yamiche alcindor joins me now with the latest. yamiche, hello, and remind us, why is john k'ly leaving, s president trump's second chief of staff. >> the revolving door at the ite house juskeeps spinning, judy. the ea that john kelly was brought in to have order and brought in to have this kind of hierarchy, this sense of responsibility that generals have, president trump wanted to have generals around him. and what president trump found was that he didn't like the fact that there was order being placed thlire. heed the free wheelingness of the white house. he likes the idea that the white .ouse wants to function much like trump tow he wants ivanka and jared to be able to walk into his office, that of course is his daughter and son in law. so what we really hais a president that just grew tired-of-general kelly's rules and as a result made this announcement on saturday. rmpts-- reports are they were supposedo make this announcement on monday but the president went with his own timing as he often does.dr >> wof: there have bns seve

our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor and ngressional corresponden lisa desjardins have been following this all day. they join me now. hello to both of you. so much to follow. so,a, lishere does everything stand now? we just reported both sid say they are still negotiating. >> that's right. judy, i can report now talking to sources ineadership and the republican party that a government showdown is expected, at least a short one. we will see a partial showdown tonight at midnight, barring a miracle. the senate is essentially waiting for members to return, members who have some gone far west to the dakotas, to hawaii, waiting all day to take an important vote, starting to get the house version, once they thok the vote just a few minutes ago, it was clearhouse bill falls far short of the 60 votes needed in the senate. so senate republicans and democrats have made this agreement, judy, basically to st outside of the process on the senate floor and not take another vote until there is aen deal bet democrats and republicans, including the president. d that means on't know when we'l

for the pbs newshour, i'm yamiche alcindor. w druff: the white house and congress may have clinched that new criminal justice law this week, but this evening, they are on the brink of a partial government shutdown, even as they continue to process the resignation of the defense secretary. here to analyze this week of upheaval are shields and gerson. tthat's syndicated column mark shields, and "washington postcolumnist michael gerson david brooks is away this week. hello to both of you. >> judy. >> woodruff: i doyot think, markcould call it an orderly week in washington. yes, there was this agreement that the president signed, the icriminal justice reformll today, but here we are just hours away from yet another government is shutdown. >> it seems eons ago senator schuman and speaker pelosi met with the pnt and the president manfully stepped up and said i'll take the sutdown and be happy to put it on me.ag then ieement with the senate that they'd fund it through the neyear and en come back and revisit it, and then immediately a

an explain the disagreemen chance for a partial shutdown: newshour correspondent yamiche alcindor is here. and jake sherm of politico is llowing the developments on capitol hill. and hello to both of you. so, yamiche, to you first. tell us, first, where des president stand exactly on the possibility of a deal to prevent a wn to fund the government? >> the president is indicating that he's willing to give up on his initial dema to have $5 billion for the border wall. he wants to start his vacation in florida, it seems ofriday, and not be dealing with a government shutdown. rememb, last week when he had the democratic leaders in the white house, that would bech senatok schumer and representative nancy pelosi, he said, "i would be proud to shut down the government over border security and i would be proud to take credit for that. now the white house ish completelyging their tune. the president today said it's too early to tell. sarah sanders said they're willing to get the money from somewhere els there isn't a clear idea of what the deal is going to be, but the white house is indicatin

our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor is here wh an update. >> schifrin: okay, yamiche, do things stand with the process. >> negotiations have stalled and looking like theÑi shutdown is going to last with into 2019, incoming chief of staff nick mulvaney doesn't expect this to be resolved quickly, thehite house is 0 willing to come off the $5 billion amount which is hat the president was wi asking for the border wall, but there is no specific number in sight and they are about least two to $3 billion apart when it comes to democrats andÑi republicans on th to read to you a statement that the democratic leaders, senator chuck schumer andÑi representate nancy pelosi put out today, doesn't people from the same white house ar saying different things about what the president would accept or not accept to end his trump shutdown making io ible to know where he, we withstand at any moment so we are at a stalate. >> schifrin: so president trump a couple of weeks ago said i will take the blame for thish down but more recently he has blamed the democrats. we are on day three right now, at

alcindor f here. and jake shermanlitico is following the developments on capitol hill. and hello to both of you. so, yamiche, to you first. tell us, first, where does the opresident stand exactthe possibility of a deal to prevent a shutdown to fund the government? >> the president is indicating that he's willing to give up on his inial demando have $5 billion for the border wall. he wants to start his vacatinion florida, it seems ofriday, and not be dealing with a government shutdown.la remember week when he had the democratic leaders in the white house, that would be senator chuck schumer and i,representative nancy pele said, "i would be proud to shut down the government over border security anduld be proud to take credit for that. now the white house is completely changing their tune. the president today said it's too early to tell. sarah sanders said they're willing to get the money from somewhere else. there isn't a clear idea of what the deal is going to be, but the white house is indating they'r

alcindor, white house coronado for t correspondent for the pbs news hour. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. in a week when much of washington talked about a shutdown which came at midnight on friday, the word many mentioned around this city was actually meltdown. there were a lot of other words and phrases that emerged as the week ended among questions if the trump presidency has so lost its footing it may not recover. mr. trump likes to project an image of independence and strength. the president's growing dependency on the base for political survival was exposed when he appeared ready to give up funding for the border wall temporarily in order to keep the government running. mr. trump's base revolted with right wing provocateur ann coulter writing gutless president in a wall-less country. on the basis of his self-interest alone he must know if he doesn't build the wall he has zero chance of being re-elected and a 100% chance o

yamiche alcindor, eugene robinson, glenda bear, thank you for being with us. >>> and telling troops in iraq, we are no longer suckers of the world. is this the president's policy in a nutshell? is it working? >>> plus, a stark image of a divided america. is there any room left for big-picture bipartisanship? and michael bloomberg, how about his quip that the president is not an entry-level position? was that aimed at trump? was that an opening against democratic primary opponents? >>> finally, we finish tonight with a government shutdown that feels a whole lot different than shutdowns we have been through before. this is "hardball," where the action is. re this is "hardball," where the action is. i'm ken jacobus and i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. what's in your wallet? take your razor, yup. up and down, never side to side, shaquem, you got it? come on stay focused. hard work baby, it gonna pay off. why go with anyb

one of the reporters who broke the story is with us along with anna palmer and yamiche alcindor. you lay out a couple of real life examples. including a math teacher. she leaves a house in upstate new york at 7:00 a.m. every day. travels to a middle school 14 miles away. she went to a weight watcher's meeting, hiking with her dog, the dermatologist's office. to her ex-boyfriend's house where she stayed. this is a detailed look at who a person is. lisa's location was recorded 8 6 00 times. >> right. i think this is something that consumers are not necessarily aware of, and a lot of the companies say that this is anonymous data, but what we were able to show is you could identify people in it. and i think as we're all carrying our smart phones around, it's something that people really should be thinking more about and companies should be disclosing measuing more tha are. >> this is pretty widespread. you are write at least 75 companies received this anonymous precise location data from apps and several of those businesses climb to track up to 200 million mobile devices in the u.s.

our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor is here with an update. >> schifrin: okay, yamiche, where do things stand with in the prtiess. >> negots have stalled and looking like theÑi shutdown is going to last with into 2019, incoming chief of staff nick mulvaney doesn't expect this to be resved quickly, the white house is 0 willing to come off the $5 billion amount which is what the president was with asking for the border wall, but there is no specific number in a sight and the about at least two to $3 billion apart when it comes to democrats andÑi republicans on this, and i want to read to you a statement that the democratic leaders, senator presentatimer andÑi re nancy pelosi put out today, doesn't people from the same white house aresaying different things about what the president would accept or not accept to end his trumpng shutdown mait impossible to know where he, we withstand at any moment so we are at a stalemate. >> schifrin: so president trump a couple of weeks ago said i will take the blame f this shutdown but more recently he has blamed the democrats. we are on day

yamiche alcindor is correspondent for the hour in, jonathan capehart is opinion writer for the "washington post," ruth marcus is editorial page editor of the "washington post." ruth, i was kidding during the break there. it's like wheel of fortune, you see some but not all of the words. you have to fill them in. >> i'd like to buy a redacted line now if i may, we're reading tea leave bus they're blacked out. it tells us probably that flynn has provided significant, important and trustworthy information to the special counsel because basically flynn got what president trump asked for all along which is for the special counsel to go easy on him. no prison time. >> he got it through a different route, yamiche. trump was going to get him sprung. anything on sanctions, trump knows all about it, he knows where he's vulnerable now. if you're president trump you should be worried because michael flynn got a cad lock deal idea that you have mooufl who everyone thought he would be easy to prosecute. early on he was pointed out as someone who would be in danger. he sat down for substantial interviewi

alcindor, white house coronado for t pondent for the pbs news hour. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. a week when much of washington talked about a shutdown which came at midnight fr ay, the word many mentioned around this city was actually meltdown. there were a lot of other words and phrases that emerged as the week ended among questions if the trump presidenc has so lost its footing it may not recover. mr. trump likes project an image of independence and strength. the president's growing dependency on the base for political survival was exposed when he appeared ready t give up funding for the border wall temporarily in order to keep the government running. mr. trump's be revolted with righting provocateur ann coulter writing gutless president in wall-less country. on the basis of his self-interest alone he must know if he doesn't build the wall he has zero chance of being re-elected and a 100% chance of being humiliated

yamiche alcindor has more. >> alcindor: for more on this case and how to better meet the potential medical needs of immigrant children being held in u.s. custody, i am joined by dr. colleen kraft. she is the president of the american academy of pediatrics. earlier toy, she spoke by phone with officials from u.s. customs and border protection about these concerns. dr. kraft, thank you so much for joining me. we are still waiting to learnde more about thth of 8-year-old felipe gomez, but from what you've heard, what kind of questions has his death raised inaerms of the wy his case was handled by the system? >> i think the greatest question is what is the level of pediatric care andti exp around the care of these children in these facilities? we don't know wt kind of screenings, who saw him, when the decision was made to take him to the hospital or send hi home, and we continue to have questions about thi >> let me talk to you about the way that the u.s. customs a border protection is handling this. they say they will have secondary checks on all children within their custody and partnering w

yamiche alcindor saying how incredible and stupefying what she saw was that happened in there. my panel back with me. there was so much body language to watch in the course of a 15 or 16-minute long interview. and as everyone wrote, the president decided to do this last minute, wanted to open the door to reporters, to watch all of this unfold. i kept looking at chuck schumer, who never made eye contact with donald trump, so much as i could tell. >> a couple of things. first of all, he's obviously -- trump is not used to being challenged directly, right? it's like why he barely has press conferences anymore. he's not used to being challenged directly and certainly not used to being challenged directly by women, right? and you can see that he was sort of angry and discombobulated. and i think they both did a pretty good job of setting him up to basically say, i take responsibility for a government shutdown, you know, which is going to be a quote that haunts him forever. so i think that one thing we saw there is why it is that nancy pelosi is and should be the leader of the house

. >> we're going to leave it there, yamiche alcindor, aaron black, andy card, next time i promise i'll talk to you for more than 30 seconds. i swear. i'm out of time. i'm going to put it into the very capable hands of craig melvin. >>> thank you. craig melvin here msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking developments in the shutdown showdown. president trump accusing democrats of putting politics over country after the senate passes that continuing resolution to keep the government open until february. the big question in washington, even inside the white house right now, will the president sign the bill? no one seems to know. >>> president trump defending his decision to pull troops out of syria. russian leader vladimir putin applauding the idea, shocked republicans slamming the withdrawal. whose idea was this? >>> and going to trial, the judge dismisses a request by disgraced movie mogul harvey weinste weinstein's attorneys to throw his sexual assault cases out of court, how it all unfolded in that courtroom. >>> we start with that breaking news, a dramatic showdown brewing on c

alcindor, white house coronado for t correspondent for the pbs news hour. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>rom the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday inmorning. week when much of washington talked about a shutdown which came at midnight on friday, the word many mentio adund this city was actually meltdown. there were a lot of other words and phrases that emerged as the week ended amo questions if the trump presidency has so lost its footing it may not recover. mr. trump likes to project an ndependence and strength. the president's growing dependency on the base for potical survival wa exposed when he appeared ready to give up funding for the border wall temporarily in order to keep the government running. mr. trump's bas revolted with right wg provocateur ann coulter writing gutless president in awall-less country. on the basis of his self-interest alone he must know if he doesn't build the wall he has zero chance of being re-elected and a 100% chance of being humiliated. presiden

. >> we're going to leave it there, yamiche alcindor, aaron black, andy card, next time i promise i'll talk to you for more than 30 seconds. i swear. i'm out of time. i'm going to put it into the very capable hands of craig melvin. >>> thank you. craig melvin here msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking developments in the shutdown showdown. president trump accusing democrats of putting politics over country after the senate passes that continuing resolution to keep the government open until february. the big question in washington, even inside the white house right now, will the president sign the bill? no one seems to know. >>> president trump defending his decision to pull troops out of syria. russian leader vladimir putin applauding the idea, shocked republicans slamming the withdrawal. whose idea was this? >>> and going to trial, the judge dismisses a request by disgraced

jake sherman, senior writer with politico, and co-author of plit co-playbook, yamiche alcindor, and white house correspondent for pbs news hour. and hughhewitt. thank you for all being here on this special set on this holiday friday. jake, let me start with you. answer the question if you can. who pays for this politically and actually? >> actually the u.s. government is going to pay for it clearly because congress appropriates money and that -- >> because mexico is not going to? >> mexico is not going to pay for it. the trade deal that the president says will pay for the wall has not been passed through congress, so that's not going to pay for it either. who's going to pay for this? the president continues each day, according to republicans and democrats, not in my view, he continues to lose leverage because in six days from now, nancy pelosi will be speaker. >> right. >> and she will control the chamber of congress, which democrats don't have right now. so it's tough for me to see how the president gets out of this box canyon that he's put himself in, but it's going to include not getti

yamiche alcindor has more. >> alcindor: for moron this case and how to better meet the potential medical needs of immigrant children being held.s incustody, i am joined by dr. colleen kraft. she is the president of the american academy of pediatrics. earlier today, she spoke by phone with officials from u.s. customs and border protection about these concerns.ha dr. kraft, you so much for joining me. we are still waiting to learn more about the death of 8-year-old felipe gomez, but from what you've heard, what kind of questions hass death raised in terms of the way his case was handled by the system? >> i think the greatest question is what is the level of pediatric care and expertise around the care of these children in thse facilities? we don't know what kind of screenings, who saw him, when the cision was made to tke him to the hospital or send him home, and we contue to have questions about this. >> let me talk to you about the at the u.s. customs and border protection islia this. they say they will have secondary checks on al chldren within their custody and partnering with your orga

. >> so white house correspondent yamiche alcindor in washington, jennifer rubin, both are msnbc contributors. i'll start with you yamiche, in full disclosure here, i am not familiar with the thorough machinations of government funding. i don't know the budgetary process as well as you and some of the other reporters there in washington, but is it possible that the president can just fine a few billion dollars for his wall without using congress? >> to my understanding there's no way for him to do that. the main thing to remember here, craig, is that there was already a deal last year to give him $1.3 billion, and the president now this year is saying i don't want that money. i want all $5 billion. up until his interview this morning, the president was sticking to that $5 billion amount. he was saying he wasn't going to budge. he said he welcomed the idea of a shutdown and would be proud to shut down the government over border security, and now you have sarah sanders saying, actually, hold on, maybe we can find a couple billion dollars somewhere else. that's going to be very, very hard, and c