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>> sandra: a quick look at the big board as trading opens for a brand-new week. a couple minutes in the dow is selling off more than 300 points there. some earnings disappointments out of the gate this morning leading to the sell-off you're seeing there. caterpillar one of the big names dragging on the dow right now. missed earnings expectations and guidance for 2019 was weaker than expected. that along with some other big names like boeing are leading to that. so 300 points down. >> bill: the china deal is a big deal still. trade talks continue and having an impact, too. >> sandra: big deadli...

Shutdowns. and a long december, as the president feuds at the fed chair, the stock market has its worst december since the great depression. >> investors reeling from the worst christmas selloff in history. >> if you were hoping for a mellow holiday week, you are getting anything but that. good wednesday morning to you. we are starting with the clock still ticking in washington, the shutdown clock. the government has been partially closed for just about four days, nine hours. when will this end? when the senate gets back to town? not necessarily, according to president trump. >> i can't te...

Have them in one session and it would be done. >> go do it. >> i will take the mantle and be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you for it. the last time you shut it down it didn't work. i'll take the mantle, i'll shut it down. >> the president has flipped on who is taking the mantle. doesn't he get credit for the fact he called out pelosi and schumer to the faces in front of the cameras sapped i can bring it up in the house. the house republicans brought up money under his direction and passed it. they got $5 billion. >> not approved but they got it. >> paul ryan, like the immacu...

>> this is what it takes to get congressional republicans to say we're getting to a point where we have to take a look. we're better off doing that today because mattis was fired or resigned two days ago than six months from now because we've all been living in lala land because these adults are saving the world. >> stay with us. plenty more to come. you can see here that shutdown clock continues to count up. 9 1/2 hours into it. we will talk to one lawmaker who is demanding both sides of the aisle come together. but what exactly is the middle ground here? but what exactly is the middle ground...

Trump. that's the main dynamic that we're going to see in the next couple of weeks. this will be a senate democrat deal that's cut. how republicans are not as much of an issue. senate needs 60 votes to get something through. we'll see how this plays out over the next couple of days. there's not much time left. the house will be out at the end of this week and we're going to be on the shutdown clock. important these negotiations get on the road really quickly. >> i'm sorry. i'm disstratracted by the gentl behind you blowing his nose. >> reporter: i have nothing to do with that. >> i'm sorry. le...