remember, he picked him. this week secretary mnuchin said he could not fire him. and talking about firing powell is bad for the markets. the president has often blamed him for the market plunge. what was the treasury secretary thinking? he should know better. i don t know. it sounds like it was a check-in call with the banks saying it was a terrible week on wall street, and the banks are like, everything is fine, it was just a bad week on wall street. at the forefront, when you see the comparisons to the financial crisis, that must be a real bur under the saddle. how often do those calls
the calls worried financial investors. sources familiar with those calls tell our colleague blake berman that it was a check-in call and they discussed coordinating agency functions during the shutdown. leland: err on the markets, with allison. we have kirstjen nielsen there on christmas eve, it s unusual to have government business done on christmas eve. where are we on the shutdown negotiations? kirstjen nielsen was supposed to be arriving at 2:00 with other dhs officials to meet and sit down with president trump to talk about border security. right now according to a democratic source, the white house is currently offering $2.1 billion for border security that includes a new fencing plus 400 million for other immigration priorities. vice president mike pence and incoming act acting chief of staff current budget director mulvaney met with chuck schumer