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The president needs to pull up a chair and end this shutdown. >> the president has been relatively quiet over the weekend but he did tweet this out yesterday, great to see how hard republicans are fighting for our military and safety at the border. the dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into border unchecked. no crs or continuing resolutions, you have the president advocating for the "nuclear option". getting rid of the senate filibuster in essence to try to bring the impasse to an end th...

The president has not yet tweeted this morning. although we suspect he will probably even shortly. who knows? the last tweet i wanted to share though was this one. great to see how hard republicans are fighting for our military and safety border. the dems as in the democrats, just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked. if stalemate continues, republicans should go to 51% nuclear option and vote on real, long-term budget. no crs as in continuing resolutions. the breakdown as y...

Concerned about his job, john tester, tammy baldwin, bob casey. sherrod brown, has he got on the phone with any of them and tried to bypass their leadership? >> well, the president and his team have been working the phones nonstop. and the president see all these ridiculous stories about the president ♪ engaged. they cant have it both ways. they say he is the most engaged, transparent available person. remember, this president cannot be more clear. to those moderate democrats and others how he...

February 8th, the senate will take up the issue under regular order. this is a more than reasonable proposal by the majority leader. i am convinced that to continue the government shutdown after this proposal does more horm than good to our effort to find common ground. and senator jeff flake spoke up on the senate floor and later told casey hunt that he is privately lobbying democrats to join him. >> i will add my vote for this agreement as the majority leader has simply outlined that we have a...

Mitch mcconnell. if theres not a deal separately to deal with daca, border security and related issues, before this time -- this cr runs out on february 8th and assuming the democrats dont vote to shut down the government again at that time, mitch mcconnell is saying then he would force this issue on to the floor. now what were watching today, a lot of whats going to be decided today is going to be decided in the room over my shoulder. thats susan collins office, where right now a bipartisan gro...

Of common ground when you hear from chuck schumer or dick durbin or lindsey graham. what exactly is holding things up? they say there was a deal on friday and suddenly there wasnt. >> thats what we keep hearing. people like joe manchin and susan collins and others. were hearing people want to get the government back open. that of course weve got to address dreamers and border security and theres energy in our caucus to do that but we need to get the government back open so we can have that conve...

Getting this c.r. to get us to february 8th. then if immigration and dak a qaa is not figured out by then to make the promise of debating and figuring out immigration and daca with that. how is it being received in d.c. and what do you think the chances are that this vote when it comes at noon today could actually crease this government shutdown and everybody gets back to work? >> its hard to see what the point of all the drama and the disruption. and we are so deep in the senate weeds right now...

Common ground. jeff flake is private lobbying democrats to join him. >> i will add my vote for this agreement as the majority leader has simply outlined, that we have a c.r. that runs through february 8th. we seek to have an agreement on on immigration before that time. and as well as the other outstanding issues. if an agreement has not been reached by february 8th, that we move to immigration. and that the senate deals with it as the senate should, without relying on the white house or other b...

Meeting. that t democrat senate democrats. pay attention to red state democrats. how much pressure do they put on leader schumer to get this bill, this cr, they call it, the short-term funding bill, passed today to reopen the government. what do they really need to hear from mcconnell on immigration in order to vote yes? >> jon meacham, your latest piece in "time" magazine is entitled "50 years after 1968 we are still living in its shadow." in it you write this "history shouldnt be a cultural zo...

House doing what they need to get done. this is about getting a cr to get the government open then second thing is working toward an immigration plan toward the next three weeks. you heard senator mcconnell say hes going to be willing to open that up. i know speaker ryan has said were going to be willing to talk about legislation when it comes to immigration. lets quit talking about the president. lets talk about the house and the senate. because then you can talk about the president to me in th...