wall, he d take half, $2.5 billion, what do you say, chuck? schumer rejected the offer. doesn t sound like trump is in a position of strength. most americans oppose the wall and blame the shutdown on trump, not a surprise given he went on television and proclaimed to the world he would, in fact, take the blame for the shutdown. i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i m not going to blame you for it. i will take the mantle of shutting down. the mantle is yours, mr. president. now democrats take power in the house in six days and their plan is to quickly pass a bill, probably in the first few hours, to reopen the kbogovernment, th does not include the $5 billion for the wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. and then it s up to the senate to decide how long federal workers will remain furloughed or continue working without pay. the u.s. office of personnel management offered guidance to
the supreme court. and day six of the government shutdown. the senate stands adjourned. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. it is day six of the trump shutdown and the senator dick durbin noted today there is no end in sight. the house and senate did technically gavel into session today, but they didn t do much. both chambers adjourned after less than five minutes. and with more than 800,000 federal workers either furloughed or working without pay, basically nothing is expected to change before the new year when democrats take control of the house. but here s the thing. even if the democrats do manage to reopen the kbogovernment, an that will be an interesting fight, it will not change the fundamental fact the trump administration has been and will remain in its own kind of quasi-permanent shutdown. many administrations are temporarily staffed or not staffed at all.
set and the bad law that you don t want to make and also the fact that, you know, bringing charges that don t survive a court challenge doesn t do anything for the justice department. a couple possibilities here. one, the kbogovernment has foun way to charge him for something publishing plus, maybe conspiring to violate hacking laws or acting as a foreign intelligence agent if these charges relate to the russian hacking or it s possible the trump administration just isn t worried about the precedent of charging someone for publishing only and not worried about the court challenge and potentially losing the case. these are all possibilities we re looking at right now. what do you think, frank? well, this is spot on discussion. boy, there was great debate over whether wikileaks was a journalistic entity or a foreign adversary. it appears that something has happened and that it may, may be linked to mueller. there s recent reporting, chris, as recent as this afternoon, we may be talki