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Broadcast tonight. chris matthews, thanks. theres cornyn of texas and schumer emerging again. our political director, the host of meet the press, the host of meet the press daily, chuck todd is on the phone. we do see mitch mcconnell with flake right now pointing to a piece of paper. so thats progress. chuck, have we gotten anything wrong yet on our coverage of this? >> not at all. heres what i can build on a little bit. there is still talks -- what im told the two senate leaders were banding ba...

Msnbc. joined this morning by capitol hill reporter seung min kim. we had tim alberta but i think the flu got him. and we have courtney kube. ted cruz became the face of the shutdown in 2013. a lot of people thought it would ruin his career. he ran for president. got down to the final four. does chuck humaner become the face of this, and did he get punked by donald trump yesterday who brought him down to the white house for the big showdown and walked out of there branded as the guy who shut the...

>> reporter: there are two different branding efforts going on under way in this shutdown. heres why they matter. republicans are calling this the schumer shutdown, trying to place all the blame on senate democrats, and essentially urging them to cave, to vote for now a three-week measure to keep the government open, and to continue negotiations on daca and these bigger issues after thats been agreed to. democrats are calling this the trump shutdown. and why that matters is because right now the...

Michael steele, john boehner had a hell of a time as you well remember trying to corral congress because you had, as jen was talking about, the tea party this there making his life miserable. is there -- can you just assess, so far, the leadership that has been exhibited by the republican leadership and the white house in trying to get a government funding bill through. give them a grade. >> i think they get an a-plus. i think they offered a bill to keep the government running for 30 days. coupl...

Often joins us during normal times on our broadcast. erica warner has surely chosen the night shift tonight for "the washington post." shes just off the floor. erica, what have you seen that kind of fills in the picture of what weve been covering on the floor tonight? >> well, as you heard senators schumer and mcconnell speak there just after the vote, this is all about messaging, trying to get the upper hand with the trump administration and senator mcconnell trying to brand this the schumer sh...

It might get convened. so we get a three-week delay. the reality what we heard from mcconnell and schumer is that they are no closer to a deal right now. they absolutely are not. that was a lot of invective and senatorial language, but they are not seeing eye to eye. two important things tonight, brian, one is, john maahcem should have been the person to point this out. donald trump may have been the president of the united states who most quickly got to preside over a government shutdown in one...

And others and more liberal folks to say no but not so much for trump states. >> there are hundreds of thousands of government employees he that will not get paid. there is an economic reality to this and not a lot of these people are making high six figure salaries, necessarily. >> right. and those stories will be told if we end up in a government shutdown. and that doesnt look good for anyone. again, it does sort of raise the question of who is to blame. i thought the other really interesting ...

Of a suggesion that the republicans are the ones doing it. and now it seems more of a mixed bag. to your point, there does seem to hurt president trumps self-styled title as negotiator in chief. >> yeah. and certainly thats why he invited schumer over to the white house today. had a very long discussion. more than an hour. we dont know exactly what happened in that meeting yet. i dont think the democrats have done a great job of articulating why this is so important and why this is the bill that...

Leaders who are really concerned about maintaining control of the house and senate if he had just played ball. >> and while were on the subject of the ghosts of christmas past, chuck schumer has been citing the old trump sound. heres what senator schumer had to say in 2013. >> we can do the same thing on immigration west believe strongly on immigration reform. we could say were shutting down the government. we wont pass until that. it would be governmental chaos. >> things always look different ...

With what i consider a false choice. that we can sit down together. use the bipartisan deal as a basis of negotiation and keep the government open. thats my hopeful. >> five years ago, when republicans shut down the government because they were demanding that the government funding bill be attached to a repealing of obamacare, democrats were very opposed. i want to you listen to chuck schumer back in 2013. >> this is negotiations. someone goes into your house. takes your wife and children hostag...