that s per the acting chief of staff/budget director, mick mulvaney, who has also signaled that the president might be willing to accept less than that original $5 billion demand for the border wall. but he hasn t specified just how much the president would be willing to come down. this as one of president trump s top allies on capitol hill, senator lindsey graham, said ft. seemed interested in a potential compromise that would involve him standing firm at $5 billion, and then tying that funding to a temporary renewal of the daca protections, for those undocumented immigrants known as dreamers. democrats haven t signaled whether they would be interested in that kind of compromise. there has not been a lot of serious talk in it, so things right now seem to look a lot like they did ten days ago and no end in sight for this shutdown. it certainly looks like it could get worse before it gets better. sarah westwood live from the white house. thank you very much. the president also tweet
now, warren has certainly had her share of missteps, right? she had this dna test thing that she did in the fall, a video about her her native american ancestry that sparked quite a bit of backlash. but there s another cnn poll that shows about a third of the poll is unsure about her. does she have an opportunity here to try to fix some of this or soothe concerns for jittery democrats? sure, we re still more than a year out from iowa. she has plenty of time to soothe over some flaws that perhaps some voters think that she has. but i should also point out that joe biden is much better known than elizabeth warren and his unfavorable rating is actually lower than hers is. it s pretty clear that even for someone who isn t as well known as she is, her unfavorable rating is pretty high, that s the case both among the general electorate, as well as among democratic primary voters. right. she, of course, has been somebody that has not been afraid to go after president trump, whenever s
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of defense under president trump, this policy of really throwing our allies under the bus and making impetuous decisions does not seem to be getting much better, even if you just look at the president s twitter feed today and his comments on syria, it looks like he s trying to boost morale. the pentagon, the work moves on. the new acting replacement, patrick shanann, he takes over tomorrow. the president apparently still kind of discussing this serious strategy here. this is not really shanann s area of expertise, dealing with these type of military matters. how big a challenge is this going to be for him? that s exactly why there should have been a longer transition period. during his transitions from a secretary to an acting secretary, even if it s a deputy, typically there s a handover of information. what the secretary knows, he tries to impart on whomever is taking over for him. trying to do that over the course of just a few days is literally impossible, especially when you h
senate republicans are indicating as of right now, as of today, is that they are not going to try to pass and send something to the president that they know that the president is not going to support. but this entire time, there have been discussions behind the scenes, even as the president kind of publicly takes this posture of no compromise and no retreat, that the vice president and jared kushner and the legislative team over at the white house have been in ongoing conversations on the hill, at least with republicans, trying to figure out what could they put together that the president can live with, that could actually get passed. so, look, this is going to be the democrat s ascent in the house. nancy pelosi s reemergence, we expect, as speaker. and so what are they going to do? they re going to come on day one, showing that they re able to get things done, at least their definition of getting things done, and they get the ball rolling. and that s what happens when you have divided