No Confidence: In the meltdown over exiting the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s own party has called for a vote of no confidence. She could be out by the end of the day, leaving Britain without a prime minister.

Speaking in front of 10 Downing Street, May said, “I will contest that vote with everything I’ve got.” But even if she survives the vote, she is considerably weakened.

Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue: In a bizarre debate that played out in front of reporters and cameras in the Oval Office yesterday, President Trump told Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer that he’ll shut down the government if he doesn’t get his border wall.

“If we don’t get what we want, one way or the other, whether it’s through you, through our military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government,” Trump said in a sometimes heated exchange.

Trump said, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security.”

At times the exchange was like a school yard argument.

It was supposed to be only a photo op of Trump sitting down with the Democrats. More than once, Pelosi suggested that the conversation should be carried on in private. Trump said, “It’s not bad, Nancy; it’s called transparency.”

Trump wants at least $5 billion for his southern border wall and doesn’t have the votes to get it. The deadline for keeping the government running is Dec. 21.

Trump opened the meeting with a rambling preamble about how much of his wall has already been built. “A lot of wall has been built,” he said, repeating a fiction he posted on Twitter. He said, “We don’t talk about that, but we might as well start, because it’s building — it’s being built right now, big sections of wall. And we will continue that.”

Congress has appropriated no money to build new sections of border wall. On Twitter Trump said, “If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall.”

By the Numbers:While President Trump attempts to destroy the credibility of the Special Counsel’s Russia investigation, a new CNNpoll says most Americans approve of it and want to see it through.

-59 percent say Russian election interference is serious and should be investigated. Only 35 percent say it’s about discrediting Trump’s presidency.

-Only 29 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the Russia investigation, while disapproval has risen to 57 percent.

-50 percent say special counsel Robert Mueller’s  investigation is very or somewhat likely to implicate Trump in wrongdoing, vs. 43 percent who say it won’t.

-54 percent say the things Trump has said about the investigation are completely or mostly false, vs. only 36 percent who say they’re true.

Bring a Toothbrush: President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen appears in federal court in Manhattan this morning for sentencing in the scheme to pay hush money to two women. Prosecutors have asked that he be sent to prison.

Life: A Charlottesville, Virginia, jury has recommended life in prison for the neo-Nazi who last year rammed his car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally, killing a young woman.

James Fields, 21, was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring 19 people after the “Unite the Right” gathering on Aug. 12, 2017.

French Shooting: French authorities are hunting for a gunman who opened fire last night in a Christmas street market in Strasbourg. Three people were killed and 13 wounded in the crowded market.

Police know the identity of the shooter, who was on a terrorist watch list.

China Syndrome: In what may be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a Chinese tech executive, China has detained a former Canadian diplomat for being employed by an organization that was “not registered in China legally.”

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the tech company Huawei,has been released on bail in Canada.

Nuncents: The archdiocese of Los Angeles has decided to press criminal charges against two longtime nuns accused of embezzling as much as half a million dollars from St. James Catholic School in Torrance.

It’s believed the two women squandered the money on travel and casinos.  Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, who was the school principal,  and Sister Lana Chang,have expressed remorse and asked for forgiveness and prayers. The school wants its money back. And they’re not just praying for it.

Google It: During a hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday a Democratic congresswoman asked Google’s chief executive for clarification of how the search engine works. Rep. Rep. Zoe Lofgrenof California said, “If you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. How would that happen? How does search work so that that would occur?”

Well, you just type in “idiot.” And in fairness to the President, pictures of his sons Don Jr. and Eric also pop up.

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