Well, looks like that government shutdown is pretty much over. We'll discuss how it all comes to an end today.

Plus, we'll talk about President Trump, who apparently has some pretty good grounds to shut down the Mueller investigation, or at least some new ones,

and Hollywood can't stop ripping on Melania. Melania, of all people. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

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Okay, so here we are. Apparently, Mitch

McConnell has made a new offer to Democrats on the government shutdown, and they are going to pursue it.

They are going to go for it. What exactly was his new offer? So when last we left, our epic story, our epic story last week. It looked like the Democrats were going to run this government shutdown into the ground. Their goal here was to make sure that Trump was in the middle of a government shutdown on the first anniversary of his inauguration. Their outside goal may have been to make this thing last beyond the inauguration, beyond the state of the union address, so that Trump would actually have to speak about the state of the union in the middle of a government shutdown. That looks like that's about to end. And when I say about to end, I mean like right now as we are recording this show, it looks like they're about to take a vote. That will end the government shutdown, which lasted all in all three days, two and a half days. and that comes to an end as Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, offers the Democrats virtually nothing. He says we will have a short-term CR, a continuing resolution that funds the government through February 8th, so it takes us past the State of the Union address. And he says, before we get there, we will have a vote on DACA. So we'll try another three weeks to come up with a vote on DACA. If not, then I guess we'll have another government shutdown on February 8th when Democrats tried to attach DACA legislation to the government, to the government budget, to the continuing resolution. Remember, that's how this whole thing went down in the first place. We needed to fund the government. The Democrats said, we're not going to fund the government unless you give us DACA, unless you give us Obama's executive amnesty and shrined in law. Republicans said, we're not going to do that unless you give us some concessions.

Democrats said, we're not going to do that unless you give us some concessions.

Democrats said no, and then we went into this government shutdown that started Friday night and is over by Monday morning.

So it really is not even worth the time. Here was Chuck Schumerer last week blaming Trump for it,

suggesting that it was all Trump's fault, this government shutdown. I love the shutdown clock on CNN. I came back online Saturday night, but when I left for Sabbath, the government had not got shut down. I came back on Saturday night, and lo and behold, everything was the same. Like literally all of the things were the same. No one's check had not gone out. You have to wait until the first of the month for people's checks to not go out. People were still going to receive their Social Security. The government was still going to collect all of its revenue. The government was going to continue to function. 90% of the government continues to function during a government shutdown. 88 to 90% of the government continues to function as essential services during government shutdown. And yet we were supposed to believe, look at that counter on CNN, that this was the end of the world. Oh my God, we're counting down to Armageddon. The asteroid is finally going to hit Earth. Here is Chuck Schumer blaming Trump for it, although Trump really had little to do with it, the Senate Minority Leader who thought that he was going to get a big win out of this. Now, it's possible Schumer can still get a win out of this if Mitch McConnell then makes a bad DACA deal. He can say, it was really the threat of my, it was really the threat of my government shutdown that forced the Republicans into a bad DACA deal. They didn't want to redo this in February. So a lot depends on what comes next. But here is Senate and minority leader Schumer going

after Trump. Americans know why the dysfunction is occurring. A dysfunctional president. Hence,

we are in a Trump shutdown. And party leaders who won't act without them. Only President Trump

can end it. We Democrats are at the table, ready to negotiate.

The president needs to pull up a chair and end this shutdown. Okay, so the president did not,

in fact, have to pull up a chair and end the shutdown. Chuck Schumer ended the shutdown.

The White House was doing a pretty good job of undermining the Democratic claims on this. The Democrats were basically making two claims. One, Republicans are responsible

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