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Intervention, the president shot back calling her crazy nancy and a mess. okay. its like fourth -- four-year-old stuff here. as the two leaders go back and forth a source close to the white house tells cnn that pelosi, quote, hasnt gotten under his skin but got his attention. lets go to our colleague lauren fox, she is on capitol hill this morning. you have been talking to senate republicans, theyre telling you enough? enough with this? >> reporter: thats right. i think some senate republicans u...

President trump likes to take credit for the economy and the economic growth and low unemployment numbers but just look at the facts not the alternative facts. [cheers and applause] >> president trump inherited an economy from obama-biden administration that was given to him. just like he inherited everything else in his life. [cheers and applause] >> just like everything else hes been given in his life, hes in the process of squandering that as well. [cheers and applause] >> look, recovery act ...

And uphold the constitution. but the fact is when the president of the united states himself personally undermines our -- the approaches and the strategies that we have to rely upon to get this work done, like working with cooperating informants, working with people who are willing to plead guilty in order -- and provide information to the government in the course of doing that, when the president and his supporters continually perpetuate this false narrative of corruption within the fbi, that m...

Like i had to make in a thoughtful way in that book. >> the things the president says about the fbi, about the intelligence community, you have no doubt that has a negative impact on their ability to do their jobs. >> absolutely. >> i talked to a lot of former fbi people who say look, theyre professionals. they put their heads down. you know, they try to just cut out the noise. >> that is true. fbi people will continue to do their jobs under any circumstances in the face of any sort of obstacles...

Fought and battles to be lost and that clock is now clicking towards february 15th. those people you put on-screen, house members sit on the committees that dole out money to all the federal agencies. if they get their work done, they send it to the floor, passed by the house and senate and goes to the president for his signature. there are a lot of ifs in there. while those folks are in charge of hammering out the details, it will be up to nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer and ...

People can adjust, there is not an adjust when your bills arrive and youve already spent that money because you obviously were expecting to get paid for work done, sir. >> how long for people to adjust after the recession when they wreck their credit and miss their mortgage payments, in some cases lost their house? why would you impose that upon people voluntarily? >> ali, even in the subprime crisis there is an argument to be made. maybe people shouldnt have bought that home, they couldnt affor...

The trump shutdown. theyre really billing this as a trump shutdown. once nancy pelosi steps in and begins to take over, does the blame shift? what will the american people think if this goes on for too long? >> honestly, thats a great question because its going to be our problem. we just gained 40 seats in the house. thats great. but if we dont actually get progress and get work done, were not going to keep those seats headed into 2020. and 2020s going to look not so great for us presidentially ...

The senate must -- it must go to the white house for signature. that of course is up in the air. a lot of work to do in a short time. heather: they had time for some christmas caroling while this was happening. >> reporter: according to senator jeff flake, the business at hand is still moving to the house. >> reporter: until they get the work done, bar humbug, thank you. congress appears to be refusing the president demand for a wall, his strongest supporters are pushing more funding bill veto. ...

President, and needs to wrap up the investigation. we simply dont know. we will find out. >> a number of lawmakers share these concerns when pushing for various pieces of legislation to protect, alan dershowitz says mueller is very smart and experienced so he likely has been planning and preparing for the possibility something like a new attorney general happened. >> mueller got his work done, to make sure he is finished with all his work. that is why he accepted the written statements. he didnt...

Disclosed to the public but there needs to be -- this is why we elect our officials, they need to go behind closed doors and asked the questions that they do need to later become public but need to be asked now and what was the involvement, what was the knowledge by mrs. lynch and mr. comey? >> arthel: driving this is the current house judiciary chair bob goodlatte from virginia and incoming chair congressman jerry nadler, democrat from new york already sharply criticizing the idea of issuing su...