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Than a month. law and order. from robert mueller's russia probe to a look at the legal battles that shaped 2018. and a new year brings new faces to the white house. is trump's cabinet chaos just beginning? so we begin this morning with the impasse in washington. the government will in fact usher in 2019 in shutdown mode. president trump threatening to close the southern border if he does not receive funding for his border wall. this is a demand that keeps thousands of federal workers either out of work or working without pay until next year. the president has offered to back down from hi...

Voted for it. last thursday, republicans in the house voted to keep the government open and also included about $1.5 billion and for disaster relief in california and florida. again, not one single democrat voted for it. then it goes over to the senate, and because of their 60 vote rule, they need democrat input. while the democrats have just been austin to obstinate. they will not come to the table and it's very disheartening. i hope that they do. >> now you are in the standoff, and the government is in shutdown mode. how long will that continue? >> i don't think anybody knows right now. i'm ...

We resumed the ordinary appropriations arprocess. and as a result, we have a very small sliver of the government that's unresolved and is in this shutdown mode. it's a very, very small amount. everyone is going to get paid. i think it probably gets resolved quickly and is completely taking away focus from where it should be on a very, very strong economy and really good economic news generally. >> well, but i got to ask you, i would tend to agree with what you said except the president decided not toep go down this path.do the president decided to up end things. you've had three shutdowns this...

Pretty much ordinary funding exercise, as you know, chuck, we resumed the ordinary appropriation process and as a result we have a very small sliver of the government that's unresolved in the shutdown mode. everybody gets paid. i think it gets resolved quickly and completely taking away focus from where it should be on a very, very strong economy and some really good economic news generally. >> well, but i got to ask you. i would tend to agree with what you said except the president decided no to the go down this path. the president decided to up end things. you had three shutdowns this year. ...

Trump. you're seeing that happen in statements put out last night as the government went into shutdown mode. they're calling it the trump shutdown, and they can do that right now because they feel like the ball is in the republicans' court. >> rhetorically, the president obviously has shifted. some would say it's more of a 180 here from 11 days ago when he said i will be proud to shut down the government for border security, that i will be proud to take up that mantle, now saying the democrats own the shutdown. do we know who got into his ear, who convinced him that that's not such a good idea...