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The line and its going to be much more difficult to ask those individuals to make contributions to this, i think, very fundamental part of our economy. social security and medicare are successful programs because everybodys involved in it. neil: finally, congressman, id like to get your take on shutdowns and weve got a lot of them. this was a record one. do you think the problem is budgets are never submitted on time, spending measures are never submitted on time, this is by both parties and the...

Condition, which is basically saying he is doling out, you know, time, and were talking about peoples lives here, anderson. thats whats been missing somewhat. these are real peoples lives. weve got coast guard people in maine who are going to food banks. >> i mean, more senators voted today in favor of the democrats plan than the presidents plan. neither plan got the 60 votes needed to end debate. but do you believe unity among senate republicans is in any way starting to fracture? majority lead...

Anderson. thats whats been missing somewhat. these are real peoples lives. weve got coast guard people in maine who are going to food banks. >> i mean, more senators voted today in favor of the democrats plans than the presidents plan. neither plan got the 60 votes needed to end debate. but do you believe unity among senate republicans is in any way starting to fracture? majority leader mcconnell is under more pressure? >> well, yeah. i wouldnt put it that way. i would say everybody in the senat...

>> i hope that that doesnt mean something -- >> a down payment for the wall. >> that is not a reasonable agreement between senators. >> so you keeping track of all of this, weve got roger stone, day 35 of the shutdown, possible national emergency. just another friday here at the white house. >> sandra: keeping it all together well. kevin corke, thank you. >> bill: thank you, kevin. editorial director, good morning to you. you believe a poor start on behalf of republicans and the white house, but...

Three week cr to give us chance to read a compromise would be the best way to move forward. >> the latest update we got from the president was that he would agree to a short-term continuing resolution as long as it came with a down payment for the border wall. so far, democrats have not come close to offering that. harris? >> harris: peter doocy. and while that report was going on, this breaking news came together. 1:30 p.m. eastern, the president of the united states will be in the rose garden....

Friday, b, this has gone on for 35 days. theres an outside problem with air traffic control at a ground stop in florida -- or in la guardia, rather, and issues related to can they -- now that they have defeated the known bills, can they do something short term. so various sources, both democrat and republican, have been saying, there is this coming together in a bipartisan way of wanting a short term reopening of the government. but everyone is saying, youve got to get a sign-off from the white ...

>> when the vote for the presidents proposal failed, we went to see the second alternative. i voted for that as well. again, because i want to see government get open and government workers get paid. that proposal also failed. now its going to be up to republican leadership, democrat leadership to come together and begin to negotiate. >> reporter: wolf, those negotiations are, in fact, happening. what everybody on capitol hill is waiting for is where the white house is going to come down. senato...

Those two proposals have sparked a flurry on capitol hill. taking to the senate floor, saying their proposal is a three-month continuing resolution -- sorry, three weeks as negotiations over border security could commence. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell calling senate democratic leader chuck schumer to his office to have a discussion about next steps forward but all these talks making clear one thing at the moment. the white house remains the wild ca card. wolf, take a look at those two ...

To get through his vision of border security. >> how so? >> because he decided after the c.r. -- the continuing resolution was passed by the house and the senate, he decided, im not going to sign it, which meant theyve have to get higher thresholds of votes. hes the one who injected the border issue into this. our government would be functioning and because the american people in november and elections matter said we want divided government and what does that mean? it means compromise. we would ...

Is in the best interest of the people that they represent in their state, harris. again, if you want to have a piece of legislation that reopens the government, and the shutdown, gets federal employees played again, addresses the wall as he provides a parental assistance to those areas hit by disasters, the proposal put forward by the president, and addresses a number of the democrat concerns when it comes to the daca population in the tps population, thats the only bill that does that. with the...