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Shutdown this year. the first one was january 20th. the second one was february 9th for just one day. and now add midnight on 12/22. and all these shutdowns, the republicans have controlled both houses of congress and the presidency. so i mean what gives here? why this at the last possible second? for two years, they've had the white house, the senate, and the congress. >> reporter: an interesting thing. i'm on a text chain with congressional staffers where the actual question today is where does this rank in the history of dumbest shutdowns because there is often an understanding with both pa...

And now add midnight on 12/22. and all these shutdowns, the republicans have controlled both houses of congress and the presidency. so i mean what gives here? why this at the last possible second? for two years, they've had the white house, the senate, and the congress. >> reporter: an interesting thing. i'm on a text chain with congressional staffers where the actual question today is where does this rank in the history of dumbest shutdowns because there is often an understanding with both parties on capitol hill that shutdowns are a pretty bad idea and don't make a lot of sense. i think the ...

2012 because republicans feel damaged candidates. a place that shouldn't be in play, but it is, tennessee. this is why democrats have an outside shot at winning the senate. former governor phil bredesen is within striking distance of republican representative marsha blackburn. president trump's approval rating in the state is at a staggering 58%. that is what makes this a challenge for democrats. shannon? >> shannon: chad pergram, thank you so much. fox news exclusive. more text messages between former fbi employees peter strzok and lisa page reveal others were "leaking like mad." the text cha...

>> how does your family feel about that? >> um, they -- they are proud. and it is -- they're confused by twitter. they don't really know what's happening. they certainly can see there's a lot of interest in it. my dad is a part of a text chain with his elementary school friend. and somebody texted him saturday night and said hey is this your son on twitter? and he was so proud. to get into share that experience with everybody. that's been really special. >> by the way your tweet was your first tweet was more popular than the president's tweet. which was interesting. i'm sure you should be prou...

Different directions. i had my son with me. i had another one of my co-workers with me. we got split up. we started a text chain immediately. then we had to reach everybody through e-mail. our team is all safe. we have a lot of people from our national community there. i tried to get in touch with as many people as i could from nashville. luckily, we haven't heard of any of our friends who got hurt yet. but a lot of people did. everybody -- we didn't know where everybody was. the closest place for me to go was tropicana. once we got there, we didn't know what was going on. all of a sudden, peo...