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has tried it before. i'm jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. >> congress has until friday night to pass funding legislation to keep the government open. despite his best efforts to avoid a government shutdown, the new house speaker appears to be barreling towards one. yesterday afternoon, house speaker mike johnson released a stopgap spending bill, and unusual to teared continuing resolution that would fund some government agencies until january 2019, and as eight through february 2nd. a vote could come as early as tuesday. this -- is meant to avoid a messy shutdown right bef...

That is a big give on the part of the mexican government. >> i appreciate your reporting on there. thank you for joining us tonight. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. >> thank you in washington. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. joining me now rick wilson, contributor to the daily beast, the author of the book "everything trump touches dies." jennifer rueben -- and brain klaas, the author of "the despot's apprentice." thanks to you three for joining us. rick, kristin made the point at the end, that the president gets republican support or being tough on immigration and a...

Thank you for having me. >> thank you in washington. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. joining me now rick wilson, contributor to the daily beast, the author of the book "everything trump touches dies." jennifer rueben -- and brain klaas, the author of "the despot's apprentice." thanks to you three for joining us. rick, kristin made the point at the end, that the president gets republican support or being tough on immigration and at the border. he gets a little less support on the tariffs on china. but there was really a shot across the bow earlier this week including by mitch...

The united states, ukraine, russia, georgia and syria. all this as the fbi did not tell u.s. officials that russian hackers were trying to hack their personal gmail accounts despite having evidence or at least a year that the targets in the kremlin's cross hairs. let's bring the in the author of "the despot's apprentice, donald trump's attack on democracy." brian, what do you make of the fbi knowing that these entities in russia were targeting, were trying to hack, personal e-mail accounts of those that were relevant to the u.s. government and why wouldn't they necessarily let them know? >> we...