talking about it and he set it is done in a .9% -- i did not ask, i said none important -- 99.0% succccessful.. amy: if no deal is reached, the government will go into partial shutdown at midnight tonight. some of the agencies that will be most affected by a possible shutdown include those dealing with homeland security, law enforcement, national parks, transportation, and housing. hundreds of thousands of government workers will not be paid if that shutdown happens. president trump now says if the shutdown occurs, it is the democrats fault. last week, he said he was proud to own the government shutdown if the wall is not funded. reports emerged thursday that acting attorney general matt whitaker refused to heed the advance of a justice department ethics official who said he should recuse himself from overseeing special counsel robert mueller's russia probe. while whitaker was not legally required to recuse himself, he was advised to do so because of the possible appearance of a conflict of interest based on whitaker's past public remarks against the mueller inquiry. he once referred to the p