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Jake sherman is with me now. jake, you and your playbook colleagues, you wrote today in part on where we stand, the players involved are increasingly convinced that this will not get solved until january at the earliest. the presidents allies say hes standing pat and privately the gop leadership does not believe it will get a deal until the new congress. what might that deal look like, jake sherman, do we know? >> im with congressman costello on this, it will look something like a clean cr with ...

Bad idea. and democrats know they have the political leverage. they won 40 seats in the house, and they will take charge and they provide a check on the president that they say has been lacking for the past two years. so how it is resolved, we have seen the administration come down in numbers a little bit. how far they come down, we will continue to see. but right now the two sides are incredibly dug in. >> it will be interesting to see if when the house comes back the democrats take control, th...

Workers. lets just stick with that. >> sure. >> i mean, never mind -- we dont know who hes talking to, who is saying, go get em -- >> everyone in the caucus are federal workers. >> exactly. he also said today, its in nancys court right now. meaning its pelosis to try to figure it out. but really? >> well, look, i think pelosi is actually happy to try and figure this out. shes going to take control of the house of representatives next week. i bet house democrats pass a funding bill of some sort r...

This would be more so because it goes at something they werent even sort of expecting from this president. >> we are still in the middle of a government shutdown. the president has said hes willing to allow this to extend until he gets the money for his wall. at what point do the optics of this situation and once we begin to hear from federal workers directly impacted by this and begin speaking out, could this also put pressure on democrats to start to make a deal with the president? how do you ...

As a way out of this that could get the government open again? >> i would say the only way, the only way out of this is to directly negotiate with chuck schumer. your leverage is rapidly decreasing, and then on january 3rd, you will have a new democratic house majority and your leverage goes away quickly. if you could not get wall funding done with two years of complete gop control of congress, you are certainly not going to get it under speaker pelosi. the longer you wait, the less leverage you...

>> so this is basically a political game of chicken because president trump is clearly calculating he will lose his core base supporters if he doesnt deliver on this wall promise. the democrats are calculating their fortunes are rising here and that they will lose, if they give the president a victory on this, that is not a formula for compromise. how is this resolved? >> that is the $64,000 question. and the president has -- i mean, in recent weeks, our reporting has showed that the president r...

Head. >> well, look. one of the things that trump has backed himself into here is that when he had complete control of the government, all three branches, he wasnt able to get funding for his wall. why was that? was it that he lacked backbone, which is what you would hear from traditionally the talk radio people and others? the breitbart crowd? no. it was because he didnt know how things work, and he wasnt organized, and he didnt have a plan for how to achieve policy ends in government. and ther...

>> we will see how it plays out. this is sort of like the first quarter of this thing. people are on holiday. if theyre going to be on holiday through the first of the year but after the first of the year pressure is going to get ratcheted up. democrats are going to come back. nancy pelosi will put a bill in the house to reopen the government on january 3rd and then they will put the pressure on trump, why what you sign this, why wont you do this? there wont be any border funding and thats when ...

Complicated. rich edson iss examining the diplomatic give-and-take tonight. >> a federal judge says he traveled to north korea and 2016, a healthy and athletic student with big dreams, smarts and people skills. when he returned to united states a year later he was blind and deaf and brain-dead. he died less than a week later. in the decision to or his parents moren than half a billn dollars, the judge writes, north korea more likely than not beenar empirically tortured himo extract a false confe...

To commit to denuclearize in. the picture we are getting from the state department is more complicated. richardson is examining the diplomatic give-and-take tonight. >> reporter: a federal judge says otto warmbier had big dreams and people skills, and when he came back he was blind, deaf and brain-dead. he died less then a week later. and her decision toward his parents have $1 billion, judge beryl howell writes, quote, north korea more likely than not tortured him to extract a false confession ...