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Hallie, stay with us as much as you can. you mention the hill and the votes and i want to mention sam cedar but i have breaking news on garrett haake on capitol hill where this is playing out. as i told viewers at the top of the show, well hear from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi shortly. youve got all of the fallout from that dramatic meeting they had over the shutdown and donald trump as hallie just mentioned apparently saying, great, here comes the trump shutdown. what are you hearing there? ...

Wall and they want it now and they are willing to shut down the government along side the president to get it. joining us for the latest on the shutdown and a look at whats next for the republican party is a few out going republican congressmen. pennsylvanias ryan costello, jeff denim. thank you for being here. ryan, youre sitting next to me. congressmanning youre sitting next to me. >> ryan is fine. >> whats the play? >> while the freedom caucus wants $5 billion on the wall, with disaster relie...

Shut down at least partially part of the government around the holidays here? >> reporter: craig, i wish we had an answer to that. i can set the scene here at the white house, were essentially asking as many officials here as we can what the president is thinking. will he sign off on this cr? what exactly did he say to house speaker paul ryan? they just dont have those answers. theyre trying to get them. what we do have right now are president trumps tweets and an acknowledgment that hes really ...

Happen, there will be a short term cr. thats the only thing that can get through the senate. thats the bottleneck. there will be a series of votes that sends something to the senate, but ultimately whats going to hit his desk is a short term cr. >> shorter than proposed? >> to probably february 8th. >> so the same one? >> i think so. i think youre seeing a lot of movement today. thats ultimately that movement. i believe the american people sent us here to get things done rather than burn the pla...

Victory. this is a cul-de-sac. driving this vehicle will not accomplish anything. we will go in a circle and a circle until we get back to the fact well have a clean cr or its going to shut down and then when nancy pelosi becomes speaker on january 4th, youll have less leverage than we have now. >> lets go broader and talk about congress as a whole and the lack of bipartisan. what do you think was the impetus for this? when did things get to a point when the other side could not talk to the othe...

Shutdown if they get into one tactically we know the next moves. theyll try to pass the cr with wall money and not clear they could do that and send it over to the senate where it will fail as chuck schumer will tell the country in a few minutes and then what? >> then what? so let me ask you on that, garrett, for folks watching this who have heard donald trump go back and forth with chuck and nancy and have this drama, tonight is different because hes lost john kelly and now general mattis and t...

Giving up any leverage they might have to ever get the thing built and there are other issues, too. theres no disaster funding in this cr, which some members want. right now, things are just a mess as a retiring republican congressman just explained to me downstairs. take a listen. >> lets optimistic leaving this meeting than i was coming in. i think theres no consensus right now on what the best way forward is, at least among house republicans. >> did he say if the president supports the cr if ...

Giving up on the wall funding. some of the hosts we know he watches on "fox & friends" for example. for republicans here on capitol hill, they went into that meeting angry that they didnt have a clear assurance that the president was going to sign this cr if they voted for it. on the one hand you have the freedom caucus members who are frequently kind of out of line and not necessarily needed to pass this because democrats have said theyll get on board. those rank and file republicans, even some...

Afraid to stand up to donald trump, and so republicans in washington have fallen in line behind the leadership of the weakest president washington has ever seen. donald trump threatened to shutdown the government in order to get taxpayer funding for the wall that he said mexico was going to pay for, and not one person in washington believed a shutdown was going to happen. everyone paid more attention to mitch mcconnell, immediately saying that a shutdown would not happen. and today mitch mcconne...

Fixes. this is a fiction that we need this $5 billion now. when if it was that important, we would have done 25 billion this summer. >> you sound frustrated. >> its just facts. >> youre out going now. is this part of the reason you decided to take up -- >> there were other reasons. i would be saying the same thing because a group that one day this is our most important point and then a couple months later something else is important and they are deviating from what was the initial priority. if b...