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Agents took him from a relatives home in florida to return him to his father back in cuba. he was involved in a custody battle. now he's telling cnn he wants to reunite in miami. does he think his life would have been better if he stayed? the answer might surprise you. the boy caught between nations, elian airs tonight. that's it for the lead, i'm jake tapper, turning over to wolf blitzer, thanks for watching. happening now, breaking news, border standoff. the white house won't say if the president will make good on his threat to shut down the government over funding for his proposed border ...

Strategy that he said could have raised the debt limit. he said they didn't do it now and now it's a, quote, mess. this, of course, the reason why they did not include that in the va bill is because conservatives, in particular would have revolted and caused an uproar on capitol hill. the president, directing his blame on members of congress. they do have to raise the debt limit to avoid a possible debt default. it's a tricky issue they have to figure out. right now, the president believes the best part is pass the blame to capitol hill. >> manu, the republican congressmen and women and senato...

At some point, you're going to have to pay your bill or there will be grave consequences and if we don't raise our debt, it is going to affect our lending capabilities, our bond rating, and, you know, we talk about systemic risk earlier, it has an impact on our economy. so we're going to have to raise it outside of the rhetoric you'll hear from my republican colleagues, it's critically important, they know the importance. they'll make empty promises of holding members until we get this resolved, but they too know as every other economist knows how important it is. >> you would vote for what's ...

Everybody's christmas. >> jon: we started this hour with the president's tweets, in which he said that mcconnell and paul ryan should have had it raised to a very popular va bill, he thinks that that would have passed handily, and they didn't do it, and that is part of the reason why he seems to be upset with them, is there anything wrong with a logic? >> here is the only thing that is wrong with that, it sort of begs the real issue, which is are you going to raise the debt limit, and this is on the that republicans -- a lot of republicans have demanded, in increases our ability to borrow mone...

Don't worry it's not about you. i requested that mitch m and paul r tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular va bill that just passed for eeasy approval. we can anticipate that the "they" is going to lead to him bashing them both. what is your concern about the president going against you and his own? >> in is the politics of our governing. the president believes at least i believe he believes that by putting pressure on the leaders, he'll get some things accomplished. there's times he invites them over to the white house, sit down and work out what they want to work out. i think the ...