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Opposing the cr in its current form, as well. >> as i understand it, they have the votes and theyre fairly confident. >> if we kick the can down the road this time, well be back where we started from next time. >> president trump said that a government shutdown could happen and insisted democrats would be to blame? >> he needs to decide whether he wants to govern, which involves compromise, or whether he wants to make loud and offensive comments like a talk show radio guy. >> donald trump said w...

Alerts. oftentimes what you get with these early morning tweets, many of which are reactions to television, things that he sees on fox and friends. right now, folks are watching for a corrective tweet from the president. maybe paul ryan makes a phone call. maybe staffers get to him and explain to him, look, this tweet is problematic and this is going to lead us closer to a shutdown. if we see a corrective tweet from the president in the next hour or two, then well have a pretty good indication t...

Major drama playing out in washington for the last week and thats where our major questions are because as soon as assuming this does pass the house tonight, its going to head over to the senate side of the capital and thats where things could get really dicey. mitch mcconnell, sent that message to president trump yesterday saying, look, we need to know what the president is going to sign here so we expect that conservative democrats, like joe mansion who you see there on your screen could poten...

How can you blame the democrats? >> you know theres a 60-vote rule in the senate. we need nine democrats to bring its to a vote. if you watch closely, the fisa debate on tuesday, they put that on the floor and it wasnt clear they were going to put that to 60 votes. we should have that sort of vote on the floor of the senate. there hasnt been a need for a single cr this year. the house passed our bills in september ahead of the october 1st deadline. if they had simply put this on the floor in the...

Point fingers, the lives of nearly 800,000 dreamers hang in the balance. >> there is that fear. but i dont let it drown me in a sense. >> staying mum. bannon makes its way back to the hill responding to a subpoena after lewandowski follows the same script, refusing to answer questions. >> i am frustrated whenever people assert privileges that do not exist. >> lets begin with the federal government on the brink of a shutdown. house republicans say they are confident they have the votes to pass th...

Saved the day. so having said that, eli, where is the avoidance of a shutdown as of right now in washington? >> thats an area you just played out. it could happen, but right now, people on capitol hill are not even confident that theyll pass the cr that the house is set to vote on tomorrow. chances are most people expect something will get done. nobody on either side, republicans or democrats, are really all that hot on having a government shutdown here. but its really fascinating looking at wha...

23 hours. >> reporter: we need that time. a tale of two chambers. the house republicans seem increasingly confident that they have the votes they need to pass this one-month continuing resolution with republican votes alone, if necessary. they seem to think that they could get this done tonight and throw things over to the senate. there it is a very different story. we have increasing amount of democrats and a handful of republicans who say they are not going to vote for another c.r. whether bec...

Must-pass spending deal. but it might not get to the soint -- the senate and you are learning information as kasie hunt is reporting it. but are we at the brink today because president trumps tweet this morning? did it sort of get more chaotic because of the c.h.i.p. tweet this morning? >> i dont think so. i think the biggerish ru-- the bigger issues is they have an interest in doing the immediate daca deal. and there are a number of republicans in the senate that are convinced we have to send a...

Shutdown. that blame game you can already hearing it start to play out. that somethings that signals there could be a shutdown. one thing i havent mentioned chip, a six year extension for the childrens health insurance program including in the c.r. skpengted to hear republicans talk a lot about that. if, in fact, democrats do vote against this c.r. and the government shuts down. >> great reporting. no doubt they are using chip to try to turn up the heat on democrats to get behind this legislatio...

Proposition. for more on this we welcome back to the broadcast jill colvin, white house reporter for the associated press. and eli stokeels, "wall street journal" and nbc political analyst. eli, someone familiar with the presidents thinking and operating methods said to me flatly, you guys are getting played, this is a reality television star wanting to build drama, build to a crescendo. so at or on the one-year anniversary of his administration he can fly to mar-a-lago, into the figurative suns...