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Newsroom starts right now. that is our top story. were five hours into a partial u.s. government shutdown. it effects hundreds of thousands of federal employees and the agencies they serve. >> lawmakers left days before the christmas holiday without a bill to fund the government by this midnight deadline that already passed. their deadlock over the demand to fund a border wall, a wall that democrats oppose. >> call it a democrat shutdown, call it whatever you want, but we need their help to get ...

>> indeed. next hour starts right now. breaking news, the federal government now officially partially shut down. >> there are human beings who are going to be asked to work without pay or going to be told to stay at home. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. im not going to blame you for it. >> if i were chuck schumer, i would turn my phone off and sit by the pool somewhere and wait until january 3rd. >...

This approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe. lets get out, lets work together, lets be bipartisan and lets get it done. the shutdown hopefully will not last long. >> in the sound bite there, he said call it what you want, but about a week ago, he called it a shutdown that he would take credit for. president trumps democratic opponents minority leader chuck schumer and house democratic leader nancy pelosi issued a new statement a short tim...

But we need their help to get this approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things we need to keep our country safe. lets get out, lets work together, lets be bipartisan, and lets get it done. the shutdown hopefully will not last long. >> reporter: i should also say, fred, this is the third shutdown weve had in just this one year. thats the first time it happened in 40 years of this country. weve had three shutdowns in one year, an extraordinary amount of stalemate in washington, so m...

Call it whatever you want. but we need their help to get this approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe. lets get out, lets work together, lets be bipartisan and get it done. the shutdown hopefully will not last long. >> reporter: in any event, most of what he said in that video really contradicts what hes been saying all week. in fact, he sewed twitter yesterday that he balboa -- he said on twitter yesterday that he believed if there was a ...

And who takes credit for it. listen to what he had to say. >> call it a democrat shutdown. call it whatever you want, but we need their help to get this approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe. lets get out, lets work together, lets be bipartisan, and lets get it done. the shutdown hopefully will not last long. >> reporter: that is a change of tune for president trump who just yesterday said if there was a shutdown, it would last for a lon...

Unclear when a deal will emerge, what the deal will look like. but it is clear when deal emerges, all five relevant parties will be in agreement. president trump, speaker ryan, leader pelosi, leader mcconnell and leader schumer. in twitter video president tried once again to blame democrats for the shutdown. >> call it a democrat shutdown, call it whatever you want. but we need their help to get this approved. so democrats we have a wonderful list of things we need to keep our country safe, lets...

Out. good to have you with us. as i understand it, there was a lot going on. you were working the phones, talking to a lot of people last night. you go to bed fairly late and you wake up this morning and you were surprised. why? >> we were hoping that this was going to turn into a teachable moment that kevin hart would still be hosting the oscars and he would be using this moment, not only to show his evolution around the lbgtq community, but also to use the oscar stage, one of the biggest stage...

Other way towards republicans, democrats are acting like they lost. you won last night. you may not have gotten the knockout blow you were expecting, but you actually won, and to charlies point you won key governorships. >> not get ago knockout blow is that the true win for america? when you have a split like this, john, maybe thats an opportunity for people to work together. when you spike the ball in someones face and twist them in the mud you cannot work together. >> thats the problem with ou...

No, it got worse. >> lets just make sure that we have the house as we want it, right? so this way at least no major damage will be done, right? thats the short term. i think the long-term is i think we need to come up with some solutions, lets work together. >> how many of you want democrats to take the house? >> and we pray that the senate will go, too. for god sake if they have to put an end to this mess. >> anthony, with he interviewed you 11 months ago. back then you were on the fence about ...