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Many breaking stories of the craziest week in washington, d.c., and well get to the rest. but first, for the very latest on the shutdown, let me bring in cnn national correspondent kristen holmes. kristen, lots of machinations today, behind-the-scenes stuff. whats the latest? what do you know? >> reporter: basically, s.e., we are in a huge mess right now. lawmakers went home, and not only did they go home without reopening the government, they went home without a plan to reopen the government wh...

Brightest of the u.s. administration security team felt that he could no longer implement the presidents policy on syria. im also told that the resignation of defense secretary mattis in large part because of the -- >> elise, im sorry, ive got to interrupt you. were going to talk more on this departure of brett mcgurk, special envoy, his resignation, but lets go to capitol hill senate majority leader mitch mcconnell talking about this ongoing government shutdown and what theyre working on to pro...

Common side effects include headache and tiredness. with hep c behind me, i feel free... ...fearless... ...and theres no looking back, because i am cured. talk to your doctor about mavyret. welcome back, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says the senate is pushing the pause button on any votes until president trump and democrats can come together to end the u.s. government shutdown. minutes later, senate minority leader chuck schumer responded by demanding president trump abandon the bord...

This is paul ryans congress. after that it is nancy pelosis congress. ralph norman is back with us. has the door reopened, sir, on your satellite window? you can hear us now? >> i can. leland: all right, your thoughts. mitch mcconnell said, basically, us working on this in the senate was useless. were hitting the pause button. your thoughts. >> well, two things, leyland, its not about money. the $5 billion is .125 of the total four trillion budget, money that we spend. and secondly its not abo...

Verbage whatever you want to call it. in a tweet 25 minutes ago, he said were negotiating with the democrats on desperately border security. we understand that mitch mcconnell is speaking now, lets listen up. >> continue their discussions, the senate will officially proceed to the house passes already already, officially proceeded to the house pass funding legislation. so thats pending, but we did so with understanding that no further votes will occur until the president and senate democrats hav...

Basically said were hitting the pause button until the president and senate democrats come up with something. he is going to let things simmer on the senate floor. noteworthy, were getting a report from our team up on capitol hill who says this is much more about semantics than it really is about money per se. is this going to be for a while? is this going to be for a virtual wall? is this going to be for border security? the president, obviously, wants it earmarked for a while in specific and t...

President is calling a lunch on border security. the vice president is there. acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney is there. a couple of the presidents close advisors are there. >> and a list -- really a lot of conservatives. which is really -- leland: these are hardliners. molly: we have several representatives, richard shelby, mark meadows, lindsey graham, mike lee. was interesting about that is that they must be talking strategy. where do we go from here and what are we willing to give, what ...

Lets go to the senate floor. right now, mike pence and mitch mcconnell. lets lip in. >> reached a procedural agreement to create space for ongoing negotiations over government funding. to provide flexibility as the white house and senate democrats continue their discussions, the senate will officially proceed to the house passed it, officially proceeded to the house-passed funding legislation. so thats pending. but we did so with an understanding that no further votes will occur until the presid...

Okay, vote again. >> right. thats the interesting thing. weve got these affidavits. its not clear exactly what it points to, if it points to something in particular. but now you have a mechanism in place to potentially collect more evidence and testimony. that sort of thing. again, about a three week window until december 31st for the process to play out. then its in the hands of the board. theres democrats and republicans. it was a unanimous decision by the board to say were going to hit the pa...

President trump arrived back home early this morning from the g20 summit after agreeing to a temporary yet still cease fire trade. instead, those tariffs will remain at 10% during a new 90-day negotiating period. in return, china agreed to an immediate but unspecified increase in purchases of american goods with an emphasis on agricultural products. this could be a temporary truce. trade barriers, technology transfers, intellectual rights. both leaders thought it was important to hit the pause b...