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>> thank you very much. >> youre welcome. >> maxine waters joining me this afternoon. im joined now from former chief of staff, former director of progressive media for the clinton campaign and defense attorney from texas this afternoon. david, let me start with you. your former boss, house speaker paul ryan placed the blame squarely on the democrats. what did you make of what he had to say here and how useful is it to you as we watch all of this unfold, to watch this blame game play ou >> well,...

I think its disappointing that graham is buckling all of a sudden. when folks say the president did not get the funding for the wall, thats not the case. that was part of the bipartisan that graham and durbin presented to the president just last thursday and the president was the one that decided to walk away from the deal. >> adam, lindsey graham saying tonight that he does not expect the graham durbin deal to ever become law. e we see some movement with lindsey graham on the possible dates of ...

Senate members. it was his influence that helped make sure the house bill passed and to follow up on majors question to reinforce what mick said, whats hard for us to understand in other times when theres been an argument over principle, there is nothing in this bill democrats say they object to, yet its like a 2-year-old temper tantrum to say im going to take my toys and go home because im upset about something else. it has nothing tdo with this bill. senate democrats are basically conducting a...

Conversations will yield something that they tried to hammer out. >> after all the drama last night, that vote staying open much longer than many people thought it would, the majority leader came to the floor and said he was looking toward february 8th rather than the 16th. how hard will it be to find that sweet spot acres date palatable for the democrats and the republicans? >> there is a debate over the date over the cr. its really symbolic for the democrats who need to show theyve gotten some...

Negotiating table? >> look, hes going to have to negotiate with the democrats. this mar-a-lago party, what is it, $100,000 a head to celebrate with the president? this is the new populism. im sure this is exactly what the rural blue collar voters in michigan were hoping for. look, you know the reality is, that and jonathan made a great point about the loss of muscle memory on legislating. the, this, this, this congress has operated on a strict party line basis up until now on health care, on tax...

At the last minute, like this would, you need the consent of all senators to set the vote up. the cr were voting on tonight was -- the procedural motion to set up the vote started two days ago. so there has to be a high degree of cooperation across the board to get a vote before the government shut downs in two hours. >> thats a great point. in order for them to move to anything other than what they were on, they basically need unanimous consent to do that so they need an agreement with chuck sc...

Monday, possibly tuesday. is that the discussion in the back room right now? >> democrats are not going to agree to a three-week extension now. if they do, theyre going to lose an awful lot of their own supporters including the d.r.e.a.m.ers if you just keep pushing that. if you do it for a few days hoping that you can reach some kind of a deal that will be more long lasting, then youre going to see democrats go along with it. i cant imagine much of anything else at this point. and i cant also i...

Mcconnell himself say he doesnt know where the president stands. >> let me -- >> and that is the relationship and that wont get done. >> let me let caylee jump in here. you want to respond to a whole host of things that the governor said. what do you make of the fact that president trump from the perspective of democrats getting the blame for this. >> well he doesnt deserve the blame. that is ridiculous. because there is nothing in this bill that democrats oppose. they are for c.h.i.p. and fundi...

Everyone is saying they want to move towards something, but the key player here despite everything else you want to think or believe is the president of the united states. >> just to stay with you for a second, michael, did it surprise you that we didnt get news that there with you even a white house legislative whip on the floor. there didnt seem to be white house staff in the senate at the time of the vote. it looked really casual. >> which made it hard for the senate leadership to command and...

Is shedding crocodile tears about how much he cares. you know what, the republicans used c.h.i.p., these 9 million children as a trump card to force a short-term cr, which even the department of defense doesnt want, by the way. >> and yet that is something that is a priority for democrats, to see that reauthorized. let me ask you though about -- >> of course. weve been on the floor many times. >> right. let me ask you about daca though. democrats are saying we want to deal with daca now. republi...