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I hope the end of the evening is coming close for you. thanks for staying up for us. joining us now is the congressional historian and resident scholar at the american enterprise institute and jonathan allen, national political reporter for nbc news. norm, talking about limbaugh, hallie jackson just brought that up. bob corker said rush limbaugh is in control of the government. we have two talk radio hosts that influence the president. that's tyranny isn't it. talking about ann colter and rush limbaugh. >> don't forget laura ingram. >> yeah. >> there's little doubt this is a trump, limbaugh, c...

Furlou furloughed and the irs will be shutdown and it's going to cause enormous disruption for people filing tax returns and hoping to get the money back. there's going to be pressure on a lot of members of congress. the people that had plans are going to find they won't be able to fulfill them and then the question becomes, as you said, what's the end game? i think the only in came here is where democrats get something in return for giving him more money. >> i think if you take a step back here, there's two buckets to look at in terms of the politics of this. one is government.

The shutdown which could effect hundreds of thousands of government employees, dragged on for days. >> now it's up to the democrats as to whether or not we have a shutdown tonight. i hope we don't. but we're totally prepared for a very long shutdown. and this is our only chance that we'll ever have in our opinion because of the world and the way it breaks out to get great border security. >> tonight we are headed toward a partial government shutdown. there's still no deal. but after the last few hours, there's a big difference in what our nbc news team has been hearing on capitol hill. there i...

Here's where things seem to stand tonight. the president in that video that he has tweeted out this evening says hopefully the shutdown will not last long. he is reiterating his demand for border wall money or money for what he calls a slat fence which is a formulation of a phrase that we have heard him use more and more over the last couple of days talking about some kind of construction with steel slats. perhaps he's trying to move toward an off ramp where fencing money, money for a border fence is something he would be willing to accept but that's still a question mark. i'm told by one whit...

Republicans control the house, the senate, and the presidency as you know. with the exception of the shutdown earlier this year, it's been about 40 years since there was a government shutdown when one party controlled all three of those levers since the jimmy carter administration because no party wants to be so incredibly responsible for the failure of governments to have control of all of those levers. the other is trump's immigration policy which has been an abject failure to the point that you and hallie were making earlier. mexico isn't paying for a wall. congress isn't paying for a wall....