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The clock is ticking as the government shutdown is looming over capitol hill this morning. congress and donald trump need to agree on a federal budget by friday. lauren blanchard has the latest on the shutdown showdown in dc. >> not only is congress jittery as the shutdown looms but so are the markets as americans are waiting to see if the house and senate can come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown by the end of the week. they are looking at christmas in dc. the markets closing bell ...

It can make a difference in close races decided by 11,000 or 50,000 votes in places like pennsylvania, wisconsin, etcetera. >> dana: john, im smiling, col colin describes them be nothing lock step, that wasnt the case in 2016, they did consolidate in 2016. the democrats are chaotic, what do you think the message and the weakness in 2016, what do you think the democrats have an edge? >> as we talk about president trump and what the republicans are trying to do, what were talking about is rebrandi...

Two. >> dana: do you think its impressive he can still do that? >> greg: 46 is young for a surfer. >> jesse: can you swim? >> greg: no. i was a lifeguard. i was a pool monitor so legally i wasnt allowed to save people, isnt that amazing? its time for the true meaning of christmas. a lot of people think im a grinch, i do find a special moments from the holiday season that make me smile. i like to understand what its like to be a christmas tree as this young man did as you see him run and dive -- ...

>> reporter: stuck in a shutdown stalemate over border wall money, theres plenty of talk about a potential deal, but nothing firm yet. >> there are not the votes for wall in the house or the senate. he is not going to get the wall in any form. >> reporter: democrats are refusing to give in to the presidents demand for 5 billion dollar for a wall he initially promised mexico would pay for. >> senator schumer better stop being the grinch in this week regarding the shutdown. >> were going to do wha...

Jolly is your state. we will give you that we continue right now. [music] eight days until christmas. >> did you get all your shopping done? you are the real-life grinch. its nice the semi year. i dont have all the stress.

Administrative law agents. the bulk would go to building the wall. he allowed cameras to stay in the office with nancy pelosi and schumer last week. yesterday on the sunday show schumer saying no way, no how is the president going to get his money. listen hear. >> we democrats, leader nancy pelosi and i, offered the president two options as to how to avoid the shutdown and we should not let a temper tantrum threat push us in the direction of doing something everybody the republican colleagues kn...

The suit. >> a layup for the incoming house. looking really good. i just dont know that the white house and the senate will figure it out. im leaving it to democrats to come up with a compromise, some solution. because where were at is particularly ugly and no good. the republicans should have that will as well to try to fix this. its going to make their re-elects terrible. >> and the ball a passed again. >> i dont want to forget, kind of building on what you said is, at the end of the day we al...

Where is all of this heading? >> very likely its headed to a government shut down. it could be averred at the very end. pressure is on republicans right now to try to work with democrats to force donald trump to realize hes not going to get all the money he wants for the wall. thats just not going to happen. will donald trump try to make himself out to be the hero at the end of the day? that very well could happen a week from to be, we could be having the same conversation where donald trump jus...

Republicans have the votes to get a $5 billion border wall. where is all of this heading? >> its headed to -- i mean, very likely its headed to a government shutdown. it could be averted at the very end, but the pressure is going to be on republicans right now to try to work with democrats to force donald trump to realize hes not going to get all the money he wants for the wall. thats just not going to happen. so, will donald trump try to make himself out to be the hero at the end of the day? th...

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