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Compromise. >> i talked with senator lindsey graham this morning. he says the senate wont work with the house on a bill to pass. instead a bipartisan group will do their own thing and send it over across the capitol. the house has a larger republican majority its very unlikely they are going to support in large numbers a bill that has a lot of democratic input. >> so to do so within the next three weeks, february 8th, the next dead line. why are house democrats having such a hard time with the d...

If skhaoupler is pulling off the funding for the wall its again the chest game starts in ernest. >> a week from today we will be in washington pugh c to have the presidents first state of the union address. this issue wont be resolved by then. im curious how the white house works it into the speech and to his advantage when you have the eye ball as cross america watching the speech. how will he press his advantage. >> i back they put him at the for front. he stayed back for this negotiation on t...

Is important to note, 17 days are not a lot because look at the legislative calendar. its far fewer days than that? how much of a role does a president plan to play? its not going to be long before we get to february 8th. >> the president was front and center in the negotiations before, we heard it may be trouble getting to the house, the cr. the president talks to members of the freedom caucus and we push the bill, the president is engaged in every aspect of this. he directly came to us and sai...

Leader mcconnell does that. its not up to us what gets tied together and what opportunities we have. we are pleased we are working on a very tight deadline to get the budget moving and get with the immigration issues. as you pointed out there are not many days left. i was in meetings today with my republican colleagues to try to deal with some of these issues. i am hopeful you will see the united states senate do what it should do, take up an issue, debate it, and pass it. >> harris: we been in ...

Breached the trust of not only the democratic senators but members of his own party as well. >> but even before the house vote, the white house claimed victory for the president and on behalf of the presidents party. >> democrats realized that the position that they had taken frankly was indefensible and that they had to focus on first funding our military, protecting border patrol agents, funding vulnerable children through the chip program. these were things they didnt disagree with. they agre...

It doesnt give us a chance to use the most currently updated policy, nor the updated appropriations plans. the same thing has happened this year. we should have been in july and august establishing the spending for october on. it didnt happen. we gave them -- a group of us said well vote one c.r. for you until december. i voted against the next c.r. i dont like them. but here was the opportunity for us this time around, i had talked to the majority leader and told him i would oppose the c.r. as ...

What i hope will happen is that the president will stay quiet, which he did over the weekend, let us work through this in the senate. i think we can come up with a strong bipartisan bill, getting more than 60 votes, and then the president and the house have an opportunity to weigh in. but thats the strategy. but no, i dont think theres much likelihood of another shutdown or threatened shutdown on february 8th. one other technical thing. there will be another continuing resolution on february 8th...

Year. we should have been in july and august establishing the spending for october on. it didnt happen. we gave them -- a group of us said well vote one c.r. for you until december. i voted against the next c.r. i dont like them. but here was the opportunity for us this time around, i had talked to the majority leader and told him i would oppose the c.r. as it came up this time unless there was some movement toward getting back to regular order. he agreed to bring up defense spending, the defens...

This agreement. if he does not, of course, and i expect he will, he will have breached the trust of not only the democratic senators but members of his own party as well. >> but even before the house vote, the white house claimed victory for the president and on behalf of the presidents party. >> democrats realized that the position that they had taken frankly was indefensible and that they had to focus on first funding our military, protecting border patrol agents, funding vulnerable children t...

Year. we should have been in july and august establishing the spending for october on. it didnt happen. we gave them -- a group of us said well vote one c.r. for you until december. i voted against the next c.r. i dont like them. but here was the opportunity for us this time around, i had talked to the majority leader and told him i would oppose the c.r. as it came up this time unless there was some movement toward getting back to regular order. he agreed to bring up defense spending, the defens...