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It didnt work. i will take the mantle of shutting down. >> good. >> and im going to shut it down for border security. >> reporter: senate minority leader chuck schumer told the president it is time to give up. >> president trump, you will not get your wall. abandon your shutdown strategy. you are not getting the wall today, next week or on january 3rd when democrats take control of the house. >> reporter: some republicans conceded they werent really sure how to end the standoff. >> were trying t...

Senator lindsey graham is urging president trump to rethink his plans for a partial troop withdrawal from afghanistan. cnns kate bolduan just traveled with graham to afghanistan, shes back. you were given exclusive access. tell us what you saw. >> thanks, wolf, we were. a premature withdrawal of troops in afghanistan is one of lindsey grahams greatest fears and one of the major goals of his trip was convincing donald trump of the same. senator lindsey graham is on a mission, a mission to connect...

Chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. republican senator bob corker. and republican senator rand paul as well as the incoming house intelligence committee chairman, democrat adam schiff. it all starts at 9:00 a.m. and noon eastern. you can follow me @jaketapper. our coverage on cnn continues right now. happening now. breaking news. coming to tyranny. a top republican senator says conservative talk show host influenced president trumps position on funding his border wall, leaving ...

Terms of avoiding a government shutdown. and compromising on the wall. and then he gets attacked by fox news and ann coulter, and he changes course and is now willing to shut down the government over christmas. so i dont see any other way to spin this other than chaos, especially when you add in the resignation of general mattis, which was not just a resignation of somebody who is highly respected, it was a complete rebuke of his foreign policy. and i think thats the thing that is just the most ...

This decision, it was only an order. the fact that roberts rebuked him earlier this year and said there arent obama judges as the president alluded to with this, there arent trump judges. there are only judges who are actually trying to do their jobs. it is an amazing moment to be having the supreme court rebuke him right when we are having the debate on the border wall. >> everybody stick around. we are continuing to follow the breaking news. much more right after this.

Cold to the idea of tabling his demand for a wall in exchange for keeping the government open. but, wolf, that means the president will have to have a shutdown that he will own, as he said he wanted to do ten days ago. in washington it is a chaos christmas as president trump warned he is ready to shut down the government if congress doesnt give him the billions of dollars hes demanding for a wall on the border. >> the chances are probably very good. >> reporter: instead of taking responsibility ...

Country, you at least owe it to them to check in on them. >> reporter: we had exclusive access to follow graham on a whirlwind tour. hes been to the region 40 times, but this marks his first trip back to afghanistan without his closest friend and confidante. >> this is the first trip without john mccain. this is a tough one. i was just thinking how many times ive been here but almost all the time with john. and the presidents going to make some decisions about afghanistan soon. i hope he makes g...

James mattis resigned his position after the president revealed the troops withdrawing from syria. >> mattis resignation is a rebuke to the foreign policy views of the president. mattis using his letter of the importance of the u.s. alliances and unambiguous approach to china and russia. no doubt, the last straw for mattis was the presidents plan withdraw for syria. two officials tell cnn that mattis was quote livid. for more, cnns barbara starr at the pentagon. >> reporter: alison and dave, an ...

As to whether or not we have a shut down tonight. i hope we dont but were totally prepared for a very long shutdown. >> youll recall just last week the president said he would own the shutdown. of course this is all happening as capitol hill deals with the aftershocks of defense secretary james mattis resignation, one of the solid voices of reason within the administration knew givi -- now giving a strong rebuke of president trumps policies. a senior conservative house member warns, quote, the w...

Thank god the markets were closed by then. by 4:00 p.m. eastern, another 464 points knocked off the dow. the nasdaq below its lowest point in august. then came 5:21 p.m. eastern, the gut punch, the real wall, the man who stood between the president and his petulence went to the white house and said to the president, you have to listen to me, you cant do that. in that moment, he decided. this is as good as it gets. he left, he put out a scathing letter a total rebuke of the presidents world view ...