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Facebook much more than their holiday pics. the controversial highly political post she is promoting and how it could impact the high court. welcome to "the lead," i'm dana bash in for jake tapper. and we begin this friday afternoon with the politics lead. a new year, a new congress fast approaching, president trump issues another shutdown threat. this time, the warning is that he may seal off the entire southern border with mexico and insisting the federal government will not reopen until he gets his billions in wall funding. day seven of the partial shutdown and neither side is giving grou...

Of what their agenda is, once they take over in the house and make sure that people understand that. because this president, as he has done with the mueller probe, which i disagree with his language on this, but as he has done with the mueller probe, he continues to drive the message home that it is a witch hunt. there is nothing there. there is no there there. and he will try and do the same. attempt to do the same with the democrats, if it appears that is their main focus heading into the new session. >> simone, do you agree with nina, democrats have to be careful of overreach? >> i also thi...

Lot of nancy pelosi legislation, anyway. so i actually think the drama for me for the next six to nine months in washington is senate republicans. do they -- do they stick with trump on everything? do they begin to break? do you get a triangulation with republicans, senate republicans, house democrats and trump? does trump try to triangulate against them? he could sit down with nancy pelosi and they could agree on an infrastructure bill that busts the budget, which trump has no concerns about, apparently and some republicans in the senate don't like. so when you have a split congress, it's alw...

Vacancies now and the president doesn't have a clear frontrunner, although he there are several names under consideration. >> all right. sarah, thank you. and now back to the turmoil around the white house, specifically the are muraller revelatimuraller -- mueller revelations that implicate the president in at least two alleged felonies. michael, we heard strong sentiments from both sides of the aisle hinting that the charges being uncovered are impeachable and that nobody even the president is above the law. as trump is now preparing to deal with a split congress, should he be more worried ab...

They're going to put you all back in chains. >> it's wrong with the leader of the republican party in this congress are doing in blocking an accurate census because they don't want to count everyone they don't think they can count on. >> they are in favor of affirmative action if you can dunk the basketball or sank a three-point shot. but they aren't in favor of it if you merely have the potential to be a leader in your community and bring people together. don't tell me we got a color-blind society. >> my father was killed, he was beaten, all because he was blac black. when government and geor...