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Shrek, and national reporter for politico, laura barone lopez. thank you all for being here, this is the third week of this shutdown. john harwood, let's look at the big picture for a second. i have now covered too many of these shutdowns quite frankly. >> not as many as i have though. >> that's true. fair point. however, in the past there always seems to be an end game in some way. we knew it would drag on for a while but you can see the political pressure, incentives building on one side or the other and you could have a sense at least it was going to end at some point. i don't get that sens...

Shutdown. john harwood, let's look at the big picture for a second. i have now covered too many of these shutdowns quite frankly. >> not as many as i have though. >> that's true. fair point. however, in the past there always seems to be an end game in some way. we knew it would drag on for a while but you can see the political pressure, incentives building on one side or the other and you could have a sense at least it was going to end at some point. i don't get that sense now at all. >> we certainly can't see it but i would think a couple things. first of all, there are some republican senato...

It until ann coulter and rush limbaugh started calling him names, calling him a scaredy cat. so he changed his mind. obviously it's about image. i just don't know where this ends, though, because both sides have to save face. democrats have to feel like they're winning in the court of public opinion. but donald trump has to feel like he's winning with his base as long as he does this. so i don't know when it ends. >> that's an interesting one. molly, let's look at this tweet and follow up on what matt said. this is from the president this morning where he says, mexico will pay for the wall thr...

Democrats have to feel like they're winning in the court of public opinion. but donald trump has to feel like he's winning with his base as long as he does this. so i don't know when it ends. >> that's an interesting one. molly, let's look at this tweet and follow up on what matt said. this is from the president this morning where he says, mexico will pay for the wall through the new usmca trade deal. the deal hasn't even passed congress yet. that's not how these trade deals work. also if mexico is paying for the wall, why does he need $5 billion from congress? >> well, apparently -- >> well, ...

To show signs of strength in 2018 with gdp growth to top 3% for the year. amid stock market volatility and continuing concerns over trade war with china, what should we expect in the new year? senior economic adviser to 2016 trump campaign and coauthor of new book, trump anoymous. steve, let's look at the stock market, ups and downs, sometimes in the same day, what do you make of it? >> well, i think that it's result, paul, one is the trade war with china and very uncertain future. i think at this point 60 days or so to come up with some concessions. i think trump is fighting the right fight. ...