Ring-Kissing, Lawsuits and a Looming Shutdown

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  from the. New York Times, I'm Michael Balbaro.

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  This is the Daily.

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  So Donald Trump is now officially against passing the funding bill that would avoid a government shutdown.

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  Four days before Christmas, weeks before his inauguration, President elect Trump is pushing the federal government toward a shutdown.

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  Look at the list of CEOs who are either shelling out big money or.

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  Meeting with Trump in person or both.

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  We're talking about CEOs from TikTok, Google, Apple, Netflix.

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  The country's corporate titans are flocking to Mar a Lago to curry Trump's favor.

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  Today, ABC News agreed to give $15 million to Donald Trump's president.

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  And a major media company has capitulated to Trump's legal strategy of suing those who cross it.

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  To make sense of all of this, I gathered three of my colleagues.

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  Senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman, congressional reporter Katie Edmondson, and financial columnist and the founder of DealBook, Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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  It's Friday, December 20th.

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  Everyone.

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  Welcome to the roundtable.

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  Katie, Maggie, Andrew, thank you all for making time for us.

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  Thank you for having us.

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  Thanks, Michael.

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  Thanks, Michael.

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  Okay, let's jump right in.

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