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Figure this out? >> i want to say whose timeline is that? it was schumers timeline and its his shutdown that has done there. there were negotiations and opportunities to have talk. you ought saw that. it was schumer going over to the white house. we dont know what the honest true was, but its month that are just schumer and the president did what schumer has done is to put our american men annilwomen in peril, as well as our children. look, im a nurse, i want to make sure the children are taken ...

The people who put all 100 members of this body into office. jonath jonathan lamier remains with us, what have you been able to gather? >> lyndsey graham was not going back and forth before the senate tonight. he was going back and forth between mitch mcconnells office and schumers office. hes sort of the role here of negotiations going forward. i want to piggy back on jeffs point of whos leading the charge here from the white houses perspective of the negotiations how the president have not pla...

That because of this and might have to pay higher prices. all sorts of government agencies you would want to be able to budget on a yearly basis or longer, the way you would in the private sector and it means they end up wasting our money. >> garret, who are you watching all of this unfolds, as you look to somebody who might be leading us out of this mess, listening to mick mulvaney and marc short moments ago, articulating as to whether or not chuck schumer is the person we should be relying on ...

That we were just treated to a very interesting gathering of people. nelson of florida, coons of delaware and flake and schumer. the kind of fellows when you take 150 people from 50 states, those kind of pairings take place ideally across party lines. but lets talk about what is called ownership of this in places like washington, d.c. our own steve kornacki, our national political correspondent is working nights with us here in the studio. and steve, you know, it is said this is a first in histo...

People to sign. go to sherrodbrown.com, a petition, send to mitch mcconnell, negotiate for a couple more days. come to the floor that wont shut the government down. mitch mcconnell can do that, but he chooses not to, to play politics. >> that seems the play from schumer and the democratic caucus. lets do something for three or four days, keep negotiating in good faith. i want to go to the c.h.i.p. issue. you did raise this with senator hatchback in november, about c.h.i.p. i want to play that so...

Both senator mcconnell and senator schumer suggested that the american people deserve better. it certainly seems that iming. >> he sat down with president trump, he suggested he even put the border wall on the table, an idea that many democrats opposed. he seemed to indicate that he thought that president trump was willing to accept the deal to come up with a daca solution in exchange for that wall, in exchange for the funding to keep the government going. if that is indeed the scenario that occ...

You, congressman, david jolly who so often joins us during normal times on our broadcast, erica western werenter has suredly chosen the night shift for the pawing post. shes off the floor. erica, what have you seen that fills in the picture of what we have been covering on the floor tonight? >> reporter: well, as you heard senators schumer and mckwonally speak there after the vote, this is all about messaging, trying to get the upper hand with the trump administration and senator mcconnell tryin...

Cliffs, to have, you know, deadline wisdom, you know, you would have told your kids, i would tell my kids, if you wait until midnight to start your paper, its probably not going to be a very good paper. thats what were watching right now. its a lot of term papers being written very, very fast. >>ion meacham, joining us from america. give everybody my best, john, were stuck watching capitol hill. but i appreciate your contributions. what passes for break news as john was talking, chuck schumer ha...

>> reporter: with just hours to go until a shutdown, a beaming democratic leader chuck schumer walked out of the west wing and returned to capitol hill. >> senator schumer, how was the meeting? >> we discussed all of the major outstanding issues. we made some progress. >> reporter: sources say the two new yorkers getting together to hash things out was the presidents idea. trump called schumer this morning, inviting him to the white house. sitting down in the oval office, just the democratic sen...

Heavily involved in these immigration negotiations, has been whipping for this all day. saying if we shorten this timeframe, maybe we can force -- essentially force the white house into making a deal. we cant keep kicking the can. lets set a very narrow timeframe and very specific parameters and fight for that. if youve been watching over the last couple of hours, you have seen graham and schumer and a number of other players in this drama over the last couple of weeks whipping votes on the floo...