to bring us up to speed on where things stand, i'm joined by our own lisa desjardins. hello, lisa. so, two days away, they were supposed to vote, we were told, on some sort of funding measure today. it didn't hapn. what happened? >> well, it looked like it was on the fast track this morning. there were a w hold-ups, one was land bills, that republic senators from rural states like republican stens want passed. they include the lands, water, and conservation fund. that's something republicans like because it funding for easements, so loggers can get to public land. but it also has sosme retriction on mining, say, outside of yellowstone park. they're sayg this has to go into the c.r., and they're trying to work this out at this hour. >> sreenivasan: "c.r." being the continuing resolution. >> too much in my head. >.>> woodruff: if this is resolved what, would be in this short-term agreement that they would come together on? >> so they're talki about-- let's look at the calendar here and how this might work. they're talking about february 8, extending funding for these unfunded agencie

now with newshour ite house correspondent yamiche alcindor, and our capitol hill correspondent, lisa desjardins. as if there wasn't already ough going on, we ha this going on between the capitol anh white house. so, lisa, where does it stand right now?wa >> iquite a day. s re's where we are right now. house republicanve sort of switched the plan midstream today and are now offering a new continuing resolution to keep these agency funded. that woul $d conta billion, as the president is requesting, for border money. they say that would go to wall. , it here's the thing, judy is not clear if the house or senate will actually pass thatve ion. we expect the house to vote very soon. it could be this hour or in coming hours. we are unclear if the sen will be able to vote but mitch mcconnell the senate leader has told senators to be ady for a vote on this as soon as tomorrow, which, of course, isd the dline. finally, another issue is the senate passed itown funding bill by the president said he would not sign that. so these three legof the chair have yet to align. the house is that will be a very big v

here to help explain what liesea in the new year, newshour's own lisa desjardins. joining us from capitolll erica werner of the "washington post." welcome to you both. a lot to cover on this final day. let's start with the shutdown. li sarks where are we with th latest? >> speaker designate as they are calling her in her ofice, nancy pelosi, tell me that they are going to unveil their plan for a govement funding breakthrough and that's going to be to fund most to have the government, most to have the agencies that are shut down with six different appropriations bills and separate out d.h.s., the department of homeland security, which is what this fighting is about, support for the bor security, a separate proposal cing.illion only for fen question know this is something the president has not agreed to yet, so looks like the democrats will take the vote thursday when they begin the new house and probably won't go farther. meanwhile, someroom some republe trying to get a bigger deal. lindsey graham on sunday. >> if anything, he's not a man undeensiege. the prt is fir

our own lisa desjardins joins me now from capitol hill, to dig into the details of this legislation. lisa, remind us, overall, what's in the bill and why does this bill matter. >> this bill is critical to a large part of america that doesn't necessarily live in cities and towns but keeps thi country fed. there are 2 million farms in this country, judy, and that number has been decreasing. what's more, farmers in america since 2013 have seen their net income -- listen to this -- drop by half. at the farm bill does is it keeps programs in place th s hebilize farms. some of them are subsidy programs, some insance programs, but if it doesn't get reauthorized, farmers have less peability, and these arople who basically are wall street traders on trctors every day, prices matter, and this bill helps them get loans and pay for and stay in the next season. without it there's a lot of instability. >> woodruff: one of the things we mentioned with dairy farmers, what kind of help are they getting and how does that make a difference? >> it's significant because dairy farmers iparticular have been

congressional correspondent lisa desjardins begins our coverage. >> 20 times, you have called for shutting down government. >> desjardins: welcome to divided gornment in the era of trump. the president, as he has done before, opened a tense- stakes and traditionally private meeting to the cameras. >> i'd like to not to see a government closing, shutting down. >> desjardins: but never before ha- we seen this kind of re time look at negotiations between branches of government, with president trump looking to press his case for billions in funding for a border wall. >> we need border security. the walls part of border curity. you can't have very good border security without the wall. >> that's absolutely not te. that is a political promise. border security is a way to effectively honor our responsibility-- >> and the experts say you can do border security without a wall, which is wasteful and doesn't solve the problem. >> it totally solves the problem-- >> desjardins: and democrats looking to highlight mr. trump's threat to partially shut down government over this. >> one thing we can agree o

lisa desjardins is he to explain it all. oes thatarity," what know >> specifically here we're talking about mostly one county, brayden county.nd it's ional district. we're talking about absenteeba ots, amna nawaz. first, workers were sent out, 200 or so absentee ballots have witness signatures, everyone must have a witness, which overlap. we're seeing seven witnesses on some 150 or so absentee ballotsn that migot be suspicion in and of itself, but many of ths e witnest down the same address, a one-bedroom apartment as their address, so t's raising questions. then on the other side, there are voters who say a woman came up to hair house and asked for their absentee ballot and then took it and sa she herself would fill that out. that woman said she was, in fact, paid by the republican candidate's campaign and she didn't know that that is illega, to hich it is. these kind of anecdotes happen but the issue is here thenu ers. in this particular county we see dimargin of victory for the republican that iferent than in any other co

lisa desjardins, for the pbs newshour, and eric warner for "the washington post."n friday, this war of words, it took another turn. president trump threatened to close the border if his demands are not met and the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney blamed nancy pelosi for the impasse. >> i think shuck schumer and the senate democrats probably would cut a deal. t buty're protecting mrs. pelosi. if she cuts a deal with t esident of any sort before her election on january 3rd, she's at risk of losing her speakership. so we're in this f the long haul. robert: we're in this for the long haul. the reins over washington, the shutdown the acting chief of staff is there on the white house lawn talking tos. report but where are the talks right now? are where is the urgency? >> isn't that interest. there is no urgency, there are no talks. all of the congressional leaders are at home. u.k. and louisville are playing each other in basketball. senato mcconnell will be there in all likelihood. it's unlike past shutdowns where you have negotiations that were ongoing,

lisa desjardins reports on what we are learning about mr.mp's ties to russia. >> desjardi: judy, here are just some of the developments this week: trump campai foreign policy adviser george papadapoulos reported to prison to serve his sentence for lying to e f.b.i. mueller said former trump campaign chairman paul manafort broke his plea agreementy lying to investigators. and, mr. trump's personal lawyer michael cohen pleaded guil to lying to congress about some of the president's business ties to russia. former personal lawyer. for some context, two reporters tracking the business and national security implications. matea gold. she's the enterprise and investigations editor for the "washington post." and, davger. he's a national security correspondent for the "new york "e thanks to both of you. as the president said,, it's not illegal to try to build a hotel in russia, but my qution to you david sanger, what do we know about overlaps between businessman donald trump's deals in russia an politician donald trump's policies about russia? >> wel

our lisa desjardins has been following it all and is here with the latest update. s hi, lisa. >> hi. >> brangham: seems like we have a much better understanding now of how long this is going to >> we do. late today, the leaders in congress made some decisions. they anunced that the house will not retwen over thekend and the senate is not expected to vote until next wednesday at the earliest, as we rept ted, re's why that's so significant. of course, obviously, wednesday is the last day of this 115t the next day is when democrats take over the house. s yearse talked about thi before. what's important is now they have made that decision and given up on trying to reach a deal over the weekend, monday, tuesday or wednesday, and it looks like they are punting this tntire issue to the nex onngress, which is tough for republicanhe hill who realize they have less leverage than now wedneay wons the democrats take over the house. >> brangham: and the president on iraq and twitter still holding tight on i wt $5 billion to build the wall and not budging. what is the other side

our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor and congressional correspondent lisa desjardins have beenll this all day. they join me now. so much to follow.. so, lisa, where does everything stand now? we just reported both sides say they ge still neiating. >> that's right. judy, i can report now talking to sources in leadership and the republic party that a government showdown is expected, at least a short one. we will see ar tial showdown tonight at midnight, barring a miracle. the senate is essentially oaiting for members to return, members who have gone far west to the dakotas, to hawaii,t g all day to take an important vote, starting to get on the houseth version, onceey took the vote just a few minutes ago, it was clear the house bill falls far short of the 60 votes needed in the senate. so senate republicans and democrats havesade t agreement, judy, basically to step outside of the proncess the senanote floor and take another vote until there is a deal between democrats and republicans, including the president. so that means we donw 't knowhen we'll see the showdown and we don't kno

our lisa desjardins sat down with a pair of those departing members. very different types ofre blicans, whose seats will now both be blue. mark sanford represents charleston, south caro he's a member of the conservative freedom caucus.ar and,s curbelo is a moderate who represents southern florida. have both spoken with the republican president, an yoinitiative from both ou who have been opposed and also attacked by this president. how privately do other members of congress see this president, what are ty saying in private? >> if you're committed to the truth, if you are committed to being sincere, that means you're going to disagree with people, and sometimes it mean'r you going to disagree with the president of your own party. now, the problem is, these das, that's viewed as unacceptable. you either have to be 100% with someone or you're an enemy. d we're seeing that across our politics, by the way, not just in the republican party, not st with this president, and that's very dangerous. >> it's as polarized as i've ever seen. s have been involved in p

the newshour's lisa desjardins has an update.o another several hub thousand workers are still working, though it's not cle if or when they will be paid. negotiations are at a standstill. there were some good-faith discussis between senator chuck schumer and the top senate republican richard shelby on the appropriations committee over the weekend, but there hasn't been real movensince then. the republicans and democrats observe the hill say they areth waiting fopresident to be clear on what exactly he will eccept. >> the presidentps signaling this will potentially be a ver long shutdown. is there any chnce it will break? >> not in the next few days. congress said they will get 24 hours notice before any deal and we o're told there will not be votes tomorrow. the shutdown will last at least two more days. past tomorrow, think of this, these are the last days of this coayress, so it's hard to sif a weekend deal is rin the cads. that's sort of a long shot. then we get to next thursday, when nancy pelosi and democrats the slated to ta