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There, losing 63 seats, the republicans lost 40, but dont tell me that they are setting new records. >> absolutely, the most emigrant since 1974, jason, check your facts. >> congratulations, i am seven years old, okay. >> martha: i do not think that the american people care about who won more seats in the off year, they care about things like putting something together on immigration reform. which you love to seem to be opposed to each other on, and you ask yourself why president trumps proposal...

After a false nuclear missile alert that caused mass panic and chaos as hawaiians feared they were under attack. tonight, the state has suspended its nuclear warning siren system and the employee who triggered the false alarm has been reassigned. this hour, ill talk about those stories and more with congressman who is a democrat on the services committee. our correspondent standing by. first to senior white house correspondent pamela brown. tonight the president is trying to blame democrats for ...

Mem here hasnt evolved. i know what was said. instead of hearing the president say that word, some republicans actually heard the word s-house. >> i dont know that changing the word from hole to house changes the impact which this has. >> the discourse right now is pretty low, is pretty embarrassing when you have to take your children out of the room just to report the news snool t. >> reporter: the controversial comments cast a shadow over daca. they want a daca fix before fridays government fu...

On daca. >> well, i for one will not vote for government funding until we get a deal on daca. >> reporter: so this war over immigration has really turned into a war over government funding and who would be to blame if the government shuts down by weeks end. i spoke to one white house official tonight who is already putting the blame on the democrats if that does happen, saying that it would be unfathomable for the democrats to withhold critical funding for national security over daca, but, wolf,...

Right, without any democrats? >> presumably they could, but there are a lot of republicans who do not like doing short-term crs and fundamentally vote against all of these. at least on the senate side, youre probably going to need some democratic support to get this through. the house side, well see. if theres a revolt among the ride and the republican conference you need democratic support. so far democrats are not willing to do that without assurances they can get a deal on daca. >> is that wh...

>> well, just name a few. i cant go through -- >> you just heard lindsey graham. he differs with the president. jeff flake, republican from arizona, hes pretty critical. >> i stand corrected. >> i just want to point out not all republicans. some of your colleagues go one step further and they say theyre not going to show up when the president delivers his state of the union address on january 30th before a joint session of the house and the senate. where do you stand on that? >> i will attend. t...

D.r.e.a.m.ers to remain in the united states? >> my attitude right now is the daca kids have to be taken care of. 800,000 people have to be taken care of. we cannot use them as a ball to bat -- >> are you willing to shut down the government if theyre not taken care of? >> lets take a look at that. there are 230-plus republicans. they control the house, they control the senate. they have the votes in the house of representatives without any democrats to pass a spending bill, a cr or any other spe...

Will apologize. >> i dont. look at whats happened. in the days since, he has tried to come up with a story about what he actually said and have republican senators go out there and david purdue and tom cotton to serve as surrogates and muddy the waters on what was said. all that to me is beside the point. there are facts that everyone agrees on. he said, he used tough words. they were disparaging words about the countries of origin for people coming to the united states and the words were damagi...

Immigration talks to take place. the house side democrats have already said no. the senate democrats have been split on that. what do people like the house freedom caucus do, the conservative on the house side who dont like short-term spending bills? it could be difficult to get it through at the end of the week. >> wolf, it is important to remember they just went through this in december where democrats did, indeed, deal with sort of a kicking the can down the road, but the blowback that democr...

Words. >> right. certainly he was responding to a direct question as to why he used that word, but not the sort of thing that the president wants to be talking about or republicans want the president to be talking about at this critical juncture in the daca debate, in the immigration reform date and as they have a spending deadline looming. manu knows this better than anyone, this is a very fragile negotiation theyve been going through. theyve been trying to strike a bipartisan deal in a hyper-p...