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Hi heidi heitkamp of north dakota. is there anything shy of that? >> im continuitired of continu resolutions. i want prediction ability. if i thought voting for this cr thats been sent over from the house would actually get us to long-term more comprehensive approach on immigration that meets workers needs in this country, id vote for it. weve done this before. and again einstein, definition on insanity is to continue to do the same thing over and over again, we can do better than that. we ought...

Sitting on quite a bit of carry forward funds, and they could go out longer without being impacted and some have none, so they rim pacted immediately. so there is no real individual answer to that. >> and the president still going to davos if monday morning the government is shutdown? >> we talked about this beforehand that the president will not be going to florida now sh now, and we are taking davos from the presidents perspective and the cabinet perspective on a day by day basis. >> and obvio...

Opportunity to speak with the democratic leader, chuck schumer. what did he tell you? >> wolf, he laid out his plans for reopening the government and he made clear it was not just about immigration, not just about fixing daca. there were other issues that were central to the negotiations that he needed to see some agreement on. he also made very clear he has not spoken to the president today. despite this being day one of this government shutdown. my first question to him, wolf, what exactly do ...

The next two weeks. so we should do our work. >> listening to that, it makes you say you knew this was coming. why werent you better prepared to do more than offer -- >> it is so funny that you ask that question because i was talking to the congressman about that in the greenroom. this reminds me of the government shutdown back when george h.w. bush was occurre. and my hope is that they pass a cr to allow them more negotiating time. the president has talked about the economy and the economy is ...

This will help answer your question. i just was communicating with a democratic senator who helped to frame it the following way. first of all, this person said that he really sees this as going down to a shutdown in just a few hours. but the framing is as follows. that democrats just want to do a three to four -- a few-day c.r. because they want to keep the momentum going to have the talks about the substantive issues weve all been talking about. they dont want to take the foot off the gas. on ...

Addition, we dont even have hurricane harvey funding moving forward. and weve been fighting for this day after day which is why ill stay here to the ninth hour or to the end so my constituents in puerto rico and virgin islands and florida could be helped and we will stay here to get a fix and there was an offer of a shorter c.r. maybe that will raise the interest of leadership if they have a promise to look at making sure that the spending for schools and childrens health insurance and qualified...

Over and over expecting different outcome. a adversity there is opportunity here. president will rise to the occasion and do our jobs. when i was governor in delaware we didnt go through this nonsense. we passed balanced budgets. create a lot of jbs and paid off our debt. we can do that in states we ought to be able to do that in federal government. >> i think a lot of people agree with you on that. senator, i want to make it clear, you are saying you are a no. earlier today you tweeted, im sorr...

President stands. i just dont know. >> would it be helpful for him to lay out where he stands? >> of course. thats always been an issue. whether it was on health care and now on this issue. he needs to be clear about what his position is. meantime, government has to be reopen. theres blame on all sides. were a majority. we control all three branches. were going to get blamed whether we deserve it or not. >> what was the mood like? >> the mood in there is not good. we didnt shut down the governme...

I wonder as we look at this, we hear this kind of slurry of blame that is happening here in washington, who ends up getting blame for this. >> and brianna, i thought your question to dick durbin, the senate minority whip, was key. even though republicans control all of government in washington, democrats still have the power to stop things in the senate. they have filibustered all of the appropriations bills, which is one of the reasons why theyre still governing by cr. republicans are in contro...

Bury the lead at all, theres no deal. right now, everything theyve been trying to do over the course of the last hour appears to have failed. john cornyn coming out, telling reporters no deem. let me walk-through what happened here, over the course of the last couple hours, the idea of pitching a shorter short term funding bill, it was at four weeks, they were pitching three weeks, saying this could be a potential offramp, don. obviously, substantively, policiwise, this wasnt anything democrats ...