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Down. we just send home the nonessentials of which there are about 800,000 federal government employees considered nonessential. lets have that conversation. why do we have 2 million government employees why are we spending 136 billion a year. 130 departments and subagencies in our government? steve: you know, ned, the republicans on capitol hill if we have a shut down we will get blamed. >> you know what? in the last shut down republicans for one of the first times actually were well-prepared o...

You. it was one of the most brutal accounts one could imagine. it says a lot about you as a person. if the crown prince went in front of a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes. >> of murder? >> yes. >> that was the republican bob corker. he said if the crown prince and senate majority, it would be 30 minutes to a murder conviction. joining us now, msnbcs garrett haake. and former national security spokesperson ned price. what more did you learn about todays briefing? >> none of the senators...

About it. >> we were going to have a very big press conference and out of respect for president bush weve canceled it here and well have it back in washington at some time. >> so the president has declared wednesday, december 5th as the national day of mourning for president bush 41. he and the first lady will attend the state funeral for the president at the national cathedral, i believe a date for that yet to be determined. while the press conference was canceled today, the president still has...

Scenes planning for events like this. whats the calculus for the president in determining who he is seen being taken -- who hes seen taking a picture with publicly, who hes seen avoiding. what is the calculus? >> theres usually a tremendous amount of preparation for this, and theres a lot of choreography. with trump they dont do it so much. when trump canceled these formal meetings with world leaders, any other administration there would have been planning for months and months on that, and you ...

Plan to talk more and eventually make a deal that avoids a trade war between the worlds two biggest economies. >> ned, we have heard the president reiterate why precisely the meeting with vladimir putin was scrapped, and sarah huckaby sanders insisting that the reason for the canceled meeting was ukraine, and ned, do you buy that? >> i dont buy that, and i will the tell you why, craig. the ukrainian sailors were in russian custody earlier in the week when the white house confirm and reconfirmed ...

Working, and our staff is working, and we have a lot of very talented people working. and larry kudlows representatives are dealing with them on a constant basis. there is some good signs. we will see what happens. thank you, thank you, good question. thank you very much, everybody. please please. all right. with that, they will shuttle the reporters out of the room there in buenos aires, but you saw president trump sitting with japans prime minister abe, and he took a few questions there at t...

Hes also a cnbc contributor, and ned price is also back with me as well. mr. ingle ill start with you. you are in downtown buenos aires, a few miles from where this summit is taking place. protesters expected to start marching soon. what do you see so far there? >> reporter: so, i can give you a little bit of the lay of the land here. i am with some of the protesters. they are still gathering. they are supposed to, according to the protesters own schedule gather for about another hour and a half...

World leaders wanted to be around an american president because they dont know how tth going to get sideswiped. >> quote, people close to the president warn that trump is even more unpredictable when hes angry raising the possibility that he could go way off script here. what are you expecting to see and hear from our president there in buenos aires, ned? >> unpredictability is the name of the game with this president, craig. look, i mean, it doesnt take a heavy handed action by the mueller team...

>> reporter: say that again? >> did you see it live, or were you watching it just like us on the play back? >> reporter: we did watch it live. for people listening on sirius radio and cant see this image, you see putin and the crown prince next to each other here at the first official meeting of the g20. they go up to each other. they shake hands. theyre all smiles. they put each other on the back. these two men, these two pariahs on the world stage sitting side by side here. we know president t...

Including people like putin, will be cheering from the sidelines if those two embrace and are all smiles and theres no talk of significant, tremendous repercussions. >> no talks of repercussions from the president, congress feels differently. ned price, thank you so much. >> thanks. if you, yes you, have dreamed about traveling to space but dont have what it takes, the right stuff to become an astronaut, hang tight. we have one more thing in just a moment. if hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping...