Government, with someone else having real power, subpoena power, tax and legislative power, all of it. Its going to be a challenge for donald trump because nancy pelosi has been to this rodeo before. She was speaker before and highly effective. She knows what shes doing. So that mono e mono will be one of the most fascinating lines. Well be watching it. Meanwhile i wish you a restful and happy new year. Now as mentioned i am ari melber in for Lawrence Odonnell tonight. This is the last live show of 2018, so perhaps it is fitting that a year that brought donald trump the largest midterm rebuke in decades is now a tight of the year that ends effectively with trump aides beginning to cave to what we just discussed, the Incoming Democratic congress which of course hasnt even technically taken power yet. Im about to show you what that caving may look like. Let me clear, were thought reporting tonight the shutdown is anywhere near over. Its not. Were not reporting a break through. Were not suggesting these promises that may emanate from the Trump Administration can be taken at their word from good faith. We all remember other immigration negotiations that may have fallen apart when trump and his aides may have dropped offers they made to chuck and nancy. But heres something new, trumps active chief of staff revealing they have begun backing off President Trumps demand of 5 billion for the wall. We were at 5 on saturday afternoon. We sat down with mr. Schumer and gave him a number below 5. Im not going to tell row what it is. Below 5, okay. Were not going to tell you what it is. Could be 4. 9, could be 4, could be lower. Again, when we talk about caving in realtime the leaks tonight suggest it was way lower. Down to 2. 5 billion or half of trumps original demand. Democrats rejecting the offer because you know theyve been clear about this whole thing. Theyre not going to fund the wall and that has trumps chief of staff doing some wall rebranding. Hold up, the American People wanted a wall. What is the president what deal now then is President Trump willing to accept that is anything short of that wall . Were still building it. Thats why the government is closed is the president is not willing to give up on the southern barrier. Keep in mind that steel slat fence that he sent a picture of, that is the ideal border barrier. Barrier. Even if this isnt going that well for the white house there are leaks as well that donald trump takes some solace in the idea that as a matter of media, as a matter of sort of public discussion and narrative and all that stuff, that this could overshadow Nancy Pelosis return to power next week. Heres the headline, team trump gleeful that the shutdown will hijack Nancy Pelosis big moment. Forcing pelosi to spend the first days if not weeks of the next congress engaged in an argument over border wall funding rather than her preferred agenda of ethics and election reforms and congressional oversight. Those are anonymous leaks, but here is a version of basically the same strategy on the record as the White House Press secretary answers a question about federal workers and the shutdown. What message does the white house have as these People Struggle to make it through the holidays . The real question here is nancy pelosi is only looking to protect her speakership and not protect our borders and thats why shes unwilling to negotiate with us and unwilling to make any type of a deal. Team trump may be excited to use all this against pelosi but they could also be making a pretty classic mistake in politics as well as life. Im talking about of course projection, assuming that others see the world the way you do or others are bothered by exactly what bothers you. You probably see where im going with this because while trumps First Priority may simply be attention, whos going to get press coverage next week, what is the news cycle day to day, nancy pelosi has proven she does have other priorities, and whether one agrees with them or not, they do involve policy. She has navigated her share of bad news cycles already as well as several other president s. And as for the votes, consider this, when the president looked ready to cite a spending bill last week that did not include the wall, it was the republicans in the House Freedom caucus that were revolting. They encouraged the president to shutdown the government, aided of course by a lot of right wing media noise and now some of them are saying they want a shutdown until hell freezes over. It sounded like mcconnell and ryan and mccarthy were about to convince the president youre on your own, you have no support and thats when the Freedom Caucus took to the house floor and gave speech after speech about how important it was that we keep our promise and protect america with a wall. And the president saw. How long should the president keep the government closed . Well, again, its only a part of 25 . And because we keep seeing people losing their lives without one how long . January, february, or until hell freezes over will take longer than february according to what we know. Jeanne robinson is pulitzer prizewinner for the Washington Post, and all msnbc analysts. Gene, you see the numbers there. And the caucus saying until hell literally freezes over. Right. So i think youre analysis is correct that nancy pelosi will be speaker, will come in with her own agenda and her own priorities and her own sense of whats important and it wont be the same as Donald Trumps. And why would she at this point take anything Mick Mulvaney says as holy writ or indeed any deal that gets negotiated as holy writ given Donald Trumps record of simply going back on deals that everybody else thinks are made deals . And so i dont quite to me that is the huge stumbling point to anything. Theres no incentive for democrats to move knowing that trump is going to pull the rug out from under the whole thing at the last minute as soon as anne colter indujesttion. It makes it sound like hes not a good negotiator. I think you ought to read the art of the deal and some guy named trump got his name on it, too. Theres something to that, the art of the pr. Were past pr. As joy reid and i were just discussing, next week is different. We in the press are fairly accused sometimes of dramatizing a narrative, but next week will be something that has never happened before in the trump era, which is the Democrats Holding power. Heres one of them explaining it. He wants a fight about this because he wants to distract from the very other bad things that have happened in the last two weeks. He lost his defense secretary in a very serious rebuke of his foreign policy, the Trump Organization was closed because of persistent elegalities. He lost his defensive coordinator. The stock market has been very volatile. The walls are closing in with the mueller investigation. So i think the president has decided you know what a shutdown will distract from all of that. I think the president like the boogeyman or a boogiewoman because nancy pelosi they said shes someone we can raise around and make her a boogeyman. Shuck schumer was laughing when the president said that in the oval office and he said that because he knew that was a money quote that democrats were going to be able to tweet, that they were going to be able to quote, they were going to be able to put in commercials. So no matter what the president says we all know the president wanted the shutdown and said he was going to be proud to do this over Border Security. I would add to that list about the issues the president has and other things that the president has is two dead children in federal custody. These are two immigrant children from guatemala, an 8yearold boy and 7yearold girl who we should be talking a little bit more about because these two children are really symbols how america is failing at this immigration issue. The president s own commissioner of u. S. Customs and Border Patrol told cbs news we need to do this differently. We need resources to go to Mental Health, facilities where we can house children. So the problems are mounting and i think the president hopes through his pr spin he can make the democrats own this, but i think theres so many issues with this white house shes overwhelmed by them. You mentioned those cuts and i we covered that on this program. I know several of you have looked at that story. And take a listen to the defense of one Congressional Republican on that issue. I think its wrong to somehow blame i. C. E. Theyve had hundreds of thousands of people theyve had custody of over the years and i think these are the only two children that have died. Considering whats happening and inhousing projects across the country i think i. C. E. Has an excellent record. Jonathan . Its not a good look for the republicans, ari. You know, its callus. Its disregarding that there are real changes that need to be made in i. C. E. , and were going to see hearings on this. This is what people dont understand is that elections really do have consequences and the big consequence for the republicans coming up is going to be a whole series of hearings on all of these issues that you and others at msnbc and other news organizations have been raising over the last two years. Theyre going to be hearings on all of them. Trump can try to distract attention with his games, can try to say, well, were overwhelm nancy pelosi, you know, on the day shes sworn in. So she might lose that news cycle. She doesnt care about that at all. She can walk and chew gum at the same time. She can bring forward a democratic agenda and have these hearings in these committees that the democrats will now control that will unearth a whole series of abuses on the part of the Trump Administration. And when we report out these types of stories the first period of a shutdown does not have the widest consequences. A lot of what we end up doing is reporting on past shutdowns and projection. But when you get into weeks or even months, you start to remember all the Different Things the federal government is involved in. And yes, it is people who have less money, farmers, people in poor rural areas, you name it who are squeezed by this. I want to read for one such point for your analysis, usda announcing theyll be doing these payments to those hardest hit from china and then the government will shutdown. Farmers were told checks will continue to go out during the first week of the shutdown, the direct payment for farmers who was certified production and farm loans and disaster assistance, all of that begins its hold in the second week and wont startup again until the government reopens. I want to report the fact, im not making light of it, but youve buttoned that up i will were call tg a partial shutdown becausites 25 of the government but its still hundreds of thousands of people that are not going to get checks until the government reopens. You have people that could be taking on second and third jobs trying to supplement the money and be federal workers at the same time. We know from the last two years of this presidency he isnt a president whos tried to unite people. Hes tried to stick to his base, really turning out republicans at his ehis elections and campaign rallies. In the back of the president s mind, these are all democrats who care that much, and thats a big deal, and the president is being a mother whose a democratic looking for her paycheck is going to be someone he needs to worry about. And that brings back to the core problem that apart from whether trump is good or bad at it, does it hold water . I dont know if you ever saw that great great film get shorty. But theres a scene where trovolta is trying to negotiate with the folks and both of them are running their mouths and at one point he says am i talking to you or am i talking to you. And he gets the answer who he has to negotiate with. And i think he has his get shorty moment where he says, look, we need to know who were talking to. Who is the negotiator on the executive branch of government we can deal with . Its not the Vice President , the chief of staff, the omb director and apparently not trump. Hell change his mind on a dime. Eugene . Thats exactly the question. You can make a bigger deal, its buttoned up, everybody can claim a win, make political sense, get the government started. Everybodys onboard and then donald trump will just say no because hes watching fox news that morning. Thats what almost is inevitably going to happen. You can see it. So what will really happen in the likely course of events is as this looks politically worse and worse for trump, as he sees it, he sorts of backs himself into a corner here and theres no way out, hell find some way to sort of get as far away from the issue as possible. Either by changing the subject or, you know, tweeting that hes washing his hands of it or whatever, and then, you know, the adults will make a deal and the government will open up again. And meanwhile, you know, just one word of advice, democrats dont if they were asking for advice, i would tell them not to worry about nancy pelosi being made into a boogeyman or boogiewoman, because guess what, whoever is a democratic speaker or a democratic candidate in 2020, donald trump is going to demonize. No matter who it is, no matter what they do. So thats just a given. So democrats, and i think theyre going to do this, should just get on about their business. Get on about their business. Its a fair point to fit in a break on. Eugene robinson, thanks to each of you. Up next, trump reportedly believes the shutdown could somehow interfere with congressional investigations. Thats not exactly true. A democratic lawmaker on the key Investigative Committee who may have a better view. And later the remarkable story of one grieving mothers quiet resistance to what donald trump has been pushing. What a year. Your Home Improvement todo list still isnt todone. 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And now it seems this could be part of a larger strategic play at least according to some links. The daily beast spoke with a source close to the white house who says, look, the more he the focus is on the wall the more pelosi is forced to focus on this fight instead of the investigations . Is that true . On the key Investigative Committee which will be busy with of course a new attorney general nominee along with a lot of other things, thanks for joining me tonight. Good to be with you, ari. Is it true that claim there that i just read . Absolutely not. The Judiciary Committee will be active as will the Government Oversight Committee into looking into the abuses of this administration which have been unhooked into for the last two years when the republicans were complicit and derelict of duty. When you see as we were covering in an earlier segment the reports that trump advisers think, well, maybe this will rain on pelosis parade next week, what is your response to that and how do you think she as a leader should handle that . He cant rain on the parade of a person whos becoming the speaker of the United States house of representatives for the second time. That hasnt happened very often in history and a lady who was the first female speaker becoming the first female speaker to get the speakership back, its a historic occasion and she should be treated as the Ruth Bader Ginsberg of legislators inasmuch shes a phenomenal woman, a legislator, shes smart, courageous and she can run circles around donald trump. And shes liable to expose him in such ways he will be shocked. Hes met his match. Strong words and she does have a lot of experience. On the stakes of the shutdown, i know people say it was on a holiday week and your colleagues saying theyll keep going months until hell freezes over, quoteunquote, what do people say on who does this affect and how does this affect every day people . Well, it affects working people, people who work for the government and provides services for the americans who need services. The courts are closed down and the United States attorneys have told litigants that their cases wont be heard and theyll be put off because they cant even work voluntarily. There will be hardships on americans and hardships on american citizens and trump doesnt care. All he cares about is himself. He didnt care about his subcontractors when he ripped them off. He didnt care about people he had in Trump University and ripped them off. Hes mr. Bad example, as my buddy would have called him. Thats what he is. And he did it in private industry and doing it as president. He got away with it for two years without any oversight and when he had nunes and goodlatte running around and doing his bidding and thats over. Weve got nancy pelosi and weve got schumer. We know how to deal with bullies. We stand up to them. You said lawrence evine. Didnt he also bring lawyers guns and money . How was i to know she was with the russians, too . Some of these references become more apt as time goes on. Before i let you go, we talked about the investigations. You say the president s wrong to think the shutdown would get in the way. So what do you see as the priority for you in the Judiciary Committee your colleagues as you take over next week . Every indication is i will be the chair of the subcommittee which deals with the constitution and civil rights and civil libertiries. And i think one of our first hearings will be on the emoluments clause and the shredding of the constitution and the constitutional responsibility to approve or not approve the payments to the president. Well look at that and Voting Rights, and thats an important issue for us and renewing the Voting Rights act and having hearings to have a record. Well look into the pardon power, i believe, and see how far that can go, and if there are examples of admissions who feel the pardon power is not unlimited. If its used to obstruct justice or for members of the president s family or someone else. And im sure ways and means will be looking into his taxes. We very easily could have lost money with donald trump. It may beyond a refund. It may be the only time where someone conned us out of more money than they were even do back. Congressman, thanks for spending time with us. Good to be with you and happy new year. A new category, a bottomless pinocchio. Up next we wont repeat the lie but we will fact check them so you know the facts going into what could be a long shutdown. Ive always been amazed by whats next. And 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. I want that too. 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. Whats next . Reeling in a nice one. 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. Dont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. While taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily and it may take longer than usual for any bleeding to stop. Seek immediate medical care for sudden sign of bleeding, like unusual bruising. 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Trump now claims that the american taxpayer would just fund the wall up front to an appropriations process ie paying interest the wall and then someday the u. S. Would still get that money back through his new nafta deal. Now, first of all, hoping to get reimbursed later just isnt the same as paying for something. If your friend tells you hell buy you dinner and then asks you to buy dinner and then claims hell do it next year, it isnt that simple. If your friend says youll rely on a treaty in the hope that other president s would honor the same agreement, your friend definitely didnt buy you dinner. Now, that may be the crisesiest one. Its not the only lie. Donald trump also claiming the border is now being overrun, and lets be clear there is a legitimate broader debate of Border Security its had in this country and many other countries. But the facts for the United States show over the last decade undocumented immigration to the United States has been declining. And undocumented individuals who do come to u. S. Are mostly people who had legal path to entry through visas and then overstayed in the country. In other words, whatever you think about that and you can try to deduce it, thats what policy is about, that type of immigration issue is not about the border border crossings from mexico. We pick up ten known or suspected terrorists a day coming across our border and we have to be able to stop this. That is also not exactly true. The military times reporting its a misrepresentation of a dhs report which found there are about 2,500 encounters worldwide. Of those people, though, you can see where this goes, most of them were trying to fly by air so they werent picked up or rather turned away and again not only was that not the mexico border but those people are not automatically terrorists either. John, take it away. Well, you just scratched the surface there, which you did a good job scratching it. There are so many lies you cant keep track of them. I guess the biggest one that sort of encompasses the whole story is that theres some sort of crisis in american immigration. Yet there isnt. Yes, we need Border Security. But as you indicated not only are the numbers down significantly over the last ten years but some dem augrfers say theyre down more than any time since the 1970s. There are fewer even then, and it is as you said mostly a problem of people overstaying their visas. So the question becomes how do we restore some kind of sanity to this debate, and the answer is to reduce the level of fear. And im actually kind of optimistic about this because trump has gone to the well so much, hes cried wolf so much, that i think a lot of people are kind of getting tired of it and realizing and the numbers show this, that his fear mongering is no longer working with them. And eugene, as a student of american politics there certainly are issues that are highly charged or political where the trend line doesnt matter as much. Domestic tare attacks are one example. Where they could be broadly decreasing but their existence has americans saying we want to know what the plan is at alltimes. Immigration doesnt seem to be in that category. This is interesting yoz you drill down to the border states. You have unauthorized immigration not rising in states like arizona, new mexico, and california. You have it effectively decreasing, and you see there its only three states. One of which is massachusetts where it actually has increased. It it would seem those facts on an issue like this when it gets out there should matter. Right. And you just put it in a nutshell, facts should matter. And thats really one of the potentially most damaging things about the trump ascension and the trump presidency. This whole thing has its his attempt to cheapen truth, to blur truth, to there are facts. There is a number. You know, there was a number for illegal immigrants, you could count it. And yes, visa overstays are the maine problem, and guess what, most of those people who are overstaying their visas are canadians. Theyre not guatemalans, not hondurans, not mexicans, theyre canadians. Hes worried about the wrong border. But trump lives in a fact free world, a fact free universe. But whats especially troubling is theres this whole parallel universe that a lot of americans live in and believe his lies, believe the world that he constructs. And sort of cutting through that, cutting through that fog is going to be one of the challenges of our times, i think it really is. Because how can you have a democracy if you dont have a common chronicle of events in a cyclopedia of facts . This goes down to a larger debate here, and ive covered these rallies and i know both of you have, and hear from trump asupporters is, hey, we get it we know some of what he says is overstated, were in on it. And what the media sometimes doesnt get is they feel in on the overstatement, in on the exaggeration. But i wonder how that works on a binary claim which is mexico will pay for it which is different than im the best, im the best. So take a look, though, at the famous claim when he announced, core to announcement, mexico would pay for it mark my words. Take a look. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. Jonathan . So thats actually an opportunity for democrats. And the reason why goes back to something that carl rove famously said. When you go after your opposition, go after their strengths not their weaknesses. Its a little counter intuitive. Normally politicians like to change the subject from their opponents strengths and focus on their weaknesses. So the wall was trumps strength. It can also be his undoing if democrats drive this message that on his number one promise he was not telling the truth and he failed. Because something that not a lot of people have recognized yet, the wall is dead. It is not going to be built. There will not be a wall across the southern border of the United States. Not only because mexicos not paying for it but because the democrats control the house of representatives and they wont appropriate the money. And even if they gave him 5 billion thats a rounding, thats a tiny tiny portion of that wall. So the basic dream that trump had is dead. And once the American Public realizes that and that he couldnt deliver on his biggest promise and that he was lying about it, that might hurt him politically. And that goes with all due respect to all voters who make up their own minds, if youre a trump voter and you look at the priorities, you know, a deficit spike in tax cut got done. That got done. But this wall while they had republican control didnt get done. And the idea its going to happen while pelosi takes charge next week does seem rather fanciful. Coming up we turn to something quite important. A pretty remarkable story about how a mother has resisted attempts to politicize her daughters death. Hello mom. Amandas moms appointment just got rescheduled for today. Amanda needs right at home. Our customized care plans provide as much or as little help as her mom requires. Whether its a ride to the doctor or help around the house. Oh, of course tom, i am really sorry. Ive gotta go. Look, call right at home. Get the right care. Right at home. Lets do the thing that you do. Lets clear a path. Lets put down roots. Lets build something. Lets do the thing that you do. 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That was President Trump on the day an undocumented immigrant was indicted for a brutal murder of 20yearold Molly Tibbetts. President trump as well as several other republicans invoked her death as a kind of political prop arguing administrations antiimmigration agenda would be basically validated by preventing this type of thing. Now, Molly Tibbetts parents vehemently opposed how trump and his allies were using the death of their daughter. Heres an oped. This was ten days after what was quite obviously a tragic death. Here is mollys father ron tibbetts, quote, do not appropriate of mollies soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist. The person whos accused of taking mollies life is no more a reflection of the Hispanic Community as White Supremacists are of all white people, and to suggest otherwise is a lie. Mollies mother also telling the Washington Post just this week that President Trump didnt ever actually contact her family to offer even condolences. And while the president was apparently using mollies murder for a wider agenda against immigrants laura chose a different path. This is an important story given the stakes and the intensity. And here to tell us more about lauras approach to trump immigration rhetoric is the Washington Post reporter terence mccoy. These kinds of stories are always difficult and ive covered both sides of them where families respond to tragedy, a crime, a murder in different ways. But what you are finding here from your reporting . Well, what i found was a family that was trying to live every day and trying to understand the best way to go forward. And what helped laura to find her way forward is to actually be able to reach out and take in the child of mexican immigrants. And what had happened after all the news cameras left was that many of the people who worked on this farm where the accused killer had worked fled. This became a place that was ground zero of the most polarizing debates of all america. And what that meant is one family left behind their 17yearold boy because he wanted to be able to finish high school and the family that took him in was the family of mollie tibbetts. Let me read a bit of this report so this sinks in. This is quite something. The nation it seemed you write was directing its anger about mollies death toward yarrabee farms. She would argue that the farm workers didnt deserve this, that they were only trying to earn a living. Laura thought his father may be undocumented and worried about attracting unwanted attention, but again what would mollie say and hes living in the spare bedroom. What happened is ulysses is a 17yearold kid and good friends with their son scott and one day he picks up and leave because somebody said something racist at a gas station, and there were reports of students at the high school being harassed and what happened is his family said we need to get out of here and they left and he wanted to stay. And the people that ended up taking him in were the family of mollie tibbetts. And you what you found in this moment is two people whose lives were upturned and plunged into the center were then thrust together under the same roof trying to figure out how to live with one another. Ive got to ask you as a reporter and i know you probably have a pretty objective approach to this, but the question is what are we supposed to take from this as americans . From the way these individuals have responded to this brutal killing by coming together . Yeah, i thought a lot about that, too. What do you say about Something Like this, and how does this fit into the larger political debate . And what i think this is ultimately is two people who had almost a primal need in a way. This was a mother who needed a son, a mother needed a child, and a child who needed a parent. And it shows how these two people from two different americas, one that was native and one that was immigrant were able to transcend these sort of racial or cultural divides, transcend a political divide and come together under one roof in a way of a mother connecting with a child and a child connecting with a parent. Yeah, its, well, its something i think we can say honestly we salute them. And we appreciate you reporting out this story, terrace mccoy. Thank you. Thank you. And when we come back a special word from lawrence. Thats next. The zip code youre born into can determine your future. Your school. Your job. Your dreams. Your problems. indistinct shouting but at the y, we create opportunities for everyone, no matter who you are or where youre from. For a better us, donate to your local y today. For a better us, she pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. But once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. 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About a fourth of the money youve contributed has gone to scholarships for over 5,000 girls to attend high school in Law Enforcement which where like many african countries Public High School is not free. It is especially difficult for girls to stay in school in malawi. Families who can afford to pay for one pay for one of the boys. The girls graduation is much lower. They need much more support to stay in high school. Leia stevens is a 16yearold senior in high school in school today thanks to your generosity. She told me if she didnt have a kind Fund Scholarship she would just be stuck at home and which asked her what she would do if she was stuck at home she told me she would probably be forced to get married. And what would you do at home . I would just stay or even getting married. Most of the girls we didnt go to school are now getting forced into marriage. There is so much at stake in being able to keep a girl in high school in malawi. You can help at lastworddesks. Msnbc. Com. Rose is in her third year the high school. She wants to be a lawyer. Here she is at home with her mother and her little sister. Roses mother had to drop out of high school when her father died. Before rose got a k. I. N. D. Fund scholarship she had to drop out tao and felt her future would be doomed. It was painful. I started to feel like as if im being im being its like you cannot we are not allowed to i was like, wow, living in this world because there is not anything to do out here. No education, that means my future will be doomed. When rose graduates from high school she will be the first one in her family to do that. I just have to stand up and be the first one to go follow my education because i dont want to be like my mom. I dont want to be out there struggling. Without it it is not good. When i asked rose how her mother feels about roses education, rose had to fight back tears. And how does your mother feel now about you going to school . Shes happy for me because she keep telling me my daughter, dont look back, just go and look what you want to be, yeah. Thats it. Your mother must be very proud that you are in school. Yes, shes very excited. Very proud of me. Because you now get to fulfill her dream. Yes. She wanted to go to school but now you can. Yeah. I can go to school now and she is always encouraging me like dont let go of this opportunity because it comes once in a life, yeah. Thats it. It comes once in a life. The scholarship that you provided for rose has changed her life. With your continued support we hope to continue to help provide that opportunity that comes once in a life. Hi there, this is a commercial about insurance. But lets be honest. Nobody likes dealing with insurance. See, esurance knows its confusing. I literally have no idea what im getting. I dont know either. Im just the spokesperson. But thats why theyre making it simple so that even actors, like us, can understand it. Im not an actor. 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President trump threatens to close the border, again. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Steve Kornacki in for chris matthews. The partial Government Shutdown now in its seventh day with no end to the shutdown stalemate in sight. President trump renewed his demand today that Congress Fund a border wall, adding a threat to shut down the southern bo