probably 1:30 and 2:00 and the democrats take their first vote to reopen the government, their plan, not a bipartisan plan, but their plan to reopen the government and make it a point that one of their first votes in congress was to turn this around on president trump and say it s your shut down. we voted to reopen the government and we did not reward you with any new border wall funding, trace. trace: chad, i have to go. who does this benefit? the longer the government stays partially shut down, which side benefits? well, republicans can try to turn this around on nancy pelosi. they used this playbook before. she s the speaker of the house and she owns it. that s why republicans on capitol hill were trying to absolve themselves this past couple days because they can say wait a minute. she bears some of the responsibility despite what the president said. she s the speaker of the house. they used this tactic against her before and they re going to try to do it again. trace: chad p
right now is saying that they will vote no on any bill that comes forth with extra border wall funding. we ll see what happens out of this meeting, trace. edward lawrence live on capitol hill. much more from president trump s cabinet meeting including his comments on kim jong-un. the president says he s now ready to talk nukes with the north korean leader again as the dictator issue as warning to the u.s. in his new year s address. plus, starting a new job can be pretty tough sometimes, right? figuring out your new responsibilities, organizing your desk and deciding what to do about north korea, syria, afghanistan and iraq. the challenges ahead for the acting secretary of defense next. (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it.
as you know, president obama fired him and so did i essentially. i want results. officials say mattis submitted his resignation letter face to face to the president and it wasn t forced. trace? trace: it s not a big surprise here but china is a big focus for the acting defense secretary. patrick shanahan was a long-time executive at boeing for over 30 years. he knows what china s property rights violation rights look like first hand. in a big speech in china, china s president said he told taiwan not to declare independence. the reunification is the historical trend and the right path while taiwan s independence is an adverse current and a dead end. a blockbuster report released from a panel of experts warned about the rising threat from russia and china. it said america has reached the
status and also aiding an abelting are not deportable crimes. the sheriff cannot call ice when they will be released. so you re liking at maybe one to three years. again, ice does not know when they ll be released. thank you. the u.s. border patrol firing tire gas at my migrants at the southern border. watch. it happened near san diego. the feds say the violents were a mob that threw rocks at agents and agents responded with at least the least amount of force that they could to protect themselves. the associated press reports one of their photographers only saw rocks after getting tear gassed, this comes amid the government shut down fight over the president s shut down border wall. anita vogel has more.
the president saying let s get this deal, maybe there s some wiggle room on the border wall funding. the democrats have been very hard to say they re not going to try to tie daca to the border wall. i salt down with the president before the holidays. he said on daca he wanted it to go through the courts. he thought once that happened, they could find a deal on that. he at that point was not looking to tie the two deals together. it s unlikely that a deal comes together around that. trace: what do you make of this back and forth between mitt romney who is about to take office tomorrow and the president? well, they ve had fireworks before. so i don t know that it is necessarily that surprising that they re on different sides of things. certainly a shot across the bow before he s even sworn in to office. mitt romney laying down where he stands, how he sees the president and the president responding in kind shooting messages across twitter.