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Hostage in this moment. >> republican members, to be clear? >> jon: speaker of the house paul ryan explaining the state of play of the continuing resolution, the attempt to keep the government open. will it be successful? we arent exactly sure. the clock is very much ticking now on that vote, whether or not the government is going to remain open after midnight tomorrow. lets get a closer look from somebody who is there who is going to be there for the vote. im joined now by republican congressma...

Said about 40%. not scientific. but theyre saying it is higher chance than previous cr but they think in the end people will come in line. president trump is saying he doesnt want a shutdown. it is difficult to imagine his allies starting a shutdown at least tonight. i really dont know what happens with democrats tomorrow in the senate. weve seen a lot of undecideds. vocal nos, a couple yeses. the majority are undecided, publicly undecided now. >> jon: dancing on the bubble with a government shu...

Latest. hi, peter. >> neil, the house hasnt voted yes. on the senate side, lawmakers are starting to realize they dont have the votes. so theres discussions underway about making the short term budget resolution even shorter. there are talks about a bill that would fund the government for the next five days. its the brain child of kansas senator jerry moran. >> senator morans proposal is lets do a short term c.r., four or five days with the understanding that that gives us a chance to have more ...

The president is helpful to the process of getting -- >> he is going to the pentagon today to make the point about why our military needs funding and he is supporting getting this done. the president likes to do things in an unconventional way. he does it with his phone. it actually does help us with our members. >> pbs news how. mr. mcconnell is making contingency plans for a possible shutdown. are you making those plans? >> i wont sit here and negotiate to the media. thats up to the senate dem...

He will not let it be held hostage by democrats. >> harris: so i mean when you hear democrats saying no, the president has called, marie, for so much of a shut down, it actually has not been this cycle. it has not been about this very issue about this time with the cr. he want to see something done. he also said in a tweet that he doesnt want to see that very important childs health insurance program, chip, be tied to any sort of a cr. it should have a permanent solution. >> maria: well, whats i...

Do you think were getting to a point where we need to see all of this on camera? along c-span? >> look. as a television reporter i would love it. that was a nice moment, and inspiring moment but look, just like business in our world and the worlds of all the people watching us right now, you cant do it with cameras and people watching. sometimes you need to get behind closed doors and hammer things out. it was a feel-good meeting last tuesday but you had the closed-door meeting on thursday where...

Increased defense spending, immigration, chip and everything else. >> this is the fourth cr we have this year. in this great nation we cant come up with a budget? >> republican leaders say the real deadline is funding the government by tomorrow night. they know president trump set a march 5th deadline for tackling immigration. harris? >> thank you very much. will a temporary spending bill passed? we are joined by the congressman attending last weeks bipartisan meeting, the one that was 55 minute...

Are doing is they are putting a six-year extension of the childrens health insurance program in it. and it would be hard for democrats in the senate because they are going to need about half a dozen of them to come over to the republican side. it would be hard for them to say no. ainsley: government is probably not going to shut down. there is a continuing resolution. kick kick the can down the road a few more weeks. brian: great for the government not to shut down in my mind. i also think its t...

This is the last thing we need the president to call into question the plan. he seems to be unfamiliar with what his positions are, what the white houses positions are. >> harris: you are starting to sound a little bit like chief of staff john kelly and we will leave that conversation to come up a little later. specific to this issue senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said we just need to know what the president will pass. what does that look like? katie, has the president not been clear eno...

Shutdown. whats even worse for the military is a government shutdown followed by a sequester which is what would happen if we dont pass the cr. we have also passed anomalies. we pass things in the crs that give the military the flexibility they need during the time of the cr to do what they need to do but it is clearly less than ideal. i gave a speech this morning about this. but what we know for a fact, you can ask secretary mattis the same question, is that not passing a cr is much worse and m...