some of the corporations represented r.j. rendell, facebook, comcast, amazon, intel and verizon. ainsley: to rob s point the optics aren t good. you know there are 800,000 workers not getting paid see pictures of them going to work and congressman supposed to be doing something in washington and see them on the beaches with their families and know they are down there having a good time it doesn t look good. brian: abc, cbs, and nbc did not cover it the president did tweet about it. it was smart. the fact that he stayed through christmas, stayed through new year s, stayed through the shutdown, can he possibly get a partner to negotiate. and what is that negotiating about? well, let s talk about what s happening. we are in day 24, the longest shutdown in american history. american governmental history. it s over basically $5.8 billion, which is a joke considering the size of our budget. but so far if you look at the polling it looks as though the democrats have public sentiment on their
america s communities and with a little more money, $5.8 billion, the government can pay one month s benefits to more than 40 million americans receiving food stamps as part of the supplemental nutritional assistance program. $5 billion goes a very long way, but with no end in sight, some analysts estimate the economic cost of the government shutdown may already exceed the border wall budget. take that in for a moment. up next, everybody, tonight the golden globe marks one year since the time that movement launched in hollywood. what s thing thatted, plus how will the show handle politics? that s coming up. politics? that s coming up
word is, there is a new caravan in honduras, and they are doing nothing about it. trump had ramped up talk of the migrant caravans coming from central america just before the midterm elections, hoping to energize his base. they ve got a lot of rough people in those caravans. reporter: as recently as this week, the president said the problem had been solved. the military built some very effective walls for me over the last four weeks on the southern border. and we ve held them we had caravans of people coming up. you ve been seeing it, and we stopped them. we stopped them cold. reporter: the president s threat to pull foreign aid from central-american countries also apparently contradicting his own administration s policy. just last week, the state department said the u.s. would continue its strategy of aiding central american countries through $5.8 billion in public and private investments. meantime, as the president s tone on twitter ratchets up, the white house is dramatica
border, and we ve held them we had caravans of people coming up. you have been seeing it, and we stopped them. we stopped them cold. reporter: the president s threat to pull foreign aid from central american countries also apparently contradicting his own administration s policy. just last week the state department said the u.s. would continue its strategy of aiding central american countries through $5.8 billion in public and private investments. meantime, as the president s tone on twitter ratchets up, the white house is dramatically ratcheting down on the campaign promises. it is not a fence, it is a wall. you just misreported it. we are going to build a wall. reporter: into build the fence. the president is not willing to give up on the southern barrier. keep in mind that steel slat fence he sent a picture of, that is the ideal border barrier. it is what cpb wants, it is what everybody says will do the job best. so we are not giving up on that.
[singing together] laura: pretty good. what is the rest of it? senior moment. laura: that is all the time we have tonight. shannon bream and the fox news @ night team take it from here. she knows this on, i know it does. shannon: there is we want try never heard the word impossible we are not going to talk about that, now. laura, thank you so much. it will be stuck in our heads. thanks. hello and welcome to fox news @ night, i am shannon bream in washington and we began tonight with a fox news alert. from the washington, hopefully congress will find a solution and avert a christmastime government shutdown, but what has come off the negotiating table? at this moment, it looks like it is the $5 billion the president wants to fund the border wall theater to get that up, the u.s. is pledging $5.8 billion in aid