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Good day, im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. Congress is trying to crawl its way out of chaos, but a feeling of inevitability has taken hold on capitol hill as the Clock Barrels toward a Government Shutdown. Both chambers are trying to reach shortterm spending agreements, but will they find the votes . Millions of federal employees and contractors are bracing for impact if a showdown does happen, but how significant a toll could it take on our armed services, both at h...

Action to move federal money around in order to build more wall. >> we have got a lot of funds for a lot of other things. with a wall they want to be stingy. we have options that most people dont really understand. >> options that some are urging him to act on. >> i hope he uses his emergency power to take care of our border because its the right thing to do. >> other republicans expressing frustration that the recent shutdown didnt let them produce a more comprehensive deal. >> it didnt help us...

He needs congressional permission. >> there is a component involving immigration and customs enforcement with senior aides saying theres no internal enforcement cap. 5,000 detention beds above the record level. funding and flexibility to maintain detention population and respond to apprehension surges. providing flexibility to reach the presidents requested level of 52,000 beds. schumer notes its a compromise. >> please, mr. president, no one got everything they wanted in this bill but sign it a...

>> not quite right it seems to me. he did try to say in the middle of the shutdown that it was the democrats faults. i understand the teaching moment aspect of it but the simple fact as the border wall remains an unpopular issue with the majority of the american people. i think the majority of the american people are largely wrong on that. i think you can do all sorts of things on the border. i think the trump administrations you have gotten its $5 million. the shutdown didnt lead to any great c...

Jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review. mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." josh kraushaar, politics editor at national journal. jonah, thoughts. >> by any normal beltway standards its not a great triumph for donald trump. its less money than he was going to get if he didnt shutdown the government the first time. i think he has probably no choice in deciding it because either you get a shutdown if you try to go the continuing resolution amount, its even less money. i t...

But on the campaign trail he said were going to build a wall of mexico is going to pay for i it. >> bret: he said since then that the renegotiation of nafta which also has to pass congress essentially will get the money that pays for the wall. six, seven, however the math. thats what he said. >> the question is, 55 miles of border fencing in the money satisfying the base, probably not but i think mollie and jonah are right. it puts a pause on the negotiations and allows trump to argue on other i...

Sign it, the government will shut down again and the president appears to have little appetite for that. >> accepted the first one and im proud of what weve accomplished because people learned during that shutdown all about the problems coming from the southern border. ive always accepted it. this one i would never accept if it happens but i dont think its going to happen but this would be totally on the democrats. >> the president rallied his supporters to the cause for a border wall last night...

>> am i happy at first glance? i just got to see it. the answer is no, im not. i dont think youre going to see a shutdown. i wouldnt want to go to it now. if you did have, its the democrats fault. >> bret: we have a deal but will the president go along with it? the deal structure, the agreement is 1.375 billion for a border wall. thats 4.3 billion less than what the president demanded. 55 miles of new border fencing. does not include a strict new cap on democrats have sought on detainees beds. p...

Re-open the government. but it looks like republicans are right to worry about the political fallout from an emergency declaration. nbc news reports that trump and kushner have already met with contractors to discuss building a border wall. thats todays onion news. yo joining our conversation, "washington post" columnist, msnbc political analyst eugene robins robinson. my date all night long. nbc news national political reporter, heidi, is with us. so, its my understanding, and you both correct ...

But to confront each other that way and to have everybody yelling at one another, i think its just sent a terrible message the american people about how our democracy functions in washington. >> laura: does he know his history? they werent dueling. democracy is rough-and-tumble. people are arguing at the dinner tables. its okay. we are going to survive in oval office. >> dont you think the difference between -- if that debate. >> laura: personal invective. >> if he shuts down the government, is ...