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Come, at least at any point in the near future. thats why things are so up in the air right now. >> phil, can you just explain this to me, if you can do it quickly? so right now if the government shuts down and they dont negotiate, so the government will be shut down for about a week, week and a half, to january 3rd, correct? and thats when the -- well, at least. >> reporter: yeah. >> then the new congress starts january 3rd. then theres absolutely no leverage for republicans. so shouldnt the pr...

Leverage, and theyre saying ball is in your court, mr. president. >> calling it a trump shutdown, thats what got his attention, david, when it was nancy pelosi and schumer at the white house with him and nancy pelosi saying trump shutdown, all of a sudden he was like wait a minute, what did you say, oh, yeah, and ill take it. here we are at this juncture. hours before the shutdown, the president was tweeting out a rendering of what he calls a beautiful barrier. and again, this is the center piec...

Many people thought he was going to get rolled. remember ann coulter said this is the end of your presidency. this is very dangerous because one of your prime promises during the 2016 campaign that got voters on your side was to build a wall and to protect the country, and yet that has not happened under president trump. >> we see the clock there ticking on amount of time that the partial shutdown has been in place. thats also ticking toward when democrats will take over in the house. so january...

They do not want it to be shut down for long because theyre well aware after a few days, the optics will turn back on them, and it will look bad on the white houses part if it continues to be shut down for more than a few days. >> scott, the president initially signaled he would sign a clean cr if a bipartisan group of senators passed that. then a conservative talk radio host got into his head, and he caved. is this any way to run a government? >> well, its no way to treat your friends in the un...

>> well, i have to complete your sentence, because they put $25 billion up but that was in exchange for daca program that actually worked and gave them a pathway to citizenship. >> right. >> were looking at a red herring. this wall is a $5 billion red herring. there are a few things. why are we paying for this wall, when the president of the united states and everyone else were going on the campaign trail and chanting build the wall and who is going to pay for it, mexico. why cant niger and ever...

Weeks of their control of the government and right before christmas, trump decides to shut down the government because he couldnt get this done during the two years when he had complete control of the united states government. >> so who had the leverage in this situation? >> its not clear to me, is it clear to you? >> democrats. yeah. its a sticking point. democrats dont really have to change you know, construct schumer getting out there saying, there will be no wall. the government there reopen...

People over this situation? >> i think in the past it used to be clearer that the american public would identify a key set of actors and blame them for the shutdown. usually congress would get the blame to t blame for the shutdown. i think democrats will blame president trump and republicans will blame congressional democrats. and so in the end, it becomes a kind of impasse. the longest shutdown was the 1995 shutdown that lasted for three weeks, 21 days. donald trump said that he imagines this s...

The clean cr. a bipartisan group of senators passed that. then a conservative talk radio host got into his head, and then he caved. i mean is this any way to run a government? >> well, its no way to treat your friends in the united states senate. i mean the president has had the most success in his administration when he has remained allied with the republicans in the u.s. senate and particularly in the leadership. so by turning your back on them, now hes put himself in a position where he has t...

Sentence, because they put $25 billion up but that was in exchange for daca program that actually worked and gave them a pathway to citizenship. >> right. >> were looking at a red herring. this wall is a $5 billion red herring. there are a few things. why are we paying for this wall, when the president of the united states and everyone else were going on the campaign trail and chanting build the wall and who is going to pay for it, mexico. why cant niger and every other republican come up before...

Then theres absolutely no leverage for republicans. so shouldnt the president and republicans now be saying, okay, lets make a deal as quickly as we can before we have less leverage instead of digging themselves in? >> reporter: the beauty of my position is that i dont have to give political advice to anyone here. >> but you understand what im saying? common sense just says the government will be shut down for a week and a half. people wont get a paycheck for at least then. then if they come bac...