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Differences. >> drawing attention to the debt were accumulating is important. we waited all week long to put it at the end of the week and let it expire as people get tired. people then say you dont want to shut down the government do you? my intention is never to shut down the government. my intention is not to keep it open and borrowing $1 million a minute. my intention is not to vote for bills to keep it open, but bills spending so much money it endangers our security. >> the bill raises the ...

Senators. in doing so, he forced the voting to be delayed while he protested the huge amount of government spending that is in the bill and hypocrisy of his own party driving this issue. >> drawing attention to how much debt were accumulating is something that is important. weve waited all week long to put this at the very end of the week and let it expire toward the end as people get tired and everybody says you dont want to shut down the government, do you? i dont. my intention has never been ...

How optimistic does all of this sound to you that there is a n consensus among at least a handful of folks who say there needs to be a bipartisan movement towards resolution? >> two things. first, and thank you for having me on today. im grateful. first, this was the schumer shutdown. 93% of the democrats vote to shutdown. 91% of the republicans voted to keep it open, and that filibuster did need to have it stay open. >> everything that was said in the past 24 hours -- >> its the tapes though. >...

Be doing their business? >> well, i always think its interesting in that i think congress, in particular the house of representatives, but also in the senate, they are the most reflective of who we are in our communities, right? and so i think that this congress and this senate is reflective of how polarized we are. and so i dont know that people are that surprised that theyre dysfunctional because they understand, like, theyre feeling disruptive not just on the republican side, but also on the ...

Guardsmen will be sent home at midnight. and also the families of soldiers who are deployed are not going to have their pay and benefits. we have to fix this. >> shannon: congresswoman, were you hopeful or optimistic what you all sent over to the senate was going to get to a vote? we arent getting through the procedural hurt toll get to the vote on the merits. were you hopeful it might have gone differently? >> i was very hopeful. im very disappointed that chuck schumer and the democrats have be...

The senate democratic caucus had a meeting started about 8:30, i was told it kid not go very well. on the house side, minority leader nancy pelosi talking with her leadership team. she actually left the building, we saw her leave through the senate side of the building a couple of hours ago. i wondered if maybe she was coming over to meet with the senate democrats. but that was not the case, she left the capitol through the senate side. were not sure why that was. so, theyre trying to figure out...

Not? if republicans are essentially saying, well never do that, i think there are a lot of democrats who are going to find it hospitable to go out and say, look, we want to leave it open, let the rule of law play out, open to whatever muellers conclusions are and leave it open for us to take over the house of representatives. >> eli, have you been surprised the number of republicans, some big-name republicans, who have gotten on this lets kneecap mueller campaign and the fbi while were at it? >>...

Of greater contention, theyre softening the ground for whats going to be a full-scale attack including the president on mueller. whether that leads to a firing or not, we dont know. over the course of the next year, going to be at least a year more of the investigation, on the basis of what sources are saying and signals coming out of the special prosecutors office. you have the potential to soften the ground for pardons if there are criminal convictions. soften the ground for direct attacks of ...

Look, we want to leave it open, let the rule of law play out, open to whatever muellers conclusions are and leave it open. r us to take over the house of representatives. >> eli, have you been surprised the number of republicans, some big-name republicarepublicans, w gotten on this lets kneecap mueller campaign and the fbi while were at it? >> acquiescence to trumps behavior, going further in this case than trump has in trashing mueller, really is more interesting than behavior that weve seen fr...

Sharks, people would go, you get 70% of people saying, sharks are fine, whatever. thats why we have a constitution and lawyers and thats why we have courts and the stuff to to determine what are the rights of this person. in this case, whats popular is -- its not about whats popular. its about what the law is. >> shannon: lets talk about this. the last thing we have about gitmo is from february. 55% said keep it open, keep sending people there. 21% said move these guys to federal prison. 17% sai...