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Punish the military. well get to that in a minute. but why? >> he likes to lurch from one crisis to another. he cant help himself with that. its like the weekly drama that were going to have over the next, you know, the next 48 hours sort of inserting himself into the middle of it. troublemaking. he gets a kick out of that, clearly. >> he gets a kick out of forcing the speaker of the house to call him once a week and say, mr. president, youre for that, youre against that, dont you know that? >> ...

Accused of neglecting these children. >> well, as of this morning, people did not even know whether the president supported including that in a cr, of course, there was a lot of confusion surrounding the tweet which the white house had to clarify, in fact, that he does support adding that on, but i think when you talk about democrats in red states, as of last week, they were publicly saying they do not want a government shutdownings they are in it for the long run, constituents did not put them ...

To try to keep the government open. and so it really does throw into question what is his strategy here when hes coming out on multiple occasions tweeting things that undermine the republican strategy that are supposed to help him. republican leaders are acting in such a way that they hope will help the administration this is supposed to be something to benefit the president as well. >> do you think it feels left out that theyre brokering a deal -- >> i cant look. im not going to try to shrink t...

Bill. senators graham and durbin introduced a bipartisan plan for d.r.e.a.m.ers that the whi self senators still want to see the plan make it to the floor. joining us now is senator mike rounds, inspect senator angus king. they both support the graham-durbin bill. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. i know its a busy morning. >> thank you. appreciate the opportunity stphrfp. >> angus, as of now, would you vote for the c.r. that is out there and floating around? >> no. and you mentioned the d.r....

On time. thats a terrible message to send. if i was in south dakota and we were doing this kind of stuff, they would throw us out of the capitol. >> i think one of the ways to look at this is these continuing resolution, i call ate a crappy resolution. c.r. doesnt really do anything. >> thats catchy, senator. >> it is a slow motion shutdown. the damage its doing to the military, for example, in terms of training, contracting, it cost the government more money. 50 states. i can only speak for the...

Know, the grand bill, the dick durkin bi durbin bill, would you support that? >> i dont know where they are on the chain migration. it is extended families and there is debate, thats the thing that has to be debated, john. thats why you couldnt put that in this cr, this spending bill that we have to pass by tomorrow. there is still debate on whether that should go to immediate family, what is the definition of an immediate family, is it moms and dads, brothers and sisters, is it second aunts? th...

Need to get this short-term spending plan passed through. they were relying that a few senate democrats would be able to join them, but at this time, one senate leadership aide telling me, look, no, we have enough senate democrats to block this spending bill going forward. they have been very vocal that they want to see a spending bill that addresses daca, at least, at this hour, wolf. and things again, very fluid. day dont have those votes. so, again, shutdown 48 hours, less than 48 hours away....

Which is bipartisan piece of legislation that has over 200 cosponsors. you have the heard aguilar bill called the u.s. act which emerged a few weeks ago. and you have the tram work that was considered and put into place by the six senators, including senator graham and durbin and menendez. so these are the three rails we must take to make sure we reach a consensus. and finally once and for all take care of all the issues pertaining to the dreamers. >> so on this issue of taking care of the dream...

Democrats in the house who suggested they would vote for the cr, nancy pelosi has been pushing for all members of her party to vote against it. its going to have to be passed overwhelmingly with republican votes but they could conceivably come up short. some members of the so-called freedom caucus have indicated they are not satisfied with this, particularly the fact that it doesnt get full funding, the kind of spending increase they want to the pentagon and that they might vote against it. they...

Fund things like basic healthcare and opioids. they are refusing to do that over these unrelated issues and thats why we are where we are. >> you are aware that senator mcconnell has not attempted to bring up an appropriations bill and the senate appropriations committee has not drafted -- >> im aware ever it because they know they dont have 60 votes. i wish they didnt need 60 votes because of that. >> to demonstrate the points youre making going to legislation. >> of course i would. im a house ...