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>> neil: thanks, my friend. youve been on both networks. all right. stocks were all over the map on this. by days end, if you think they were panicking about oh, my gosh, the government will shut down, they had a funny way of showing it. deidra bolton joins us. shaken but in the end barely stirred. >> thats right, neil. we can take a look at that graphic you just showed. it was a 570 point swing. as you said, the dow did close lower. we can almost call that unchanged. this is the fifth day in a ...

>> sandra: a big meeting at the white house happening today. democratic leaders chuck schumer, nancy pelosi will be sitting down with president trump in the oval office on the agenda the battle over the funding the border wall. here is kellyanne conway last hour. >> border security is national security. the presidents first and primary duty is to keep the american citizens safe and he is trying to do that here. the democrats have a central question in front of them. do they want to keep the gove...

Obviously, shoehorning the criminal justice end of that complicates the things we have to do between now and the end of the year. but with cooperation, magic things happen at christmas and thats what im counting on. >> lawmakers will need some magic if theyre going to get home for christmas because right now this is aa three-person operation. this is essentially the president and two democratic leaders here negotiating. in fact just after mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer came out and said, hey, mi...

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>> i had probably 20 meetings in the intelligence committee with him over the course of five years and i never saw that from him.it would be surprising to me that i wasnt there and i didnt see it. on the question of the little hillary thing. the inspector general of the justice department did a very long, a 150 page analysis and concluding the word judgment calls they disagreed with. but it was undertaken in any way for political purposes. thats an independent investigation that was very thoroug...

Was assembling were not being candid? >> i had probably 20 meetings in the intelligence committee with him over the course of five years and i never saw that from him.it would be surprising to me that i wasnt there and i didnt see it. on the question of the little hillary thing. the inspector general of the justice department did a very long, a 150 page analysis and concluding the word judgment calls they disagreed with. but it was undertaken in any way for political purposes. thats an independe...

Yet. as incredible as the media reports are, we have to hear from the investigators and we have to have a good, legitimate reason based on the number of votes that could have been changed to throw out 286,000 peoples legitimately cast votes. thats the balance. two other things have to happen. there has to be criminal investigations state and federal of the people involved and there has to be a detailed public accounting of how this problem has festered for over a decade and the state has been un...

Dagen: president trump meeting with democrats nancy pelosi and chuck schumer this tuesday as a threat of a shutdown looms. a short-term fix keeping things running until december 21, just right before christmas. lets go to house ways and means committee chairman kevin brady. congressman great to see you as always. good morning dagen thanks for having me. dagen: can you make sure a shutdown doesnt happen? >> it shouldnt happen theres no reason for it at all and the congress has done so much of the...

Incoming perhaps incoming chief of staff is whether or not to shut down the government come december 21 to get funding for president trumps wall. an issue near and dear to your heart. is it worth shutting the government down? does the white house need to exert more pressure on mitch mcconnell or is it worth letting this one go. >> this is the fundamental job were sent to do. and that defense is on the southern border. look, the president is asking for a sum of money that the house and senate sho...

Points. does that mean to you -- and i know things can change in the months ahe -- that ie democrats are to gain seats in the house it will not be nearly enough t tip the balance of power? >> well, if the election were today, the dynamic is that i think that that might be the case. they would take it narrowly by o lose it. think about it. think about it, december 21, the gap was 13 poin now its 3. the presidents job approval in december was in the -- was 37, 38, today its 43, 44. not great but b...