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Just listed? >> ive repeat lid supported a one-day or three-day cr because it keeps everyone at the table, keeps the pressure on, keeps the focus of the american people on us doing our jobs. i think if we support a three-week cr, we wont get any closer to actually resolving any of the underlying budget issues or other things that are coming due right now. >> so the government shut down continues. when that happens, a lot of other things shut down. like national parks, statue of liberty is among ...

An impact. yesterday, secretary of defense james mattis talked about how intelligence operations have to be stopped. training operations have to be stopped. our border patrol agents, our actual troops and service members, first responders, they have to work and not receive pay and that can only last so long. so the impact is very real. it does hurt and undermine our national security. were working as hard as we can to minimize that impact. leland: noteworthy, the military and border patrol doesn...

Weeks later and were no closer. so were asking to have a short-term c.r. and lets stay here and resolve the budget issues, the budget caps and lets -- >> define short-term. to me four weeks is short-term. >> well, no, four weeks means well delay the issues and come back four weeks from now. lets stick with the issues. were close. a lot of progress on the immigration and the health care issues. a lot of progress on a lot of the appropriation issues on opioids and disaster relief and have results ...

Hi, molly. >> its no simple task. democrats are saying, lets just focus on young illegal minors first and then get to the rest. but republicans say, not so fast. they want border security too and say theyve been promised funding for a border wall before and then the funding didnt come through. >> im so mistrustful i think that we keep our promise first and then not give up our leverage until -- until we built that wall. >> but democrats say why wait, they believe they have enough bipartisan supp...

Majority? >> im not going to negotiate with the media on such things. what we want to do is have a -- we want to have a daca compromise, make sure the daca problem is solved. as youve heard me say time and again this has to be balanced so we dont have a daca problem five or ten years down the road. while we deal with the daca issue which needs to be dealt with, we want to make sure we have the right kind of interior and border enforcement so we dont have another daca problem down the road. the p...

Save $270 billion over seven years. >> the big savings are the most politically dangerous ones from medicare and medicaid. >> if these healthcare cuts come to my desk of this size, i would have no choice but to veto. >> clinton figured out a very clever bit of jujitsu. the way to attack the republicans was to say that newt gingrich wants to make your grandmother destitute. >> think about a party whose last stand is to frighten 85-year-olds. youll understand how totally morally bankrupt the moder...

A morning meeting with outlines of a plan they are hoping will save $270 billion over seven years. >> the big savings are the most politically dangerous ones from medicare and medicaid. >> if hes healthcare cuts come to my desk of this size, i would have no choice but to veto. >> clinton figured out a very clever bit of jujitsu. the way to attack the republicans was to say that newt gingrich wants to make your grandmother destitute. >> think about a party whose last stand is to frighten 85-year-...

Times" inscribes were not said in that meeting. >> thank you, garrett haake following the president in west palm beach. thank you. we have a great panel. in washington, political analyst and republican strategist rick tyler. in san francisco, msnbc contributor and president and ceo of vota latino, maria. and in ft. wayne, indiana, we have the whole country covered, msnbc contributor charlie savage, also washington correspondent for "the new york times." rick, lets start with you. and on the very...

When they had their two seat majority, its going to be more difficult next year, when they need to get 60 votes for these measures. the president has talked a lot about infrastructure, one of those pieces of legislation that potentially could appeal to republicans and democrats. theyre different ideas about the extent to which that kind of thing should be funded with private or public money. the administration is pointing toward that as a potential opportunity to work together. theres so much th...

Need to get 60 votes for these measures. there is some common ground here, though. the president has talked a lot about infrastructure, one of those pieces of legislation that potentially could appeal to republicans and democrats. depending on the way they want to go about it. theres different ideas about the extent to which that kind of thing should be funded with private or public money. the administration is pointing toward that as a potential opportunity to work together. theres so much that...