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The womens marches. what has the white house been saying to lawmakers on capitol hill? >> reporter: we know, david, president trump reached out directly to mitch mcconnell, the senate side and paul ryan on the house side. beyond that, the two people were to hear from shortly were on the hill. but even as the president, frankly, and his top aides are trying to spread the blame for the shutdown, we heard from press secretary sarah sanders last night call democrats obstructionist losers not legiato...

Republicans up there. the number of days that this goes, the number of weeks this goes is something in contention between the parties. i think theyre going to have to try to round up votes for that over the next 24 hours or so. may not get to vote on that until monday. based on the senate rules if there cant be -- if a deal is ready to be had, it will be earlier than that. asked the right question. how do democratic senators who just voted against extending government funding because there wasnt...

And its no coincidence that their call to action is that everybody should basically go around protesting, holding on to daca signs saying this is whats on the line. most consider this the civil rights issue of our time. i agree with them. we are talking about if we do not provide them a pathway to citizenship, were creating basically two permanent groups of americans and thats not who we are. the president is in a lot of trouble, but mitch mcconnell, his reputation, his legacy is hanging by a th...

Hill a can decade or so back in a previous life but not recently, while he was at department of homeland security. but the president has put him in charge here of helping make this resolution come to be. twice now weve seen him remind the president, with other aides, too, steven miller among them, remind the president of the campaign promises he made on immigration. hardline promises and kelly is a hawk on immigration. twice now, when it looked like a bipartisan agreement was within reach, kelly...

Funding for the entire government before this becomes necessary. im going to object for tonight, but well discuss again tomorrow. therefore i object. >> objection is heard. >> mr. president? >> senator from florida. >> all right. let me just give you a little context here. claire mccaskill, democrat from missouri, considered one of the more vulnerable democrats coming up for re-election in 2018. did, in fact, broke. broke with the party and voted with republicans in favor of the continuing resol...

Democrats are entrenched in forcing a shutdown. what is unclear is what the democrats are asking. seems they are hell bent on forcing a shutdown. >> on twitter the #trumpshutdown number one trending topic world wide. congressman, we expected to have you at lexington, kentucky studio y. guess you are staying there in washington. who is to blame for this? where do you place it? >> i place it on the republican leadership both in the white house and in congress. this started back in september. we ac...

Unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 36, h.r. 1301, that the amendment at the desk that would provide for a continuing resolution to fund the government through monday, january 22nd, 2018, be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be considered, read a third time, and passed. and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. >> is there objection? >> i object. >> objection i...

>> we have been working on a budget settlement for weeks. i think most of us, if not all of us, are willing to stay here and work until this work gets done. im certainly willing to. this is supposed to be the most deliberative body in the world. i know some will say theres just not enough time. there is. i watched this body work very quickly when necessary. i think a government shutdown would require that. we have pushed this budget off for now 112 days. so that is why im proposing a three day c...

Intervening action or debate. >> is there objection? >> reserving the right to object, we passed similar legislation during the government shutdown back in 2013. my hope is we can restore funding for the entire government before this becomes necessary. im going to object for tonight, but well discuss again tomorrow. therefore, i object. >> objection is heard. senator from florida? >> let me give you a little context. claire mccaskill, democrat from missouri, considered one of the more vulnerable...

Children, provides a relief of taxes that democrats and republicans on a bipartisan basis, the rationale r shutting down the government over a bill tha republicans and democrs agree with on the basis of saying we will not negotiate, we will not reach a resolution to open the government until theres a solution on an issue that remains plenty of time to be solved, a lot of americans have a hard time understanding of how you make the argument how were not going to pay our men and women in uniform, ...