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Will that vote come to a clarity of decision? >> its a little more complicated than that, chris. here is what we agreed to. until february 8th, we will work on an immigration deal and a budget. if we reach february 8th and we dont have a budget, and we dont have an immigration bill, there is going to be another cr. the democrats are going have to vote for that cr and keep government open. at that point, senator mcconnell said he will put the immigration issue on the floor of the senate. that mea...

>> ultimately, there were 16 senate democrats voting against this deal thats in the house right now, showing more strain within the democratic party, and one of them joins me, democrat democrat massachusetts senator, ed markey. thanks for making time. you voted on something that would have kept the government closed tonight. why? >> well, ive been saying, now, through the fourth now continuing resolution that i was not going to vote for another continuing resolution. which is a cr, which, in rep...

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Looming. mike, the president is blaming democratic senator dick durbin. hes essentially saying this racially charged controversy has had an impact on a deal. he doesnt know for sure either its dick durbin. it could be lindsey graham. it could be a number of people. >> you know, first of all i think wolf has to pass the cr. mark, to your point i completely understand your point. but this is legislating. there are deals being cut. its not as if theyre on the opposite ends of the table and no ones ...

Hour, to avoid a government shout down the coordination that would be required with the house and across town at the white house would be something indeed. so you see the two leaders there talking. lets go to our correspondent on the hill, garret headache whoak working for us. >> really the only thing that logistically seems possible to do that a at this hour would be to swing in those votes for the senate to pass the short-term cr and extension that has been on their desk since about this time ...

>> this is the deal. there is a plan for the senate to vote in 12 hours to see if enough lawmakers would support a three-week government funding extension. the senate is now dabbling back into session for the day. the same senate floor where senate democrats and some republicans blocked a four-week funding passage late finding -- sunday night. chris wallace pressed a key democrat on what he would be willing to expect. >> i voted against a 30 day cr. on friday assistant to the secretary mattis pu...

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Respective leaders, mcconnell on the republican side and schumer on the democratic side. mcconnells plan right now is a vote in the senate late night tonight on a three-week government funding package. one of the key senators involved in these bipartisan talks says they need to figure it out soon or positions could harden. >> is it realistic to hope there could be a solution to this tonight? >> yeah, because if it doesnt happen tonight, it is going to get a lot harder tomorrow. im going to be --...

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They do not have the votes. a key concern, the roughly 30 conservative hard liners in the freem caucus who oppose another short-term fix. >> are you in a position right now to vote yes for whats out the there. >> what they elect us to do, fund defense. hold the line on nondefense and do what the election was about on immigration. >> it faces more uncertainty in the senate. lindsey graham announcing wednesday he will not support the short-term bill because it deprives the military of long term fu...