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The U.S. Customs And Border Protection Announcing Its Ordered Medical Checks On Every Child In Its Custody; Government Shutdown Now Entering Day 5; Wall Street Is Bracing For Another Wild Day After The Dow Suffered Record Breaking Losses On Christmas Eve. Aired: 6:00- 6:30p ET

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think it will stray.

JEROME POWELL, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE: The independence of the Fed is key, I plead with the President to reconsider what is a very dangerous course/

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ERICA HILL, ANCHOR, CNN: Good morning and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. This is "New Day," Wednesday December 26th. It's 6:00 here in New York. Alisyn and John are off. I am Erica Hill. Here this morning again with John Avlon.

And we do begin on this Wednesday with breaking news. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announcing its ordered medical checks on every child in its custody. This after an eight-year-old Guatemalan boy died on Christmas Eve. His is the second death of an immigrant child while in the agency's care in just the last month.

JOHN AVLON, ANCHOR, CNN: Now, this tragedy highlights the showdown between Congress and President Trump over his demand they approve $5 billion to construct a wall along the border with Mexico.

The president is not backing down, vowing the government shutdown will continue until his wall is funded. We are now in Day 5 of the shutdown with no apparent end in sight and all of this comes as CNN has learned that the President's Treasury Secretary may be in, quote, "serious jeopardy" after failing to calm the markets. We have it all covered. Let's begin with Nick Valence live in El Paso, Texas. Nick.

NICK VALENCIA, CORRESPONDENT, CNN: Good morning, John. This is an absolute tragedy, no doubt about that but especially when you consider that it happened on Christmas Eve. This eight-year-old and his father had migrated from Central America from Guatemala and were detained by Customs and Border Protection last Tuesday.

In this time, over the course of last week, they were shuffled through various processing centers, including one that was overcrowded, but it was on Monday, according to a CBP release that one of their agents noticed that this eight-year-old Guatemalan boy was suffering. His condition had seemed to worsen in the time that he was in their care. He was transferred to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a common cold. There, medical staff said that he had a fever. He was held for a short time longer than that, but he was eventually released.

It was later that night though that his condition continued to deteriorate. He was vomiting. He was nauseous and he eventually lost consciousness, never to regain it. He died shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve.

This is of course, the second child to die in the last month in the care or in the custody, I should say of Customs and Border Protection, and has the agency taking a matter - a number of steps, the Commissioner announcing yesterday in a press release that they are going to focus on children ten years and younger, their care and focusing on their healthcare, conducting secondary medical checks, things like considering Federal help with medical care, bringing in the Coast Guard perhaps to help with that.

They are also working with ICE on transportation, it is sometimes hours it takes for migrants to be transferred after they are apprehended in the field through some of these processing centers, and it obviously has affected the agency, and afterwards, they are taking these steps, but who knows how effective they will be.

You now have Congressmen and representatives blasting the agency, of course, this being the second tragedy like this to be happen in a month is leading to these changes. Of course, all of this is happening against the backdrop of a government shutdown and a steady flow of migration that continues to happen from Central America, the very agency, though, this Custom and Border Protection Agency that is tasked with protecting the border is furloughed, and that seems to be taking an effect on them as well -- Erica.

HILL: Nick with the latest for us there. Nick, thank you. The death of a second migrant child at the border does highlight the stalemate, as Nick just pointed out, over President Trump's border wall funding demand. The government shutdown now entering of course, Day 5. There is no end in sight.

CNN's Boris Sanchez is live at the White House this morning with more. Boris, good morning.

BORIS SANCHEZ, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, CNN: Hey, good morning, Erica. Yes, no end in sight to the shutdown and with lawmakers not due back in the nation's capital until tomorrow, the shutdown itself may not be the top priority for the White House today depending on how markets open in a few hours.

It has been tumultuous days for the nation's stock market in December, and now there are questions about the future of one of the President's top economic advisers as there's anxiety behind the scenes here at the White House. (BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)

TRUMP: It's a disgrace what is happening in our country, but other than that I wish everybody a very Merry Christmas.

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SANCHEZ (voice over): President Trump delivering a not so merry holiday message from the Oval Office, attacking Democrats, decrying immigrants and vowing that the Federal government will remain closed until funding for his wall is secured.

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TRUMP: It's not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they'd like to call it. I'll call it whatever they want, but it's all the same thing.

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SANCHEZ (voice over): That message far cry from 2015 when Mr. Trump tweeted that there was a big difference between a fence and a wall. Eight hundred thousand Federal workers are impacted by the shutdown, and many working on furlough or without pay.

The President is insisting without proof that many of those employees support his efforts.

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TRUMP: Many of those workers have said to me and communicated stay out until you get the funding for the wall.

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TRUMP: These federal workers want the wall.

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SANCHEZ (voice over): But the head of a union representing Federal Treasury workers tells the "Washington Post" that the shutdown is a travesty, arguing quote, "Federal employees should not have to pay the personal price for all of this dysfunction." President Trump also repeating his claim that he signed a contract to build a large section of the wall, yet providing no details when asked who was behind the project.

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TRUMP: Different people. Different people. Highly bid.

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SANCHEZ (voice over) After the stock market plunged more than 650 points on Monday, the President again pointing the finger at the Federal Reserve. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: They are raising interest rates too fast. That's my opinion. But I certainly have confidence, but I think it will straighten.

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SANCHEZ (voice over): A source close to the White House tells CNN that President Trump is increasingly frustrated with Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, whose Sunday calls to reassure bank executives, rattled investors. But in front of cameras, Mr. Trump was vouching for Mnuchin.

TRUMP: Very talented guy, a very smart person.

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SANCHEZ: According to a source close to the administration, aides of Treasury Secretary Mnuchin have been scrambling together a positive economic data to present to the President to help calm him down. It is apparently not working. Sources indicate the President is not happy with what he is hearing, John and Erica.

HILL: All right, Boris, thank you. Joining us now, CNN political communicator, Errol Louis; CNN political analyst, Margaret Talev and CNN political commentator, Joe Lockhart. Good to have all of you here with us. I want to go back to our breaking news off the top, not only did we learn about this death of a second child, an eight-year-old boy on Christmas Eve, but that Customs and Border Protection is now saying, "We need medical checks for all children in our custody." The issue though is that they don't know how many children. That is in fact - here is what Secretary Nielsen had to say just a few days ago when she was asked.

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HANK JOHNSON, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, GEORGIA, DEMOCRAT: How many children 17 years old or younger have died in DHS, ICE or CBP custody since you took office?

KIRSTJEN NIELSEN, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY: We will get back to you on that figure. What I can tell you is that we have saved 4,200 migrants who are distressed --

JOHNSON: Approximately how many have died?

NIELSEN: I understand your question, sir. I will get back to you.

JOHNSON: Can you give me an approximate figure?

NIELSEN: I will get back to you. I am not going to guess under oath.

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HILL; Getting back on that Customs and Border Protection, according to the Associated Press, when they said they would do these medical checks, still couldn't give an exact number in terms of the number of children who were in their custody.

Errol, as you look at all of this, how does this play out moving forward?

EROLL LOUIS, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR, CNN: I think what is going to happen among other things is that when the Democrats take control of the House, you will start to see calls and possibly even legislation that will require DHS to keep track of these numbers that will specify a tracking system that apparently has eluded the Department of Homeland Security.

And we should make clear, I think the DHS and the political staff at the White House are probably fully aware that this is going to be a very difficult task. When you have got over 100,000 apprehensions in a month of families trying to cross the border, you start to realize, this is not just a simple task. This is not just a simple talking point. This is thousands and thousands of people whose medical condition has to be screened, and ascertained. You don't know what might be going on, who has medical issues or what kind of care they are going to need.

This is all much more complicated than the ideologues ever made it sound.

AVLON: Joe, you served in an administration at a very high level, but I think it's hard for folks to understand that despite all the complexity of government, how a simple answer can't be given about how many children have died in custody?

JOE LOCKART, FORMER CLINTON WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Yes, well, I think one of the hallmarks of the administration, and you see it across the board, is they don't have a process. They don't - simply don't know. This is the hard work of government.

You can have the President set a broad policy goal, the parameters around it, but then hundreds of thousands of people have to implement it, and from the very beginning, when they started separating these families, remember how this story started. It was, they lost 7,000 kids. They still have not found them. They don't do the hard work of government. It's all about slogans, and it's all about, you know, Stephen Miller's rantings. They are not performing the basic functions of government and kids are dying because of it.

HILL: And Margaret, we should point out, too, part of the function - part of the issue with functioning of government is that there are a number of positions that either remain unfilled or there are people who are now in those positions who are - have acting in their title and there's more and more talk about the President surrounding him with yes men, who will simply sign of on what he wants to do, as opposed to in many cases, Margaret, doing that hard work of government.

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MARGARET TALEV, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Yes, look, the President's priority in this case has been to galvanize the debate around the wall, but the actual management of these population flows across the border, and whoever the President was at this time, this is a real issue. It's a real concern of the migration spike from the Central American countries.

But these are issues that this administration in an apolitical way has to manage. I mean, what you do with people, especially young children and how you manage health concerns, this has to be conducted completely separate from a funding debate over the wall and completely separate from politics, because you understand here, in this tragic case that the cost is human lives.

AVLON; Yes, there were a lot of surreal statements yesterday from the President announcing he had signed a contract to build part of the wall with absolutely no details and Margaret, at some point, I would like your answer to that.

But I want to go through some of his tick tock highlights. One of them was an extraordinary quote, "It's a disgrace what is happening to our country, but other than that, I wish everybody a Merry Christmas." And then of course, there was this epic interaction with a young girl from Lexington, South Carolina. Let's take a listen.

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TRUMP: I can't tell you when the government is going to be open. I can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall or fence or whatever they'd like to call it. I will call it whatever they want.

Every one of those Democrats approved a wall or a fence or very, very substantial barriers, and as soon as I wanted to build the wall, they were all against it.

Take Comey. Everybody hated Comey, they thought he did a horrible job, the Democrats hated him and once I fired him, everybody said, "Oh, why did you fire him? Why did you fire him?"

It's a disgrace what is happening in our country. But other than that, I wish everybody a very Merry Christmas.

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AVLON: That, of course, is not his interaction with the young girl from South Carolina, we will get that to you shortly, but Errol, what do you make of this? Is this just sort of a Christmas Day edition of typical Trump presser or is this something a little bit different given an increasingly isolated President in the middle of a shutdown?

LOUIS: I think he was just diligently going through his talking points. One, it's a disgrace what is happening to this nation, and the other was Merry Christmas to the nation, so you just kind of walk through his talking points, and it sounded just strange as it just sounded just now.

I mean, look, what is going on here is the President is increasingly frustrated because all of these problems, you go through them whether it's the migrant crisis, whether it's the dissatisfaction with the Federal Reserve by the White House and by the President, all of these things are of the President's own making, starting with by the way the firing of Comey, which in turn led immediately to the appointment of Robert Mueller who is making the President's life miserable.

These are all problems of his own making, and as much as he might want to try and blame each of them on his political enemies, the reality is, he was counselled to take a different course on almost every one of these items and he made his own choice, and now he is going to have to live with the consequences.

HILL: The reality, too, is that counseling as we know, and Margaret, I know you see this on a daily. There is the counsel, but the President actually has to listen to the counsel, and those are two very different things in this administration.

TALEV: Yes, and certainly, we saw this play out most recently in the Syria situation, not necessarily whether or not to begin the withdrawal of the U.S. Military presence, but to do it in the way in which it was done, and I think, you know, we are also seeing it play out in this issue over the economy and the Fed, how to manage Jay Powell, and the President doesn't make the interest rate hikes.

So many advisers universally telling him, "Look, the law doesn't let you do it, but also, the independence of the Fed is important," and yet the President, at least until a few days ago very much testing the proposition of is there anything he can actually do.

So I think, whether it's in foreign policy, domestic policy, economic policy, there is sort of a pervasive concern throughout government among the President's own advisers, that even if he is surrounding himself with people who are trying to give him kind of the full spectrum of advice, in the end they are never sure really until the last minute whether he's going to heed it.

AVLON: Right, that's usually not a good bet with this President. Joe, today is Boxing Day. It's a day for going through presents and perhaps a little bit of recreation and digesting the final Christmas cookies, and tomorrow, government begins again. Congress comes back. We are in day five of the shutdown. You have compared this increasingly isolated President to Colonel Kurtz from "Apocalypse Now." I am giving you a chance to explain.

LOCKHART: Well, for me, it's a cross between Macaulay Culkin in "Home Alone" and Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now."

AVLON: You're blowing America's mind right now.

LOCKHART: I mean, it is getting crazier and crazier. And you know, we can say that it's extraordinary, but that loses its meaning.

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LOCKHART: But over the course of a couple of days, he blew Santa Claus' cover. He said, I was home alone. He said, "I'm signing bills," and when they did a close-up of the bills, it was a bank piece of paper. It's a little crazy making and let me just add one point to what Margaret was saying because she is exactly right.

These are all problems of his own making. He's furious at the Fed for raising interest rates too fast. He passed in a booming economy, he passed a deficit busting tax cut that blew a hole in the deficit. If we had not done that, the Fed would not be raising rates as quickly as they are.

These are all of his own making and he is not able to internalize any of these things and he is a little bit like Colonel Kurtz surrounding himself by crazy people in the jungle talking about crazy stuff.

AVLON: So Stephen Miller is Dennis Hopper in this scenario?

LOCKHART: Exactly.

HILL: What is remarkable, even if you just think about messaging, is if you look at the Christmas message from the President and the First Lady. At one point, they say this is a wonderful season. It brings out the very best in Americans, and then you have - so he was able to stay on message for that, but then you have the real President Trump which is what we see and especially when he is alone and when he is isolated, weighing in on all of this, the fact that we are still in the middle of the shutdown, the fact he is digging in his heels, Errol, none of this is going to change, and we have Pelosi saying, well, maybe, as soon as we get there next week, we are going to pass something to help with the shutdown. I imagine that's not going to help the President's mood either.

LOUIS: No, on that particular issue, Erica, the polls - and this is as of early December, suggested that something like 57% of the country did not want to see a shutdown over this particular issue of funding the wall.

On the other hand, something like 63% to 65% of Republicans actually thought it was worth shutting down the government over this particular issue, so the President has chosen, as he often does to kind of stick with his base, work on his base, work on his reelection politics and maybe that's the right thing to do in strictly political terms.

But it turns off Democrats, it turns off independents. It turns off a majority of the country. It is harming despite what the President said. I happened to spend part of Christmas with one of my nephews who works in the Federal Prison and he is describing what's going on there after - I mean, he is not getting paid. The guards aren't getting paid. The psychologist and guidance counselors have been sent home. This is not going to be a pretty scenario.

And you multiply that agency after agency, the politics are not going to work for the President in this case either, and I think he is going to find once again that his own choice is going to come back to bite him.

HILL: We would love to hear to who those people are that the President has reached out to. He said they are very happy about the furlough - the furloughed workers.

AVLON: Yes, I am guessing they may be hard to get on the record.

HILL: Guys, good to have all of you with us. Thank you.

LOUIS; Thank you very much.

LOCKHART: Thank you.

AVLON: All right, the Dow is coming off one of its worst weeks in decades. CNN has learned, the market downturn has Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in quote "serious jeopardy" with the President. Is recession on the horizon? Our financial experts discuss, next.

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AVLON: Wall Street is bracing for another wild day after the Dow suffered record breaking losses on Christmas Eve. A source tells CNN that President Trump's frustration with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is rising saying he is in quote, "serious jeopardy" after he failed to calm the markets.

Here to discuss are, Rana Foroohar, global business columnist and associate editor for the FT and CNN chief business correspondent, Christine Romans.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CHIF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT, CNN: Good morning, guys.

AVLON: Good morning. Happy Boxing Day to you, both.

RANA FOROOHAR, GLOBAL BUSINESS COLUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDITOR, FINANCIAL TIMES: Good morning. Thank you, thank you.

AVLON; So chaos - the new normal emanating from the Oval Office.

FOROOHAR: Exactly.

AVLON: President's comments about Steve Mnuchin, our reporting saying that Mnuchin is in real trouble, Christine, what are you hearing?

ROMANS; Look, I mean, the President is - everybody is in real trouble. If you listen to the reporting, you know, he does not like what has happened in the last few days. He has been pressuring Steven Mnuchin to try to calm the markets, but the President himself is the problem here.

There is a confusing message coming out of the White House on economic policy because the President is weighing in with these hissy fits with the Fed and investors do not want him meddling with the independence of the Fed. The Fed is raising interest rates because the economy is strong. The President said that yesterday, but he still doesn't like it.

And he can't change it. He can't change it and he needs to accept that. So the President weighing in and threatening the Fed, even though the President says it's his opinion. But he is threatening the Fed and that is something investors don't like.

HILL: It's also remarkable that he is weighing in as all of this is going on, too, because we know how much the President has said, likes to tie his successes to the economy, and look, there are a lots of places where he can absolutely tout that as a success, but when you look at the markets tanking, he goes off on a rant about it and then says, "Oh, but now is a great time to buy." That also Rana is remarkable to hear that coming from the President.

FOROOHAR: Yes, and by the way, don't sell for starters, but whether now is a great time to buy, you know that's a big question. I mean, Christine and I have been on this show and many others talking for many years about how we knew we were going to be at this point. We are ten years into a recovery cycle.

It's natural that the economy is probably going to slow either in the coming years, certainly by 2020, a lot of economists would say that. The stock market is going to be volatile. We knew that. The Fed is at a point where they are going to start taking some of the asset purchases that they made following the financial crisis out of the market. That's going to increase volatility.

China-U.S. trade conflict, also going to increase volatility. There is conflict in Europe right now, street protests in France, so there's a lot going on in the global economy right now that is going to make markets volatile. It's not a time to be telling people to buy or sell really.

ROMANS: I can't believe I heard a President give a buy recommendation for stocks.

FOROOHAR: I know, I know.

ROMANS: There is a reason and we've kind of become you know, normalized to - but there's a reason why Presidents don't talk about day to day movements in the stock market and tell you to buy or not buy, and it's all about confidence, and letting the strong economy and the markets work and not having a President who is weighing in on it.

AVLON: Of course, you have - usually Presidents don't attack the Fed Chair and are reportedly calling for his firing. And the result is of course the worst December on record, shaping up to be one of the worst months --

ROMANS: Our worst December since 1931, because in 1931, it was worse. But it is shaping up to be a negative year, the first negative year in ten, and that is something that must really gall this President who has gone out there and cheer-leaded this market and taken all the credit for it. This is why you don't take credit - Presidents don't take credit because you can't take credit for the downturn, too.

AVLON: But how much is political turmoil overseas?

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AVLON: How much are these larger forces? FOROOHAR: Well, I think that there is a lot going on. As I say,

China is in a major slowdown. China has a big debt bubble right now. That was brewing even before the Trump presidency, but of course, the way in which this administration has pushed the U.S. and China trade war has really not helped things. I mean that more than anything I think has fundamentally rattled markets, and that coming at a time when we have seen a big tax cut that has bolstered stocks, but not done anything for Main Street --

ROMANS: And blown up the deficit.

FOROOHAR: And blown up the deficit. It's all very destabilizing. Markets don't like that. Add on to that the criticism of the Fed, which by the way, for the last 10 years, I think the Fed has done more to stabilize the U.S. economy, and central bankers in general have done more to stabilize the world than politicians anywhere.

So to be criticizing the very people that we should be thanking for being responsible is - markets don't know what to make of this.

ROMANS: And the President, when interest rates were low during the Obama era, he was mad about how low they were. He said they needed to start raising interest rates. And now that they are raising - you know, no President likes to be the President when the interest rates are rising.

I would also point out, I've been watching oil. Oil is like $43.00 a barrel or something, and it's because of the supply - but it's also really because of these concerns about slowing global growth. So when you look at all of these kinds of indicators in the economy, it tells you that next year is going to be a little more difficult and that you are not going to have the boom days that we have had over the last several years.

HILL: And add to all of that, too, that you both said, there is all of this concern about global leadership, right, because of crises in other countries as well, where there a lot of questions there. That does not inject confidence either.

What is remarkable as we talk about, you know, sort of trying to not normalize this, the words that we are hearing from the President, just take a look at one of his tweets on Christmas Eve, I believe this was Christmas Eve morning, early in the morning, "The only problem in the economy is the Fed," as we've pointed out. He's railing on the Fed repeatedly, and talking about golf.

I mean, when you tie a couple things in together, if you're the President, these are the two things you are going to throw in. It's remarkable.

ROMANS: It's not a game. It doesn't inspire confidence and what investors are telling you is that, you know, he just needs to stop, and I know that people who have advised him in the past and people who are close to him have been telling him do not - stop bashing the Fed, and they are probably going to try to get them together maybe in the beginning of the year. He needs to be educated on what the fed does. Honestly --

AVLON: So you are calling for an intervention?

ROMANS; Yes, I am officially calling for an intervention, but I just think - the economy - he is right that the economy is strong. Yesterday for some 50 seconds where he went off yesterday about how the economy is strong and that's why the Fed is raising interest rates, and that's true, but you need not a confusing, you need a coherent message from the White House economic team, and the President should not be using Twitter to talk about economic policies.

FOROOHAR: It's interesting because a lot of peoples' voting pattern do move based on their retirement savings. There has been some studies about that, and so it is going to be very interesting to see --

AVLON: Speaking of, I mean, that's one of the big questions here. The President is railing on the Fed and these other forces, but there are questions about whether his own policies have contributed to this environment, for example, tariffs. I was just home in South Carolina, and a museum under construction, the African-American Museum is seeing costs rise because of steel tariffs, and it raises the real prospect of a possible recession heading into 2020.

As much as the President may want to blame someone else, how much of his own policies and comments are to blame?

FOROOHAR: I mean, hugely. Just two things, I mean, tariffs are the biggest factor right now rattling global markets, I would say for the last year. I mean, this is a big deal.

Every business person I talk to is reconsidering their supply chains and thinking about how they are going to have to change the way that they do business and the way it has been done for 40 years, that and the President's tax policies.

I mean, you know, the idea of pouring kerosene on something - on a recovery cycle at the very end, that's when you should be pulling back, not putting more money into the economy and trying to really goose growth. I mean, of course he did it because he wanted to push the economy into a good place before the midterm elections, we know that, but it's not doing anything to help this bubble in the markets right now which is one of the reasons that the Fed has to raise rates.

I mean, it's such a chicken and egg cycle, you know, and he has nobody to blame but himself.

ROMANS: What I think is really ironic, is in spite of the shutdown now, if the shutdown keeps going, as it sounds like the President would like to continue to go with the shutdown, you've got a year after his signature tax cuts, you could have a late start to the tax filing season, or whatever, right? Just that irony to me is so rich.

HILL: With that, I think, too, when we get to it in a couple months, it's going to be interesting, too, to see what people find when they will go to file their taxes and what may have changed, at least for a certain percentage of the population that were big supporters of - financial supporters of President Trump and how it may affect them.

ROMANS: For those people in those blue states, they are going to have the biggest shake when they file their taxes because the tax changed so much to the detriment of upper middle class people in those states.

AVLON; Well, ahead --

HILL: More to come. All right, it is a law approved by voters. One state's governor, however, wants it repealed without their say. His message for those who went to the polls to weigh in, next.

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