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Leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. and we're back with republican senator-elect of utah, mitt romney, only the second person in the history of this nation to have been the governor of one state and the senator of another. sam houston from texas, you were saying. >> uh-huh, yeah. >> so we're in the middle of a government shutdown right now. president trump is insisting on $5.6 billion for a border wall. democrats are refusing to give it to him. tomorrow democrats in the house are going to offer a clean government funding bill. $1.3 ...

Trump. the former republican presidential nominee criticizing his character in an opinion piece for "the washington post." the president talked about romney in his cabinet meeting. ellison barber has more. >> the president is telling romney to be a team player and focus on issues that are more important, things like border security. in the cabinet meeting, president trump told reporters that if romney fight like he's fighting right now, he would have beaten president obama. the senator-elect says president trump has not risen to the mantel of the office. he said december marked a deep dissent ...

Concern is keeping that republican base with him. the core voter with him for 2019. a look at mitt romney, the senator-elect from utah posting that saicathing op-ed and his focus is the base, not everything you just detailed. >> and all these folks that have left, leave him surrounded by yes men. he's got people in place who are not going to tell him he shouldn't be doing things, who are not going to be a check on the facts. do they at all share a sense there that the walls might be closing in? >> there is a degree of that. certainly with mattis' departure, there are fewer of those guardrails,...

I'll leave. those reporters will not be too friendly to whatever it is that's acting up. >> sean: all right. we'll continue to monitor the new white house press strategy as it unfolds. we have good news to start with here. the florida recount is finally over. andrew gillum, bill nelson have finally conceded. rick scott, the governor, is now the senator-elect from the great state of florida. ron desantis will be the governor. just 18 years ago in 2000 the recount cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. the bill is not the only fallout. broward county supervisor, brenda snipes, has resigned from...

And compared to the campaign and recount battles, this was beyond tranquil. the winners have been certified and always a brief ceremonial procedures. the canvassing commission is usually just three people. governor, state attorney general, commissioner of agriculture. since governor scott was involved as a candidate in the senate race, he recused himself. so filling in for him was republican senator rob bradley. it was all over in five minutes. >> there being no further business to come before the commission, the meeting. elections canvassing commission is adjourned. >> the two-week recount fi...