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Looming potential shutdown, but mitch mcconnell did say yesterday that he is convinced that the government will not shut down. i'm wondering do you share his confidence in the president's willingness to sign potentially a short term continuing resolution if you send him one, and how did republicans convince him that this trump shutdown was a bad plan? >> kasie, i don't know yet from the white house what their plan is on a continuing resolution. any shutdown that occurs obviously would be very -- much smaller than what has been done in the past. as you know about 75% of the government is funded...

Are issues we've dealt with for the last two years now. no question that the russians were trying to use social media to try to be able to stir up controversy in the united states. this started in 2014 where they actively were building pages to try to build following because they were already looking to be able to target the election. a couple things come out in the report very clear, one is they were very engaged in the campaign and got prepared very early and the second one is they tried to find any topic in american life that was divisive and to be able to engage and try to stir up the pot ...

Bipartisan support through the committees, we've conferenced these and i think we should be able to resolve it this year rather than try to punt it into next year. part of the challenge that we have right now is nancy pelosi is not in a position to be able to negotiate on this, she's not speaker, doesn't want to negotiate this until after she's already speaker and so that's locking us up with dealing with anything in the house and i would tell you the president is very strong on border security issues and he wants to be able to see border funding in any way on border security that he can get i...

So i think there's some room to negotiate on that. i think that democrats will probably stand fairly strong on a lower amount unless they get something in return but i don't think any of us want to shut down the government. there will be some negotiating, some back and forth on it but i think we will know in the next ten days what the final outcome with regard to the border security issues will be for this year. >> harris: i know it was reported yesterday that there was some discussion between the president and lawmakers on this issue and trying to get that money into the spending bill and it'...

That. the trump white house is so dysfunctional, the president was completely caught off guard by the first lady, melania trump's, statement yesterday that deputy national security adviser mira ricardel no longer deserves to work in the white house. according to our reporting, trump was furious, angry that he looks like a bossed around husband. but now we know just how influential the first lady really is. the president is doing what his wife wants. we learned tonight that mira ricardel is, in fact, leaving the white house. she'll take a new role somewhere else in the trump administration, tho...