This Sunday, shut down battle. With government funding set to run out in just two days,

the White House threatens mass firings of federal workers.

He's not the king. He can't just dictate what happened. He said he doesn't need Democrats. Well, then he doesn't know how to count.

They're not even pretending as if they want to find common ground.

What the Democrats have done here is take the federal government as a hostage.

Can a deal be reached? I'll talk exclusively to the Senate Majority Leader Republican John Thune of South Dakota

and the Senate Minority Leader Democrat Chuck Schumer

of New York. Plus, facing charges. Former FBI director James Comey is charged with lying

to Congress and obstruction just days after President Trump publicly called for the Attorney

General to prosecute him.

Comey's a bad person. He's a sick person. I think he's a sick guy, actually. He did terrible

things at the FBI. I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I'm innocent.

So let's have a trial. Joining me for insight and analysis are David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal

columnist Peggy Noonan, and former Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson.

Welcome to Sunday.

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This is a special edition of Meet the Press with Kristen Welker.

Good Sunday morning. With funding set to run out in just two days, a deeply divided Washington

is preparing for a government shutdown.

But last night, President Trump agreed to a White House meeting with the top four congressional

leaders, with Democrats demanding health insurance subsidies, be extended as a part of negotiations.

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