courtney kuby. evelyn, you know secretary mattis. you know him well. what is he thinking? well, i think he decided he reached the end of the road. you could already see he was struggling bit with the troops to the border issue a couple of months ago when the president made him order troops, a very wasteful mission. made him order troops to the border and he defended it and stayed on the middle ground saying they wouldn t go there armed. he also towed the line for the president on the khashoggi murder that the saudi arabian government committed. when it came to the issues of armed forces and national interests he was not willing to bend over. the fact the president would
january 3 rrd when democrats ta over. what happens then? the president doesn t have an out besides caving. everybody kind of recognizes that. every one is going along with the show because that s what the president and some of his allies are demanding. there was an offer on the table less than a month ago for 1.6 billion which is more than 1.3 billion, which is the offer now. there s no incentive for democrats to come to the table. why would democrats throw them a life raft at this point. there s no incentive to do that. what s going on in the senate is a total show too. it s either going to die right here or it s going to die on the next round of votes. we re digging in for a long shutdown. the next two days are a weekend then you have christmas eve and christmas. the impacts respects going to be felt until the middle of next week. people will come back into
52,000 from the irs and 71,000 at housing and urban development and 30% of the transportation employees will be furloughed as well. the cost to taxpayers could reach $2 billion as it did during the 2013 shutdown. joining me from capitol hill, colorado democratic senator michael bennett. who pays the political price for this? reporter: well i think the american people pay the price for this which is why we should never shut the government down. there s no government in america that ever shuts itself down over politics and we shouldn t allow this to happen. we should never shut the government down. i think it s clear if it does shut down, president trump, who has said over and over and over again that he wants to shut down, that he would welcome a shutdown. we should have a shutdown, is going to own this terrible shutdown. what s on the table from democrats for the president in order to avert this?
the tax return in the case was fraudulent. and he took $600,000 from a business that produced zero income but he could not produce a single receipt. he also confessed to sales tax fraud. he is the only time there was cheating by the house in an atlanta city casino was on trump s castle. it was a bomb shell report. we spent segment after segment talking about it. it was one of those things that never caught fire. i was talking to voters in indiana that had not even heard of it. if it is that why is trump confident that it will just be
to whether or not we have a shutdown. it s possible we ll have a shutdown. the chances are probably very good. i don t think democrats care so much about maybe this issue. president trump, you will not get your wall. abandon your shutdown strategy. you re not getting the wall today, next week or on january 3rd when democrats take control of the house. the need for greater security on our southern border is not some partisan invention. it s a fact. the need is only growing. with the shutdown looming, stocks slid. yesterday the dow dropped nearly 500 points to a 14-month low. right now it s down around 180 points. add to that the high profile exit of trump s secretary of defense, gjim mattis. he didn t just step down.