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Unreasonable. >> democrats are expected to elect nancy pelosi as speaker once the new congress begins wednesday. after that negotiations are expected to pick back up, jillian. jillian: we will be here covering it. thank you very much. >> you got it. jillian: louie gohmert says president trump should let the shutdown go on if need to. >> its going to end at some point because there are things that have not been funded that democrats desperately want to fund be it hud and other things but the trut...

Fingers at each other. when they appeared on the public affairs news programs this weekend. >> its going to end at some point because there are things that have not been funded that the democrats desperately want to fund be it hud and some other things. but the truth is, there is nothing more important than the nations security. it is our number one job in the u.s. congress. >> if the president wants to continue to take a campaign promise he made, to have mexico pay for a wall and say the rules ...

And this year alone disaster -- the cost of three disasters, hurricane michael, $25 billion, insurance claims for the california fires were up to $9 bill beyond and 50 billion for hurricane florence. craig fugate, can you convince people with dollars and cents? >> i dont know if youre going to convince them with dollars and cents but you can with the sheer frequency of events that are occurring. every time they say this is a record-setting event, almost all of our practices of how we prepare for...

Dollars -- and this year alone, disaster, the cost of three disasters. hurricane michael, $25 billion. $50 billion for hurricane florence. craig fugate, can you convince people with dollars and cents? >> i dont know if you can convince them with dollars and cents but the sheer frequency of events occurring. every time this is a record setting event, almost all the practices looking to the past to prepare for the future is not working. look at all the money were spending. when fema is spending mo...

Then there are position ings not being filled at alma. no white house political director, no ambassador to numerous countries, no deputy at dhs, hud, small business administration. washington post reports there is not even a nominee for at least 126 key senate confirmed positions. now, part of the problem appears to be that it is hard to find qualified people who want to be associated with donald trump. for example, trumps pick to be the new ambassador to the u.n., cabinet level position, heathe...

In the new year, the secretary of defense, the attorney general and the epa administrator will be acting, not confirmed by congress. whoever replaces ryan zinke will be acting as well. even the incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney will be an acting chief of staff. sources say mulvaney himself asked for the acting title so he had a safe exit from the role if needed. and then there are the positions that are just not being filled at all. theres no white house political director, no u.s. ambassad...

Michael besh lots says the situation is unprecedented. the secretary of defense, the attorney general and the epa administrator will be acting, not confirmed by congress. whoever replaces ryan zinke will be acting as well. even the incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney will be an acting chief of staff. mulvaney himself asked for the acting title so he had a safe exit from the role if needed. and then there are the positions that are just not being filled at all. theres no white house political ...

Paycheck or being locked out of their jobs. being prevented from going to work. these are real people with real bills. real responsibilities, both to take care of their families and really important jobs in the department of homeland security and the department of justice, hud, elsewhere. it has nothing to do with what he seems to be saying it has to do with. >> jackie, i want to remind people of what the president said on christmas day because he had some reporters into the oval office and talk...

>> it was cronyism in the rebuild, they were unqualified to build. there were no lights for months and months and months. i was in the u.s. virgin islands. they had both hurricanes. i saw buildings with no sides in them and there were people still living in structures that had no walls and there had been no action from either ben carson at hud. they hadnt been even contacted. u.s. virgin islands was hurt as well. these two territories, the responsibility of the united states federal government, ...

Remains with the remaining tweet 7 digested bills, trillions of dollars of that number, $322 billion is discretionary money which means there is no procedural bar to moving that money around. a quick upfront example, theres $43.6 million in there for hud. of that, 11.9, is over the presidents request. if you drop it $6.9 billion you would have your wall. the second big way you can solve this problem is you can do you obligate money, and when i get to the state department, one thing i realize is ...