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Government. >> well, if holding up the funding of the government, if its an abdigation for folks who want to see the dream act, what about the members of the caucus, the freedom caucus, who are suggesting doing the exact same thing for different reasons? >> they want to see funding in the military. i had a lot of problems with the cr. i was undecided. i feel their pain. they want to see more military spending. as i said, im someone who wants to have more border security and want disincentives to...

Said, theyre so tired of this and business as usually and you folks not being able to get this done. >> thats exactly right. that has been the status quo. its hard to stay on offense when you keep punting. its time for us to do the things we said we were going to do. and, frankly, the senate has issuing with house republicans, not just the country. its very frustrating to see the senate not put some things weve done on the floor. frankly, they only passed 20% of the bills the house has send them...

And white house reporter for the "wall street journal" and msnbc political analyst. tonight someone familiar with the presidents thinking and operating method 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 sunset having saved the day. having said that, eli, where is the avoidance of a shut down as of right now in washington?...

Colleagues and thats why ive been excited to work with pete aguilar on solving this problem. lets have a daca fix and lets have some strong border security. and get this done and move on to other issues. >> congressman aguilar, the house gop is already saying that house democrats such as yourself who the last time i checked and i could be wrong are in the minority in the house, i believe thats correct, that you are responsible for an impending shutdown and you dont care where chip recipients if ...

Because after the 2013 shutdown, all of the big republican money givers said enough of the tea party guys, were going with mainstream republican candidates and you look at the people who won in 2014, one tea party challenger after another was beaten in the primary. >> and its hard to look at -- if you look at where the republican party stood during the shutdown and where they stood on election day 2014, its hard to say they were in a better position in 2014 because of the shutdown. it was more i...

Thats correct, that you are responsible for an impending shutdown and you dont care where chip recipients if the house gop cant pass a cr here. >> yeah, i mean, absolutely. its just not accurate. the responsibility of the majority is to govern. and so clearly thats what we need to see here. but even when it cops to shutdowns, republicans 90 of them voted against a cr in september. the so the obligation for republicans in the majority is to govern and put up the votes. well see shortly if they ha...

Daca and responsible immigration reform. wed like to do all of those things and be happy to do them quickly if democrats are willing to work with us and get on board. >> you also are rolling out an infrastructure plan this month. if the daca -- if the cr gets passed this week, is priority number one next week >> for infrastructure? >> we want to get a deal on dacca. thats a big priority for us now but we can manage more than one thing at a time as were used to doing around here and if the infras...

And what do senate republicans do? so this is just his first foray to try and get it out of his chamber if he possibly can. and thats really unclear. >> what if they give a commitment that, yes, well extends it for a month, until february 16th. the government will keep operating. another temporary spending bill, known as a cr, a congressional resolution. but they promised the dreamers that issue will be included by february 16th. theyll resolve it. as you know, theres an early march deadline for...

Is the president prepared for this investigation to last into the months to come? and following up on halle, are you -- would you encourage that bannon to tell all like his camp is saying he will to mueller? >> look, as weve said regardless of who it is, were going to be fully cooperative with the special counsel and encourage everybody involved in the process to be fully cooperative. the first part of your question is are we prepared. i think weve been dealing with this hoax for the better part...

Road road. a month from now, it might give them a little more time to hash out a solution. what weve seen from the president and that closed door meeting with republicans and democrats is theres certainly not a lot of goodwill on either side. >> what they did do, the republicans, in this temporary spending bill, theyve given the democrats and a whole bunch of republicans who like it as well a six-year extension of the childrens health insurance program known as c.h.i.p. thats something that the ...