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How was your christmas, by the way? >> tyrus: i watched the kids open presents and be unthankful, pretty much an all-american christmas. >> julie: its such a mad house when you have kids. >> tyrus: im a grinch. if you ask my daughter, i was stealing christmas. next year -- >> julie: speaking of grinches in washington, day seven of the partial government shutdown. about a quarter of the government closed for business. some 800,000 federal workers either staying home or working without pay at leas...

>> julie: tyrus, who is going to get the blame? is there any way the republicans can come out on top here? >> tyrus: i think both parties are going to have to own this. we just dont have -- the senate continues to be unpopular, the last paycheck i believe for government workers was december 26th. we have two weeks before people start missing checks. hopefully that starts to sink in but for me as a voter i just look at the people in my areas and louisiana, what are you doing for the american peop...

Work with barack obama, no, were not going to do it. its the same thing, its not the president, its the senate, its the house and it helps the president get reelected. this all plays into president trumps hand in terms of reelection. >> kat: i dont think people are looking for a solution. if they were at work it wouldnt really matter, they are just saying i do want the wall or i dont want the wall, nobody is saying, we have these opposing views, what are we going to do about it? >> julie: i wond...

>> tyrus: do they follow each other again? have they made nice? >> kat: im sure there are people who blame him for the shut down but its kind of a support/blame because they see our republican having backed down so many times over issues like -- just like health care, hes fighting for us. this is something that is very popular with his base. i would say probably not. >> rachel: its also popular with the progressive wing of the party to not cooperate and negotiate on this issue. i find it interes...

Diagnosis for the president he disagrees with. >> i think its an embarrassment any time government shuts down, and this being no exception. work at it until we get to an agreement where the majority say yes. and i think we had that until the president you know went off his meds, who knows what happened. >> something else very interesting today, the incoming white house chief of staff trying to divide the democratic leadership. he said today, he thinks chuck schumer was on board with the deal but...

Trade goes across the border so i agree with you, i dont think its a legitimate, realistic threat but regards to what you just said, i look at this and i say, you know, he just gave almost $6 billion to the three countries in central america, almost $4 billion to mexico for an infrastructure project that was supposedly so this next caravan of migrants coming up can stay there. the american people are saying give us $5 billion for the wall. >> jessica: they are saying open up the government. >> r...

Security, what is it they want to do? the daca deal, is that what theyre waiting for? >> kat: thats one thing theyre waiting for and i do believe that but i think a lot of it has gotten lost in just wanting to oppose president trump because its president trump. a lot of the same democrats whove said they want fences and some kind of barrier in the past, including hillary clinton back in 2016, she had the same sort of thing when she was in office except not calling it a wall. a lot of it has to d...

>> jessica: i dont think after the 2018 results the democrats think anything is a done deal. for sure denying the president the wall which many people think its unreasonable would be a boon to democrats. the polling shows clearly that trump and the republicans are getting blamed for this, on top of that, only 35% think the border wall should be included in the spending bill and 25% favor shutting down the government over this issue. when the president says this is what the american people want, ...

Border wall money is stock right now to change their rules to put it through congress. a republican from a border state, texas, said a little while ago, this is so important and it is wrong for the united states senate. the house sent them a bill a week ago with funding that would keep the government open until february, provides disaster relief and funding to the wall and the senate will not. the senate had a motion to proceed but has done nothing. look, i know they dont have 60 votes but this ...

State. >> julie: second kirstjen nielsen is set to visit families near the border that handled migrant children after the death of two migrant children in custody. dhs getting pressure from capitol hill as well, top house democrat both along with several incoming house chairman are now calling for the agency to pressure and preserve all records related to the deaths ahead of planned hearings from the democrats to take control of the house next week. the top democrat on this judiciary committee a...