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Clean bill on thursday. >> shannon, i ask without being snide, what percent of the presidents day is spent on this shutdown, i.e. on fixing it? >> as far as my reporting indicates, theres not much else happening in the white house other than this shutdown. the white house kind of has a bare bones staff right now. its a little bit of a ghost town because a lot of the workers there are furloughed. things they would like to be doing like. >> infrastructure. >> right. infrastructure, theres still th...

To squeeze by on this, but the truth is republicans are really afraid of the base that is still very loyal to the president. trump is very popular with republicans, and he won this election with a promise of the wall, and so he is doubling down, and its forcing them to double down. theres a handful who are facing tough re-elections who have been vocal about trying to pass something. its not likely thats going to be enough people to pass the clean bill on thursday. >> shannon, i ask without being...

To squeeze by on this, but the truth is republicans are really afraid of the base that is still very loyal to the president. trump is very popular with republicans, and he won this election with a promise of the wall, and so he is doubling down, and its forcing them to double down. theres a handful who are facing tough re-elections who have been vocal about trying to pass something. its not likely thats going to be enough people to pass the clean bill on thursday. >> shannon, i ask without being...