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What happened in the last 13 1/2 hours, and even yesterday afternoon, when chuck schumer went to the cheeseburger lunch at the white house, coming out thinking he had at least the mechanics of a deal with the president, how long do you think this potentially can go on, seema? >> i would hope for the countrys sake it doesnt go on for that long because the last time we had one of these it lasted two weeks and cost the taxpayers $22 billion. if it starts stretching to two weeks, i do think lawmaker...

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 does to our military. as the pentagon spokesman said last night, another cr 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, poured lighter fluid on it and burnt it. thats the navy secretary because of what you have done. this is no way to condu...

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 bothered on the tab 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. several hours l...

Cr, and reopen the government anytime soon, or is this thing going to last a while? >> again, both the house and the senate with majority votes voted to keep the government open. there were good faith negotiations going on with daca. we are just want to make sure that further children arent put in harms way and that we dont have future daca issues that we have to deal with. but nobody, alex, is going to negotiate with a gun to their head. you know, nancy pelosi four years ago, you know, called t...

It is standing in the way of bipartisan solutions. to all of the issues now before us. 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 to work with us on a way to move things forward. but they didnt reach out to us once on this cr. no discussion, no debate, nothing at all. it was produced without an ounce of democratic input and dropped on our laps. and meanwhile, they cant even get on the same pa...

Unavoidable if both sides are truly motivated to keep the government open. they could have both made conessentials. this exact situation is why the white house and republicans have been fighting since december to uncouple daca negotiations from the spending mix. democrats have been threatening to force daca to be attached to a temporary funding bill since we started passing crs last year but just starting enforcing that threat. in the first and second cr we didnt see democrats coalesce around th...

Biggest pressures to cave. and no ones going to cave without the added extra incentive of the public and their constituents bearing down on them. so i think thats why we dont see a lot of progress being made towards any kind of cr right now. >> seema, whats your bet that the president will get down to that big event in florida at mar-a-lago if he says weve got to have some sort of a resolution? >> i think the white house realizes it would be really bad optics if they dont have a resolution and h...

But the reality is that we cant keep the government shutdown indefinitely. and republicans are saying that in order to come back to the table on immigration, they need to have the government reopened. theyre refusing to talk about immigration until we have some kind of cr on the table. and at the end of the day, immigration is what democrats are united behind right now. so i think we are going to have to see some kind of short term solution to jump-start talks, because right now theyre just dead...

Republican members as they try to work out what could be the goldie lokts deal here. graham has been talking for at least the last couple of days at length with me earlier today about the idea that this 30-day cr was just too long. it was too much of a kicking the can down the road thing. the other concept that has been floated repeatedly is a blink, a short cr, three, four, five-day effort to keep the government open. that was too short. so whats -- the conversation has been about to the best t...

I dont ever think there he -- he ever wanted a deal to happen. now to the point of the bipartisan bill, it has been -- has been reported and shown that there is a -- a -- there is a belief that democrats and republicans both want a fix to daca. they would -- they would pass a clean d.r.e.a.m. act. and i think one of the problems that has happened here is paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, the two leaders of these two chambers, they just refuse to put that to the floor. so we can see if that will hap...