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The aisle on capitol hill yesterday. take a listen. >> one of the agencies that would get shut down -- so weve already funded eight of the 24 major departments and agencies. one that would get shut down is the department of homeland security. so youre making a difficult situation for our men and women in border patrol that theyre dealing with things and then add the uncertainty on top of that, you know, by not having a paycheck during christmas. >> you think the cr could still be signed? >> who ...

A shutdown could last for a very long time. heres the question i have. ten days ago in the white house with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, the president said ill shut it down. it will be my shutdown. lets listen to what he said. >> if we dont get what we want, one way or the other, whether its through you, through military, through anything you want to call, i will shut down the government. >> okay. fair enough. we disagree. we disagree. >> im proud to shut down the government for border securi...

>> the republicans control the senate and the house. the republicans and democrats in the senate and house made an agreement with president trump to pass a clean cr. thats another topic. for the ten years ive been here, 40% of the days have been continuing resolutions. not real budgets. thats ridiculous in and of itself. 100 senators voted for this and then the president changed his mind. the president should honor the deal that he made and we should leave the government open. >> he does control...

Acceptable to his base. right now hes blaming democrats. remember, he already claimed ownership. he said he would be happy to shutdown the government over border security. you have the president at an impasse with congress over the signature campaign promise that he said mexico would pay for. >> jeff, thank you much. garrett, can we talk about some of the options here. what are those off ramps? what realistically could happen in the next six hours here to get everybody off the ledge? >> reporter...

Based on the text and language, but theres lots of ways to be able to do a short-term cr to be able to keep things open while the negotiations are still happening. well see what they pull together on process. >> i was just going to say, is that what this is likely going to be is some sort of deal that allows the president, allows democrats to both say were going to continue this conversation in 2019? >> i would hope we actually continue it tomorrow. were close enough in so many other issues that...

Week, and nancy pelosi was saying youre not going to be able to pass a $5 billion wall cr, basically the idea was they needed money for -- they needed votes from democrats to pass the cr. and part of that was the conservatives had all these ideas about asylum policy riders. there was a lot of conservatives who were concerned about the disaster aid that was added to this. because it was a political vote, a posturing vote, it goes to the senate where its clearly not going to pass. but republicans ...

They stand with the president and support his call for this bill, and they will be blaming the democrats if the government shuts down. and mcconnell said that the d democrats should support border security and falsely saying that the democrats are in favor of open borders here, and dug in. but the reality is that this bill does not have the votes. so the question is, is there a plan b? we dont know. is there a goldilocks option to compromise to get something through both houses or the plan going...

Of these developments on capitol hill. manu, we saw a change in tone, a shift from president trump not long after his phone call with speaker ryan. >> yeah. the president shifting again, sending the capital into a tailspin, uncertain how congress is going to get out of this friday deadline to avoid a government shutdown for a significant chunk of the government. this statement from sarah sanders, very significant, saying at the moment the president does about want to go further without border se...

Time, he went on camera to say that he does not want to be in a position where hes doing this again, signing a big spending bill with no border wall funding. but the reality is, pam, in january, democrats are taking over the house of representatives. they pledged not to fund anything basically that the president wants as it relates to the border wall, and president trump is backed up against the wall. tomorrow, hes expected to go to florida for his christmas vacation. will he go if he doesnt sig...

Will you support it when it comes to the house? >> yes, i will. i think that this is what we should do. this takes us into february. february 8th, i believe. at which time the now leader, then speaker of the house, pelosi, will be able to sit down during the month of january and hopefully work out something that is amenable to both the white house and the majority of the people here in the congress. >> now, this cr, as you know, and been approved by republicans as well in the senate so far, does...