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Have to do when -- when they get back. they have a new interior and now need a new secretary of defense. and general mattis, without the exception of mitch mcconnell married to a cabinet secretary, every senators favorite secretary and losing him up here will shake the confidence that donald trump needs to do his agenda going forward and that includes the wall. the idea this will be a fight over the holidays, he's going to be fighting that alone on the senate side. he has allies in the house but the idea this will get muscled through over christmas break with folks heading for the break, i don...

Hallie, stay with us as much as you can. you mention the hill and the votes and i want to mention sam cedar but i have breaking news on garrett haake on capitol hill where this is playing out. as i told viewers at the top of the show, we'll hear from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi shortly. you've got all of the fallout from that dramatic meeting they had over the shutdown and donald trump as hallie just mentioned apparently saying, great, here comes the trump shutdown. what are you hearing there? >> i think that is exactly right. we're looking at nancy pelosi and chuck schumer once again drawi...

Principle. >> and then the attention matrix here tells you what. >> i think of the shutdown and all of the fairly catastrophic stories, the shutdown is the one he likes best. >> what does that say about losing mattis? >> i don't know. but i think it is so easy to jump and say the wheels are coming off. mattis will be around until february. the wheels coming off is not a constitutional term and so i don't -- i think i don't see why we don't just sort of head into a shutdown if that is what the president wants. >> speak to that, sam. ben raises the point that the wheels coming off is not a const...

Fine line that, to me, that isn't really that fine? >> here's the deal. she apologized and you should accept every apology. i say this knowing in my head if i said that, they would never do the same for me. i think on this show, i forgave -- i accept apologies. joy behar, joy reid, even kathy griffith, sam cedar, remember when he got candy from msnbc? he got his job back. you are welcome, but if i slipped up, i would be gone. we should always accept the apology and i actually believe -- i disagree a little with you, i think doing live television is kind of a high wire act, especially when you ...

Extent because of what i witnessed, we may do something like that on july fourth in washington down pennsylvania avenue. well, he diddant get the military parade on the fourth of july this year so the white house started looking at a special veterans day parade but now that's not happening either. the president canceled the parade citing the expense which noted could cost more than $90 million. here with me now is john, an iraq war veteran and the chairman of vote vets, a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of veterans and sam cedar msnbc contributor. john, let me start with you. what are you...