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It doesnt appear they are ever going to until we get rid of the culture of the 60 vote requirement and go with 51. president trump has been great on that. and by the way the constitution only requires a majority. that was a super imposition by the senate. >> shannon: mitch mcconnell does not want to get rid of it. there are plenty of people speaking out. >> if you look before the november 2016 election, you will see there were democrats like schumer that were handing -- maybe its time to get bac...

>> bret: hard to believe but we are three business days away from another possible government shutdown. there are still some major issues unresolved. cheap congressional correspond with mike emanuel tells us what they are. >> congresses facing a friday night deadline on its $1.3 trillion spending package and already the house is expecting the vote on thursday. >> it will overextend extend oo the weekend perhaps for this shows why this is really a terrible way to have to do business, where the fi...

>> well, i think he is testing the water with this. and schumer, for the democrats said in as much, these are trial balloons to see what the reaction might be. and also, one looks ahead at the election in november. and increasingly, its possible, its plausible that the democrats could control the house or maybe even both, if there is a big blue wave. and so in a way, isnt it better to do it now than wait when the democrats might be actually in control of the committees that could really do him d...

House border wall offer. im going to say, this is the report coming from politco. the white house and congressional democrats traded immigration offers over the weekend. thats -- im almost speechless. democrats got blamed -- remember the schumer shut down? that wasnt that long ago. that was a few weeks ago. then we were on the precipice of another shut down. in fact, some would argue that we shut down a few hours. >> right. >> harris: technically. where are we here? are we going to shut down aga...

Say of how trump is handling his executive power. theres been indications that firing mueller would be crossing a red line for the congressional republicans, but we saw yesterday there was really market silence from a lot of leadership regarding the presidents tweets. you know, lindsey graham probably went as far as any republican went. but certainly not as far as we saw the senate democratic leaders go, durbin and schumer who said this would be a constitutional crisis and alarming moment for am...

Reading in part, i pray that acting attorney general rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions. but democratic senator mark warner strongly disagrees. he tweeted as well. heres what he had to say earlier today. every member of congress, republican and democrat, needs to speak up in defense of the special counsel now. ellison barber is joining us now from the white house with this part of the sto...

He is releasing a statement reading in part, i pray that acting attorney general rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions. but democratic senator mark warner strongly disagrees. he tweeted as well. heres what he had to say earlier today. every member of congress, republican and democrat, needs to speak up in defense of the special counsel now. ellison barber is joining us now from the white hou...

>> he said, you know, he comes off as a conservative democrat. >> he comes off as a conservative, but hes going to vote democrat in my opinion. >> great condition. hes not going to be a very good congressman in our eyes because hes not going do what he said he was going to do. hes going to vote with pelosi and schumer. if he doesnt, then theyre going to cut him off at the legs. >> thats going to be the same thing on the republican side. if rick saccone doesnt follow the party line, its going to ...

And schumer. if he doesnt, then theyre going to cut him off at the legs. >> thats going to be the same thing on the republican side. if rick saccone doesnt follow the party line, its going to be the same thing. when are we going to stop this? this is the divisiveness. this is what the american public is tired of. i want to see some fresh new ideas in government. >> thats why we voted for trump. >> yes. i totally agree. thats exactly right. >> we all agree on that. >> gary, i know youve talked to...

Strategist isaac wright and associate opinion editor at "the washington times" radio talk show host right here in washington larry oconnor. good to have you both. isaac, we hear all the time there is a republican civil war, donald trump can keep this party together, all of a sudden you got chuck schumer and other democrats leading this loosening of big banks, we heard so much from bernie sanders and everywhere else, so evil. how do you explain this fight between schumer and elizabeth warren? >> ...