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Odonnell. garrett, i want to start with you. take us through the back and forth. i know you were on the second floor. what did you see? what was the mood like? and how do we proceed from here? is schumer going to take this? >> reporter: thats the million dollar question. it seems like chuck schumer wants to let this marinate overnight. if you think about all the other deals and starts of deals that weve had over the last week or so about this, the x factor has been and remains the president. the...

Amendment. >> is there objection? without objection. >> mr. president. >> senator from arizona. >> mr. president, on friday i voted with many of my colleagues here not to accept the deal that was offered that the time, the cr to go for four weeks. i felt 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 the situation on immigration. and that we shouldnt wait for the white ...

So i voted against the proposal at that time. in the intervening time, we 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, weve had 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 leader will move to immigra...

Bill. i believe we have seven republicans and seven democrats on that effort right now. that legislation certainly will be considered, as will other legislation. as it should be. i think the senate should act like the senate. i just want to say that theres been a lot of rhetoric over the last couple of days about whose shutdown this is, who should have the blame. theres enough blame to go around. i hope that we can move away from that and find a way to open the government back up and move about ...

Is that at least one side is not going to give itself the opportunity to move back from the brink. when you have brinksmanship like this, either one side surrenders or the crisis goes on. but it cant go on too long because the government at some point has to be funded or they compromise. >> so, ben, democratic congressman louis gutierrez came out. both sides there is blame to go around here, but in terms of who is willing to move, you have an ad like that coming out of team trump. one of the mos...

That the democrrepublicans donk it needs to be tied to a budget agreement. >> the house control the republ house, the senate and the white house. these guys, especially the president are apparently incapable of governing. listen to what the military, what the department of defense said just the other day, in terms of the fact that we have not had a budget for the entire year, we are a four trillion dollar government, we do not have an annual budget. this is from the pentagon. we have been workin...

The question is not the length of time so much. the question is does -- >> lets start there. would you support to pass this three-week continuation, this cr to then continue the conversations for immigration? while the government is open. >> reporter: i hope so. because the question is does it move us toward a long-term resolution of this budget issue? you know, we -- we could have done this six months ago. but here, for the fourth time, we are asked to kick it down the road and not have a budge...

The childrens health insurance program hoping to get democrats to come around this time but democrats are insisting on immigration negotiations. here is what shumchumer had to . >> do you know what number this is? this is going on six months. they have had a three months cr and one month cr and two-week cr. if we keep kicking the can down the table, your soldiers will be hurt, our children will be hurt, our disaster rye accept yents wi -- recipients will be hurt. everybody will be hurt. if this ...

The military. im only agreeing to a cr of federal 8. the real breakthrough is when senator mcconnell said were going to include immigration and things to do. i couldnt agree more. were close to five issues that matter around the country. there are plenty in that room that want to start working on solving the problem, and the only way you can do that is by opening the government. >> have you spoken to president trump today at all? >> no. >> some important relations outlined there by senator graha...

Your position was you cant hold the government hostage to whether its obamacare or immigration. >> i think you have a lot going on the here, the democrats dont want the shutdown, the democrats -- i came to congress to get things done, to vote on issues, to have debate,s, that what the american people want, not a shutdown. we really need to come together and talk about some of these issues that they say theyre going to address and they havent. whether its daca immigration or a c.r. and getting a ...