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The federal government will shut down Friday night at 11:59:59 if Congress doesn't manage to pass yet another stopgap bill to keep the lights on amid multiple domestic and international

Schumer, White House Respond To Shutdown By Pointing Fingers Schumer, White House Respond To Shutdown By Pointing Fingersby wpjljron Saturday, January 20th, 2018.Schumer, White House Respond To Shutdown By Pointing FingersSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference Saturday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference Sa...

In the administration. this headline from "the new york times" says trump digs in, darkening hopes for a deal to end the shutdown. his ability to cut deals has not reached out to democratic leaders. this weekend produced no meaningful progress of any kind and ending the government shutdown. the sense of distrust continues, fueled, in part, by a barrage of tweets from the president, including his first public statements on the death of two migrant children in u.s. custody. hes blaming, of course,...

Taking over control of the house. they are prepping to come up with a deal to offer the end to a shoutdown and force republicans to vote on that. we are seeing both sides digging in, trying to deflect blame, but not necessarily coming together for a compromise. >> jonathan, why does the president feel the need to refute what john kelly is saying about the wall, saying, no, this is a physical wall. why does he feel or believe his base is so committed to the idea of seeing an actual, physical wall...

When it comes to the shutdown. >> the question, when do we get off the blame game and get to serious negotiations? at the end of the day, all of this will end, we dont know when, in negotiations. its not a question of who wins or loses. nobody is going to win this kind of game. nobody wins at a shutdown. we all lose. we kind of look silly. >> if that is the case, what we are hearing from shelby here, why arent they doing anything about it? >> i think we are seeing this as a big political game of...

Senate. he is in for an onslaught from the democratic house. we are not mentioning the other investigations going on. he believes they can be a useful foil. he thinks he can run against them on issues of the wall, if he doesnt get it now. it can be something he uses for his base. this is what you wanted. the democrats are saying no. try to use that propelling himself into 2020. >> the conversation we have surrounding the shutdown is who is at fault for the shutdown. the president is calling this...

Graham defended the presidents approach toward the mueller probe. hes pushing himself as one of the closer allies in the senate, but left room to break with him on things. we saw that with syria. hes critical with trumps decision. >> now saying he is confident with his decision. >> trying to have it both ways. learn new things, but the president was going to slow down the pace. garrett is right, we shouldnt take anyones position on this, seriously, unless it is from the president himself. lindse...

And border patrol. they need to come to the table and do their job, a fully functioning democracy demands they come together and congress and executive branch work together. >> im wondering, is this strategy going to work? it did not resinate when it came to the midterm elections. >> it certainly cant work for long, especially if house democrats are able to pass a bill that would end the shut down and the republicans are faced with deciding whether to agree with that without funding for the bord...

Moving, we have to keep the democratic base energized. he was clearly impressed by the democrats who have been working with republicans the past few days. we have to put an end to this, we have to put this forward. and he didnt go along with the progressives who im guessing were going to see some of them, voting no on this. he certainly, as you said, is going to hear from a lot of those progressives that he gave in and he gave in too soon. >> i dont want to get too far ahead of what were watchin...

Funding roadblock on friday. so theyre in exact ly the same position that they were three days ago, and its not clear to me they got anything except for the bad press that accrued to them from this shutdown. >> theyre bad. the democrats bet is that by november when there is an election, this will be forgotten if the government reopens. if the president is still popul popular, thats what will carry to november, not that we had a shutdown. thats their bet. were having this conversation in the midd...