Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181224:21:04:00
Totally and completely abandoned, the paper reports. with congress gone until thursday, hope seems slim that a compromise will be reached soon to reopen the government. >> i think that is -- it's very possible the shutdown will go beyond the 28th and into the new congress. >> reporter: even as the incoming acting chief of staff acknowledged, the trumps' fight for a taxpayer-funded wall isn't exactly what he campaigned on. >> none that is mexico paying for the wall. let's just be technical. >> you and i both know it cannot work exactly like that. i can't spend any money at the office of managem...