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Tomorrow on the motion to invoke closure on the motion to concur with amendment. >> is there objection? >> without objection. >> mr. president? >> senator from arizona. on friday, i voted with many of my colleagues here not to accept the deal that was offered at that time, the cr to go for four weeks. i felt that that was unnecessarily long. and also i voted against it because i felt like a lot of my democratic colleagues and some of my republican colleagues that we need to deal with this situat...

Night. democrats agree today to open government back up until february 8th. from then and until now, we will negotiate a budget and will negotiate an immigration bill of which daca will be apart. if we dont agree on either one of those, on february 8, the democrats have to agree to another c.r. to keep government open again. if that happens, senator mcconnell will put on the floor a bill that everybody can offer amendments to dealing with daca but dealing with all the other issues pertaining to ...

Shutdown. what brought us in to this was the chaos of trying to negotiate with president trump over a number of important issues. as you well know, poppy, we have undone homework in the senate. we havent resolved for months. funding disaster relief for hurricanes and wildfires, reauthorizes community health centers and the childrens health insurance program, addressing daca and border security, and coming one an agreement -- >> but you could do that. >> we could do that. >> you could do that wit...

Agreement to move forward. so i voted against the proposal at that time. in the intervening time, we have worked with the majority leader to have a shorter time frame, which has now been offered. that of february 8th. thats longer than i would like, but its shorter than a four-week cr. also have an agreement that the majority leader has just announced that if an agreement on immigration has not been reached by that time that the majority leader using his discretion and his authority as majority ...

Further digging up the trenches like in world war i on the western front and basically not giving up an inch to what republicans are trying to get accomplished. rick: we have been hearing a lot about democrats winning backseats in the midterms, but -- winning back seats in the midterms but if this drags on, i dont see how this helps them. >> this actually hurts democratic momentum in terms of the blue wave that we saw in 2017 in alabama and virginia. and new jersey. these are things that could h...

Citizens versus noncitizens. thats the way they framed this argument about the shut down and it seemed to be fairly effective as democrats ultimately did seemingly capitulate. let me share what sarah huckabee sanders said today in the briefing this afternoon about why she felt like the opposition was facing a losing battle from the very beginning. >> democrats realized that the position that they had taken was indefensible. that they had to focus on first funding our military, protecting border ...

Didnt have the majority needed to pass the cr, all the more reason isnt this on republicans in the white house and control of the house in the senate? >> interesting word there, majority, they got the majority, this sheds light on -- chris: could be because of democrats. >> you got a majority, you didnt get the 60 points. chris: you dont have your own house in order. only 46 republicans. >> where are the democrats, chris, who say back home that they want to work in bipartisan fashion, they want ...

I can see democrats not giving up an inch to what republicans have been trying to get accomplished. rick: we have heard about democrats winning back seats in the mid-terms. >> this hurts democrats in terms of the blue wave. these are things that can hurt democrat chances. claire mccaskill is very vulnerable. you have arizona which is a toss-upstate. these are seats that will determine whether democrats control the senate in 2019. but this is something that democrats really need to factor into th...

National parks remain open most of them, airports stay open, most of them, they all stay open, so the difference between 2013 and now and can you really make that comparison that the media is going to crazy over? >> well, certainly president trump is making the shutdown a lot easier than president obama. president obama we wanted to inflict the maximum amount of pain because he thought republicans would be blamed and republicans were blamed, he shut down monument and parks and post office, the b...

Along. senate mcconnel had to talk about the process and was. the president said im not going to be pushed and held hostage to a shut down of the government. im happy to sit with you and talk about this but only once we get the government open. that has happened. the discussions will continue. >> dana: tye, listened to what sara said about the democrats position on the shut down and you can reply after. >> i think democrats realize the position they took was indefensible. they had to focus on fi...