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Going to tie a wall to the infrastructure deal. it looked like he was caving and all of a sudden he said he is not going to sign without the border. this is where we are on the shut down today. mark meadows phoned him and had been phoning him for the past few days. this is a conservative in the house and he said listen, you have to do this now for your base or they are going to be upset if you dont fight for this now. this story perfectly shows how trump changed the paradigm. he used to coordina...

Having to pass legislation when nancy pelosi takes over in january. the president is in a bind here. everyone is expecting that vote, which only requires 50 votes at noon today to fail. they dont think its going to go forward. so thats going to basically put the president back at square one. >> okay. as were never supposed to say, time will tell. abbie, josh, john, thank you very much. many senators are already back home for the holidays, but with this critical vote to prevent the shut down toda...

Remove from the county jail. [boos. [. >> first night of winter bring a full moon light up the sky in the northeast where a meteor shower could be visible. ♪ na, na, na, na ♪ good time for when the guitar plays brian: i dont know if its the reason why its dark outside but there could be looking at a shut down today. i dont know if thats the reason why so dark around the capitol. ainsley: we dont have as much sun today. this is the one day of the year we have the less sunlight. steve: shortes...

But chuck schumer said im giving you everything you asked for the wall and then when pressed admitted that he wasnt doing. thats the type of negotiation that mr. schumer has been engaging with the president. you have to ask yourself at one point, does it even become profitable to continue to work with somebody like that, so mr. schumer is going to have to up his game a little bit and be honest with the president of the united states if we are going to see progress on that front. >> how long will...

>> reporter: that is what we are hearing from analysts in beijing and people we spoken to in hong kong. a bit of dark humor on the internet today. people joking that traders by the time they got in, they actually left before their coffee cooled down. it only took about a half hour before trading was halted for the day. in terms of what the chinese central bank is doing, they put more liquidity in the market after it shutdown today. up to around $11 billion u.s. they also introduced new regulatio...

You decide to arrest or let go. what do you mean? >> well the guidelines are very contradictory because weve been told if they are arrested at the border they are a tier one offender, ineligible for these programs. but yet later in the same guidance it says we need to screen these people to see if they are qualified for these programs. dhs needs get their act together. >> the last thing you got after the texas judge got after staying the order. how does it stand now today? >> right now the polic...

That all of the activity could be a precursor to something much bigger, and obviously, we go to the quakes most of the time, and we have them all of of the time, and we dont always feel them, don. >> and we saw the one last week where the news anchors were on television, and everybody talked about it, because it frightened them as well. but so far though, no serious injuries to e repoy s ties to r stephanie? >> right. maybe some damage yesterday with some basements that fell and broke or that so...

Just up there, theres three cars in the middle of the off ramp. you have to go around them to get off the freeway. what theyre going to do tomorrow, and theyre just announced this an hour or two ago, the department of transport, theyre going to set up a couple of meeting points in key places and theyre asking people to come there and they will be taken to their cars in four-wheel drives along with gas and jumper leads and whatever they need to get them to the sides of what are normally biltzy fr...

And dramatic reasons. it synced conservative voters with republicans and moderate and liberal voters with democrats. it helped -- excuse me, helped turn the split ticket voting into a thing of the past. for example in 1995, 79 house members were from districts that president clinton won in the previous presidential election. today, the number of republicans from obama districts is 17. it raises the question, 1995 is the obvious point of comparison for the shutdown today. but are there any lesson...

Boehner went then to his plan e, a piecemeal approach to funding a few parts of the government he likes. support for veterans. national parks. and this one is important to beltway residents, funding for operations of the district of columbia. that failed as well. now there are some signs of cracking. a virginia republican took to twitter with a novel idea today." "we fought the good fight he wrote. time for a clean cr." look, politics love the bumper sticker simplicity of tweet negotiations. he ...