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Cnbc. as i mentioned at the top, efforts are underway to avert a federal government shutdown but the prospects are looking doubtful. nbcs kristen welker joins me now from the white house. kristen, whats happened in the last few hours? we started this day thinking that the republicans in the house were getting ready to pass this bill that had been approved, the continuing resolution that had been approved by the senate last night. and then it all went downhill. >> its been a frenetic past few hou...

The hill. everybody should get up there and see because theyre in the midst of trying to settle this other thing and now you have this president having a tantrum in the oval office. how does that affect whether there is a budget deal or whatever -- luckily the stock market is closed for the night. >> oh, my god. isnt it time -- this feels like a moment where they ought to just send a veto proof cr and just get out of town and park him in mar-a-largo. >> whether or not it is veto proof, everyone ...

Question here. ive been speaking to officials here really for the past 48 hours. its just not clear to them where the presidents head is on all of this. we have all been watching our twit feeter feeds. one trump ally says hes been in tail spin because hes been watching, tracking that backlash from his conservative allies. you have played some of that at the top of your show with laura ingraham. there are others who have been bashing him publicly and privately as well. hes been hearing from some ...

You accept static scoring, would be the 1.5 trillion. i actually do not think that we will have a deficit or debt created out of the tax bill over a ten-year period of time. going into 2019 more companies are going to be hiring employees. we have the tightest labor market in a couple of decades and youre seeing wages rise. he did in pauls defense it in 2017 go to the senate majority leader and the president and say, i want to do entitlement reforms and there was significant push back not just fr...

Procedural vote, then a vote on the actual bill, if that passes, it is more likely the government shuts down. we are getting word from the senate side senators have been advised they may need to come back tomorrow. most of them had already left town, expecting this to be over and done with, but thats not the case. if it fails, that will show the president, forget it, we cant do this, then it is back to square one. >> i dont mean to sit here and parse the answer to you, but to me it sounded like ...

Him of that statement. theyre reminding him that building the border wall was his key campaign promise, so you have some of his allies like ann coulter, shaean hannity on the r waves saying hes caving. hes folding, hes giving in to his last best chance of getting funding for the border wall. the question is will the president go in that direction or will he risk shutting down the government over christmas, which is going to carry its own political risks. so hes really caught between two bad opti...

Back together, try to pass it, send it back over here. i mean, we could potentially get into some ping-pong. its pretty clear the white house was sending a signal to the senate earlier this week that they were going to be onboard with this short-term cr. mitch mcconnell told me as much, i asked him on tuesday, are you convinced youre not going to shut down over christmas? and he was very clear, he said, yeah, i am convinced that were not going to shut down. and mitch mcconnell is a man of relati...

Others have an outside influence on the base of the republican party. that is who the president hears from and is guided by. if he really had a problem with the clean cr he would have been able to say that to majority leader mcconnell before the senate took the clean cr vote up. >> were only in this position because rush limbaugh started railing against the president and ann coulter and the freedom caucus saying he was caving? >> thats what i think. added to the fact you have the freedom caucus ...

Thats a real problem for donald trump. right now he needs that base. >> we have breaking news coming in to us from the hill. kasie hunt, theres a reason weve not seen house speaker paul ryan appear at that podium yet where hes said to be holding his last news conference at speaker. whats going on? >> hallie, thats right. ryan is very rarely late for really anything, and if he is, there may be something going on behind it. thats what were hearing from sources inside the room. this is a gop confer...

One seems to be theyre asking moderates if they actually would be willing to vote for a bill that would provide the $5 billion that the president had wanted for his border wall. now, this proposal, of course, is the one that nancy pelosi to his face told the president could not pass the house with republican votes, and there had been some discussion of doing this earlier in the week, but it had fizzled. now it looks like they are actually doing it. they are also asking folks if they would suppor...