cq roll call's jennifer shutt. rob montz will discuss the power of the presidency. lantic" contributor judith shulevitz. also, during the holiday week, be sure to watch "washington week,l" for authors featuring live segments with authors. former federal reserve chair janet yellen told a new york audience last week that she worried about another financial crisis while talking about some of the lessons learned from 2008. she also spoke about the likelihood of interest rates rising and other topic

host: jennifer shutt.st: this is one of those issues that while a lot of the discretionary budget has been funded for fiscal 2019 thirst a lot of uncertainty -- there is still a lot of uncertainty. it's the holiday season. people have plans. potentially nonrefundable flights. this is creating a lot of uncertainty and frustration within that section of the federal government. host: james, independent. go ahead. caller: i'm also a federal employee. essential. i've been through shutdowns before. they're fine with me. i'm essential. i don't care. i think the wall is absolutely necessary. i'm not a republican. but there 7.7 billion people on the plane. -- planet. the vast majority are poor. we're going to have 10 billion people by 2015. trump's position on border security is absolutely necessary for this country rightly concerned what i he out of progressive left which is essentially an open borders position. left says it's not open borders but when they push for abolition of ice they are essentially fighting f

us --jennifer shot joins jennifer shutt joins us. a deal that needs to come together. what is the latest on the state of the negotiations and who is doing that negotiating? guest: we know they been in conversation for months now about how to address border wall funding, whether they will do what .6 billion dollars or somewhere between that and $5 billion. it seems like right now we are in the final days heading into that deadline and there's confusion about who is supposed to be talking to whom and when they may be getting together with staff to write legislative text and senator schumer basically said republicans are nowhere to be found where republicans are saying it's up to senate democrats and the white house to negotiate this so it seems like there might be crossed wires. host: who's doing the negotiating at this point? is this staff talking distaff? -- is this staff talking to staff? explain what's happening behind closed doors. guest: though staff talks continue between republicans and democrats, very in the weeds policy stuff as well as some whether the stuff 2

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