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Capitol hill tomorrow, but if they are able to get an agreement, we could start to see some actions sunday night, maybe notify them saturday, and actually get pen to paper. >> shannon: how does this work? what we are hearing, as youve explained, they are not taking a vote on the senate floor until there is some kind of deal in place. a couple of the senators said they want to make sure the president will agree to it and sign it. while there is no activity on the floor, what is happening behind-t...

>> wait a minute. the question i asked you, isnt the president responsible for this? i just played that tape. it doesnt give you any more proof than that sth the democrats have also said they will not give it to him. so when you have a 60-vote threshold in the senate to shut the down debate, democrats have power to shut down the government. this is obviously a fight where both sides can tame some blame or credit depending how you look at it. so i dont think its fair to say the president gets the...

We learned it doesnt have 50 votes in the senate. earlier today, the president was talking about using the so-called nuclear option to lower the threshold to 50 votes on legislative business. that was never going to happen in the first place. but it took a little bit of wheeling and dealing to get this to 47-47, as the case turned out to be, so that mike pence could break a tie and continue discussions. those will be ongoing, but its tough to see how they get fruitful. democrats just dont feel a...

I think the phrase is, theyve all been given time away to the capitol, but subject to the call of the chair. >> thats right. nobody is coming back until they know they have a deal that the president will support. and thats the big thing here. both houses of congress have passed something in the last two days. and leadership in both houses have learned the hard way what can and cannot be done. the house passed a bill with $5 million for the wall, relatively comfortably, proving nancy pelosi wrong...

The 60-vote threshold that withowould allow us to get to the wall. senator macy her rona said this idea is upper-level low absolute nonsense. >> youre saying if theres room for compromise, it only exists in the next ten days before january 3rd, however, everybodys out of town. how could it get done? its not going happen? no compromise? >> what would have to happen is what happened before, suspend the rules, which would require a 60-vote majority to get to the funding. >> mitch mccome said no, he...

Is the longer it goes the longer it goes. weve already crossed the threshold. now both sides are probably better served being dug-in. i think youre probably right that the odds on a longer shutdown are probably better with each passing minute. >> thank you all so much. we move now to the legal battles that are facing the president. new this week government officials telling nbc news that special counsel robert mueller is planning a february wrap-up of his report. though its unclear whether the p...

Threshold, so muellers report we may never see but in a sense, we have all seen a lot of it already. >> frank, whats next then? >> well, i tell you what if im roger stone im spending the holidays with my family, im getting my affairs in order because im anticipating either cooperating fully or being indicted and everything he said so far indicates he is not going to cooperate, so i think thats next up. jerome corsi may presoocede tha well see, they may come together. dont forget, we have in the ...

Additional votes and sent it back to the senate. mitch mcconnell knows the math is not there. he needs 60 votes. they are having the yeahs and nays. in part this is an exercise in futility. >> chuck schumer said it best. he called it a pointless exercise. mitch mcconnell gave a nice speech that the president will like, but the numbers dont add up. i think schumers comment is accurate. >> they need 50 just to take it up, but people are flying back to d.c. there is an attendance problem here. if a...

But, pam, the way it looks right now, this continuing resolution looks like its in big trouble. if it cant get over this initial hurdle of 50 votes, which is necessary to get to the next stage, theres into possible way they could get to the 60-vote threshold. we just found out johnny isaacson, a senator from georgia, awill not be here. he had a previously scheduled medical procedure. he assumed this would all be done. he cannot make it back. and patty murray from washington is said to be on an a...

The senate floor and vote this bill. >> reporter: but there are no signs the senate democratic leader is willing to budge. >> president trump, you will not get your wall. abandon your shutdown strategy. youre not getting the wall today, next week or on january 3rd when democrats take control of the house. >> reporter: ten hours to go ahead of a partial government shutdown and there are no signs of serious negotiations, dana. >> dana: i wanted to ask you about this. it comes up over and over agai...