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Shutdown will end soon, and the further it goes on, more agencies shut down and more workers are impacted. >> the pain will continue for some time. boris sanchez at the white house, thank you very much. with congressional leadership gone until the new year, democrats and republicans decided figuring out how to fund the government is a problem that can wait until next year. even though it is not that far off, cnn's phil mattingly has more on negotiations if you can call them that and where they stand. >> as the partial government shutdown rolls into the first week of completion, the reality i...

When democrats retake control of the house for any action of any kind ledge slagislatively to ree government. nancy pelosi, the incoming speaker has made clear she's going to move several funding proposals to the basically can kick it over to the senate. mitch mcconnell has made clear he's not willing to move forward on anything until he knows the president will sign it. and the president has made clear what the democrats are going to send from the house, 1.3 billion for border security is not acceptable for him. where does that leave things? nobody has good answer. there are people talking ab...

Response. he was accused of bullying christine blasey ford, saying they weren't given enough time to respond in detail given the stakes and scope of the allegations and the life-changing potential testimony that she would have to give. where does that leave things? it leaves things as an open question. as it currently stands, the senate judiciary committee is scheduled to vote on brett kavanaugh's nomination on monday. will that change at some point over the course? we'll have to wait and see. phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. joining me now to break all of this down, lynn sweet, washington...

Capitol hill. phil, a very different tone and tenor for this meeting we thought would be about a big immigration package that now seems to be about the anger of separating families. >> reporter: there's no question about it, john. uneasy is probably the way to describe lawmakers right now. when the president comes to the capitol, he will be visiting basically a place that has become totally enveloped by this issue, by this crisis, by lawmakers on both sides trying to figure out a way out of it. the most interesting element right now that's going on is the fact there is no clear path forward. w...

The president. the powers granted to the presidency and get involved in the justice department. there's background here. republican lawmakers have now drafted articles of impeachment. they want documents and they think he's stonewalling and want documents regarding carter page, and regarding the clinton investigation and the robert mueller investigation and quite a few things and rod rosenstein has said the justice department won't be extorted and then the president tweets this. where does that leave things? >> of course, the president can simply order rosenstein to turn over the documents and...