live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it s not something we say very often, but congress appears on the verge of actually accomplishing something. more than 350 house members, even speaker johnson himself have signed on to a multibillion dollar deal that could give a tax break to millions of families and businesses, but will senate republicans end up sinking it? for the first time in a long time, we heard from defense secretary lloyd austin pinning the blame directly on iran for the deadly attack on u.s. service members and insisting they ll pay the price. we ve not described what our response is going to be, but we look to hold the people that are responsible for this accountable. but the question is when and is the delay getting iranian backed militants time to get away. and the government is gearing up for a price war with big pharma, with billions of your dollars at stake. hhs secretary xavier becerra will join me later in the show to talk about how it coul
week after partial paralysis of the federal government, president trump is threatening another shutdown, this time on the u.s. border with mexico. he has been posting tweets, pointing fingers trying to deflect from his prominent role over the fight in funding the border wall. let s bring in our analysts to talk about this. david swerdlick, we heard from jeff flake last hour where he was saying the government shutdown could last into the second week of january. could it stretch into the middle of january? that s a lot longer than i think a lot of people expected here in washington. but you have the white house continuing to do and the president continuing to do what we ve seen over the last week or so, which is trying to shift the blame from themselves over to nancy pelosi. right, it is, jim, longer than a lot of people expect. if you go back to january of this year, everyone was sort of girding for a big fight on the hill and democrats pretty quickly folded up their tent and moved on
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truth comes out. russia sanctions, there s a big fight on the hill over that. one of the president s aides spoke and he left open the possibility of handing over the compounds that obama shut down. he was asked why the administration was considering that. here is what he said. we want to give collaboration, cooperation a chance. the fact is, we may not share the same philosophy. we may not share the same type of statesman view of the world, but the fact is, there are some issues of common concern. the house is fighting over russia sanctions bill right now. what do you say to that? this is ludicrous. we want communication and cooperation in the future with russia. we have common names to get on the same page in syria and how to address isis.
elevate it, the republican leaders need to figure out a way to respond to it. so a very interesting moment here in the press conference by revealing the price tag of the wall, something that will be a big fight on the hill once they start moving it through the process, 12 to $15 billion, and not cheap at all. it s something the president needs to figure out a way to get mexico to pay for to make good on his campaign promise. can lawmakers have their cake and eat it too? you heard paul ryan say, he campaigned on the wall, we re going to do it, but can you have your cake and eat it too and say you re a fiscal conservative? it s going to be very difficult. along with what manu was saying, republican leaders don t want to fight with the bear that s now in the white house. i think that the problem is they kind of pushed back on some areas on torture, saying that s settled law, but they want to fix other laws like obamacare