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To that $5 billion that we will work with congress if we make sure we get a bill passed. at the end of the day, we dont want to shut down the government. we want to shut down the border from illegal immigration. >> this morning the president is on twitter promising, quote, one way or another we will win on the wall. nbcs garrett haake is on capitol hill. im not 100% what that means. there was a convoluted exchange with sarah sanders about how they get that money. lets talk about where you are ri...

Mitch mcconnell offering up this short-term spending bill to avert a shutdown. donald trumps signature campaign promise apparently it looks like, yes, obliterated. nancy pelosi on that story getting blunt. >> the wall is not about money. the wall is about morality. its the wrong thing to do. it doesnt work. its not effective. its the wrong thing to do and its a waste of money. >> you may have heard that we live in a political world where sometimes common facts cant be acknowledged. well, let me ...

With a relatively short-term c.r., we will end up in effect punting this years business into next year. i think its not a very desirable outcome. >> we democrats dont want to shut down the government. and as for the idea of what sarah huckabee sanders said, they could get wall money from nafta or some other part of the government, they need congressional approval. theyre not getting it for the wall, plain and simple. >> brooke, you listen to that and you think everybody sounds bad, probably not ...

Short-term funding measure that would avoid a christmas shutdown and push the issue to a new year. the senate majority leader suggested the incoming speaker take the presidents offer and to start the new year with a clean slate. >> if we go with a relatively short-term cr we will punt this years business into next year. i think its not a very desirable outcome from anybodys point of view, i would think it would be the least desirable outcome for the incoming speakers point of view. >> one of the...

He hasnt said what he is willing to do. sarah sanders is saying, hill, figure out what you are going to do. it is back and forth blame game happening. >> dana: i did think the president is saying this is how well figure it out. sarah sanders saying the president asked all agencys to look for possible funds within their budgets that have been allocated that would be put toward a wall. listen what nancy pelosi said about that. nancy pelosi: we could possibly come together around a cr for all seven...

>> neil: if we do have a shut down and what many of your colleagues in the house not coming back till wednesday, how long you think it lasts? >> you know, i hope not long and i hope it doesnt happen at all. i dont think it needs to. and i know this from the white house. look, the president has been insistent, our border is not score. hes right. hes given ground in order to reach a solution. i hope that continues. >> neil: that i was ways and means committee kevin brady that hes hoping to avoid a...

Been passed into law is the military construction v.a. bill. what you could do with a blessing by congress is move money from the army corps of engineers and ask them to pay for the wall. i asked house minority leader nancy pelosi earlier today if she would go for that. >> they have to have congressional blessing for most reprogramming. right now what they offered, we have not accepted. i dont know what the path might be, but might be a c.r., a shorter term c.r. >> neil, at the end of the day, t...

Is still sounding confident theyre close to a solution. >> yeah, i am. >> for what its worth, three senators are telling us they think theyre going to get a continuing resolution, the old cr, watch out for some washington speak, its coming to a news division near you. with me now is the senate majority whip, dick durbin. senator from illinois, good to see you, sir. >> good to be with you, chuck. >> bottom line is the white house gave up on their ask for $5 billion. zh mean shutdown averted? >> i...

Xenophobic campaign pitch. so whatever comes from this agreement, and nothing focuses the mind for lawmakers like having to work over the holidays, we will probably get a cr by the end of the week, but whatever comes from this has to have both sides saving face in sides saving face in some way. >> do they get it? >> it looks like they will but trump is the wild card as usual. you remember back in march when they thought they had a spending bill deal, then he tweeted he was going to veto it and e...

Is there going to be a partial government shutdown at midnight friday? >> we dont know. stay tuned. the reality is we are just days away from part of the government running out of funding. this is not a surprise. everybody knew this was coming. and since that now famous meeting at the white house, theres been deadlock. and more importantly, the republicans who still control all of congress, according to our team on capitol hill, they have gotten no word from the president on how he wants to proc...