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For more, were joined by frank thorp. the senate opens for business at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. what happens then? >> well figure out who blinks first, to be honest. were in a situation senate democrats hope to bring republicans to the table, hoping to bring president trump to the table to negotiate something on daca but this is something senator mcconnell said repeatedly doesnt need to be addressed until march. senat senator mcelderconnell doesnt believe that. we expected a vote tonight, that this ...

That role in the senate. what you didnt hear from him and what i think is important here is what the off-ramp is here, whats the exit strategy, whats the fix if the president wont come to the table. he said theres not language yet on a bill he and dick durbin are working on. perhaps thats what that phone call is about. theres not language for a bill. he doesnt sound like hes on board even with the alternative idea of a short-term continuing resolution to force an answer to this crisis in four or...

>> you said before, everyone who agrees they want a solution on daca. so what is the big sticking point on your end, about keeping the daca fix out of this bill? >> its not ready. you dont vote on a summary. you dont get to vote -- there have been months on work, as you see with my major piece of legislation, it doesnt and shouldnt come together overnight. there is no daca bill to vote on, and there is no emergency in terms of the timing on daca. daca does not expire until march 5th. theres abso...

Rooted for a shutdown, frankly, is our president. >> the only people standing in the way of keeping the government open are senate democrats. >> if it comes to that, it will be the republicans responsibility. >> if the democrat senators want to shut down the government to achieve some policy, thats their choice. >> neither speaker ryan, nor leader mcconnell, seem interested in finding bipartisan solutions. >> msnbcs garrett haake is on capitol hill. all right, garrett, by the time the senate gav...

The president convened multiple groups, brought folks over to the white house. it takes a little more time. what we did today -- or yesterday in the house in regards to health insurance for kids for six years, 30 days of government funding, thats a reasonable compromise. lets get the kids out of the way. lets make sure were focusing on the bigger issues. we have the opportunity to do that. >> when you say, lets get the kids out of the way, we talk about chip all the time, talked about nutritiona...

Really is the dealmaker that i think millions of americans who voted for him thought he would be. this is also a moment where we could fail to come together and the result would be an unfortunate and unnecessary shutdown. it is a place where the leadership of the senate it can start by being the folks here who show that we are sincerely committed to moving this forward. that would be a critical first step for the leadership of the republican caucus to say we know this is going on too long, sever...

Votes for that or for daca or for the debt ceiling. theyll toll that in there too, my prediction. >> why did you vote for the short term continuing resolution? >> the only thing worse than a cr is a government shutdown. we need this budget agreement. >> thank you very much. thank you. lets go back to garrett haake on capitol hill. this is a breaking news story. garrett? >> reporter: yeah, thats right. were expecting this meeting between the president and minority leader chuck shumer to happen an...

There is a continuing resolution in the house. it is not likely to pass in the senate because they require 60 votes and they dont even have 50 republican votes. thats what the issue is. moving forward, thousands of anti-abortion rights activists are in washington, d.c. right now, calling on the administration and congress to do more to crack down on the medical procedure. president trump is due to address this crowd in the next half hour. we will be live at the 45th annual march for life. that...

>> the president is always looking to assign blame. is he at this point assigning blame inside the white house that we are at the government shutdown threshold. >> so far president trump is blaming democrats for the fact that there might be a government shutdown and specifically the fact that they want to see the pathway for citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers in a bill pass here, however if you look at what the president said this morning, it was the president who undermined his own strategy by sendi...

Voted for a continuing resolution and his folks say hes unlikely to start doing that now. so no, republicans dont entirely have their house in order, it just emphasizes how much they need democrats to get something over the finish line. >> garrett haa cake, i know you got to finish reporting, call us if you learn anything, because this is unfolding as we go. i turn to you and i turn to donald trumps own words, here he is in a 2013 interview. >> whos going to take the blame? board room here, whos...