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Let's hope you don't get it. >> i will move over here. >> president trump over the christmas holiday doubling down on his act for lawmakers to act on the signature law promise of building a border wall. calling on democrats to come to the table to help bring a revolution to the shutdown. watch this. >> i can't tell you whether the government will be open. i can tell you that it will not be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it. i will call it whatever they want. but it is all the same thing. it is a barrier from people pouring into our country from drugs. it i...

February 28th so among other things he could help ensure an orderly transition. of course very notably resigned about three days ago writing in part, quote, my views on treating allies with respect and also being cleared about line actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by four decades of immersion in these issues. because you have the right to have a security secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with these and other subjects, i believe it is right for me to step down from my position. sources tell fox news the early departure is not mattis' decision. th...

Mike: ellison barber is live at the white house. reporter: we saw some of the lawmakers known to be at the lunch meeting leaving the white house around 2:30 pm we learn that the vice president and mick mulvaney were heading over to capitol hill to try and meet with senator schumer. which of course we know they did do today. according to the white house, the president met with the vice president, the budget director and incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney, jared kushner and -- as well as members of the house for an caucus. no democrats were at this border security lunch. it is unclear if any...

White house with more. ellison? reporter: the president says they are still talking with democrats. there was that lunch today that you mentioned, the border security lunch where republicans from capitol hill came over and met with some members of the administration, no democrats were at that meeting. as far as we know, they were not invited. senior administration official briefed reporters this afternoon and said they hope the shutdown only lasts a few days, but acknowledged it could last longer. they claim ultimately the duration of the shutdown is up to the democrats. of late we've heard th...