Canadian peace keepers in mali got an early christmas surprise this weekend, a visit from their prime minister. justin trudeau met with troops on saturday to thank them for their service. he shared a turkey dinner and dropped off a foos ball table. about 250 da nad yan military personnel are stationed in the west african nation. the u.s. president had planned to visit his mar-a-lago resort but changed course and remains in washington due to the partial government shutdown. hard to celebrate when you re the president if the government is partially shut down. if he needed any last minute ideas to decorate the white house during his stay, our jeanne moos has some suggestions. reporter: president trump has been petting the christmas tree-hauling horse, lighting the national tree, even popping out
This again reportedly was triggered by a volcanic eruption and perhaps a water slide. that s why everyone was caught off guard because there was no warning. again, that band that was performing, the leader saying his manager, his bass player and his wife all missing. yeah. moving on now to developments in washington, d.c. the resignation of a second senior u.s. official in protest of president trump s decision to pull u.s. forces out of syria. brett mcgurk was america s top diplomatic person in the global fight against isis despite battlefield gains, mcgurk believed the mission was not finished and he viewed president trump s move as reckless. let s bri e first of all, tell us more about the integral role that mcgurk played in that region. he had probably the hardest job in the administration.
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Furlough. not exactly what people wanted for christmas. right. mr. trump sent vice president mike pence to try to work out a resolution at capitol hill. sarah westwood reports so far there s no deal. reporter: president trump is still not signaling what he would consider in terms of a deal that could get 10 senate democrats on board and start the process of reopening the government. white house officials say the president is not budging from his demand for $5 billion for the border wall, they say that money has to be used for the construction of a physical barrier along the southern border. they say it can t just be used for border security in general, which is one of several potential options that had been floating around capitol hill amid the shutdown talks. but make no mistake, despite that current hard line stance the president has been all over the map when it comes to the funding fight first saying he would be proud to accept responsibility for a shutdown if
There s no right line of principle that separates hundreds of miles of physical barriers in 2006 from new physical barriers in 2018. it will never pass the senate. not today, not next week, not next year. so, mr. president, president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. plain and simple. is it plain and simple like that, peter, do you think? it really is because the majority of the congress does not want the wall, that includes a large number of republicans that are concerned about that and yet he wants to be very strong headed about it and say we have to have the wall. he has to stick to his campaign promise, but bringing his own party will be brought down because of that. look what happened in the elections.