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As a celebrity, he understands ratings and reality tv. >> i really believe the democrats want a shutdown to get off the subject of the tax cuts because they worked so well. its the economy, stupid. did you ever hear that one? its the economy. it is indeed. >> busy morning. we are watching the white house briefing room, where as hallie said, office of management and buck budget director, mick mulvaney, and mark short are expected any moment. senators are back at work this morning. its almost 13 h...

Weeks later and were no closer. so were asking to have a short-term c.r. and lets stay here and resolve the budget issues, the budget caps and lets -- >> define short-term. to me four weeks is short-term. >> well, no, four weeks means well delay the issues and come back four weeks from now. lets stick with the issues. were close. a lot of progress on the immigration and the health care issues. a lot of progress on a lot of the appropriation issues on opioids and disaster relief and have results ...

General mattis. 30 days of more chaos, forget it. i appreciate my house colleagues but we need to grow up and get this done. four days is too short. i understand where senator schumer is coming from wanting to shorten the time period. i would expect a cr of days, not weeks. were inside the ten-yard line on five issues. we need a process to close the deal and cant do it without the president. >> the white house keeps saying and some of your republican colleagues are saying on the idea of a daca f...

Fractions among those in the republican party that is making it more difficult. a clean cr will pass the house and the senate and there will be no shut down and thats precisely what we need to do in the next 24 hours. >> finally a topic very important to you especially for those of you who watch and wont be able to forget your dramatic first person testimony a few weeks back. tell us what you introduced today to make for a better workplace among members and staff on capitol hill. >> so this is a...

This strategy is a partisan strategy by the republican leader rather than working with the democrats. we want to work the republicans. we want to get issues resolved and want to keep government open. >> what im -- so, look, four to five days youve heard and senator mcconnell made a good argument, the way that congress works, it takes that long to write a bill. so that seems like an unrealistic amount of time. what is wrong with three weeks? >> first of all, it doesnt take four weeks. look four w...

The house said they did their job. how much money did the defense department get from the house bill? this is the fourth cr. every time we have a continuing resolution, it costs the military billions of dollars. i want to do two things. i want to fund the military and deal with daca and were not going to get one without the other. im tired of playing this stupid game. the public hates the way we do business. count me in. im willing to keep the government open days, not weeks, to get a deal that ...

Party that is making it more difficult. a clean c.r. will pass the house and the senate and there will be no shutdown. thats precisely what we need to do in the next 24 hours. >> finally, a topic very important to you, especially for those of you who watched and wont be able to forget your dramatic first-person testimony a few weeks back. tell us what you introduced today to make for a better workplace among members and staff on capitol hill? >> so, brian, this is a great news story because this...

Ill tell you there are the votes in the senate for a daca fix. and without some movement on daca its going to be close on the cr. the house i think can muscle it through on the short-term extension. but you need 60 votes. >> i just mentioned this. i dont know if you heard it, i want to -- and let me see if i can find it again because i wonder if the democrats maybe are they not seeing the forest for the trees, and im not sure how people feel about this. ive got to note today if demes cave and ag...

President george herbert walker bush, president nixon for that matter, coming out and saying day in and day out that they feel aggrieved, that theyre being attacked, not only by their enemies, but inside as well. can you imagine to have a president of the united states come out and be critical of his chief of staff who is trying to go up on capitol hill and solve the problems that he has created himself? so basically when you look at this whole situation, and we talked about this for the past ye...

That they need. now, continuing resolutions are not ideal. that is why the house passed all 12 of the appropriation bills ahead of schedule before the fiscal year. the only reason anyone is even necessary, the only reason we had to pass the cr today is because democrats refuse to close on a spending agreement taking it hostage for an immigration deal. again, the most responsible thing we can do for our military and for the country is to keep the government open. pay our troops, put aside the gam...