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Repulsive racist remarks, he blew the whole thing up. my view is the senate should exercise its constitutional responsibilities. we should not be contracting that out to the white house, which has been incredibly dysfunctional. i hope the president can help us here. after all, he said obama should have prevented the last government shutdown. but even if we cant get the white house on board as hours go down, i hope we can, mitch mcconnell should put forward what we have here in the senate, which ...

Lindsey graham against it. youre talking about 12 democrats would be needed to cross the aisle. its just not happening. so basically, were going to have this -- this happens a lot in the senate. were going to have this process that we all know how it ends and thats going to be with cloture failing and then its going to be a where do we go next. my guess is the next will be a short-term continuing resolution. but im not convinced that that is a definite either, don. >> let me ask you this, and i ...

This point. i asked this senior white house official, is this vote going to be on the house cr. and the senior white house official said, yes, the house cr, quote, for now. that appears to be some kind of indication that things are fluid at this point and something else could be voted on before its all said and done. they do expect over here at the white house to be some kind of vote tonight in the senate on this house continuing resolution. at this point, nobody has given us any indication this...

We deal with this non emergency right now. >> even the simple matter of trying to adjourn for the night raised objection. here is independent senator angus king. >> is there objection? the senator from maine. >> i object. i dont understand why were adjourning when were in the urge ent situation. we can vote tonight on cloture and have the entire day tomorrow to work on this matter. this is irresponsible. i dont understand it. i object to the motion. >> the senate took up the four-week continuing...

State. >> really? >> over the past week. maybe anything will stick to him. but after tonight there is going to be a bill in the senate that will avoid a government shutdown and all people have to do is vote for a spending bill to keep the government open and it will be democrats overwhelmingly opposing this. so i wouldnt assume that the blame game is necessarily there. >> i understand what you are saying. but the president, let me explain why i say this president would own it. the president has ...

That brings us to round one. a couple of different times well go to political comment ta tors. symone sanders. the relevance is there. lets go with it. symone sanders i start with you. the democrats i heard what the senator tester said about gop leadership. thats why its not here its not rank file. its the leadership and president. thats his say. but, the democrats have the ball in their hands because of the 60 vote rule. in the senate. what is worth shutting down the government for democrats? >...

In just a second. but what is the way forward here? >> shruggy emojis a good way to put it. look, i think theres not an obvious way that this house bill when they put it up for cloture, meaning its got to get 60 votes tomorrow morning, i see no way that that happens. youve got -- >> it sounds like every expert we have on, all of our political folks here, are at a loss for words. you guys who do talking for a living, youre at a loss for words. like we dont know. >> i mean, look, i would say i thi...

Powers cnn political analyst. good to have all of you on. house scrambling to get the votes and they got it done. on the other side the senate democrats holding firm against this cr, this continuing resolution. were going to talk blame game in just a second. but what is the way forward here? >> shruggy emojis a good way to put it. look, i think theres not an obvious way that this house bill when they put it up for cloture, meaning its got to get 60 votes tomorrow morning, i see no way that that ...

Now. we know somebothing needs to ge done but were not quite sure how to get there. mitch mcconnell has made clear that the house-passed short-term funding bill is the bill he considers the only one on the table right now. the majority has been in close touch with john kelly throughout the day. he was aware of the meeting with senator schumer before it happened, was briefed on the meeting after it happened. and he remains very content, im told, to continue the posture and the position hes had up...

This. but really president trump doesnt have a long term problem with this. its really a problem for house and senate republicans. >> which of course if he looked long-term would be a problem for him. although who knows, maybe more democrat house and senate then he does with the republican given track record. all of you stay with me, because as i said seconds away getting to the vote. and well be on this. momenting away you can see the capital. that is warehouse members will be casting those vot...