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Children who would come for help. so its not just daca. we need a budget. here we are, the most powerful nation on the planet, and we cant even get a budget. and i think this is an embarrassment, or it ought to be, to the members here in congress. everybody is sitting around trying to blame someone. the president has said that hes to blame. one final comment, if you will, before i go back to you, and that is this. we cannot continue to function like this, because without a budget, were doing a c...

Here they have failed. several republicans voted against the c.r., as well as crash for the same we voted against it. one of the most serious consequences of having continuing resolution after continuing resolution is the damage it does to our military. as the pentagon spokesman said last night, another c.r. would be wasteful and destructive to our military. the navy secretary said that because of crs, the navy has put $4 billion in the trash can, lashed hull the republicans know it, democrats k...

What you see in this vote is the white house and repubcans will not be able to claim that it was just the democrats who voted against this. >> exactly right. i think the fact that lindsey graham -- im curious of what happened to lindsey graham literally at the top of the hour when we started your show and now. because he sent out a press release saying he was going to vote in the affirmative for the c.r. so something must have happened that schumer was able to communicate in the last conversatio...

All the speechifying isnt going to result in anything right now. you saw last night clutches of senators talking, republicans and democrats on the floor. you talk to the senators in the hallway, theres a lot of head-shaking, they cant believe theyve gotten to this point. a lot of them believe something has got to give. lindsey graham was one of those republicans. the republican of south carolina who voted against his leadership. he says these constant patches, these short-term continuing resolut...

Resolve this. i dont think it makes the constitution look responsible. the american people should expect better from us than this. . >> democratic leader. >> mr. president, very sadly, we are on the precipice of a government shutdown. the majority leader only just allowed us to vote on a continuing resolution that he knew lacked the votes long before this hour. its not just democrats who oppose this cr. several republicans did as well. all of today, mr. president, we have endeavored to reach an ...

The cr as well as democrats for the same reason we voted against it. one of the most serious consequences of having continuing resolution after continuing resolution is the damage it does to our military. as the pentagon spokesman said last night, another cr would be wasteful and destructive to our militar military. the navy secretary said because of crs, the navy has put $4 billion in the trash can, poured lighter fluid on it and burned it. thats the navy secretary because of what you have done...

For daca for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. why not agree to a cr for four weeks, three weeks or two weeks. all of those prospects were bantered about? what was it about last night that said we will hold firm this time? >> this is the -- we have already had fourkening resolutions. we have to stop at some point and say you need to deal with us. if you can pass them without our votes go ahead. and the house they did. the senate was not able to. maybe now when they understand what the numbers are and what the ...

He said i dont think we have a plan b right now. so right now, what were looking at is a situation where if this vote goes down, conversations will have to start and if anybody wants to get anything done, there are questions of a lot of leadership aids have been saying those wont go anywhere. seriously, rachel, were in a situation if this vote goes down at 10:00, there is no plan b. >> when the senate takes a vote, do they have to pass the same thing the house passed so there is a bill that can ...

Locked. the other question is if not this, what? what can be agreed to? during the course of the day today weve heard floats of other extensions of government funding for a week or two weeks or even three weeks that didnt have some of these other things attached. the idea being lets shorten the time line here, force both parties and the president to come up with some kind of a deal. but its unclear if the four republicans who voted against this deal or enough democrats whod be willing to cross t...

The american people should expect better from us. than this. >> democratic leader? >> mr. president, very sadly we are on the precipice of a government shutdown. the majority leader only just allowed us to vote on a continuing resolution that he knew lacked the votes long before this hour. its not just democrats who oppose this cr. several republicans did as well. all of today, mr. president, we have endeavored to reach an agreement with president trump and the republicans that would have not on...