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The next hour, well likely see a lot of the blame for this potential shutdown and all of this drama be placed not only on democrats, but on congress in total, but it is worth remembering that the president has played a large role in this, because just yesterday he tweeted, criticizing a key part of the republican proposed bill here that included that c.h.i.p. program, extending it for another six years. so it is key to keep that in mind as this messaging comes out of the white house. but those t...

Involved with congressional campaigns. joe trippi, youve been involved with campaigns on the democratic side. are the republicans wrong about this? are they misjudging? is there hubris on that side? >> i would say somebody is really wrong. because a lot of this is about kicking the can down the road, and about just a complete failure of leadership. daca, there is bipartisan support for it. if there was a clean bill, it would be passed. military spending, clean bill, that would be passed. the chi...

And the legislative director -- >> on where things stand regarding the potential lapse in funding the shutdown. omb is preparing for what were calling a schumer shutdown, still surprises me and ive been through some of these before, that the democrats in the senate are opposing a bill that they dont oppose. theyre for clean crs, theyre for the extension to the c.h.i.p. program, many of them support the delay and the medical device tax, cadillac tax especially, they dont oppose anything in the bi...

Parties are necessary to pass legislation. there needs to be compromise and the republicans have refused now for 136 days to come to some sort of compromise and agreement on what the funding levels are is is after the funding resolution. >> congressman, republicans say its you democrats that are putting the fate of d.r.e.a.m.ers, taking presence ahead of everything else. youre putting it ahead of the military, ahead of the c.h.i.p. program, the opioid epidemic and youre the oning thats dug in. >...

Tonight, there are four republican senators who have said they wouldnt support this. so youre looking at a scenario where mcconnell would have to get 13 democrats on board to get to the 60, which is a very hard hurdle, but the democrats ive spoken to dont want a shutdown. its not great politics. what they want is to use this leverage to get a larger swath to the negotiating table, to address daca, make this a longer-term spending bill. thats what they really want to get to. >> but why go for eve...

To, they dont want a shutdown. its not great politics. what they want is, they want to use this leverage to get the republicans, a larger swath of them, to the negotiating table, to address daca, to make this a longer term spending bill. thats what they really want to get to. >> but why go for everything all at once? you know, jen, couldnt democrats just say, well, look. well get the child, you know, the c.h.i.p. program and well do daca next. is it just about about leverage? >> well, part of it...

Dont forget, democrats have a lot of momentum in their base, a lot of energy to resist trump. you see all the polling and support of d.r.e.a.m.ers, they want the leverage here. you know, the promise of donald trump was he was a deal guy, right? a compilation on andersons program of all the time he talked about the great deals and we will be so tired of winning. he is able to make that on financial markets and tax reform and all of that. he is not showing his hand very capably of bringing on a de...

Enforcement. i just hate to see it -- i jus hate to see the country shut down. i think its a mistake. >> understood, upped stoond. theres the great irony that you guys are deemed essential personnel and keep getting paid even though youre the reason for the shutdown thanks to the 27th amendmentment thats. i bet thats something the american people would get behind, changing that rule. the idea of what is urgent and what is not, every day families are having anxiety introduced into their existence...

Shutdowns people will die. a question of how she will vote, she said she hadnt decided yet. people are going to die, i dont know how im going to vote on this. here we are, i think the reality is this is not about policy, it is about politics. as mick said, were not familiar with anything in this cr, the democrats are opposing. in fact, they championed and support the c.h.i.p. program, this will reauthorize it for six years. i believe new study says there are 9 million children getting health ins...

Continue daca. in november, congressman luis gutierrez it says we want a clean dream act in return for funding the government, just give them amnesty. a week ago, "the washington post" was totallybi unambiguous on this question. "the thorniest issue holding up funding agreements with democrats demanding that daca recipients be protected." everyone knew that, no one denied it, yet, oddly, with the shots onnt eminent, democrats ae abruptly changing their story. the issue now they say is health car...