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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.

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

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

. >> 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

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

. >> 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