wall. jedediah: gillian turner is live in washington where talk also resume this afternoon. gillian? gillian: that is right. good morning, guys. the federal government here in washington is partially shut down after president trump failed to strike a deal with democrats on funding for the border wall. this is the third shut down of the year. president trump took to twitter to explain the situation to americans taking none of the blame. take a listen. our great country must have border security. we don t want people coming in that aren t supposed to be here. we need the democrats to give us their votes. let s work together. let s be bipartisan and let s get it done. the shut down hopefully will not last long. gillian: this comes exactly one week after the president told democratic leaders schumer and pelosi in the oval office that he would own any shut down over border security. senator schumer indicating last knight the dems are still willing to keep on negotiating. democrats t
whether or not they are going to spend three tenths of 1% of deficit spending to secure our southern border. pete: see that countdown clock right there. 7 hours the government is shutting down. ticking up. counting down to the shut down. now we are seven hours into a shutdown while you were asleep. turns out the senate couldn t figure out what they wanted to do. the passing the bill that included $6 billion in funding it moves over to the senate. they voted to vote. but they haven t figured out what to vote on yet because schumer has said the wall would be expensive and ineffective and you are not going to get your wall. mitch mcconnell, we will see what he does and how he maneuvers. doesn t seem like a lot of daylight between those two groups the president doubling down this shut down is on the democrats. jedediah: seven hours in and amazingly nothing has imploded yet. let s listen to president trump calling the shut down a democrat shut down. our great country must have border secu
what you are talking about as chad pergram pointed out our resident capitol hill expert, we are talking about pocket lint in terms of the numbers of dollars that would be spent on trying to achieve this goal which is now really the shut down is becoming a bit of a farce. pete: chuck and nancy said the wall is expensive and ineffective. you know when you text somebody and you rite ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. chuck and nancy is that a joke. rounding error. ineffective everywhere walls are used they end up working. their people know that. jedediah: we have reaction from both sides on this and we have a tweet from rollen trump added the death spike to his fence to appease his bloodthirsty base of idiots. pete: roll land you are an idiot. cammeron, i don t care if the wall is see through or has spikes on top just build it. this is crucial. especially where our places where our border has no fencing, barrier and leaves our country wide open. i ll take whatever.
facebook, twitter or email us on friends at friends@foxnews.com. those are your headlines. griff: all right, jedediah get out here. jedediah: i m coming. rick: these take a while to get on. let s talk a little bit of weather right now. we have a pretty nice day and travel day today after the big storm we had yesterday. take a look at the weather map and show you what s going on. temperaturewise we are okay today. hey, quickly, this is tuesday. this is what you can expect for tuesday. precipitation that day. storm out across parts of the west. going to bring some rain and higher elevation snow. a bit of a white christmas across places like arizona and around the four corners and out across the west. overall the east you are going to be mostly dry and a little bit chilly. current temps as you are waking up. driving maybe getting ready to do shopping, overall weather cooperating today. the east coast is going to be better, much improved compared to where we were yesterday. by this afterno
griff: a fox news alert. a partial shut down now underway. but a new op-ed argues the fight for the wall should continue into january. if the shut down the g.o.p. s last chance to push for border security? jedediah: here to react former presidential speech writer ned ryun. good to have you here. good to be with you guys. jedediah: what do you think should this push through january to february? how long should this go on? as long as necessary if it has to go for months. it goes for months. it s mind-blowingly stupid that we have even gotten to this point. that s congress for you. they want to keep kicking the can downtown road and trump has said absolutely not. we re going to keep having this conversation. back in march when he signed that god awful omnibus bill he was promised by leadership we will get you funding for the wall. here we are in december and they weren t going to give him any funding.