national security work around, they are going to run head long into objections come september 30th of this year because, obviously, with the house being in democratic control the stop funding anything like that and we ll be right back here ten of sep having another shutdown threat. making a national security threat around border when numbers are trending down wards. it doesn t reflect a crisis at the border. not a change in a way that would have prompted that response. neil, thank you very much. always a pleasure. north korean leader kim jong-un is in china according to chinese and north korean state media. kim arrived yesterday reportedly on his 35th birthday for a four day visit at the invitation of chinese president xi jinping. the visit comes ahead of an expected second summit between kim and president trump. trump recently tweeted that he was looking forward to that meeting despite a not so veiled
house here. he had to cancel christmas plans, he s at the white house by himself. we wonder what the tweets will look like as he s there and his family is down in florida. you also have a president who is facing so much more than just the shutdown threat. as democrats begin to assume their positions, as the heads of all these committees. we ll start to see the influx of investigations, of subpoenas, as committees start to ask questions, demand witnesses, about the president s actions, the president s businesses, digging into corners with their newfound power, we have potential impeachment proceedings to begin, we have the mueller investigation that obviously is still continuing. and with every single new court document, with every piece of information we learn it seems to get worse and worse and closer to the president personally. so things are only getting more difficult for this president as we get into the new year. jill colvin, john nichols, thank you so much. a new poll on wh
week after partial paralysis of the federal government, president trump is threatening another shutdown, this time on the u.s. border with mexico. he has been posting tweets, pointing fingers trying to deflect from his prominent role over the fight in funding the border wall. let s bring in our analysts to talk about this. david swerdlick, we heard from jeff flake last hour where he was saying the government shutdown could last into the second week of january. could it stretch into the middle of january? that s a lot longer than i think a lot of people expected here in washington. but you have the white house continuing to do and the president continuing to do what we ve seen over the last week or so, which is trying to shift the blame from themselves over to nancy pelosi. right, it is, jim, longer than a lot of people expect. if you go back to january of this year, everyone was sort of girding for a big fight on the hill and democrats pretty quickly folded up their tent and moved on
facebook much more than their holiday pics. the controversial highly political post she is promoting and how it could impact the high court. welcome to the lead, i m dana bash in for jake tapper. and we begin this friday afternoon with the politics lead. a new year, a new congress fast approaching, president trump issues another shutdown threat. this time, the warning is that he may seal off the entire southern border with mexico and insisting the federal government will not reopen until he gets his billions in wall funding. day seven of the partial shutdown and neither side is giving ground. white house press secretary, sarah sanders, telling cnn the president has been in the office for the past several hours and making calls all morning. but it seems much more of his attention has been on his twitter feed. cnn s jessica dean joins me now from the white house. jessica, we learned today the president will stay in
in the white house with the president views as well. that s right. a shutdown threat in the middle of the shutdown. president trump saying without funding for the border wall, he might decide to close the southern border entirely. the united states loses so much money with trade to mexico under nafta the president tweeted, that i would consider closing the border. shutting down the southern border would cost a billion dollars a day. as a president willing to do that? yes he absolutely is. some argued that he could not close the seven border and if he did, there would be legal challenges. the budget director and soon to be active chief of staff mick mulvaney is that it is not an empty threat. all options are on the table. it s the only way we can get the democrat s attention. the white house offered them a deal that is less than his previous ask a $5 billion for