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20 blocks for a pre-march rally started on the west side of central park today. that kicked off at 11:30 this morning with speakers including the founder of the #metoo movement. as i was saying before, marchers are here with energy. they are bringing their message and they will be her for quite a while. >>kelly: leah, thank you. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is on the senate floor. lets listen and. >> the only thing preventing chip reauthorization from being signed into law is the democ...

Protocols to wine things down. this is happening over the weekend. not everything is going to happen instantaneously, no reason for massive alarm, time to turn this around. will democrats do that? >> well, im certainly hopeful they will. i have been talking to democrat colleagues to encourage them to do that. i asked them would you prefer if we take out the chip reauthorization, they said, no, they want to include that in. and so i asked them, do they want us to take out the deferral on the cadi...

Policy, but cnn had a poll out today asking people which is more important, to avoid a government shutdown or get a deal to make daca permanent. 56% said they thought avoiding a shutdown was more important. only 34% prioritized daca. so the question just is is a daca fix popular? it is definitely popular, which is part of why you had republicans on the senate floor protesting they, too, wanted to do a daca fix so we shouldnt shut down the government so we agreed were all going to do this and we ...

Reauthorize it for years. for now, we dont have a c.h.i.p. reauthorization. this is something you dont see when you just poll people. >> good point. maria, is there a danger for people who otherwise support a path to citizenship saying i dont think you should have shut the government down over it? >> i think a lot of people are. that is a risk that schumer takes. i think the challenge for the democrats is the people who are organizing avidly and the ones showing up in the polls, whether you look...

Months about the importance of reauthorizing that. you have republicans saying, here, we offered to reauthorization it for six years and you rejected it in order to make a demand about this other issue. so for now we dont have a c.h.i.p. reauthorization. this is hazardous for democrats in a way you dont see by looking at those top line numbers. >> good point. maria, is there a danger that people who otherwise support a path to citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers say, i dont know if you should have shu...

Stay at the table until you have a final deal and its got to be bipartisan because of democratic votes in the senate. i will support a bipartisan deal. if he were to say that, that would be really, really helpful. but the issues, you know, that were being debated, budgetary numbers, emergency relief, c.h.i.p. reauthorization, d.r.e.a.m.ers are well discussed. its just a decision point. look, that can be hard. >> more on that meeting over at the white house, coming up next.

>> do you know presidents position on daca? >> i think the presidents position on daca will evolve once he knows where democrats are on border security. it has to come together. >> that is -- i understand -- >> it is march 5th and the deadline tonight for the c.h.i.p. reauthorization is midnight. >> it is not. the c.h.i.p. reauthorization could be done separately. >> so my point is in louisiana -- they tell me they are shutting down the program because they are out of money. this is no longer a ...

In a different way saying enough is enough, lets give certainty to the military. were unified on that. perhaps the differences are on the tactics were using versus necessarily the overall strategy. >> will a six-year extension of the childrens health insurance program be included in the legislation tonight? >> it will be included. you know, its interesting, you led in with a nancy pelosi quote, which is interesting when she gives a graphic description with a cherry on top, describing the chip re...

Is, indeed, putting chip reauthorization in there. youd think it would be more a bipartisan thing, but hes been supportive of it, tells me that personally,mentes that reauthorized, and as you know, weve already voted twice to fund that here in the house with republican-only votes, and so lets go ahead and get that done, thats part of not kicking the can done the road as well. >> do you think he understands what you guys want? six years, not a 30 day extension, of chip, the childrens health insur...

The president have just in january lan. this is must-pass stuff for the most part. spending bill. thats definitely must pass. they kicked the can to january. c.h.i.p. reauthorization. thats the health plan for needy children. that is a must plan. disaster relief, same thing. daca border security, the deadline is technically march, but, you know, youre hearing a lot of talk about trying to get a deal for the d.r.e.a.m.ers before that. and then, of course, its, phil, as you know, obamacare fixes t...