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Distracted by this sort of 11th hour insistence that the entire funding of one-third of the government be put on hold while they try to negotiate in this way over border security and immigration policy. >> afges statement in response, the reaction right at midnight to the shutdown, highlighted that, quote, sadly we have a president that is proud to have made it happen, speaking of the shutdown. what does that element specifically mean to your group, to the members? it was important enough to hig...

What amount they want to do, democrats have been clear. frankly, this is everybody sitting in the same room to resolve this. myself, joni ernst, david perdue, months ago, put out a proposal to say we can end government shutdowns in a simple way -- congresstant leave. everybody has to -- congresstant leave. everybody has to stay in session, on the floor, to resolve differences. thats the way you get things resolved. we tried to get it done earlier this year. this is not just a partisan issue, thi...

They say this is the deal youre going to vote on, not a test vote, a real vote, youre confident that the president if vice president mike pence says, yes, hes willing to go along with this, that he is? >> i am confident. weve agreed in the senate were not bringing anything to the floor until we know all three bodies have agreed to it, then we can expedite it through the process on the floor. >> reporter: whose fault is this? obviously the president is pointing at the democrats. and he has flippe...