What you see from the president is expanding the playing field. Opening up the possibility of shutting down the entire u. S. Border. He did it via twitter. Here is what he had to say. Obstructionist democrats do not want to give us the money to for the wall and change the ridiculous immigration laws. Nick mulvaney was talking fox news and talked to reporters. When we asked about whether or not this threat was real. Have a listen. Is he willing to go that far . I think he is. I think hes trying to draw light to the fact this is a crazy discussion to be having. What deal then is President Trump willing to accept that is anything short of that wall . Were still building it. Thats why the government is closed. The president is not willing to give up on the southern barrier. Tlarp w reporter that was the change on fox and friends. You have now members of congress. I spoke with congressman Ryan Costello who predicted this could last for weeks. This will last until hell freezes over. His words. Not mine. People are bracing for this to go well into 2019 . Reporter more or less. Well see what happens. Democrat have said when they take control of the house on january 3rd, they will pass something to reopen the government. We dont know what it will be. They could pass the same short term measure that the Senate Passed by voice vote that kicks the can until february or pass any one of a series of other combination of bills. Wait a second. Reporter yes. Those are options democrats will do. I know thats very annoying. They will sign. Reporter this is the point. Democrats will do this as a messaging thing. Democrats will say we passed something to open the government and now we leave it to you Mitch Mcconnell and the senate and donald trump in the white house to decide what youre willing to accept. It will make the argument that democrats are here to govern and put even more pressure on republicans to decide what they want to accept. The dynamic here at the end is interesting. If you listen to every one the white house has put out over the last couple of days to talk about this, they blame this on nancy pelosi and say she doesnt have the votes locked up to be speaker. Thats not really true. She does have the votes pretty well locked up to be speaker. Its a fascinating dynamic for republicans to leave washington after two years of complete and total control over every level of government in washington to say were leaving this to nancy pelosi to fix. Its a bizarre dynamic but again pelosi will have the cards because she can start the process moving again in january. Right now, none of other players in this drama are inclined to do so. Garrett and hans, my deepest thanks to the both of you for coming on this show and for your patience every day as we talk through all of this. Thank you both. This morning as the president threatens to shut down the southern boarder you have home l land security secretary headed there. Shell be reviewing conditions in two locations after the deaths of two Migrant Children in u. S. Custody. Here are their pictures. 8yearold felipe gomez. Ken vogel and jjulia, let me start with you. What does the secretary hope to accomplish . They are keeping it close to the chest. We know shes going to el paso and then to arizona tomorrow. Those are two high traffic areas for people crossing the border. Its closed press. We wont know whether shes leaving main boarder stations and going down to the stations in more remote areas. Thats a place where jakeline call had to wait for eight hours when she was put on a bus when it took an hour and a half for her to get to a hospital and get the medical care she needed. With we know he was pingponged around four border stations before he met his death with 103 degree fever which is now the flu. We know shell be looking at the resources and its not clear if shes willing to go far enough to have people at the border stations who can take vitals and temperatures. Looks like they will be interviewing them and asking about symptoms and medical history. We have learned about the death of that little boy. He had an autopsy that was released and looks like he had the flu. The flu can be deadly and some of his symptoms that he exhibited like the high fever, the glossy eyes all point to that. The thing we have to keep in mind is these people are already in very vulnerable situations with low immune systems. This isnt like a child catching the flu in preschool. This is someone who has been through an exhaustive journey who might be depleted on hydration and food. He was given that. Days and days of this journey can leave someone in weakened state. It points to the fact these stations are not built for children. They were built for adult men. It seems that is more apparent than ever. They did not build these stations to be equipped for these populations and more now than ever, these families are going to these remote areas because its harder and harder to get in the legal way. They are having to wait weeks and months in some cases. Julia, thank you. Dave, let me go to you. We heard from Sarah Sanders about this this morning saying its a tragedy. Nobody wants to see this. Also saying this is a reason why they are trying to deter folks from making that journey in the first place. Sounds like the white house is trying to walk kind of a line here. The secretary of dhs said dont make this trip. People are still making the trip. They are making the trip. It is they are putting at risk themselves and their children by making the trip. Whether or not they get Perfect Health care at the border or not. More has to be done to provide that health care but they are taking risks when they start out on this trip which is a very long arduous trip for an adult. Thats a decision they have to try and make here. They have to start looking at that decision. Thats part of this whole issue. Second part is we have to have better and more health care on the border. Thats something because this is a different type of immigration, as we just said, than we have seen before. These are not young, healthy men. Betsy, you covered it. The trip is dangerous. One of the open questions from the case of this 8yearold boy who just died in custody is whether he died because of Health Problems he developed during that dangerous journey or because of the way that he was treated in custody. Theres new report from the a. P. That indicates the latter may be the explanation. Family members said he appeared to be healthy. His father didnt indicate he had Health Problems. When he was put into custody, it appeared that his health deteriorated. To be crystal clear, we dont have the full story right now. Its possible, of course. He did have that initial Health Deterioration on the journey. This is why having a clear process of assessing the way he was treat seconddegred is so i. The important thing is figuring out what happened. Dhs does not have a great history of examining the treatment of people in its custody. We reported about a trans woman in ice custody who passed away there. An independent autopsy that we obtained indicated she was beaten while she was in custody. The reason we had that autopsy is because independent medical examiner had access to her beside rather than medical examiner brought in by dhs. The question is who is going to be in charge of determining how he was treated. Who will be in charge of assessing where the medical problems came in. Democrats want to make sure they have plenty of oversight come the new year. Well see a lot of it. The day comes about discarding the journey. The Trump Administration has done a lot to do that to try to tell migrants dont come here and they have made it more difficult by setting up more rigorous screening at the ports of entry that have caused some of these migrants to have to travel more to find a port of entry and made the journey more treacherous increasing the responsibility on us once they are in our custody to treat them as not only hu humanely as poss. Theres a focus on the border in a different way as it relates to donald trump at the white house. As hans talked about, the president is tweeting about shutting down the southern border and cutting off aid to other countries if he doesnt get what he wants for border barriers. Steel slats are cool. Is this going to come down dto matter of semantics so everybody can define it and call it a win. There will be a different action. Were getting a good lesson in how civics works. A good lesson . Yes. A couple weeks ago leader pelosi said you cannot pass 5 billion and then they passed it. Then you had the senate pass something. Leader pelosi said 1. 6 is too much. 1. 3. Will she take another step back from compromise to go to a lower figure or add more language making it clear that you cant call this a fence or that a fence. That will be interesting because then youll go to senate that has 53 republicans and the two republican who is didnt want to vote this past week on a higher figure are gone. Will then the Senate Republicans have enough votes to pass something and will you then be in a situation where Chuck Schumer is filibustering what the senate wants to do. Youre putting this on nancy pelosi. No, no. Its on everybody. It sounds like that is what youre doing. This is the way the government works. The goth vernment is not working. Were not letting it work. Whos we . Chuck shchumer. The senate and the house controlled by republicans. The process is you do something in congress. You find something that you can pass through congress. The question then becomes who is stalling it in congress. We dont know right now. At this point it appears to be Chuck Schumer. The man in the oval office is saying im not willing to negotiate. Thats a part of the process too. Our process says he has the right to sign a bill or not. Yelling at me to wrap up the segment. I appreciate you coming on. I want to talk to you about the fact paul ryan is going out this way. Im sure this is not how you thought he would end his tenure as speaker of the house. I think he hoped to end it on entitlement programs. You two are sticking around. Well talk more after the break. Up next, well talk about one of the last days of trading in 2019 and the wild ride that were seeing on wall street. Were checking in on the markets, next to see if latest rally can hold through the new year. Thats next. Can hold through thw year thats next. 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Investors hoping for less uncertainty globally in 2019 and hoping President Trump avoids sending markets into any temporary tail spins via twitter. All of you in washington today. What a nice treat. Lets talk about the glow ball issues affecting the economy and the markets. The challenge with the trade war is we dont know whats happening. We dont know who speaks for the u. S. We dont know if something comes out via tweet whether its verifiable. Its easy to say china has been a bad actor on trade. Its completely unpredictable what and when the asks are going to be and when its going to be resolved. One thing we all know is that markets loathe uncertainty. Theres a lot of it right now. I would say thats the prime uncertainty. Theres other uncertainty out there. We have some indicatindicators. When we look at some things like state loans, for example, they are showing indications of a slow down in china. China has the ability to flood money and stimulus into it ts o own economy to fix problems. Theres uncertainty as it relates to domestic politics is the president s comment about the fed and the policy that the fed is undertaking, raising interest rates. Something some experts disagree with and so does the president. I have a hard time with this because the president is not wrong about the fed. Theres not a lot of evidence that they should have hiked. That they should be continuing to hike. If they can hike, they will. If they can justify a hike. There isnt a good reason to be hiking. Were not seeing a lot of the inflation we were worried about it was just sort of kissing the bottom edge of their argument of 2 has dropped back below that. I dont know what run away inflation were worried about. Many good things are happening with the American Labor market. Things with dont want to end. Companies are going into rehab, finding people with drug problems and figuring out way to get them through rehab and back into the labor market. These are things the companies didnt used to do. If you agree with him, i a assume you dont think he should fire j. Powell. Were not even sure he can. Complaining about it is not helping anyone anywhere. Of the feds he could have landed with, like if he had the greenspan fed, he would have had a massive problem. Greenspan was way more worried about inflation than j. Powell or janet yellen. I agree they shouldnt have hiked this last time. I agree they should stop hiking. Hes been really lucky. This has been a really accommodative fed. If we look at the natural rate of interest is, which i will not get into on this show. Dont say that phrase. If stephanie were here she would have reached out and smacked me. This policy is still neutral. Its not still pretty accommodative. I love the nerd talk on economic policy. Pull back and give me the laymans version. Youre watching this. Youre like three days ago, christmas eve, i was freaking out. Yesterday i was psyched. Where should you be feeling as you head into 2019 . I think that for a long time, for five years we know stocks are overvalued and they will come back down. We know this year theres several things that will cause them to fall at some point by some degree. Theres the uncertainty over trade which we just talked about. Theres the fed. Removing this accommodation it had put in place. It is likely at some point over the next year that stocks will continue to fall. All these things that have been supporting the equity markets are being removed. My wife got us a pingpong table for christmas. Congratulations. Were having a good time. The action on the pingpong table is more predictable than the action in markets. Well leave it with your pingpong analogy. Im excited for you. Have a good new years with that. You two are off the hook this time. 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I think those of us who bemoan this hasty, uncoordinated withdrawal bemoan it for two reasons. Its an inability to convert any leverage we have which we do have some leverage as long as were on the ground to d diplomatic gains. Its happening in face of a lot of other things including secretary mattis resignation. Sensitive time. Is there a way as ambassador ford argues that the president can make the most of this. Is there something the u. S. Can do. Ambassador ford is man i respect highly. Im not asking you to go after him. Thank you. What hes saying is forget about diplo diplomacy. Hes saying this president is not going to do anything to concert this to any kind of gaggag gains. Saying forget it. Theres no compromise. The best thing question do is to protect the kurds and protect tur turkeys interest. We should negotiate a withdrawal with russia. We have to withdraw at some point. I believe we might have been able to get more. Effectively our president is giving up. Im not sure he should have given up and if he should have given up, she should have done it in coordination with our allies. Taking a step back. One of the big picture challenges for the Trump Administration and Obama Administration ocn handling syra policy is there was never a clearly articulated goal for what american troops were doing there. Even if you talk to folks at Central Command which is responsible for overseeing military operations, they were never totally clear on what the long term project was. Trump has said the reason troops are there is to fight isis. American troops have been there since 2013 prior to the rise of isis. They werent there because isis existed. The broader question of what the United States state relationship was never one that was totally clear. There were folks in the United States who wanted to see a regime change happen but that wasnt official u. S. Policy and the result is that you had this american presence in a really tense, violent dangerous part of the World Without a clear goal. He talked a lot in defense of his decision here in syria. He talked about other things too. Mainly democrats back home and domestic politics. Here is a sampling of that. We want to refresh folks memory. The democrats dont want to let us have strong borders. Only for one reason because i want it. A lot of the media doesnt want to report it correctly. Tell nancy pelosi, i dont want the wall. Oh, we want the wall and we get the wall. The Washington Post is writing his behavior highlighted a struggle pentagon leaders have to navigate. How do you see it . I see it exactly that way. The job of the military is to do what the commander in chief does. Not the leader of the republican party. America goes to war or goes into Peace Keeping operations in order to secure American National security interests. Not the interest of republicans or democrats. Theres a very strong bias against politicalization of the military. He said these guys came to me. You dont do that in front of troops. Its so nice to see you onset. Thanks for having me. Of the break, were diving into 2020. Plenty of headlines to digest before the new year. Well bring you all that with our 2020 vision, next. Yog u all our 2020 vision, next. Xt. And im still going for my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin, im up for that. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. Plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis is fdaapproved and has both. So whats next . Seeing these guys. Dont stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. Eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. 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As politico puts it the two texans would test the allegia e allegiances of state democrats that could be a significant factor in the fight for the nomination. Former new york city mayor michael bloomberg, his top political adviser is suggesting he is ready to spend, at least 100 Million Dollar on a 2020 run for president. In an interview, he tells chuck todd the next president , whoever that is, needs to be ready to lead on climate change. We have some real problems. If you dont come in with real concrete answers, i think the public is tired of listening to the same platitudes they get. Were in favor of god, mother and apple pie. Ill have plan when i get there. You have to have plan. I dont know whether ill run or not, but ill be out there demanding that anybody is running has a plan. I want to hear the plan and i want everybody to look at it and say whether its doable. Where do you want to start . You want to do texas . Thats where you want to go. Lets go there. The sort of i dont want to say obama 2. 0 but thats the whole vibe around o rourke versus somebody who could be the partys first president ial candidate. I want listening to the intro and it made me excited. They are two of the faces of the future of the party. I do believe for democrats, democratic party, if a contestant is good for the party, and you have all of these. You have beto and julian. We have other young upcoming faces. You have kamala harris, cory booker. All of these folks makes that a good thing for the party. What voters really want is a variety. They are interested on who is going the different types of people that are jumping in. They want to see what is their platform going to be. How will they be challenged out there in the field. How are they going to get not just excite the base but have to bring in new voters. I think thats the key here that were seeing. Thats really exciting. What do you think the obama factor will be . We know obama met with orourke. He has a relationship with castro and biden. What role does the former president play . Barack obama plays a really important role. Hes the last democrat president who won two successful elections. If im a candidate that is thinking about running, you want to have a sit down conversation with obama. I would assume he will have many conversations. Hes going to stay out of it. I think thats what he will do. Hell step in in the general election to play his part as the very popular former president. That will be key and important. Hell give his advice. Obama was so masterful of walking that tight rope between the base of getting the base excited on the aspirational rhetoric. Keeping from veering too far from the left with any policies that the right or that centrists could hold up as toxic. Thats the risk for democrats in 2020. There are going to be so many candidates who will be competing so hard for different parts of the base that they will put markers down and trump will be able to use against them in the general. One thing ive heard from folks when they look at this field that were putting up on screen. Theres more people is this idea of who can win. Theres an interesting piece out this morning about how democrats see 2020 as a head versus heart moment. In iowa, nikki memes, a democratic activist who pledged herself to obama said the innocence in us wants to fall in love. Whoever we all think stands the best chance then lets get out there and start door knocking. For me its okay to fall in like. One of the things i think will be most interesting is seeing how the size of the democratic primary field affects the way it all plays out. This is the First Time Since 2008 theres been a seriously toss up competitive democratic prima primary. It has the potential to be larger than 2008 was. In 2016 republicans had kind of the same situation where it was an open playing field. The fact that the field was so crowded made things really weird and interesting and unpredictable. I think that will be the case with democratics in 2020. And expensive. Nice transition. This idea of Mike Bloomberg going to spend 100 million how do you see that fitting into this moment when theres an appetite among younger progressive democrats to say we dont want somebody who will buy the presidency. That will be a real fault line headed into 2020. This question of whether candidates are going to accept, encourage or disavow super pac money. To be clear hes talking about his own money. If he ran, he would spend far more than 100 million. He spent 100 million on his y may mayoral run in 2005. Hes ready to spend more than that. It would be closer to 1 billion. You see candidates like beto orourke, Bernie Sanders who have gained great traction in the race by casting them ining as the opposition to big money. Well see a real divide between candidates who court that big money like maybe a cory booker or a castro. The 100 Million Dollar, hell have money to put in but i would rather have grass roots. Then it shows theres a movement behind you. I think thats really key. I dont know if bloomberg has that grass roots support. Thank you. Up next, well circle the drain that was washington in 2018 and bring you some of the most memorable moments from the swamp. Youre watching msnbc. From the swamp. Youre watching msnbc. Gentle means everything, so we improved everything. We used 50 fewer ingredients added one handed pumps and beat the top Safety Standards the new johnsons® choose gentle and then, more jobs robegan to appear. What started with one job spread all around. Because each job in energy creates many more in this town. Its time to drain the swamp in washington, d. C. If im elected president , we will going to drain the swamp in washington, d. C. When we win on november 8th, were going to washington, d. C. And we are going to drain the swamp. Drain the swamp. You heard it again and again on the campaign trail for then candidate trump in 2016. Lets look back at his first two years in office because that drain seems to have been a little clogged. Scandals, conflicts, ethical violations. Some of which forced Key Administration officials to resign. Theres tom price whose tenure came to a close last september over criticism about his expensive taxpayer funded private jets. Then you had in february veteran Affairs Secretary forced after his improper use of taxpayer dollars. In July Scott Pruitt was forced to call it quits. Ryan zinke retired with mounting ethics investigations on him. Thats a look back at 2018. Who is on swamp watch in 2019 . One of our friends of the show and swamp watch correspondent julia and back with me betsy woodruff. Julia, thank you for being on on this holiday week. We wanted to bring you on because youve done so much reporting on scott pruitt. What was your biggest swamp watch moments of 2018 for you . A couple of big ones were when i reported along with my colleagues how mr. Pruitt had sought to get multiple jobs for his wife including a chickfila franchise. That along with his efforts to seek a used mattress from the trump hotel are the things that stand out and then with ryan zinke while theres a number of things that generated headlines when the Inspector General report came out talking about how he had violated the policy about his wife traveling in official government vehicles and changed the policy to allow that to happen. Thats something that reverberated in the white house. Secretary zinke had the exit interview said what was my wife supposed to do, run along side the car. That was his defense of what happened there. Your top swamp watch moments of 2018, when you look back on the year, what stands out to you . S . Its the Kushner Family, the fact that Jared Kushners cyst early star between Administration Officials and business endeavors have caused massive headaches for this administration. Ken . Ive got to go with tom price. That was the first time technically 2017, i will say that. Ill point out from price to zinke, to pruitt, the unifying threat is just how small bore this stuff is. Youre a cabinet secretary, you cant sacrifice a little bit with the knowledge that once you get out, if you do a good job and arent forced out under a cloud there will be riches waiting for you beyond anything that you could tap into for you know, from your perch inside the government. If pruitt could have sat tight, pruitt will still do well, weve reported that hes talking to a number of emergency producers about doing work for them, but to be able to like step out of that role, you have sort of your pick of any job on the street, your ability to make 7 figures and you dont have to worry about getting a used mattress or getting yowife chick fil a. I dont want you to tip your hand to all the reporting for the next year, but who would you put on swamp watch for the year ahead . Well, i think actually as betsy mentioned i mean, i certainly think the Kushner Family will be the subject of scrutiny and i think one of the broader things is we have to see who fills some of these empty vacancies. In case of tom price, i wouldnt imagine that things would happen there, but were still waiting to see for example in interior does david burn hart step up and take that role . If he does theres going to be scrutiny and i think there will be a lot of krscrutiny now. Yeah, and one person who might have learned over the last year that well be looking at too, ken, is ben carson over at hud and betsy here, there have been a series of headlines about his spending et cetera. Hes defended that obviously. Doesnt seem to be in any jeopardy of losing his job at this point but hes somebody that could be put on swamp watch in 2019. Another one who couldnt resist the office redecorations. I would put trumps superpack on swamp watch its paying out huge sums of money to these former consultants who dont seem to be doing a whole lot for it and thats where we see the donor who is are sort of most making an effort to curry favor with donald trump making large contributions. Weave seen sheldon allison, for instance, get really quite a bit of special treatment from the administration and from President Trump in particular making a pitch for him to get a gramabling license in china to president chi. I thi xi. Mal whitaker, a no brainer. He previously worked for a slightly curious conservative nonprofit making a ton of money doing a ton of work that was a little bit vague and was additionally connected to a company thats drawn scrutiny from federal prosecutors. It raises some, you know, lines for reporting. Eyeballs on all of those folks. Come back again soon in the new year. Thank you so much. We will be right back with what our sources are saying in todays big picture. E saying in todays big picture. I found my tresiba® reason. Now im doing more to lower my a1c. Once daily tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. Tresiba® is a longacting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. Dont use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Dont share needles or insulin pens. Dont reuse needles. 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So we improved everything. We used 50 fewer ingredients added one handed pumps and beat the top Safety Standards the new johnsons® choose gentle time now to get a check on what our sources are telling us. Betsy, what are you reporting on as we head into the new year sf. The conversation between Donald Trumps legal team and Robert Muellers investigation is still open when it comes to muellers team trying to get more information from the president itself. We confirmed in a piece that we ran yesterday that those talks were not terminated even after trump turned over a list of written questions. Its totally plausible that there will be additional fights Going Forward in the coming months. Although unlikely that an interview happens. Unlikely but the tension is still there. What are you working on . Last week the Treasury Department moved to lift sanctions against these two Big Companies by a russian ole gark. My forces tell me that democrats are going to work to block the lifting of sanctions once the new Congress Comes in. Its always a pleasure to have both of you. Happy 2019 because i wont see you until the new year. Go eagles. We almost made it through a whole show without talking about it. Have fun at the game on sunday. Todays big picture is not related to the eagles. Its something a little more blue. Its not the giants, its new york city skyline. What is that . You may have seen this. Made some big news. Kind of strangely beautiful, also slightly apock lialypsepoc. That caused this crazy blue flash in the sky. No evidence of extraterrestrial activity, thank goodness. It did shut down operations at la guardia for a while. All is well, no injuries but everybody did freak out up in new york for at least a little while. This picture, bloomberg, wed love to hear your thoughts as always on facebook, snap and insta. I think ysaw some men in black over your neck of the woods. I dont buy the official response here. And typically youre a little bit more cynical too. Thanks, will smith. Sounds good. Have a good weekend, my friend. Craig melvin here. We are following several developing stories right now. The Homeland Security secretary headed to the border today. She has been facing heavy criticism for the deaths of two Migrant Children in the u. S. Custody. Jackie did not have to die. Im sorry. She did not have to die. Jackie did not have to die. The partial Government Shutdown is now in day 7 with President Trump issuing a new threat to democrats. And its getting very real for about 800,000 worker who is will not get their regular scheduled paychecks today. If the pay doesnt come through and i think thats why most families are feeling right now is just that uncertainty. And the wild ride on wall street rolls on after massive rebound thursday. Stocks once again have been up and down all day. How will the markets end this week . Well take a look at that in just a moment but we start at the border as President Trump threatens to seal