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Longer-term cr. something defense hawks want who are members of the republican party. something many democrats have been talking about wanting as well. and in december, when they passed a short-term cr, the promise was made that daca would be fixed that 800,000 people wouldnt be hanging in the, you know, ring here. in january. that hasnt been followed through with. so right now, theres bipartisan support for daca. why wouldnt that be something republicans can bring up and vote for right? the not...

Furious lobbying, after the government shutdown, into saturday morning on the senate floor in live view for everyone, no resolution and one clear fact, things are going to get worse before they get better. instead of trying to figure out the pathway forward, republicans and democrats framing who is to blame. for senator schumer, theres one answer. >> every american knows the republican party controls the white house, the senate, the house. its their job to keep the government open. its their job...

We went to meeting and had a long and productive discussion. i told the president we -- democrats were willing to fund the military at the highest levels in history. far above even his budget request. i reluctantly put his wall request for the southern border on the table. it was his request. we left the meeting having agreed to try for a short term cr that would keep everyone at the negotiating table for a few more days. the president suggested lets do it by tuesday night. we said great. severa...

Shutdown plan. this is interesting, anderson. 1,056 members of the presidents executive office staff would be furloughed in the event of a shutdown. that would leave only 659 employees here at the bhowhite house who would continue to work. they, under federal law, are only allowed to come to work on monday for four hours, and that is to basically plan for a shutdown, to sort of wrap things up and get out of dodge for a little while until this thing is resolved. so theyre making contingency plans...

Response. >> i question senate democrats are united. there were five senate democrats that voted to keep the government open. we commend them and we think there are more today and hopefully theyll continue to see it is not wise to hope our troops hostage. >> will the president reach out to those who didnt vote for the c.r. >> the president has spoken to plenty of members in the party and met with schumer and continued to be -- >> and will he speak to members of the own party that didnt voe the c...

Discussed throughout this night, anderson, raised a litany of concerns about the process, about the daca issue, about the trust issues they have with the white house. the idea that they would back off where theyve currently walked themselves into at this point because of a one-week reduction in the c.r., right now im told from democratic sources, people are skeptical. heres the issue. republicans doengt need all 49 democrats here. they need what im told, about 12 or 13 at this point. they alread...

It could pass by unanimous consent, theyre purposely attaching it to the cr in order to make democrats have to give up on the dreamers. the other thing scott said, theres no urgency to the dreamer crisis, theres no deadline until march. theres 800,000 kids that came out of the shadows and registered, under president obama, the government told them they would get protected status, they signed up, they gave their phone numbers, home addresses, where their parents live, now the government is tellin...

History is 17 days. if you get to that point, sure. are we going to get to that point? no, were not. eventually he could get some credit if we finally get a deal done, if youre going to hold him to that account. and i do believe he will eventually get an immigration deal. there will be a daca deal of some kind. so all of this is pointing to him, but the real fight is amongst the democrats and their base. thats where this fight is, and republicans are wise to kind of sit back a little bit and wat...

>> thats interesting. one said what is your priorities. would you rather see daca move forward and theres plenty bipartisan support. the american people are supportive of finding some solution for that. the devils in the details, thats the problem. versus avoid government shutdown the majority was about avoiding the government shutdown and not push it because of daca, but you and i know covering these for years, the democrats are masters as messaging and do well in government shut because often ...

I dont think it makes the institution look very responsible. american people should expect better from us than this. >> shannon: you have been listening to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. we thought, as bret and i were talking about the groups that were having conversations and negotiating looked like maybe they were coming to something. we thought when he came to the lectern there, that maybe -- oh, lets listen in, we have minority leader chuck schumer speaking. >> continuing resolution...