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Who let that happen? the republican majority. the democratic majority would never have allowed c.h.i.p. to expire. because it was placed on a cr that was a bad idea for so many reasons, republicans want to pretend that their advocates of chip. quite the contrary. they were using the 10 million kids on c.h.i.p. holding them as hostage for the 800,000 kids who are dreamers. kids against kids. innocent kids against innocent kids. thats no way to operate in this country. so again, a party that contr...

Impactful would that be on the democrats holding the line keeping it below 60 votes. >> reporter: the group we have been looking at if you look at the 49 democratic caucus, ten members that are running for re-election that comes from states that then candidate trump won. so a lot of people looking to them to see where they will end up on this. not all of them are going to vote yes tonight. three have said yes a handful havent committed one way or another. mccaskill from missouri will end up bein...

Hes been on the phones with republican lawmakers but hes also been issuing tweets going after democrats. we can put one up on the screen that deals with the issue of immigration. it basically says at this point that democrats are to blame for all of this because theyve been digging in their heels on immigration. obviously, that is the issue that is -- at play here. democrats are not going to go for a cr at this point until they see some kind of tangible promise from this white house that theyre ...

Are not willing to do it. if that is the case, they would have voted and the government would be open. >> but paris, that also means, if i may jump in, that president trump has to go back to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker ryan that this is the deal, and when chuck schumer went down there and we v have been told through our sources that the congressional republicans were frightened, you know, to use the word, because they didnt know if he would cut a deal, so it does cut...

Fashion and continued to remain on the phone and helped to encourage the bill that got passed in the house thursday and his influence to make sure it passed to make sure that government stayed open, and following up on the majors question to reinforce what mick said, what is hard for us to understand when other times when there is a argument over principle, there is nothing in the bill that democrats say they object to, but yet it is like a 2-year-old temper tantrum to say i will take my toys an...

Didnt speak for 98 other members of the senate. they did not speak for 218 members of the house. any democrat or republican group can get together and say we have the solution, but they still have to get 218 votes out of the house. >> this guy at the table would like to par take. >> one thing that the white house said is that maybe there was the framework of the beginnings of a bipartisan compromise that was laid out in that meeting last week, but there was no text of a deal to be included in th...

>> well, why not extend the government funding and negotiate the numbers on the side? >> do you know what number cr this is? its been going on for six months. they have had a one or a two week cr. if we keep kicking the can down the table, the soldiers will be hurt. our children will be hurt. our disaster recipients will be hurt. everyone will be hurt. if this was the first time that they used this cr approach, your question would be reasonable. your questions are always reasonable. but they wou...

Immigration. he said cant let that happen. now while he is saying that publicly, a source close to the white house tells cnns jim acosta that the president does believe that democrats are responsible for the shutdown. but that the president himself might end up getting the blame at the end of t at the end -- end of the day. that is different from what we heard all along and reflects concern within the white house that no matter what happens, the president is going to be held responsible. now the...

Lives with the d.r.e.a.m.ers. theyre 8 million children on the children health insurance program, and that deadline is tonight. so they voted for this many times, and i havent heard anyone say, well, we dont like the c.r. because of whats in it. they dont like whats not in it because thats a political fight within their own caucus. >> thats not a political fight within our own caucus. just to clarify the math, they dont have 50 votes for this bill in their own caucus. i think they have between 4...

The details of these plans as they potentially change, as they push toward a 10:00 p.m. vote tonight, those would be important to hammer out. moments after that, i spoke with senator lindsey graham, who indicated that, yes, he would be onboard for a potential three-week continuing resolution. now, thats important because as we know the plan on the table, the plan that the house pass san diego a four-week c.r. previous to this, senator graham was not onboard with any sort of hes indicating he has...