in his capacity as the acting white house chief of staff and as the director of the office of management and budget, mulvaney met with and advised president trump directly on a frequent and regular basis and implemented president trump s plans. including stopping the aid to ukraine before they gave in to investigations. bolton looks like to me he s trying to be forced into the hearings, that he kind of wants to testify, has things to say, but he wants to be ordered to do it. i know the courts have a hearing today. the courts still grind pretty slow in these kind of cases, and the democrats seem to be on a quick timetable. i don t know if there is enough time to get decisions to force bolton to do this. it s fascinating in the sense that if you believe bolton s assista assistant, fiona hill, saying they cooked it up to something
making that counteroffer. mike pence and mr. mulvaney met with chuck schumer on capitol hill. when they made that official offer. the ball is in their court. thank you so much. and what we can expect in the days ahead. a contributor for spectator usa. who do you think finally gives and how do we get there. right now, neither side wants to give and it looks like this could be a very long shutdown. a few weeks ago. he said he would be proud to shut down the government for border security and to get the wall. i think they have now taken his word. and they re blaming him for the shutdown. it does look like the public is doing so as well. they are a lot more willing to compromise.
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