Okay, so on Wednesday we're going to set a new record and it is not a good one. It would be the record for the longest government shutdown in American history. Currently that title is being held by the 2018 2019 government shutdown which lasted 35 days.And there's some real economic cost to this. So in that particular shutdown, there was an estimated 375,000 federal workers that were furoughed. You can imagine the strain it would put on all of those households with paychecks not clearing.And for that reason ...

Well, it's happening. President Trump making good on threats to furlow more federal workers as the shutdown drags on. This is all developing right now.A senior White House official telling MSNBC's Von Hillyard, "We expect thousands of people, unfortunately, to be laid off due to the government shutdown." And the news comes just a day after President Trump said this. >> And we're only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you. I guess that's makes sense.But we're only cutting Democrat programs. Uh b ...

Let's turn to the shutdown this morning. Now in its eighth day, another round of Senate votes expected to begin this hour. Let's turn to Emily Wilkins with another attempt at this.It's starting to become a thing, Emily. It it is starting to feel a little bit like groundhog today on the Hill, Carl. But we're going to see if there's any signs that the stalemate is breaking with this next vote.You know, we've really had the same senators voting the same way for a week now. One person to watch for this vote is ...