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.@SenShelby talks the shutdown: Nobody wins in a shutdown. We all lose, and we kind of look silly.pic.twitter.com/Ud3ydgDU2C

.@jontester says he thinks "the fact we’re at a government shutdown is nothing short of ridiculous."pic.twitter.com/szrBxiPlNr

Don't miss out on the last episode of the year! We're joined by @SenatorTester & @SenShelby plus our historians panel to look at how the lessons of the past can help us for the future. It's all happening NOW on CBSN.pic.twitter.com/ZiJPbBiFiQ

"Whether your issue is national security or economic interests or the expression of our values, there's a way in," @GayleSmith tells @margbrennan of bipartisan support for foreign aid https://cbsn.ws/2Tm8Fgr pic.twitter.com/sVBE42meJy

Jill Lepore tells @margbrennan on @FaceTheNation about the work of "some very cynical political consultants in the 1970s and 1980s who wanted to get voters to the polls" https://cbsn.ws/2TgWXDy pic.twitter.com/hxlTC8OFQe

Like President Trump's attacks on Mueller today, "the effort was the same [in 1998], to discredit the accusers and to make sure that anything that came of it was partisan," @peterbakernyt tells @margbrennan on @FaceTheNation https://cbsn.ws/2CFJpfr pic.twitter.com/H5RMo2H1Fx

"One of the most important things you need from a president is the ability to not only make tough decisions but also to be able to explain it to people so that they feel included. A tweet will never do that," @BeschlossDC tells @margbrennan @FaceTheNation https://cbsn.ws/2CG6OgY pic.twitter.com/uitG2h3aOn

"We have to remember that this country was founded on a set of ideals, and it's not just a place. And that's what so special with us," @DorisKGoodwin tells @margbrennan @FaceTheNation https://cbsn.ws/2Tdnz8C pic.twitter.com/Up3NHSo25G

"This has been brooding. Now we can deal with it." @hans_zollner spoke with @sethdoane about the still emerging allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church https://cbsn.ws/2TjdkQ6 pic.twitter.com/fBKyadnOaA

President Trump "moved the goalposts," @SenatorTester tells @margbrennan, saying he "asked for 1.6 billion dollars in his budget proposal for this year" https://cbsn.ws/2TgGvDt pic.twitter.com/S5AB32PWat

The president is breaking a campaign promise "to have Mexico pay for the wall, @SenatorTester tells @margbrennan @FaceTheNation, saying he is using "the American taxpayer like an A.T.M. machine" https://cbsn.ws/2Tj5hmd pic.twitter.com/tDCU5rntHf

"The president cannot fire the chairman of the Federal Reserve, except for cause," @SenShelby tells @margbrennan @FaceTheNation, saying he thinks Powell "is doing a good job" https://cbsn.ws/2TgELKr pic.twitter.com/I43vOKWWiC

"If we blame each other this could last a long, long time," predicts @SenShelby, later telling @margbrennan on @FaceTheNation that "nobody wins in a shutdown" https://cbsn.ws/2TmGw93 pic.twitter.com/6cg01TyeWv

Gayle Smith from the @ONECampaign talks about U.S. foreign aid: It's not enough to say we care about this, we're for development, we want to see Africa prosper. We need to invest.pic.twitter.com/6ZaaCsDTqG

Historian @peterbakernyt talks effects of impeachment process on the country historically: “Democratic leaders are very wary of this, they did see what happened to their Republican predecessors in 1998 and 1999, that in general did not seem to work out well for them politically.”pic.twitter.com/NcC5jvNpFM

.@ONECampaign President Gayle Smith talks with @margbrennan about the AIDS Crisis: As long as we're moving faster than the virus, we can win the fight against AIDS. But if it starts moving faster than we are, we're in real trouble. And the world is not paying attention.pic.twitter.com/Z6C00IYEXj

Historian @DorisKGoodwin on what it means to be an American: “We have to remember that this country was founded on a set of ideals and it's not just a place… When you think about the Declaration of Independence you think about the idea that all men were created equal.”pic.twitter.com/ARKD2SXTck

Historian Jill Lepore talks voices that drive history: “When you think about political history, if you confine your attention to the enfranchised or the officeholders you're going to have an incredibly narrow all white male history for decades and it's an incredible distortion."pic.twitter.com/D8QKpdqzWl

Historian @BeschlossDC talks Founding Fathers’ expectations for the presidency: “They expected that the first president would be George Washington -- every later president would be like him. As we've seen, not everyone turned out to be that way.”pic.twitter.com/8ATPE1ZLVW

.@SenatorTester on President Trump’s tariffs: “If this continues we’ll see more farmers go broke and we’ll see rural America be further diminished.”pic.twitter.com/n2EtOSwIYU