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Newsroom starts right now. that is our top story. we're five hours into a partial u.s. government shutdown. it effects hundreds of thousands of federal employees and the agencies they serve. >> lawmakers left days before the christmas holiday without a bill to fund the government by this midnight deadline that already passed. their deadlock over the demand to fund a border wall, a wall that democrats oppose. >> call it a democrat shutdown, call it whatever you want, but we need their help to get this approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country sa...

>> indeed. next hour starts right now. breaking news, the federal government now officially partially shut down. >> there are human beings who are going to be asked to work without pay or going to be told to stay at home. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you for it. >> if i were chuck schumer, i would turn my phone off and sit by the pool somewhere and wait until january 3rd. >> let's get out, let's work together, let's be baurnipartis and get it done. >> we had a deal made,...

This approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe. let's get out, let's work together, let's be bipartisan and let's get it done. the shutdown hopefully will not last long. >> in the sound bite there, he said call it what you want, but about a week ago, he called it a shutdown that he would take credit for. president trump's democratic opponents minority leader chuck schumer and house democratic leader nancy pelosi issued a new statement a short time ago about the shutdown. after eight years in minority, their party is set to regain control o...

But we need their help to get this approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things we need to keep our country safe. let's get out, let's work together, let's be bipartisan, and let's get it done. the shutdown hopefully will not last long. >> reporter: i should also say, fred, this is the third shutdown we've had in just this one year. that's the first time it happened in 40 years of this country. we've had three shutdowns in one year, an extraordinary amount of stalemate in washington, so much of it linked to the president's demand that he get border wall funding, something he prom...

Call it whatever you want. but we need their help to get this approved. so democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe. let's get out, let's work together, let's be bipartisan and get it done. the shutdown hopefully will not last long. >> reporter: in any event, most of what he said in that video really contradicts what he's been saying all week. in fact, he sewed twitter yesterday that he balboa -- he said on twitter yesterday that he believed if there was a shutdown it would not last long. the president is not clear about where he is willing to comprom...