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Going to be away for two weeks and who knows what he's going to do on twitter and lash out on next. i actually think there's a good strad i go here. again, she has to avoid looking too political, which means come january 6th those articles have to be sent. >> wait, does that mean you think they're spending christmas eve and new year's eve chatting amongst each other, sending emails and trying to negotiate? is that how they're spending -- >> no, no -- well, whatever mitch mcconnell is doing and chuck schumer are doing are separate. but i think donald trump is sitting there always sitting there ...

Campaign promise that i was going to build a wall and that members do was going to pay for it. >> that is so ridiculous. >> reporter: bottom line, halle, it's increasingly clear there is not a short-term solution in the who to get the government reopened. what will you have is a bit of a starring contest between the president and as the temperature picks up, the real world costs of it gets higher, who does the public blame, who blinks first? it appears that's where we're headed. >> i know you are waiting for mitt romney to chat. we will take you live. the president tried to get to some kind of...

Ari fleischer, amy sauter, the editor of clear politics and bill mcgurn, the main stream columnist "the wall street journal" ." bill company listen to this we are getting an external information that nancy pelosi interrupted the briefing on the border security updates. there was talk about a wall. it doesn't sound like there's going to be funding moving forward for a wall. where are we? >> we are in a game of chicken. the question is, who blinks first? on paper it makes sense for the democrats to get the dhaka regularization of the people who came here under dhaka. in exchange for giving presi...

Question, john. we don't really know how the politics of this shutdown is going to play out. we are conditioned to have shutdowns where republican-controlled congress or one chamber of congress fights with the democratic president and says i will not open the government and will shut it down if you don't agree, and in this case we have a republican president and a republican senate and the demand is coming from the other direction of pennsylvania avenue. this is sort of an unknown. >> the president claimed it, david. >> yes, right, the president claimed it but eventually voters may make a deci...

They interviewed michael flynn. >> bill: thank you, come back soon, merry christmas to you at the white house. thank you, just heard it there. the white house would like to avoid the shutdown but will congress negotiate in time? >> i think there is a number of chances we might avoid the shutdown. at the same time i don't -- i'm not very optimistic that democrats are going to yield if providing $5 billion. >> bill: funding for the wall remains the big roadblock avoiding the government shutdown. who blinks first? our a-team is here to thaik that on. >> sandra: top of the hour michael flynn is se...