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Talking about pitting 9 million u.s. citizen children versus 700,000 noncitizen daca people. not to den great their status, and denigrate who they are and what they need. when a vote could be had tonight to fix the chip program, i dont see how democrats think theyre going to win that argument. you ask what mcconnells going to say? this man is a study in message discipline. hes going to continue to say all you have to do is vote yes. chip gets fixed, thats a simple message, and i think its going ...

Guardsmen will be send home at midnight tonight and the families of soldiers deployed will not have pay and benefits. we have to fix this. >> congressman, were you hopeful or optimistic what you all sent to the senate would get to a vote? were not even getting to the procedural hurdle. were you hopeful it would be done differently? >> i was hopeful and disappointed chuck schumer and the democrats have been obstructionists and not moved this bill forward. as steve has said, its critical we make s...

Editorial james freeman. dan, you heard the house republicans. who do you think is winning the messaging war? >> i am getting a clear idea of the state of play. at this point, perhaps the republicans are winning the messaging war. we just heard this congressman talk about chip. this is a program that most democrats support. health care for children. i think whats going on is there are two things on the democratic side. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer whose baseline is taking back the house and ma...

Thats the way the media will play this? >> no, we authorized chip in november and the senate didnt do anything with it and again in december and the senate didnt do anything and this time we add it to the continuing resolution because states like ohio, where i live, are running out of money. this say compassionate thing to do to add it to the funding bill. theres nothing analyst funding bill democrats disagree with. theyre playing politics and putting politics ahead of paying our troops and reau...

Trajectory as we were watching it play out, shannon, clearly, you had a glimmer of hope, maybe, around 5:30 or so. let me take to you twitter. give the folks at home an idea of what we were sort of experiencing with the president as he took to twitter. you may call he had the meeting with chuck schumer, president said it was an excellent meeting saying the following. excellent meeting with chuck schumer. then we noticed a few hours later that he began to say what youve been saying for the most p...

It out, theres nothing in the c.r. that democrats on post. pose. what they oppose, which is daca, the white house tried to outline, theres not a daca deal to be attached to the bill. -- to the bill. even if they want it, one doesnt exist. its not ready. thats why i think were seeing the ta, you about not the four week c.r. but maybe a few days to buy time to get immigration deal. >> shannon: its not new that a minority party wants to use, something that has to get passed, whether its funding the...

Since the senate couldnt pass a four-week resolution to fund the government, they are trying is set for three-week resolution. republicans are betting that among the ranks of their democratic colleagues, there is enough support for the six years worth of funding for the chip program. they could get some democratic votes in the house, and the senate if leader pelosi and schumer free them up to go. i spoke to greg walden, the republican from washington state. he says if the democrats freed up they...

You all are saying and what were hearing that youre talking past each other because hes saying were at the table and want the conversation so where is that getting lost? >> the negotiations have been going okay. we are closer today than we were before but we cant shut the government down. that doesnt do anything to move those negotiations forward. theyre unrelated topics to try to tie them together say problem. we need to fund the government. our military families are depending on it. we need to...

Continuing resolution, theres nothing in the c.r. the democrats oppose. what they oppose is daca. theres not a daca deal to be attached to the bill even if republicans wanted that. one doesnt exist right now. its not ready. so thats why i think were starting to see the talks about not the four-week c.r. but some days to get an immigration deal. >> its not new that a minority party would want to use something that has to get passed whether its a major measure thats more popular to leverage it to ...

Guardsmen will be sent home at midnight. and also the families of soldiers who are deployed are not going to have their pay and benefits. we have to fix this. >> shannon: congresswoman, were you hopeful or optimistic what you all sent over to the senate was going to get to a vote? we arent getting through the procedural hurt toll get to the vote on the merits. were you hopeful it might have gone differently? >> i was very hopeful. im very disappointed that chuck schumer and the democrats have be...