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Until you get the funding for the wall. these federal workers want the wall. >> the president is now taunting democrats in a tweet by claiming without evidence that most of the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown are democrats. that comment prompted backlash from one. largest unions rpg federal employ eds. the head of the american federation of government employees writing in a statement a government shutdown doesn't hurt any one political party or any one federal employee more than another. it hurts all of them. it hurts their families and it hurts all of our communities. the pre...

President, he's sort of throwing things at the wall so to speak and trying to see what sticks. this afternoon he put up a new tweet saying this isn't about the wall. everyone knows that a wall will work perfectly. he says this is only about the democrats not letting president trump and the republicans have a win. they may have the ten senate votes, but we have the issue, border security, 2020. what do you make that have? i mean, it sounds as though he says it's not about the wall when really it is about the wall. >> what wall are we even talking about at this point, jim? are we talking about t...

About, and, yes, expect more volatility as we get to the final trading day of 2018. jim? >> alison kosik, thanks investment joining us in the situation room is democratic congressman jerry conleyly, a member of the foreign affairs and oversight committees. thanks for joining us. >> happy holidays. >> as the government shutdown, it and we saw phil mattingly talk about this a few moments ago there, aren't any lawmakers up on capitol hill. we'll talk responsibility for you since you're here in the studio with us, but it doesn't seem like there's any end in sight to all of this, and the president ...

Government passed the senate unanimously without any fuss about a wall, and -- and we were told the white house would sign it, and -- and what happened? a couple of talking heads, right wing talking heads, laura ingraham, sean hannity and rush limbaugh and the freedom caucus led by my friend mark meadows went and threatened the revolt, that he would lose support, he trump, if he signed anything without a wall, and the white house did a complete about-face based on that because that's what he watches consistently, fox news, and -- and so he said i won't sign anything about $5 billion for my wal...

Entire federal government hostage because all he wants for christmas is $5 billion wall that mexico is to pay for is reckless and irresponsible. >> and how long could this shutdown last, do you think? mark meadows was saying in the last hour, there may be no end in sight. this could last a while. is that -- is that something the american people should be bracing for at this point? >> i believe the first crack in this -- in this situation will be when the democrats come into the majority status on january 3rd, and i believe one of the first orders of business will be to pass a funding bill and ...