security is everyone s business and it is dismaying to watch a number of these democratic senators who instead of coming to the table and talking about border security for this nation, son dr sandra, running in 2020. let s bring in kelli o donnell and mike vicara. kelli, we heard everyone say, this is everyone s business. what is the latest on the negotiations to end the shutdown? reporter: well, morgan, it is still crickets and quiet here at the white house. what we have today is the sunday shows as a launch pad to position both parties for the new week, which includes a new year and a new leader in congress presuming nancy pelosi is, in fact, elected speaker. today you have positioning going on where kellyanne conway is saying where are the democrats with their counteroffer after the president a week ago through the vice president submitted a really kind of a caving on the
sides. on this brand-new article in the new york times, thank you so much. great stuff. president trump spending the long holiday weekend at his mar-a-largo resort in palm beach, florida and learning some things might not work the way he thinks they do. time magazine pushing back on this trump tweet. called to say that i was probably going to be named, person of the year. like last year. but i would to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot and i said probably is no good and took a pass. thanks any way. he was the person of the year last year after winning election and they said he is wrong about the process of picking the new chief of the consumer financial protection bureau. he named nick mulvaney to full the post but an acting chief was chosen by the bureau s out going director richard cordray. the legal battle now seems likely to figure out who is right here. let s go now to nbc news kellio
good judge. justice kennedy is obviously very good. and justice roberts, justice warren couldn t hold in her laughter, but she had her own oops moment. can you name some republicans in the senate today that you are able to work with on big issues, substantiative issues the country faces? probably richard lugar would come to mind. he s not going to be there. who else can you name? that is a problem. by the way, on scalia, in a state like massachusetts, the conservative justice there not very popular with some of the base folks there. not only has the massachusetts senate race become one of the most competitive in the country, it s sparked fireworks outside the debate hall. kelli o donnell is in
their case. so it was something to watch, chuck. unbelievable. i keep joking, this is one of those epic senate races. w winner may run for president some day and loser will get a talk show. kelly o donnell, for all the fireworks, it s like no other state when it comes to politics. new trouble for mitt romney in new hampshire. his next door neighborhood advantage is it really not all it s been cracked up to be? we ll talk to maybe the most interesting granite stater of them all, the former governor there who is practically guaranteed romney is going to carry the state. plus there he goes again, the romney campaign ties itself in knots to lower expectations. chris christie predicts romney will turn the race around. first a look at the schedules of president obama and mitt romney. nothing public. privately, it s at least one more mock debate. do you realize they have done
massachusetts. kelly, take me into the spin room. take me into the crowd. we saw what happened on air wp what happened behind the scenes? reporter: we were approaching here, we kept saying is this debate traffic, because it was jammed. that was clue number one. close to the arena, there were literally thousands of people who were outside here with signs for both warren and brown. there were a lot of loud voices. part of that, of course, is the union movement was certainly out in force for warren. the brown people knew that and so they brought their folks out. you don t see that at many debates. it was bigger than the crowds we typically see at a presidential debate. that gives you a sense of how much this matters. inside there were 5,000 people seated to watch it in person. david gregory had to make sure wait a minute. 5,000 people? in an audience? that s a stunning number.