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24 hours, they were moving the spending bill through the senate last night and you had senators in the back of the chamber singing christmas carols, it was a joyous occasion. house republicans said let's go to the mat and fight and donald trump summoned paul ryan to the white house and threatened to veto. by midafternoon there was an interim spending bill to fund the government through early february and included $5 million and border wall funding. they passed that through the house, 217-185. many doubted it would pass including nancy pelosi. >> a lot of people are missing. they never did have...

Be too specific about who they were. but one line of thinking goes that the assumption is that the border wall money will pass and it will go to the senate. and under that line of thinking, the assumption is that we go to a shutdown, because the senate won't pass that. now, another source said that it's really very up in the air. there are a lot of absences, you know, so when you have 30 people missing on each side, it can be much more difficult for the vote counters to have a full kind of grasp on, you know, who is missing and why. you know, the missing people have tended to be those who lost...

Of the greatest vote counters and politicians of all time, to have it out in the oval office with donald trump. she needs to, in order to continue what she started this time around have a victory in two years. can she fall into this trap of arguing with donald trump? >> well, i don't think she'll fall into that trap because nancy pelosi has been in washington, d.c. for far too long. she has probably never seen anything like this entity we have in the petty. however, nancy pelosi respects the job. you've seen already how she's sort of welcomed in these new legislators where she is understanding...

She, again, knows what she is doing. it's not only that she can count votes, she knows the facts, and she sat there and she kept trying to get the president in a very calm way to dismiss the press and get to work. instead, he kept throwing up things which were not true. oh, we're building so much of the wall. and nancy just said we need to discuss the facts. so she's a great strategist. and by the way, she pointed out that in this lame duck session, he still controls all the votes. she kept saying prove it to us. you keep saying you can get it through the house. by the way, he can't. she knows...

Pelosi and they say present. >> i think its challenging. i'm not a vote counter. she's one of the vote counters there are. i think she will get there and she should get there. i will tell you -- >> you're not answering my question. how do you say to your voters for months i'm going to vote against nancy pelosi in your ad campaign and then get a picture on c-span of you voting present? >> she's going to make some concessions. clearly there needs to be new blood in the party and i think she'll try to bring more people into her leadership team and in the end she may have to make the concession sh...