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That. look, i dont disagree with you, senator paul, but the government is going to close in six hours and you need to do something about it. im interested to -- most senators would say hell give in. i dont know. and the longer he waits, remember the logistics process of this -- >> hold on one second. phil mattingly, our congressional correspondent, is up on capitol hill. phil, what happens now? >> let me lay out the back story of whats actually happening. senator rand paul has made very clear he...

Everything gets filibustered. they havent nuked the filibuster on legislation yet. so instead of there being a situation where lets have an amendment vote. lets have a debate. a debate and an amendment vote? thats the last thing these party leaders want to trot out there on the floor. because a tough vote is the last thing one of these vulnerable 2018 democrats wants to have to face. so i think its broken. the government. mostly you can point to the fact that the u.s. senate is broken. it does n...

Millions of dollars on life insurance. back with our political specialists epts to go back to capitol hill. the latest drama on the senate floor. republicans ran into a roadblock. what are you hearing, phil? >> reporter: the issue thats frustrating republicans all day has come to almost a head right now. im being told that the deficit trigger, the issue that republicans were huddled in the senate well talking about why that amendment vote almost went in a very bad direction for republicans who...

Paraphrase the vice president, a big deal. >> the first lady in greensboro, north carolina, after that amendment vote, it is historically a black college, and saying, invoking greensboro four, scott hall, invoking that civil rights narrative. she didnt say and gay marriage and marriage equality, but certainly theres no way you can stand in north carolina invoke the greensborough four and not be talking about it. >> good point. the north carolina story, people want to say the african-american com...

Access to it. that is essential to womens reproductive health care, and its really a question of public health as well. >> today, house democratic leader nancy pelosi railed on republicans for the blunt amendment vote. here it is. >> the republicans are kicking off womens history month by bringing the blunt amendment to the floor in the united states senate. instead of talking about jobs, which is what the american people expect and deserve us to be doing, what they sent us here to do, weve move...

Our health care system but on jobs the whole economy in our country. were not sure how it is going to pass. senator mitch mcconnell has taken the lead in pulling this up. it looks like for now it is attached to an aviation bill on the floor now. it will probably come up as an amendment vote. hopefully, well have a couple of days to debate. harry reid could try to table it tomorrow. the vote could be tomorrow, thursday or sometime next week. >> greta: what would be the strategy for him to want to...

Our health care system but on jobs the whole economy in our country. were not sure how it is going to pass. senator mitch mcconnell has taken the lead in pulling this up. it looks like for now it is attached to an aviation bill on the floor now. it will probably come up as an amendment vote. hopefully, well have a couple of days to debate. harry reid could try to table it tomorrow. the vote could be tomorrow, thursday or sometime next week. >> greta: what would be the strategy for him to want to...

Governments shutting down again. i want to get right now to our cnn congressional correspondent. sh this is a very big news night. the government is preparing for a shutdown at midnight. what happened and what is going on right now? >> to put it plainly, the government will shut down in two hours. theres no other way around it. right now as it currently stands, the issue is not the support for the bill in the united states senate. the issue is senate procedure and they basically just ran out of ...

Will move to final passage. the interesting element is the timing. essentially the government shut down. because senator paul is not given his amendment vote. and they ran out of time. not because theres a specific policy issue that people are trying to force. not a large group of one party or another trying to make a major change to domestic or foreign policy. because they ran out of time. this is what happens when you release a 652 page budget deal. that incorporates major spending on the defe...

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