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Republicans have adopted as you say three shots now this year. beginninged so in the first 14 years i was here, we had ten shutdown. the average was two days. and that was simply because trying to get agreement between the two houses and get it to the president. but this is a strategy that they have used to try to in effect take hostage the federal government saying if you dont agree with what i want, whether eliminating the affordable care act or in this case building the wall that we dont thin...

President signaled to the senate republican leadership, you pass this bill, this continuing resolution and i will sign it and then once he gets heat from these conservative entertainers who make money off of rousing these same people who are not a broad enough coalition to govern the country, then he changes his mind and sends a tweet saying the leadership promised me i was going to have this wall. he talked to the leadership the day before. >> yes. none of it makes sense. it is a minority of th...

On in the allowing things like that to happen. and the wall is just bad policy. we know that. >> immigration was a big part of it. >> so they cant do it. >> all right. coming up, madness and the mayhem that was 2018. and a look ahead to the new year. how much worse could it be? more on that next. worse could e more on that next.

Wall that mexico supposed to pay for. who do you blame? trump, 51% and 37% is democrats. this is not a popular policy but how does it make sense to you from a policy standpoint to try and youre not going to build a wall, its not going to happen? why are we here? >> it has nothing to do with coherent or smart policy, everything to do with the personal politics and personality. right, donald trump goes from moment to moment and makes his decision according to what a small segment, not just of the ...

Border and doesnt do anything to prevent illegal immigration. >> it has to be constructed through eminent domain, a lot of trump supporters along the southern border, their property would be seized by the federal government to expropriate it to string a wall across, a lot of them are finding this out. >> talk to john or will herd. they dont want it. >> theyre in texas. >> david jolly will back me up on this. this is not only a trump problem. trump took the wheel of the car and hit the accelerato...

Looking at that small base and theyre all in. theyre all enraged. i mean, it is just, it just shows you the bigotry and racism behind it but the thing about it is republicans are co-signing this and enabled donald trump. we are in this place because the republicans have not stood up against him. >> john harwood, theyre going to shut down homeland security, the department of transportation, the commerce department, the interior department, stuff a lot of republicans care about, the agriculture de...

And of courseccarthy, mr. ryan, both voted against opening up government. so here we are with the act to have gotten agreement and refusal to do so because of the presidents change of positions. and weve shut down government. hopefully the negotiations that were provided for last night by the senate, a deal if you will, will prove fruitful. and it will prove fruitful in my opinion if they come to an agreement which simply takes the eight bills that are all republican bills and we are prepared to...

$14 million in 48 hours, in less than 48 hours. >> to pay for themselves. >> he made a call, a political campaign text message that went out to his supporters asking that were going to fund this wall ourselves. >> have you done your part? >> they want to float bonds. the idea, you know, you do grassroots organizing. >> sometimes. >> so the idea, we cant get mexico to pay, full stop. the taxpayer, through congress, aint going to pay. so well pay for it ourselves and how does this? because all the...

He sent out tweets saying that the wall is being built and it is really beautiful, you should see it, so much has been done. and the part that isnt done, if they dont give me the money, the military will do it. so the fantastical idea that it is happening and mayerry christmas. >> he literally could have just are said -- >> ann coulter and rush limbaugh and that group of people who called him on it and if not for them, wed be out of here about that. >> and that is the sad thing about it. donald ...

The senate that you might have a democratic leadership cave and i a okay, well give you a couple million for the wall in principle democrats oppose the idea of stringing a wall across the southern border. what incentive is there for democrats to give donald trump a penny? nancy pelosi position is you get nothing. >> there was an incentive previously to give something for border security if not for a wall or you can build -- put a window in a wall in some places a wall makes complete sense. but a...