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Politically, from that statement, this white house thinks and well see whether theyre right or not, they can weather the political storm from a Government Shutdown by saying were not negotiating until schumer backs down. They think inside the white house from my conversations with senior officials there, that Chuck Schumer overplayed his hand on daca and they are going to push back here and say we gave you six years of an extension, a long time for Childrens Health insurance, a program, chip as ...

Bipartisan way, and thats important for a couple of reasons. first of all, he could perhaps get back to this messaging that he campaigned on as being the uniier and bringing republicans and democrats together, but he also wants this confirmation to perhaps be bipartisan and thats why its important. secondly, we do not yet know how republicans are going to react and how theyre going to responsibility to this potential nominee. senator grass lee and republican members just huddled in leader mcconn...

And she made that clear in the first few minutes of her testimony. she never wanted a public hearing. for some reason, i dont know why, she never even knew that senator grass lee had offered that the judiciary committee staff could come to her in california or offered a private hearing. did her lawyers not tell her that that was an option? >> laura: what did they want? >> they wanted a public spectacle. >> laura: they wanted a circus, they wanted to flood the cop toll with the victims stories bo...

Same sort of incan decent rage that were seeing. endless spots for the kavanaugh confirmation. >> laura: incan decent rage. grasslee relying on women to do his dirty work? >> susan collins is controlled by chuck grasslee. she gave an incredible speech in the tradition of margaret chase smith, spoke to reason, spoke to facts, gave a very principled explanation. >> laura: almost an hour. >> thank goodness, laura, somebody broke through the morasse and brought in common sense and decency to reset t...

Situation. >> two issues that could be wild cards in the confirmation. theres papers related to work on the star committee. there will be a big effort to get the national ar kooifrs to release the documents and go through them. see what has to be redacted. and e-mails from the bush white house. when it was put forward there was 170,000 some pages that required 6,000 man hours. so mitch mcconnell himself privately urging the trump white house to look away from kavanaugh. because he worried the do...

>> bret: with a number of democrats also. >> shannon: thats not a pair you see often the together on any substantive policy thing. theyre trying to get something done or they would have called it a night and left. this vote is technically still open. we see the wandering between the two groups. clearly there are bipartisan conversations going on, on the floor of the senate right now, as they know, officially entered shut down territory, 11 mince ago. it looks like the negotiation continues. bsh ...

Senator corker up there. >> bret: with a number of democrats also. >> shannon: thats not a pair you see often the together on any substantive policy thing. theyre trying to get something done or they would have called it a night and left. this vote is technically still open. we see the wandering between the two groups. clearly there are bipartisan conversations going on, on the floor of the senate right now, as they know, officially entered shut down territory, 11 mince ago. it looks like the ne...

>> bret: with a number of democrats also. >> shannon: thats not a pair you see often the together on any substantive policy thing. theyre trying to get something done or they would have called it a night and left. this vote is technically still open. we see the wandering between the two groups. clearly there are bipartisan conversations going on, on the floor of the senate right now, as they know, officially entered shut down territory, 11 mince ago. it looks like the negotiation continues. bsh ...

Dilemma for republican leaders four republicans voted against it. flake, graham, lee, and rand paul of kentucky. earlier the majority leader was clearly irritated with senate democrats. >> this is completely unfair and uncompassionate for my democratic colleagues to filibuster government funding, harm our troops, or jeopardize health coverage for 9 million children because extreme elements of their base want illegal immigration to crowd out every other priority. >> most senators from both partie...

>> bret: with a number of democrats also. >> shannon: thats not a pair you see often the together on any substantive policy thing. theyre trying to get something done or they would have called it a night and left. this vote is technically still open. we see the wandering between the two groups. clearly there are bipartisan conversations going on, on the floor of the senate right now, as they know, officially entered shut down territory, 11 mince ago. it looks like the negotiation continues. bsh ...