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Still to blame. >> rick tyler, i was speaking with representative gates in the last hour. representative gates said $2.6 billion, ill do that. he was agreeing to 1$1.6 before. in trade for that, the democrats would get the bridge act which would be a temporary grant to work for those who are related to daca. do you think that might work here? >> i do. i think the democrats, theyre clearly in the strongest bargaining position. therefore, if trump is not going to move off add the idea of money for...

Accepting that offer. this is something that apparently was going on but has only broken into the public today. dems waiting to hear what theyll accept because they dont trust his word through his intermedia intermediaries. as you may know, plenty of people dont follow every piece of political news. theyre not following the first hour of the shutdown but word is getting out that donald trump did shutdown the government with no plan. more people blaming him for it than any other party. 47% of ame...

Shutdown. heard what phil mattingly said, now we could be talking about how many weeks, not how many days, the shutdown is going to be going. what does it look like to you now? >> i think it will be weeks, not days. its very difficult to know what the president would be willing to sign, and mark meadows, being one of his chief allies in congress, in the house, unless and until those house members indicate what theyre willing to sign, and then have a bill pass the house and get over to the senate...

Honest weeks pay for an honest weeks work and there are times when ive never supported a government shutdown, but where a government will shut down and you know that its coming in advance. this is not that. this is an after the fact were going to shut the government down, and were not really clear what our bargaining position is even going to be. so i think in this respect, its extremely unfair to those workers. and its -- to be retiring and ill be going out in a time when the government is shut...

Who has the appetite to extend this the longest and who the shortest right now, would you say? >> i just got off the phone with a democratic aide who says that democrats are not going to budge on what the senate already passed, which is this idea that essentially there will be no border funding in the cr. so, democrats are digging in and saying theyre not going to do this. president trump through his incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney, has already signaled that the white house is willing to ...

>> a, its not true. b, a more minor point, how are all these federal workers communicating directly with donald trump about their policy views? i mean by what mechanism did he gather that or claim to gather that opinion? now lets show you some facts about the public opinion. most americans oppose trumps shutdown and just 35% of those survade in this reuters poll say they backed including money for the wall in the first place for the bill. only 25% took the more extreme bargaining position here t...

Would you say? >> i just got off the phone with a democratic aide who says that democrats are not going to budge on what the senate already passed, which is this idea that essentially there will be no border funding in this cr. so democrats are saying theyre not going to do this. president trump has already signaled the white house is willing to come down on the initial $58 billion ask but the president himself has not fully endorsed that. the key thing here is the house is going to turn into de...

To me and communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall. these federal workers want the wall. >> a, its not true. b, a more minor point, how are all these federal workers communicating directly with donald trump about their policy views? i mean by what mechanism did he gather that or claim to gather that opinion? now lets show you some facts about the public opinion. most americans oppose trumps shutdown and just 35% of those survade in this reuters poll say they backed including...

No plan. more people blaming him for it than any other party. 47% of americans in the new reuters poll. trumps acting chief of staff also struggling today to outline any kind of clear bargaining position. >> president trump willing to accept anything short of that wall? >> thats why the government is closed. >> what deal are you willing to accept? >> im not going to tell you guys that. >> okay. so dont tell anyone and just wait for this to work itself out. trump of course going further, publicly...

Of the house in which case the bargaining position goes up. i think all democrats, you know, from their perspective is better to sit back, wait, have nancy pelosi take over and have your bargaining power increase. of course, if youre the republicans, youre probably wondering how come this fight waited until the very end of republican rule of the senate and the house of representatives and didnt take place the last two years of the trump administration. >> anita: yeah, right. that is strange timi...