lyndsey graham came out and said, he's expanding his game of six to 60. lly is what we'll see graham do is take durbin and some of the hard line positions and try to move them a little bit closer together for a deal. the hard liners won and get a little something. >> i think lyndsey graham is on the mainstream. >> daca has the approval over 80 80% of the american politics. >> hard to find any issue in america right now other than puppies and babies that can garner 90% of the approval. >> lyndsey graham, we have seen him for months trying to work with trump and trying to be conciliatory and pragmatic. i think he is the mainstream. >> lrkall right, ladies and gentlemen, coming up here, once democrat once -- one democratic senator sa says, "the democrats got their butts quicked." we'll be right back. ." we'll be right back. ." we'll be right back. ." we'll be right back. ." we'll be right back. ." we'll be right back. ." we'll be right back. ." we'll be right back. k." we'll be right back. i." we'll be right back. c." we'll be right back. ke." we'll be right

you have lyndsey graham, thank you senate tv. we'll go back to that picture when they give it to us. lyndsey graham have been shoveling back and forth between the two caucuses. republicans are on the bottom of your screen. that's their side of the chamber. lyndsey graham is over in the chuck schumer and friends area among democrats. elizabeth warren just over lyndsey graham's shoulder has h been talking along with him. you can tell he's been looking up to his right and calling attention on the clock that's over the clerk's chair and the president of the senate. we put conveniently that clock in the lower right hand part of your screen showing just over 6 minutes remaining until midnight. they must know they have something of a national audience of concerned citizens. as i always say in politics, the american people are the customers and the bosses when you are in politics. we are all watching this as customers and their bosses, as the people who put all 100 members of this body into office. jonath jonathan lamier remains with us,

>> we know senator lyndsey graham and dick durbin in that room that this is exactly what he said.we had a couple of senators who were in the room who came out on the record that said they don't recall him saying those words. there is still a number that's been completely silent. >> uh-huh. if they want to find the reality is the next two days we'll be talking about the latest trump outrage as ursual. there will be something else on a sunday's show or something of trump's tweets or he may something callous of hawaii. i want to step back. the ramifications are much bigger than what this senator or member of congress says. ana mentions she's from one of those countries. i was in any knowlednigeria two one of the countries the president referenced, i got an e-mail yesterday from a friend that works in nigeria who e-mailed me and said, the president makes my job harder. these are the people that we want to help. the president makes the job harder. when you see the front page of the washington post that today that says that the president is not visiting, we have a real problem there and

that's rand paul, jeff flake and mike lee and lyndsey graham, it is not just a democratic shutdown here, the reality is, once cooler have prevailed and i think they will because both sides realized that it is not good for them. that's why mcconnell came back to the microphone and proposing for three weeks to february 8th. the question here is whether democrats go for that because they do not twawant the heat of this shutdown necessarily on some of their members particularly the one that is voted yes. >> mr. trump and mr. president, are you listening, we do not know if the president is watching. we can see the white house, a few lights are on. the president could be watching television, i don't know whether he is or not. he will be briefing what's happening now and how he decides to weigh in directly in the morning will set the tone for how long the shutdown will go and how they'll find their way out of it, don. >> all right, jeff, standing by at the white house, thank you very much. stick around, we have more to go. i want to bring in back david. by the way, at palm tomorrow, a high of

chuck grassly on the far left have been on his iphone and here comes lyndsey graham emerging from his group of democratic friends and wanting to approach, it looked like mitch mcconnell who's standing, portman from ohio was walking with graham. he's going to reporter to his republican friends. the democrats now, who do you see there, jonathan? >> is that schumer leading in the middle? i cannot quite make out. >> schumer is still seated and i cannot tell until they give us a better shot on senate tv who's making that point. but, the conversation has gone back and forth, you still see senator jeff flake in the blue suit with his back to us. republicans remain in the democratic tree house there. garret is our man outside in the hallway. what activity if you see outside? >> reporter: i was outside watching this whole thing of graham developing of this back and forth negotiations. there is a group of p ares who have been involved of immigration reform circling around that conversation, jeff flake that you mentioned, john cornyn was coming over at times to listen in. graham's opponents over

here is what senaor lyndsey graham said today. >> i think mr. mueller should be able to do his job without being interfered with. we cannot let anybody be above the law. they're offering to help. we have yet to find out if they took up that offer. i think mueller should look at that. >> tough to get a read on lyndsey graham that day. our lead off panel, and our msnbc political analyst, former watergate prosecuor and msnbc legal analyst, good evening to you and all happy new year to you. julia ansley, lets talk about this latest one. my question to you is what do we know of the what the mueller team wants to get out of this and what the trump team would like to get out of this or avoid. >> that's a great way to break it down, brian. when you look at what the trump's legal team wants, that keeps their clients from speaking to prosecution or in criminating themselves in a court setting. their client is the president of the united states. he cannot plead the fifth because that looks very bad and it looks like he had something to hide. and you know w

a fight between lyndsey graham and donald trump and trump making up names to mock him. and so you can see how if this is something you want to get out, you may decide putting your name on it is not the best way to get the substance of the conversation of what the president said. >> 8:07 a.m. i keep on checking my computer and twitter to see if mitch mcconnell or paul ryan may have find the time to weigh in on this when the leader o f the country racist things. david gregory, the silence is de deafening. >> republican leaders don't want to get in the way of that. it is a newscaasty business to on the wrecking ball. the ones that have done it are those that's retired. you can imagine those in the room negotiating are trying to focus on the deal and trying to focus on getting an immigration deal done and they're willing to let trump be trump as lewandowski says and let other people deal with him and let other people evaluate him for what he is. this is just a revelation and another examples of who he is and how he thinks and how he does not understand the power of his word

. >> now, we have senator grassly and lyndsey graham to investigate. >> it makes sense, republicans wanting to confuse and cloud the picture so that we lose site of what the original point of the investigation is all about and that's whether the russians medal meddled in the election. overall, i think what you can see is from various points on the spectrum that's coming from the hard right, tough right, is lets get this shut down and move on and i got another victory or two. keep the economy coming and we can hold the house in 2018. this is hard work. we are hitting in a hardball period. >> so could that have a reverse effect though if there is this new investigation into the investigation that's currently under way and this piece of evidence that maybe part of the investigation that the fbi and the special council is conducting, could it draw out the investigation further? >> well, lets get separate investigation and a separate special counsel going out to democrats, and was the clinton foundation trading, and the energy field orukrainian. i think republicans are more interested in taking

. >> the president tweeted support of these protests, senat senator lyndsey graham is hawkish. >> whathite house could do is in prevent the iranian regime from being able to turn off the internet and control communication and repress the population. one way of the u.s. government to do that, making clear around the world that if they are come place sent, the means and technology to repress and sensor, they'll be sanctioned by the u.s. government. >> kareem, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> an ambush attack left one sheriff deputy dead and several others injured. videos found online may reveal what motivated the rampage. that's next. it's the phillips' lady! anyone ever have occasional constipation,diarrhea, gas or bloating? she does. she does. help defend against those digestive issues. take phillips' colon health probiotic caps daily with three types of good bacteria. 400 likes? wow! try phillips' colon health. >>> the year ended tragically for a south suburban denver community. a veteran shot seven people when he fired a round of ammunition in highland ranch. the gunman reihl.

lyndsey graham is my friend and my senator, i know what he said, he will not stand up publicly against this racism of donald trump, i understand mia love and other democrats have done that. when will they simply say this is not the direction that the country needs to go in. until that happens, then none of this will change. donald trump is racist, period. he's been that way. our country does you not have to accept that though. >> republican senator chuck grassly and it turned out he got an ear full from constituents. his district went 65% for president trump, was that one of his town hall meetings. are you seriously not concerned about his fitness to serve, if not, why not? because i am very concerned. >> it is not that we hate trump, a home teacher who brought her two children to the meeting at the field trip. we are recognizing braver that's not normal. we are not psychiatrists, we can see abnormal behavior when we see it. republicans may say that most of these people are democrats and elected officials but john, for crosley to be hearing that, that's taking a hit of the ego that the

lyndsey graham is part of the leading talk called quote, "more than reasonable last night."he white house talks on those issues will not resume until the government reopens the democrats will be meeting separately to discuss their vote ahead of the vote. mcconnell is expected to elaborate his speech where he made the pledge. and what changes between now and february 8th their votes are make or break and they know that with senator mccain out and two republicans like lily no. they only need two democrats there are other democrats taking part in a group of a couple of dozen senators trying to broke the immigration deal it depends on what folks signals this morning and whether they green light it coming in at 12 >> cayla, thank you for that a couple of things, lp point is out. the other is you are talking about 2 million federal workers in the economy with 150 million workers. >> i think it is a really different debate at this time. typically, how much it is going to hurt the market how many people are hurt by this it is almost uniformed not that washington has been out of touc