Rachel Maddow

Go ahead.

Let me ask your, I guess, your reaction, your understanding of what kind of change the federal government is making.

And I know that you said publicly at the press conference this weekend there's been reporting that you have had some communications with the Trump administration.

Did you have any word that this was going to happen?

Did you have any sense in advance that this was going to be what they did?

To that point, there is a decision that needs to be made at the U.S.

Senate this week in terms of funding DHS.

I thought you'd ask that.

They call it a minibus.

It funds like five major components of the government, more than half of the total operations of the government, including DHS.

What's going to happen there?

What's your expectation this week for that bill?

And what would be the impact if that funding for DHS didn't pass?

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