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How was your christmas, by the way? >> tyrus: i watched the kids open presents and be unthankful, pretty much an all-american christmas. >> julie: it's such a mad house when you have kids. >> tyrus: i'm a grinch. if you ask my daughter, i was stealing christmas. next year -- >> julie: speaking of grinches in washington, day seven of the partial government shutdown. about a quarter of the government closed for business. some 800,000 federal workers either staying home or working without pay at least for now. the president saying we are have obstructionist democrats as he threatens to shut down ...

>> julie: tyrus, who is going to get the blame? is there any way the republicans can come out on top here? >> tyrus: i think both parties are going to have to own this. we just don't have -- the senate continues to be unpopular, the last paycheck i believe for government workers was december 26th. we have two weeks before people start missing checks. hopefully that starts to sink in but for me as a voter i just look at the people in my areas and louisiana, what are you doing for the american people? this argument, we know what this is about. this is about the reelection, democrats know, he get...

Work with barack obama, no, we're not going to do it. it's the same thing, it's not the president, it's the senate, it's the house and it helps the president get reelected. this all plays into president trump's hand in terms of reelection. >> kat: i don't think people are looking for a solution. if they were at work it wouldn't really matter, they are just saying i do want the wall or i don't want the wall, nobody is saying, we have these opposing views, what are we going to do about it? >> julie: i wonder if the democrats saw this coming, talking about him using twitter, i wonder if the democ...

>> tyrus: do they follow each other again? have they made nice? >> kat: i'm sure there are people who blame him for the shut down but it's kind of a support/blame because they see our republican having backed down so many times over issues like -- just like health care, he's fighting for us. this is something that is very popular with his base. i would say probably not. >> rachel: it's also popular with the progressive wing of the party to not cooperate and negotiate on this issue. i find it interesting that the hispanic advocacy groups have not pressured the democrats to leverage money for th...

Diagnosis for the president he disagrees with. >> i think it's an embarrassment any time government shuts down, and this being no exception. work at it until we get to an agreement where the majority say yes. and i think we had that until the president you know went off his meds, who knows what happened. >> something else very interesting today, the incoming white house chief of staff trying to divide the democratic leadership. he said today, he thinks chuck schumer was on board with the deal but that the problem is nancy pelosi. julie? >> julie: peter doocy, thank you very much. i want to bri...