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After getting beat up by his own base, caving on the government shutdown. fit was such a great gamble for democrats why dont they put their name on it the schumer shutdown. what were looking at now is a negotiating position. the senator is taking the wall off the table so he can give it back as if its a big concession. you know, jon, where the real political payoff is and the real debate is is over chain migration. that has to do for the democratic party about future voters. >> jon: democrats do...

Anna, you were part of the team that broke the news that the house isnt totally down. that is possibly a sticking point. i want to talk about that plus chuck schumer. it seems as though he is trying to say the more left side of the democratic base i got your back. we are good. im not going to do something youre uncomfortable with. >> he is also facing pressure from the same progressive groups. they were saying that chuck schumer -- >> so does it satisfy those people? >> i dont know if it satisfi...

Are going to cut it for mueller. >> ken dilanian, you want to get in on this idea of why the white house would think that somebody like bob mueller would accept written responses, which i think chucks still being polite here. i think a written response when you talking about donald trump if its written by someone other than donald trump means perhaps something not entirely representing the truth. >> yeah, i dont think the white house thinks that robert mueller will accept that, nicolle. i think ...

Legislate the fix. joining me, he was brought from convenient venezuela with his brothers. he was age 11. thanks for joining us. you think democrats failed today to protect you and your fellow d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> i think so. they had a really strong negotiating position in which they can carve out a deal that protected as much of the deal. in good faith, also republicans. what we see here now is that the democrats have seen the way and we have until march 5. but uniformitily, what will happen is t...

Mitch mcconnell, the republican leader of the senate, the majority leader, to bring up a bill that can be voted on on a level playing field where the people who support the cause of the d.r.e.a.m.ers will have a good chance to get a majority vote. in fact, a super majority vote, 60 votes, in the united states senate and move it over to the house. so progress has been made for those who shut down the government because of that negotiating position. lets bring in reporters on xlil and at the white...

Things stand right now 13 democrats would have to join with republicans in the senate to advance this short-term budget. thats a tough math problem for mitch mcconnell to solve because democrats in the senate continue to insist they will withhold all support unless there is a legislative fix for daca recipients brought to this country illegally as kids by midnight. >> illegal immigration. thats what they have shoe horned into all this and say we wont solve any of this other stuff until we deal w...

Trying like hell to avoid. im joined now by ken delaney, right now, investigative reporter for nbc news, jerry bash, an msnbc analyst, were lucky for that. and barbara mcquaid, former federal prosecutor. miss mcquaid, ive got to get to you about this tough question. i would think, ive seen like jerry ford had to testify, bill clinton had to testify about the paula jones matter, which led into the monica thing. how do you -- how does a president simply say, "no, thank you, i refuse to be question...

Point, i think senator feinstein did the smart thing, throw the whole transcript out there and let people see it. >> kasie? >> senator whitehouse, a slightly different topic that we spent talking about on the show, revolving association around daca. im wondering, do you think that democrats should draw a line in the sand and refuse to support the spending bill if theres no deal to help these daca kids? >> the problem with that is that if you make too strong of an ultimatum, president trump can u...

Of it and said then i will revisit it and consider doing it by executive action. im a little bit skeptical that republicans and democrats will fail to reach a deal. trump wants a wall built in exchange, but republicans and democrats want to get to the same place here. its a rare instance in which they both -- the majorities want to move on this. i do think they will reach a deal in the end whether or not they do it in exchange for building a wall, im not sure. republicans dont have a tough negot...

Are separate for the undocumented minors. democrats feel like republicans will cave to get their votes. that trump wont get money for the border wall. there has to be something that gets done but both sides still feel like they are in a good negotiating position. they have to pass something by next friday to avoid another government shutdown. i think they will end up kicking the can down the road a week or two. i think there will be some movement on immigration. infrastructure is harder than it ...