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Want to fund. he started this just three days ago. in that short time hes already raised more than $9.7 million. what he hopes to achieve, here is brian himself. the critics will say this is just a publicity stunt. its not going to make a dent in the total cost which would be at least $20 billion. im not great at math but thats a pretty tough hill to climb. what do you say to those krit sniks i say theyre full of crap. this is the united states, we can do whatever we want. if people want to dona...

>> laura: the wall is not in the constitution trump wall is not in the constitution. >> laura: i get your point. he made the promise, if that wall doesnt get built its hard to see trump winning in 2020. i know people dont like hearing that. if this wall doesnt get built i think its going to dee moral lies a lot of people, were going to have more problems. you have to get the thing built. mikel jollett, some person that people follow on twitter was saying the following, right now in america peo...

Not honoring their promise to their voters if they dont. >> garrett, did i hear you say you wanted to jump back in? >> reporter: i got lamar alexander who has announced he will retire saying we have rules to follow. i want to put a stop to this practice of the senate breaking its rules to change its rules. i hope my colleagues will not vote. this is another institutionalist. somebody who has been up here for a long time and respects the way the rules were written. you talk about steve danes. hes...

His shutdown. hell be proud to own it, proud to shutt down the u.s. government over the border wall. so the tune has not changed and not sure who got in his ear. media or right wing personality got in his ear. this was his shutdown. proud to own it and wont blame you for it, he told chuck shuker. he keeps talking about the amount of money that the u.s. loses on border security. these are nonsensical numbers. the first numbers he quoted back in august, $113 billion. also unprovable numbers. we do...

Coverage on "velshi & ruhle." i want to show you whats going on. we are now ten and a half hours from a government shutdown. a few things have to happen to avert it. theres a vote going on on the senate floor right now. this is just a motion to proceed. this only needs 50 votes to pass and it is to start the senate floor proceedings on the bill that the house sent to the senate last night. the continuing resolution. theis the bill to keep the government funded with $5 billion for the border wall...

Today with the president on this shutdown. >> gene, thank you very much. we wait for the playback which will come now in the next hour of the presidents remarks which apparently are still ongoing. theyre signing a significant achievement. could have been a good day except the continuing resolution your vice president and your senate republicans went along with. call it a day. sign that bill. praise your son-in-law. get out of town. thats a rational thing to do. >> that would be a rational thing ...

Now we see trump repeatedly they will give his cronies. >> we have worked with the im not going to comment about the subject of criminal charges >>you. john, back to you. >> interesting on the hill. before we go to break, one quick questi on the math. chuck schumer said bill is

Involved when bones allegedly belonging to the skeleton of the unicorn of peddling board were discovered in the hearts mountains in six hundred sixty three. using bones and tusks from mammoths researchers reconstructed the mystical creature in that they clearly wanted to believe in man had nothing at all about math they kept thinking about what it could look like because of course no one had ever seen one in the side. so they were different considerations that it looked like a host with a hole a...

Started calling around to members who had already gone home for the year asking anybody that was not a hard no to head to for their car or the train station or the airport just to get here. there is an issue, the senate cannot accept this bill, they passed something different last night. they are having an issue with math because senator bob corker told me a little while ago he was driving home tomorrow to tennessee and hes not going to come back until january 3rd. hes not the only one who wants...

These votes? >> thats why its so challenging. ten roll call votes in the house of representatives, and they were averaging 361 members. at 430 total right now. two vacancies, and it is always about the math. and so when you are down 70 members, a little bit higher today, it is really hard to get a sense of people on the republican or democratic side. thats what you really need to have a good vote count. this is why nancy pelosi continues to say they dont have the votes for this. there is some re...