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Backstop to make sure that the white house and the republican leadership keeps their commitment on this immigration issue. well see. >> well see is a great point. i want to make sure i have the math right. five democrats had broken ranks on the initial vote back friday when the government initially shut down. four or five more is what mitch mcconnell needed, maybe five or six more democrats to go into chuck schumer and say, weve had enough. is that math right? >> yes, i think that math is right,...

Jeff, im sure there is no question at all the president is ready to sign this as soon as it gets there. any sense of how the president will react from his public tongue lashing he just received from his friend chuck, democratic leader in the senate, and as you well know behind the scenes, a lot of republicans have also said the only way theyve resolved this shutdown is for the president to stay in the house and stay quiet. >> thats exactly what happened. the president has been extraordinarily ou...

Shutdown. each would have led to a deal on the budget and health care and disaster aid and things like opioids and veterans and pensions and on immigration. my recent offer to the president was a generous one. i put his signature campaign issue on the table in exchange for daca, and still he turned away. president trumps unwillingness to compromise caused the trump shutdown and brought us to this moment. the facts are well known. now i wish to update the senate on where things stand after this w...

One public appearance by the president of the united states. now it appears were poised to end that shutdown with no meetings with the president or key people involved. how can they explain the so-called great deal maker hasnt been present? >> no doubt the president has been on the sidelines with the exception of being on the phones and talking to republicans in the last 24 to 36 hours. he has been absent. im told by a white house official as dana and phil were reporting, the white house is, quo...

Process that is fair to all sides. >> that last part, level playing field, an amendment process open to all sides. democrats in the senate can make the case, okay, we will get to put our proposals forward. again, lets assume were waiting for this vote that, they vote here to reopen the government. were talking in 24 hours not about a shutdown but back to the immigration debate. is there any guarantee that something that passes the senate would even be taken up by the republican house? >> i dont ...

Director, rick mulvaney, saying, people of montana, when your senator comes home, dont believe him. >> i think the folks who hold the cards here are the democrats who say they want to work across the aisle, the ones who go home. john tester who goes back to montana and says, vote for me, im a really good bipartisan guy, i can work with republicans. folks like that who are now here in washington not doing that. those are the folks holding the keys. >> there was a question in the trump administrat...