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You know the d.c. scene very well. it's not very one thing or another, it's always a balance but i'd like you to put a percentage on it. what percentage of what happened you think will be constructive work that help the american people versus obstruction and effort to take down president trump. >> you're right steve, i spent a lot of time working on capitol hill. i wish i had better news because it's almost christmas but i would say 10%. congress is largely going to do the basic functioning of government, keeping it open, that feeling increases, things of that nature. i don't think there will ...

You know the d.c. scene very well. it's not very one thing or another, it's always a balance but i'd like you to put a percentage on it. what percentage of what happened you think will be constructive work that help the american people versus obstruction and effort to take down president trump. >> you're right steve, i spent a lot of time working on capitol hill. i wish i had better news because it's almost christmas but i would say 10%. congress is largely going to do the basic functioning of government, keeping it open, that feeling increases, things of that nature. i don't think there will ...

This will be the first time in more than 40 years that the government shuts down three times in one year. manu raju is out front. people say it's non-essential and they get paid back at the end and that may be true but the fact that you have to greatest democracy in the world and the government can't figure out how to keep it open, that is offensive. in just about four hours it will happen all over again. all the dysfunction for who t world to see, government shutting down. >> and frustration in the capital all day long over this very topic, even the one republican senator lisa murkowski vente...

Overhaul in u.s. policy, but a leader in mexico's incoming government is now denying reports of a deal. joining me now, iowa senator joni ernst, newly elected member of the republican leadership who sits on the senate arms services committee. thank you for joining me. >> it's great to be here. thank you. >> i want to get to what the president is talking about with regard to the southern border, he's saying -- threatening at least that it should be closed, the southern border with mexico, for any reason it becomes necessary. is it good to close the border? >> we would prefer to keep it open, so...

Overhaul in u.s. policy, but a leader in mexico's incoming government is now denying reports of a deal. joining me now, iowa senator joni ernst, newly elected member of the republican leadership who sits on the senate arms services committee. thank you for joining me. >> it's great to be here. thank you. >> i want to get to what the president is talking about with regard to the southern border, threatening, at least, that it should be closed, the southern border with mexico, for any reason it becomes necessary. is it good to close the border? >> we would prefer to keep it open, so let's work r...