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I will be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you. the last time you shut it down, it didn't work. i will take the mantle. i'm going to shut it down for border security. >> lately as you have seen, he has been trying to bestow the mantle on democrats. this morning, jeff flake was asked whether he thought the president was still, in fact, responsible. >> any time you stand and say i own the shutdown, then you own it. politics, shutdown 101 tells you, shift the blame if you can. when the president said, i will take the blame, then he has it. that's why the democrats have felt no need...

Implanted in american's minds. we heard that a california highway patrolman was murdered by an illegal immigrant. president trump is playing the long game with this negotiation. i don't know what he can give or how they can come to the table. democrats -- the base of the democratic party won't let them do anything with president trump at this point. >> newt gingrich and bill clinton who won the war, bill clinton was re-elected in 1996. >> the policy war -- >> many people look back to the shutdown that something gave him a boost. another aspect to this -- mike brought up chuck schumer. i'm fasc...

Agreement that changes the trade landscape forever. this is an agreement that first and foremost benefits working people, something of great importance to all three of us here today. >> the president barely a month ago signing a trade deal to replace the other trade deal he blew up. now threatening to blow up that deal and threatening more besides. does it make sense? that's one question. should it be taken seriously as a policy matter? that's another. the white house did tell us early on to consider presidential tweets official statements, which means even when they're not fully cogent or coo...

It would have a very serious impact on businesses. it could drive people out of business. these are very serious issues. we have a shutdown in the middle of the holiday season. people aren't getting paychecks. these are real ramifications for his decision to go forward and insist on the democrats funding this wall, which let's remember, i bring this up every time i'm on, his campaign promise was not just to build a wall, it was that mexico was going to pay for it. this temper tantrum is because he hasn't been able to get his campaign promise done the way he said he would. >> the $5 billion is ...

Celebrate new year's eve. president trump and the white house announced today, pretty defendanti i definitively, he's not going before january 1. that seems to signal the shutdown will last at least that long. the president will not go to the new year's eve party he typically hosts at his mar-a-lago resort where we know guests have paid $1,000 per head to party president trump. he is not going to be there this year. he will be here. what happens after that is anyone's guess. it seems that the white house has been teeing up to nancy pelosi's speakership election, which is likely to happen on ja...