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Look at who voted to -- against this bipartisan compromise to open the government, it is those kinds of people. cory bookers of the world. its the gillibrands of new york who are trying to split the baby here a little bit. i think democrats are trying to explain, yes, we did get you childrens health care. but they are in a bad negotiating position going forward, when they used all their leverage and collapsed three days into a shutdown without extracting anything from republicans. >> good point....

They used to say its hard to get things done in an election year. but around here it seems like every year is an election year. i think thats one of the problems. i think there are enough people. again, if we can keep the focus on daca and border security, we can come up with something that will work and i dont know -- i would -- my ideal bill would be one that would have 35 or 40 votes on each side, not necessarily pleasing everybody on either side of this debate. by definition, if youre workin...

You dig into it it gets connected and complicated very fast. what were trying to focus on is border security and the daca issue. were going to have to develop a bill that attracts 60 or 70 vote. if the senate can get a supermajority, then the president and the house have to pay attention. thats the strategy. im not saying anything is off the table but i keep saying in these meetings -- and we had two of them yesterday after the end of the shutdown vote -- we cant get -- we cant try to do compreh...

Detriment of the democratic party. that goes to the democratic of mitch mcconnell. this is a 90/10 issue. and by the way, were going to be talking about a pennsylvania congressional race thats competitive. theres some affluent suburbs around pittsburgh, that are in that district. just like mountain brook, an affluent suburb of birmingham, alabama. yeah, lets see the republicans lie about putting this up for a vote. lets see the republicans go ahead and go against what 90% of americans want. lets...

Government through february 8th. the deal extends the childrens health insurance program for six years, but it did nothing on daca. for that, democrats got majority leader mitch mcconnell to commit to a vote on the issue next month. but house speaker paul ryan is making no such promises. welcome to "morning joe." its tuesday, january 23rd, with us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, associate editor of "commentary" magazine noah rothman and editor of the "washington po...

Who were trying to hold c.h.i.p. funding hostage and then c.h.i.p. fund something gone, its off the table and now were talking about daca. daca is now the issue that was shutting down the government. we skipped a step there. >> but if im a democrat and of course im not, but god knows im sounding more like one every morning. if i went back to my -- and they said you backed down, i would say, i did what? i guaranteed by standing up to donald trump and making sure he was out of this process, i guar...

Border any more. its been cut down so dramatically that theres a negative flow going the other way, right? >> its -- both republicans and democrats have gotten themselves into a position where they are in a whole load of political hot water around something that will never happen, that isnt needed and that we all know is never going to happen and mexico is never going to fund it. its add to weve got into this position where a government shutdown over something like that. democrats and the democr...

Chris coons says he has an issue with democrats who are more concerned about getting their name on the ticket in 2020 than solving problems. well ask him to elaborate on that when he joins us live next on "morning joe." ♪ ive always been a morning person. its when i ponder the deep questions, like which came first, the egg? or the chicken? how would i know? but i do know that first, qualcomm connected the phone to the internet. and now, everyone is posting and scrolling and sharing everything....

Legislation over the last eight to ten years will be resolved in the next two or three weeks and the question for democrats is what happens if they manage to get this bipartisan group led by susan collins to come up with something and then theres a problem in the house or the white house. then what happens? whats their play book then? >> lets go to a couple reporters in the trenches for the last three or four days on capitol hill following every twist and term. jake sherman and garrett haake, ou...

The budget director, he said yes, authorize but not appropriate. that means the actual money. >> the wall has been authorized since 2006 when they came together and said well build the wall. they just never put the money up and democrats see it as colossal waste of money. >> not just democrats. >> and it is something thats taking away from their core priorities. so it is a symbolic thing, as you pointed out, to say youll authorize it or support the wall. it gives trump a rallying call. it could ...