nielsence and kirstjen will be coming to meet with house republicans. this is where the ball will start to roll for the week. host: when it comes to house republicans or senate asublicans, where are they far as the shutdown? we are seeing dissension breakout in the ranks. some republicans voted with democrats last week to reopen the government. a few senate republicans have said it is time to open the government backup and end the shutdown. the trump administration is trying to hold strong with their party. we are starting to see signs of potential weakness on the republicans'side. is this to assure the republicans about the fight going on? to ensure the republicans. what we see is each side playing with their basis. either sideeeing trying to make realistic offers that they could possibly accept. what we see tonight when officials meet with house republicans is an attempt to keep the troops in line and try to avoid dozens of house republicans of voting with democrats on individual bills to open up specific parts of the government like the irs. host: if

we heard from democrats, republicans, house and senate about their real commitment to try to resolve this issue. >> the president is shut out of the shutdown talks. ron klain and gene robinson will join us next with what happens now. [birds chirping]

tonight. >> when it comes to the house republicans themselves, even the senate republicans, where are they as far as commitment to this shutdown and what what president trump says. >> some dissensions starting to break out. seven house republicans voted with democrats to reopen the government. a few senate republicans have started saying it's time to open the government back up and end this shutdown, now in its third week. at the same time, the trump administration is trying to hold strong with their party and so we're starting to see some signs of potential weakness on the republican side. >> the vice president coming down as well as the homeland security secretary, that gives more information to the democrats or reassure the republicans. >> it's designed to reassure the republicans. each side is still playing to their bases. we're not seeing realistic offers to the others that i can plausibly accept. what we're seeing is an attempt to keep the troops in line. >> so our guest will be with us to talk about these issues concerning the shutdown. if you want to ask questions it's -- twee

the four groups, house democrats and republicans, senate republicans, the house republicans have the least amount of influence of all. they cannot stop legislation or delay it like senate democrats can. but they can certainly attract a crowd. they can push the president in ways he likes to hear. he certainly likes the rhetoric that can come out of a rowdy minority caucus. one thing that shows how diminish the house republicans are, and this is kevin mccarthy's challenge, is in the previous two years, we had joint retreats with senate and house republicans. they were planning a majority agenda with the president of the united states. so the president went in virginia,ia and west and kind of like the state of the union, we do not know when it will be on if it will. it will be the house republicans because senate republicans have their own way of doing things now and it doesn't involve coordinating with the minority at least legislation. politically, it is a different topic here in mitch mcconnell does not need to coordinate much. he let things work themselves out like a splinter almost

i think what it reflects is that ,e as republicans and democrats in both houses, have more agreement than disagreement. that's a very strong starting point for us. i am very pleased that we have onn able to begin that work our spending bill for the department of homeland security. within the limited funding available in the bill, we are going to be fighting for a balanced investment across the department of mission areas. we will be pushing for a strong, but smart, border security posture, and one that does not rely on costly physical barriers. i would just like to highlight some of the priorities that house democrats will be bringing to the negotiating table. our proposal provides funding officers,ew custom new imaging technology at the ports of entry to ensure that all the vehicles are scanned before entering our country for drugs and other contraband, new equipment at mail processing facilities to contradict fentanyl another opioids shipped through the international mail. new cutting-edge technology along the border to improve situational awareness and an expansion of air and mari

democrats,om republicans, house and senate, about their real commitment to try to resolve this issue. we have a very short timeline. i am cautiously optimistic that the members here of this committee are sincere about wanting to use facts and figures to resolve this issue, and do it as expeditiously as possible. yes? reporter: several republicans suggested calling in the galena and to talk about what is needed at the border. is that something you are willing to entertain. will this be open moving forward? lowey: i have attended many, many briefings from the experts. you can comment further if you would like. but at this moment, we have a limited timeframe. we have been talking about maybe taking a trip to the border, but there is not much time. we want to get this done, and we want to be productive, and we are cautiously optimistic that we can get a good bipartisan proposal. todayard all the senators . i think they were very focused and determined to resolve this challenge. reporter: [inaudible] [laughter] i think it is also important to remember that we are dealing bill, for019 fundi

i spoke to a plugged-in house republican and he told me listen, most house republicans tonight have federalkers in their district, so h point-blank said it's not in our interest to end this shutdon. intered him and say, yes, but there are interest groups, stoms, border patrol and officers who won't bed. he said, once we see law enforcement suffering, that might ve the dial for republicans. but other wise, federal workerob m is not the problem, we care more about border security andty it's a serious threat. democrats think this is a very large politicalistake for republicans and walking out of a meeting could cost them fornd monthsyears. we'll see. >> woodruff: apparently farther apart, the two sides are. lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor, thank you both. >> thanks. >> woodruff: we will look at the effects of the shutdown and where to go from here after the news summary. in the day's other news, there's word that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will leave the justice departme, once a new attorney general is confirmed. rosenstein oversees special counsel robert mueller's russia inve

republicans, then a big conclave at white house at 3:00 tomorrow afternoon with top leaders, democrats and republicans from house and senate to meet with president trump. that will not be tell televise. >> who growing more restless on capitol hill? among the republicans? house or senate republicans? >> you know, you talk with moderate republicans who are up in 2020, cory gardner from colorado, been worried about t rying to reopen the government. what was notable is that president did not declare a national emergency. does he continue to dangle that out their? mack thorn berry is top republican on house arm services committee, he indicated he thought it would be a bad idea, they fought for this military spending, if you move money without the blessing congress, they will be upset, and defense community and those. never mind have you members from house and serve 7 senate, demos and republicans, i under score republican, keep in mind, that you know congressional republicans have been difference shall to president trump, but we have seen

the republicans in the house of representatives rejected the senate bills. the republican bills.nd when you say have we compromised, we have voted for and are prepared to vote for republican bills. these are all the republican bills from the last congress. and as a matter of fact, chuck, as you know, we're going to make every effort to open up government next week. we're going to offer two bills to open up the financial services which will make sure that taxpayers get refunds. we're going to open up ag to make sure that people get food stamps. we're going to open up hud in order to make sure that housing vouchers and interior so people can use their parks. >> when is enough enough? i want to play a clip from a guy named steny hoyer to you from 2011. take a listen. >> okay. >> there does come a time when the american public expect us to be able to act. gridlock is not what they voted for. the priorities that we have agreed to in this resolution are not my priorities. but we have reached agreement. >> basically you have said you supported things. you have had to vote for things you

formed in the last congress under republican leadership in he house and senate. but sadly you won't take yes for an answer. and so you keep government shut down. only six republicans on the last to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not presented to open up the government. every democrat save one. and that had nothing to do with opening our shutting down government. voted to open up this government of the people and or the people. i served on the appropriations or 23 years. i never voted to shut down the government. because the government is there to serve the people. we each swear an oath to protect and preserve. somebody's now going to say we put something in a a bill and you voted against it and that wasn't appropriation bill. by the way when i vote against it passed. adam speaker, mr. speaker, democrats have been trying to open this government since the first day of our majority. passing your bills. when i say your bills, the republican bills, they were out of the senate. on january 3 the democratic led house passed a a package of six appropriation bills

so now in recognition of that, let us come together, democrats and republicans, house members and senate members, and take on this vast corruption which is destroying the fundamental vision on which our nation was founded, a vision i love, a vision that will produce laws by and for the people, a vision that produced laws that reflect as jefferson said, the will of the people. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until >>> the u.s. senate is until considering a bill to provide military aid to israel and put new sanctions on syria. democrats pledged to block any legislation on the floor that doesn't provide money to reopen the federal government. today is day 19 of the partial government shutdown. night prest trump delivered his first address to the nation from the oval office in the midst of this partial government shutdown, the president offered a reminder of just what's at stake. that is, the security of our that is, the security of our nation's southern border. by now, on day 19 of senate democrats' latest experiment in absentee negotiation, my c

she's going down stairs and brief house republican members here, mick mulvaney, the white house chief of taf is also here -- chief of staff is also here. some of the things we have been hearing from democrats, they have been indicating they will vote starting tomorrow on a series of appropriations bills to reopen the government. they will start with financial services appropriation bill that deals with the treasury. democrats are saying what this is from their perception is a meeting to try to keep republicans together. i talked with a freshman house republican a few minutes ago who said i think president trump is doing exactly what he needs to know. what we have also learned in the past few minutes is what we call the big eight here on capitol hill, the top four leaders from both sides of the capitol, house and senate, democrat, republican, bipartisan will go to the white house tomorrow to meet with president trump. this will be the latest set of talks to try to reopen the government, david. >> i'm curious, let's say that president trump tonight pulls the trigger. what do you think t

in the house were united behind this position throughout the shutdown and ultimately, this agreement endorses our position. it reopens the government without preconditions. democrats and republicans an opportunity to discuss border security without holding hundreds of thousands of american workers hostage. we expect the continuing resolution to clear the senate and to clear the house this afternoon and to be signed by the president today. on, i think from both of us, we want to thank all of the federal workers from the bottom of our hearts. they have worked so selflessly this past month without pay. showing up to do a job that they knew was important but for which they were not fairly competent -- compensated. they showed up despite the callous indifference of the administration who treated them awns, andes, as pon belittled the financial strain. we will do everything we can to make sure that they won't ever have to go through this again. this past month has proven how vital government services are to the american people whether it is our food safety, airports, national parks, national security and so much else. the american people do not like it when you throw a wrench into the

well it didn't horrify them really i was in a unique situation i had a republican house and a democratic senate so for the first three years in office whoever i sided with generally prevailed it worked well but it could last forever so the fourth year they both got bed together and oppose me that's a whole nother story but the the it wasn't difficult on the jesse checks to fight to get the republicans on board they wanted tax cuts but i had to curb them i said look you budgeted because the economy was powerful taxing is all that is obviously too high we took in more than you budgeted for they have had one earlier that's what caused me to run for governor because they spent it all and were talked in for five billion dollars here a lot of money and so when i got in the big fight was how to return it now the republicans wanted to be an income tax return i said that's crazy that a third of the money will give to the feds i had to fight them to make it a sales tax rebate because you can't deduct sales tax so that way they got free money they got checks in the mail they didn't have to account

and the fascinating detail within those votes that i'm looking at now is that seven republicans in the house of representatives voted for the package of funding bills that nancy pelosi put together that had nothing to do with the border wall. and five republicans voted for the other bill that would temporarily extend funding for the department of homeland security without a border wall. so there's five republicans in the house of representatives tonight who were perfectly happy to not only go without the wall but vote in effect against the wall very specifically tonight. >> yes, and as hakeem jeffries just said live on-air just moments ago, as these bills now head to the senate what the house has sent to the senate are two bills that the senate has been very, very happy to not only support but act on and vote for in the past with absolutely no controversy on either side of the aisle. so this is calling the question in terms of whether or not the border wall is the thing that republicans in the senate want to be known for in terms of keeping the government shutdown. this absolutely eliminates

before we had republican house and senate, republican president, now we have a democrat led house to go along with a republican senate and a republican in the white house. we haven't had divided government for a while. our jobs don't change at all because our job is to figure out how to work together to get things done and frankly in the united states senate we need 60 votes for almost anything which requires a supermajority meaning it has always been the case. only one way to accomplish things, to figure out how to find common ground. and these big issues, i suggest you issues like healthcare and immigration, we had gridlock situation where we can't seem to figure out how to get started. i will say in 2018, the year the just past, we did make progress in some areas and it is worth reflecting on that and talk about how it happened because that would be the model for the future. we made progress on combating the opioid epidemic that has ripped this country, the worst public health crisis we have in the country now. in october donald trump signed opioid legislation into law that contain

the house, were united behind this position throughout the shutdown, and ultimately this agreement endorses our position. it reopens the government without preconditions, gives democrats and republicans an opportunity to discuss border security without holding hundreds of thousands of american workers hostage. we expect the continuing resolution to clear the senate and clear the house this afternoon and be signed by the president today. and before i go on, i think on both of us, but we want to thank all the federal workers from the bottom of our hearts. they've worked so selflessly this past month, without pay, showing up to do a job they knew was important, but for which they weren't fairly compensated. the workers showed up despite the callous indifference of the administration, who treated them as hostages, who treated them as pawns, who belittled their financial strain. our dedicated public servants should never, never have to go through this again. we will do everything we can to make sure they won't have to. and this past month has proven just how vital government services are to the american people. whether it's our food safety, our airports, our national parks, our economy, o

this is kevin mccarthy who is the top house republican. he told manu rauj a just moments ago, quote, i don't know any time trump threatened this individual. know why m arhe's going to jaild kevin mccarthy says, apparently i'm living in a cave. i haven't seen that. the president has said there's stuff about his father-in-law, and we know in the investigation to michael cohen -- you make a key point. michael cohen's personal financial dealings. he's also asked about his relationship with the -- there are questions about his father-in-law's business. >> that's right, he said he got into the business because of his father-in-law, he bought his first medallion from him. we know that the search warrant for michael cohen's apartment, total room fr, was looking for e of his medallion work. his wife's name was on a few things, and it doesn't mean she knew what was going on, but skpchlt finning on to that, you make some potential liability for yourself f. michael cop l-- that was huge for michael cohen to have a threat to his family members, and he

there are a growing number of republicans in the house and senate who understand that great damage is being done to the republican brand, and more importantly to the american people, because of this reckless trump shutdown. towards $1.5 billion the wall. originally i believe the speaker said could not pass the house. what changed? what's different? mr. jefferies: the $1.5 billion that will be in today's appropriations bills were negotiated on a bipartisan basis between the house and the senate, democrats and republicans, and one of the things that we have agreed to do, consistent with what our colleagues on the other side of the aisle in the house said, bring to the floor bills that have had house input. today we're going to bring to the floor bills that have had it input from republican members of the house of representatives. that is the difference between the previous bills that have been presented, which were all negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the senate. reporter: when you say can you have a mature and responsible conversation about border security after the government is op

last week we had a vote on the house floor. the republican motion to recommit would have paid all federal workers through january 15. everybody who's been working without pay would have been paid under our proposal that was voted on on the house floor. and every single republican voted yes. only six democrats voted yes on that proposal. so any democrat who says they want federal workers to get paid, ask them why they voted against paying all federal workers through january 15 for the work they have already done. this is serious. we have been serious about putting options on the table. president trump has put yet another credible offer on the table to reopen government and secure the border. it will be voted on by the senate. i hope they are able to get to 60 votes on a proposal that achieves all those objectives and send it over to the house so we can finally resolve this crisis. mr. mccarthy: president trump has offered the democrats a very reasonable proposal. it is his fourth one. proposal to the democrats. secures the border, fix immigrat

king joined with six house republicans and house democrats last night to reopen federal agencies shuttered over trump's demands for billions for the border wall.but sided with trump by opposing a separate measure to reopen the department of homeland security.rep. peter king:"i just thought it was wrong to hold those hundreds of thousands of employees hostage over an issue they have nothing at all to do with. i think the president should negotiate. i think the democrats should negotiate."in the senate, republicans susan collins and cory gardner -- both facing potentially difficult re-election bids in 2020 -- also expressed their concerns.calling on g-o-p leaders to allow a vote on legislation reopening the government... and let talks over the wall to take place later.but majority leader mitch mcconnell says that won't happen without trump's support.sen. mitch mcconnell: "the package presented by the house's new democratic leaders yesterday can only be seen as a time-wasting act of political posturing. it does not carry the support of the president."some democrats also growing impatient with

hunt, up on the hill, we're hearing, you know, anecdotally some other members both senate and house republicans are feeling the pressure, are wanting something to happen. what do we know about lisa murkowski and some house members, as well. >> there's increasing re restlessness among republicans on capitol hill behind the scenes because a lot of them just don't see how the president gets out of this and quite frankly what the democrats are doing in the house putting these appropriations bills on the floor, it does put some legitimate pressure on republicans because, you know, they co-wrote these bills while republicans controlled both chambers. the members of the appropriations committee in the senate are incredibly invested in this, both democrat and republican, and you are seeing at least a dozen, maybe a couple dozen republicans likely to vote in favor of some of these bills on the floor of the house. that's a very unusual situation. now, of course, the question are there enough republicans to overcome a presidential veto? right now that seems very unlikely but the question is what might mor

democrats control the house, republicans controlled the senate. you don't have mitch mcconnell trying in any way to put this kind of political pressure on his own president by taking up a house-passed bill to reopen the government, using senate republicans who are vulnerable in 2020 to reopen the government without wall funding and then , putting that bill on the president's desk, a president who is known for lashing out, then hoping he signs it and going through the process of a veto override with divided government. mitch mcconnell, that is not his style. could he constitutionally do it? certainly. you will not see him take up a democrat bill from the house and throw it on the president's desk. at least not yet. mcconnell has had the opportunity to do that already. the house passed the bill, the senate has had that opportunity for a while. the senate passed its own legislation to try to reopen the government through february 8 through a voice vote as a way of trying to move this debate forward, but mcconnell is not the kind of person who will hav

you can watch your campaign speech with republicans. house republicans.quoting of reagan anymore. donald trump destroyed ronald reagan. and destroyed ronald reagan's power even after holding office and even after death in the republican party. which was an extraordinary power that ronald reagan held for a long time. >> and you're talking about the power of example? >> of his ideas. republicans were living under reaganism for a few decades. decad decades. they were living under republican principles that reagan lived by. and they were narrowing them all the time. i mean, reagan, for example, was in favor of raising taxes when it made sense to him, and it sometimes made sense to him. he's not one who said we should never raise taxes, but the inheriters of the reagan legacy did. they didn't refine it very much. trump blew it away, and blow si sh -- pelosi showed that today. >> i could go on and on. >> come back at 10:00. >> it's called the last word with lawrence o'donnell. it's one of the most popular shows on cable news. you're hosting it tonight. >> that

but when you counter with the voters of idaho, nebraska, utah by referendum with a republican houses in virginia expanding medicaid last year, i think what you're seeing in the affordable care act is what happened with the civil rights act in the 60s, lbj said we should do this it's the right thing for the country. it may cost us politically in the south for a while but we should still do. the democrats pay the price in 2010 for doing the affordable care act but now you have a republican state by referendum deciding they want to embrace medicaid expansion. it was the right thing to do, we can't make it and cut it to death and also we do have to be willing to take sterile steps forward. >> as we say goodbye, what is your next instrument after the monica? >> >> getting better on harmonica but that's a lifelong project. i did play a lot of music on the campaign trail this year. i'm beginning to teach myself to play the autoharp. i got a lot of free time in the senate. [ laughter ] >> merry christmas. >> inky. >>> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a publi

house republicans recognize it. we passed a bill out of the house to fund the government. president said he wasn't going to sign what the senate had passed, so hopefully now that speaker pelosi has what she was holding out for, we can have serious talks about how to get border security taken care of and get the government opened back up. liz: so much of this rings in the ears of americans, especially, i just went on a foreign trip and when i came back, sort of everybody was talking about thank your tsa agent, they are working without paychecks. security is very important to president trump. he seems to be willing at the moment to not deal with this because he's intransigent on border funding. i get that. it's something he promised in his campaign and it matters to him but don't you think at some point, there may be a moment where you have to compromise on the dollar figure? >> yeah, i think the administration has signaled that they are willing to compromise if house democrats and senate democrats that haven't been willing to make that compromise. the bottom line is we need

there are a growing number of republicans in the house and senate who understand that great damage is being done to the republican brand and more importantly to the american people because of this reckless trump shutdown. >> you mentioned $1.5 billion in border security. that sounds close to the $1.6 billion that originally the speaker said could not pass the house. what changed? what's different? >> the $1.5 billion that will be in today's appropriations bills were negotiated on a bipartisan basis between the house and the senate democrats and republicans. one of the things that we have agreed to do consistent with what our colleagues on the other side of the aisle in the house have said is bring to the floor bills that have had house input. today, we're going to bring to the floor bills that have had input from republican members of the house of representatives. and that is the difference between the previous bills that have been presented, which were negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the senate. >> when you say could you have a mature and responsible conversation about border sec

again, bills passed by a democratic house that are, in fact, republican appropriations bill. that's what the house did. so that bill is here, in essence. all the majority leader would have to do is put it on the floor and it would pass. the government would be opened up and we could debate the border security until the cows come home. all the rest of january, longer into february, as long as we all agree to debate it. but let's have a real debate. let's not debate a sound bite about an image that refers to a a -- a way someone thinks that we should do border security. let's have the evidence, put it on the table. i think my point of view on this would prevail, but let's hear from both sides. so, mr. president, we have a way out of this predicament for the american people, a way to provide certainty and relief to those families that are suffering right now, and the many more families that will continue to suffer if that happens, if this continues, i should say. so it's time for the majority leader to schedule a vote and stop making excuses why he shouldn't. let's see the presid

$25billion for border security we wanted to exercise sitraditional congressional oversight in the republican house in congress over the money that we spent but the amount is not the problem at exchange for something else he had asked for he said we shouldn't protect dreamers by executive order there should be statue and that is right is easier than to rely on the executive action. he is right about that. so we went to him withl a proposal to introduce the bill $25 billion that's what you asked for protection for dreamers that's what you asked for and the response from the white house was not to say i don't like that deal let's counter or add this, with less than 24 hours they put out a press release attacking those who put the bill together even the republicans who wanted to end immigration as we know it as a press release from the dhs literature rather than the response you would expect from the white house or cabinet level official. but that showed us there is great willingness in this body to invest in border security and inil fact, even after he poured cold water on it, we took the bill on the

we vote, republicans in the house, said why should we vote in the republicans in the senate, what thedid? why don't we do what we acted upon with them? today, taking their suggestion, we are sending the house-senate negotiated, bipartisan, bicameral legislation for them to consider. we'll see how the republicans in the house vote on their own suggestion. we'll see how the republicans in the senate vote on their own legislation. it is really unfortunate, not only is the president holding the american people and america's workers hostage, he is holding the republicans in and congress of the united states hostage. not all of them. some of them understand what it means in lives of american people. we hope that more of them will. congressional democrats support smart, effective border security, but we do not support the president holding the health, safety and paychecks of the american people hostage again to a campaign applause line. there is serious and justified concern that this president would shut down the government anytime he does not get his way legislatively. that is why we must

like to point out just a a few of the many house member priorities that were addressed in the house republican interior and environment tpwhail are not addressed in this current bill. compared to the house republican bill, this bill reduces funding for hazardous fuel reduction projects by $21 million. it also reduces funding for operation and maintenance of the national parks -- national park service by $27 million. it does not include any of the endangered species act reforms which are absolutely necessary for the law to work in a practical way. therefore, madam speaker, rather than spending our time debating senate-passed legislation, which fails to reflect any house priorities, i ask that the democrats come to the negotiation -- negotiating table so we can can secure our border, so we can keep america safe, and we can resolve this partial shutdown that we're now entering on its 21st day. i urge my colleagues to oppose this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. mccollum: thank you, maryland madam chai

that completely ignores the priorities of house republicans and house democrats in the appropriation process. most of these bills have been conferenced. why bring up just a senate bill and not the conference report that was done that recognizes both senate and house priorities? let me give you one example. the house bill carried a bipartisan provision that raises the length limit for specific vehicles used to trps sugar beats and only -- transport sugar beats and only on specific routes to transport sugar beets from idaho to oregon for processing. it's supported by the oregon department of transportation, the u.s. department of transportation and the state of idaho. it's very limited. only sugar beets on non-interstate highways and everybody agrees with it. most senators, i have a letter here from both senators of idaho and oregon, they support this provision. it's noncontroversial. it's in the house bill. guess what. it's not in the senate bill. that means you adopt the senate bill, you've dropped out this provision. and you've dropped out many other provisions that are a priority f

that's house republicans actually gained in trump strong holds. r because of just how much they change the politi character of the house gop. there may be fewer republicans in the house now but the ones who remain are more closely aligne with president trump andy and they hail from districts that backed the president with the most intensity. and by the way, here's one more number for you. republ now hold 200 house seats. that's46% of the lower chamber. it's the exact same number as presid trump's approval rating in our november nbc news/"wall street poll "and that's the same number of the share of the vote in 2016. ? trump' base is rock solid. if this new house minority follow that pattern, get ready for a bumpy and contentious 2019. when we come back, is it fair to say elizabeth warren has a say elizabeth warren has a hillar problem or hey, darryl! hey, thomas. if you were choosing a network, would you want the one the experts at rootmetrics say is number one in the nation? sure, they probably know what they're talking about. or the one that j.d.

there is no way forward and there is very little confidence on the part of senate and house republicansouse has a play here that they think can be effective going forward. >> and to that point as the republicans want assurances from the president that they see the off ramp. they pick up the paper and read that the president is not happy with what he's doing so far. peter baker writing that the president was grumbling that these people, meaning his staff, made him give the oval office address, that he didn't want to do it or making him go to the border tomorrow. that's not what he wants to do. that will not inspire confidence in members of his own party that even the president is not sure of what he's doing. >> then what does he want to do? he's in charge, but the buck never seems to stop with him. he did want the oval office address because he liked the idea of it, but he didn't have anything new to say. that was the issue. so he can talk and talk, but there is no off-ramp for this and there is finger pointing and talking past each other. i think the question here is every time we've se

republicans can try to turn this around on nancy pelosi. they used this playbook before. she's the speaker of the house and she owns it. ll were trying to absolve themselves this past couple days because they can say wait a minute. she bears some of the responsibility despite what the president said. she's the speaker of the house. they used this tactic against her before and they're going to try to do it again. >> trace: chad pergram here with us. thank you. i want to go to the dow. it was almost even. it's down about 30 points. if it's not down 400 these days, that's good. "your world" with neil cavuto is next. >> neil: all right. it's crazy markets got you down? there's a pill for that. here's the thing. it's going to cost you. prices on hundreds of prescription and other related drugs are set to soar this new year. industry defiant besides a president who wants to bring them down. i'm neil cavuto. want to thank my friends and cold leagues, trish and connell for filling in when i was out, which is why i rushed back. happy new year. you just might need a pain reliever after hearing this report. we have more on the big