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But I'm going to break, I'm going to break my rustic age.

All right, here we go. How's everybody doing? It is BK here, and it is 12.05 p.m here in san diego cold and sunny san diego i should say and yeah this is the last podcast of 2018 how about that god i can't remember the last time i even

took a week off but i'm due maybe i'll take next week off who knows uh go ahead and follow me on

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I know many of you already do to keep up with important news throughout the week, and I really appreciate that.

So it's been kind of a sort of slow, half-fast news week, you know, how it is post-holidays and all that.

So I'm going to go ahead and start with an update on the government shutdown.

And yes, Republican leaders have given up hope as of Thursday and Friday of reopening the government before the new year,

leaving that border wall impasse to House Democrats as they assume the majority next week

and presenting Representative Nancy Pelosi with her first major challenge as Speaker.

Now, House Democrats take control on Wednesday.

And they are weighing three approaches to getting funds flowing,

none of which, of course, would include additional

money for President Trump's proposed wall along the southwestern border.

Whichever path they do choose, party leaders said they would vote promptly on January 3rd,

hoping to project the image of Democrats as a steadying hand in Washington.

This comes, of course, as Republicans try to blame Pelosi and the Democrats for the shutdown and lacks border control. Now, Pelosi is determined to prevent this shutdown from interfering with the Democrats' assumption of power and her return to the

speakership. But it appeared almost certain that this careful rollout of the Democrats' legislative agenda,

including a sweeping anti-corruption and voting rights bill, would be at least partially eclipsed by this funding

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