort

let's get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel tonight, nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie vitali. but you also know her is the newest host of msnbc's way too early, starting january 6. sam stein is here, managing editor for the bulwark and david drucker, senior writer at the dispatch, and author of the book in trump my in shadow. what is the latest, are we headed for a shutdown? because lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have a lot to say about all this. tell us what you are hearing. >> first of all, thank you for the congratulations in the early teas for the show. i'm up way past my future bedtime, but for you i will always be available. look, on the shutdown piece, congress is clearly playing with fire at this point. because when we wash that logo down, it really does serve for us to continue to underscore it is really weird, and very rare when house republican leadership puts a bill on the floor that they know is going to fail, but they let it do so publicly anyway. they were trying to make the point, they made it, but now they have nowhere left to go. when we saw the speake

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vitali, thanks. gabe, stand by. first, barb, i know you believe this pardon was justified. how do you respond to even alliessay this is bad for the rule of law, bad for trust in the justice system and bad press deputy overall to set? >> yeah, i think the biggest concern is joe biden's flip-flop on this. at one point he said he would not pardon his son and now, of course, he has done so. i think that is probably where this feeling of betrayal comes from. i also think you have to look at the fact that circumstances have changed since he made those statements. we have donald trump now elected president and vowing to secret bugs against his political rivals. how better to get back at joe biden than to go after hunter biden, his son? i think there are two aspects of this pardon that are intertwined. first are the charges, which most prosecutors would have exercised their discretion to file these charges. the gun charge and tax charge are not typically charges filed by any u.s. attorney in the country. taking that part off the table makes sense. the other is this blanket pardon for anything that may have occurred