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>> the president in the meantime calling for the "nuclear option" on twitter. here is what he yesterday. the dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into the nation unchecked. if stalemate continues, republicans should go to 51%. the nuclear option and vote on real long-term budget. no crs, no continuing resolution. the president urging a change in the senate filibuster rules seems unlikely to happen, but we think we will hear more from the president later today. he has an event at the white h...

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He spent weeks getting his members to proclaim we should not do anything to fund the government unless we addre the daca issue and now apparently calling on them to do just that. these incredibly short-term extensions would not even give us enough time to actually write the legislation the democratic leader is demanding. one extremely short-term cr would lead to another and another. exactly the outcome democrats have declared they cannot accept. madam president, i wish for all of our sakes that ...

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He encourages compromise one day, only to thwart it the next, by saying hell only accept a deal that gives him 100% of what he wants. thats not what a great deal-maker does. >> what our friends on the other side are saying here is, theyre prepared to shut down the government, over the issue of illegal immigration, its a bipartisan interest in solving the daca problem, but the president has given us until march last time i looked, this was january. >> im not going to vote for a 30-day continuing ...

I dont think it makes the institution look very responsible. american people should expect better from us than this. >> shannon: you have been listening to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. we thought, as bret and i were talking about the groups that were having conversations and negotiating looked like maybe they were coming to something. we thought when he came to the lectern there, that maybe -- oh, lets listen in, we have minority leader chuck schumer speaking. >> continuing resolution...

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A two-year delay of the medical device tax and a delay on the cadillac tax on high cost health insurance plan. i know ground hog day isnt until february 2nd but it kind of feels like were having it now. >> this would be the fourth cr since september when government funding ran out and we started the new fiscal year. as i say, this would be the fourth time weve kicked the can down the road a month, three weeks or whatever. theres frustration on both sides. one of the points you heard there from p...