the negotiation, $1.3 billion for border security on the table earlier about $1.6 had been on the table for democrats. there s conversations here in the house that perhaps that s what we could start talking about again. but there are signals from chuck schumer that perhaps that won t fly in this environment. so there are a lot of unanswered questions. we re going to have at least another day s worth of this kind of drama, chris. kasie hunt and matt fuller, thank you both for making time here. that s one part of a wild day. late this afternoon out of nowhere the president announced the retirement of jim mattis. but it was not a retirement, in fact, it was a resignation. mattis quit. we know that because of the extraordinary letter he wrote. mattis gently by firmly rebuking the president. he must be resolute and ambiguous in our approach to those countries with strategic interests he has the right to
week, and nancy pelosi was saying you re not going to be able to pass a $5 billion wall cr, basically the idea was they needed money for they needed votes from democrats to pass the cr. and part of that was the conservatives had all these ideas about asylum policy riders. there was a lot of conservatives who were concerned about the disaster aid that was added to this. because it was a political vote, a posturing vote, it goes to the senate where it s clearly not going to pass. but republicans can say, no, we you know, we went with the president, we voted this way, and now it s just sort of a standoff between the two chambers. i should note, though, just to be clear, the $5 million is american money, in the from the mexican government. not pesos, no, correct. i want to be clear. $5 million of american public funds, not mexican funds. i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt who s been covering this all day. i saw you at the press conference with chuck
considered a win for the #metoo movement. going forward, i don t see any dim yun nugs in the strength of the women s argument that they demand a day in the court. on the other hand, harvey weinstein could lose his liberty and die in prison, and he s going to continue to maintain an aggressive defense to prevent that from happening. lisa green, thank you. we re going to return now to our breaking news coverage of a possible partial government shutdown here. republicans emergency meeting with president trump now just 13 minutes away. a few moments ago house speaker paul ryan left for that meeting after a last second phone call with the president about funding the government. capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt joins me now. kasie, this was, of course, supposed to be paul ryan s last hurrah, an easy lift. instead, it has turned into an 11th hour nightmare? reporter: ho, ho, ho merry christmas. you re right, this was supposed to be his last press conference as speaker, a day with per
they wanted to hear. it was blaming republican leaders saying that they had promised him the border wall by the end of the year and they weren t delivering. maybe that s a way out for the president. maybe he can blame the republican congress is is the way out, he can blame the republican congress, and i fought for the border wall, and they could not get it done, and perh perhaps that is the strategy, but suffice it to say, craig, when we woke up this morning, we were looking at like there was smooth sailing into the holleday, but i am not ready to say that is not the case or that we won t definitely have a government shutdown, but certainly things are in a lot more flux than they were a few ho hours ago. kasie hunt on the chaotic capitol hill. it is the burning question that everyone wants to know the answer to, what is in the world robert mueller is thinking? now we know thanks for the pulitzer prize winning interview
from the right wing this morning. but the flip side is that rank and file republicans, the ones who the speaker, paul ryan and leader kevin mccarthy can usually rely on to take tough votes that help leadership, they were saying, look, why would we do this if we don t know that the president is going to sign it. the president has not put out any definitive word. kasie never mind, sorry, steve scalise was speaking. it was very brief. sorry to interrupt you. reporter: no worries at all. to pick up where we left off, those rank and file republicans are saying we need a guarantee from the president. everybody went out onto the house floor. they were trying to start counting the votes and what many of these people were saying is we just need the president to tweet. one republican lawmaker was very frustrated with that. he said that s what the expletive serving in congress has come to, that they are simply waiting around for the president to tweet something so that they can decide wha