airport and talk to the folks that are hard working, they concerned about working without pay. i think y all at cnn had an interesting report talking about how the number of tsa officers that are calling in sick has increased week by week. i just learned i was with some folks that are air traffic controllers. it is ann havi impact on them. it is preventing others from being trained. it will have a long-term effect on the safety in our skies. i don t think we understand the ramifications that this shutdown is going to have. if this is a crisis you should pay the people to try to deal with this crisis. i think shutdown politics, i have only been here for four years. i don t think anybody has ever won a shutdown debate. i think this is a silly way to
the president s attorney general nominee is on the hill right now. he s trying to win support. what the leadership shuffle all means for the russian probe. we ll dig into that in just a moment. we start once again with shutdown politics. lots of action in d.c. this hour. at any moment on the right side of your screen there, democratic leaders in congress are expected to hold a news conference. later today they ll be heading to the white house for yet another meeting. a lot of jokes, a lot of memes after the performance last night by speaker pelosi and senator schumer. you ve got to remember, they weren t the ones with anything to prove. president trump s speech needed to make the sale to the american public for why his wall is worth the shutdown. instead, the president appears to still need to make the sale to members of his own party. two hours from now, president trump will be lunching with republican senators. five of which so far, five, have said outright or suggested that they w
emigrated legally. he was pursuing his dream of being a cop, and then to be gunned down, that adds a twist to this tragedy. meanwhile we ve got the government shutdown. and the incentives, i think that will affect the shutdown on the margins. it doesn t change the fundamental dynamics of what the shutdown is. you ve got democrats on one side, nancy pelosi really trying to show that democrats were right to pick her as speaker. she wants to stand up to shrum, and then you ve got trump, who has drawn a line in the sand. there is no compromising. it looks like it will continue. ed: let s get you that shutdown politics. among his tweets today, i teed this up a moment ago. honduras, guatemala, they are doing nothing for the united states but taking your money. we will be cutting off aid to these countries, taking advantage of the u.s. for years.
mri looking at her broken ribs. it s quite lucky because otherwise they wouldn t have found these very, very dangerous nodules in her lung? as you pointed out, she may not need further treatment, and that is remarkable. shutdown politics. it is a chronic washington problem. the blame game. who stands to lose the most this time around? we ve got two different views on that ahead. we ve got two different views on that ahead you might take something for your heart. or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.
troops come home for christmas why didn t he alert the pentagon? whether or not it s done in the right way, that remains to be seen. that s a lot of the reason the republican senators have a problem with this right now. we also have shutdown politics happening overnight. we are hearing that this is all going to go the president s way and the congress s way. the president will sign it. joe, do we have any evidence at this point that the president is actually going to follow-through on this? does he have any options? i think he s likely he will sign it. and there s a wildcard, which is trump. he s always a wildcard. if you look at the political problems that syria and the shutdown present, syria has gotten a lot of attention but don t forget the shut down. the base hates the fact that he has caved on no border wall. you have ann coulter calling him