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Deal does materialize saturday or in the coming days, it is because all five relevant parties will be in agreement. president trump, speaker ryan, leader pelosi, leader mcconnell and leader shumer. in a twitter video, the president tried again to blame democrats for the shutdown. >> call it a democrat shut down, call it whatever you want. we need their help to get this approved. democrats, we have a wonderful list of thing that is we need. to keep our country safe. lets get out, work together, a...

>> dana: let me stop you there because senator cruz is at the microphone. >> -- irresponsible thing to do, but its a decision for schumer. >> you didnt have 51 people to get the procedural vote to move the vote to the floor so how are you expecting to get 60 votes on this if it does reach the floor? >> listen, the president said if chuck shumer and the democrats adopt an extreme line, if theyre not willing to give a penny for border security, then schumer will go forward and shut the government ...

Already voted for a lot more than $5 billion in border security funding. so theyre not opposed to this. theyve already voted for more money. that didnt pass, but what theyre doing now is playing politics. what is happening in the democratic party is they hate president trump. okay. the american people understand they hate president trump. but thats not a reason for chuck shumer and the democrats to force a shutdown. and when it comes to securing the border, keeping our communities safe, that sho...

This christmas spirit seeing democratic extreme partisanship forcing a government shutdown. thats a decision for chuck shumer. hes meeting with his caucus. >> earlier yesterday secretary mattis essentially put in a letter -- >> dana: all right. thats ted cruz. talking to some reporters there. were gonna jump back and get back to chad. from a communications standpoint, senator ted cruz can make an argument very well. these are the lines and the words hes using. theyre trying to paint the democrat...

Bill which left the food stamp program mostly untouch d and did not include these measures. senate taking the first key vote on a bill to avoid a touchdown. gop house members saying they take their responsibility to secure the border very seriously. >> do you know what ill say? yes. if we dont get what we want, through you, the military, i will shut down the government. and i am proud. i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. hey there people eligible for medicare.

Particularly those in republican leaning districts who said i want change. what happens if they go home and say, thats what i said during the campaign but the very first vote that i made when i got into congress violated that. >> dana: like krysten sinema said she will support chuck shumer and said she will not on the campaign trial. recount. were less than an hour away. there have been 27 state wide recounts. the average shift in votes, just 282, or 200th of a percent. the largest shift was 110...

The president wants to declare victory. he can say $5 billions enough. whats the magic number? weve come to terms with the fact that the border wall itself is defined. it doesnt go from coast to coast. it doesnt have to be all wall. some can be fence-ish. some can be reexisting existing fence. how much does the president want to say is enough money? whats going on here is pretty simple. ryan and mcconnell have set the table so that theres not gonna be fiscal fights in the next year. it will dise...

Pelosi? >> reporter: it is clear pelosi has some work to do. i should note also in that house republic conference, steve scalise was lected to be the republican whip going forward. >> julie: on the senate side, are we expecting the same faces to be in charge again? >> reporter: julie, lot of the same faces. you got mitch mcconnell continuing on as majority leader, pledging to get things done. >> weve had a divided government more often than not since world war ii. still, ill be talking to speake...

Donnelly, heitkamp, nelson. all voted against kavanaugh. the one who did vote for kavanaugh prevailed. i wonder if chuck shumer made a mistake saying vote for kavanaugh, save your seat. whats more important? to save the seat or have the issue that you ultimately ended up losing on? >> yeah. i dont know if you can order people to vote. i havent had that much luck with that on my side. >> dana: you sort of give permission. you do what you have to do to win your seat. >> i do think voting against k...

Opticsist, quite frankly. i know through my contacts is that whitaker has been a quiet supporter of this declassification. just to remind you and the folks at home what records were talking about. its 19 pages of the fisa surveillance war ran renewal. this was in june of 2017. this was the one that was signed by the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. his critics say it represents a conflict of interest, as well as fbi interviews with bruce orr. he was a back channel for the dossier. as well...