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Congress can to ado. >> i always said it would be the last resort. were there. theres no pathway forward i can see. the president believes its in his power. seems to me the only way left is that authority. i dont see any action in the congress. >> whether the president could do it and whether he should do it, those are two very different questions. nbc news has learned that the president has been briefed on a plan. then give that money, should be normally given to the army corps of engineers, an...

The reason i say its not that trivial, if you take a look at federal government spending, just broadly speaking, federal government spending is a percentage of our economy. its 7%. now, 7% doesnt sound like a big number. but it is a big number. and if this drags on, were talking about taking of the, or shaving off, some of the growth which is going to slow in 2019, we expect. that its going to take that away. instead of talking about, say, 2.5, 2.4% growth, were glowing to, over time, are the --...

Say, lets cut a deal. you take this and ill take that, lets stop this? >> i do, because both the chinese economy and the u.s. economy is suffering. you can see that in our respective stock markets. u.s. stock prices are down 10 to 15% of their peak. its doing damage to both sides, and i think thats putting pressure on both sides to come up with some kind of arrangement. i think at the end of the day, theyre going to come up with a face-saving arrangement to end this thing. >> face-saving arrange...

You know, a major player in the party. is this much ado about nothing? does this have potential to fire people up in a more concrete way? >> words matter. they carry weight. can set the tone. especially if your words are damping to broad sets of people. they can show what your feeling is, like for the president, the way he speaks about women, the way he speaks about immigrants, but in this case it was a profane word. i dont think that profanity is something we need to be worried about in this ca...

Millennials out there? >> no, i dont think so. i dont think we can really count on bustle for the hard-hitting news of the day. i think its a complete nonissue, nobody is offended. there is even a famous rapper named wally who raps about seinfeld because he loves it so much. he is great with a new generation of millennials. i think this is much ado about nothing. it was a great show for the 90s and everybody is nostalgic for it. you can get it on netflix. you can get "friends" on netflix. lets m...

The president, to our knowledge, has not invited democrats to come on over, as he has said. and it seems like there is an acquiescence at the white house that there wont be any significant movement until the new year. so we have several days to go at least. is that an invitation via twitter? perhaps, but nancy pelosis team tells us she has not had direct contact from the white house since december 11th. thats a long time, given this shutdown. and really, it has been chuck schumer on the senate s...

Assistant tom dupree, nice scarf shannon, let me start with you though, tom. the latest filings, what do they show about the scope of the mueller investigation. >> well, i think they underscore its bretd. hes investigating different corporations. his mandate is fairly broad. i think this filing though in my opinion in all likelihood is much ado about nothing. the fact is when prosecutors go out and collect evidence often it is overinclusive. they might seize an entire cell phone which we know is...

Founder of isis. he just refounded isis. >> a member of the budget and finance committee senator toomey. welcome back to meet the press. >> good morning, chuck. thanks for having me. >> you adjourned and were not in town and senator mcconnell said well see you in five days. is this a message basically saying the president is the only one here in town so that means the shutdown is on him to figure it out? >> no. chuck, really this ends up getting e resolved in a negotiation between chuck schumer ...

His annual christmas trip to mar-a-lago, trumps incoming acting chief of staff mick mulvaney appeared on fox news this morning to say there is no end in sight. >> the next pay period that is impacted is january 11th. i think that is -- its very possible that the shutdown will go beyond the 28th and into the new congress. >> so let me bring in matt gorman, a former nrcc communications director and former spokesman for jewish and mitt romney. we also have doug thornell. republican lawmakers like s...

That the president can look like hes fighting. >> pat toomey invoked another kind of theater, hes home for christmas in bethlehem, pennsylvania. >> this is really much ado about very little. >> senator schumer? senator mcconnell? speaker ryan? leader pelosi? is anyone home? senator russell, have you seen this leadership? have you seen the senators? mitch mcconnell, kentucky, majority leader of the u.s. senate. this is where his staff does the business of the commonwealth. mcconnell has an office...