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Almost everything. those things are important things. important pieces of legislation. keeping the government open, raising the spending cap so the military can have more money, a priority of donald trump. those things cannot happen without democratic support. so pelosi and schumer have shown they dont appreciate what they consider taunting. how the president reacts from knowing that piece of information will dictate much of the next couple weeks. >> jon: president trump has feuded with members ...

About coming together and keeping the government open. what we dont know is if theyre serious about that or whether it ultimately leads to government shutdown that one side will try to blame on the other. not so important if we get to the final outcome. we just dont know where the outcomes going to be right now. >> sam stein, ten seconds for our lightening round. do you think we sigh a government shutdown, the first ever when the white house senate and house are controlled by the same party? >> ...

The senator from arizona who is retiring and speaking his mind now, saying he is going to be delivering a few speeches on the senate floor, the first one going to be about the truth in the american political system designed to go after president trump. >> ashley, how much of it seemed normal? what nicolle wallace called the eight grade play, the back and forth between schumer and pelosi and trump that happens in washington? >> well, i think it goes to peters point of what are we measuring this a...

They had to simply get the votes. leverage had been lost with the votes. yesterday leader pelosi and leader schumer were ready to go down there and discuss like they had in the past to talk constructively about, how can we move forward. we had no drama continuation of government funding last september. the problem here is that the president said in his tweet, not only accusing us of not wanting people to flood across the borders. that is bologna. that is not true. we know we need to secure the b...

Im not really that surprised. we have a lot of differences. they, before this meeting and before this missile launch, theyve been weak on military in terms of spending. theyre very hard to get for military. they want it for a lot of other things but the military is secondary to them. the military to me is number one. we wouldnt be here without our powerful military. >> and schumer responded saying if the president will work with both sides, he said were happy to meet with him any time, anywhere,...

Than in addressing the needs of the american people. paul ryan, she said, and mcconnell relegated to props. sad. so how does any of this back-and-forth help get any deal done? >> well, it helps donald trump with his base, but thats a very narrow assistance. what he really needs is not necessarily democrats but to get the republicans onboard. and youve got the republicans who are in the tea party, trump coalition, would want a draconian bill. then youve got the establishment republicans who want ...

Are these main street businesses. two-thirds of the job growth comes from main street businesses, also called pass throughs. the president understands that. i think we are getting close. >> martha: are you leaning yes? >> based on what i heard tonight, the ball is moving in the right direction. i was a no here yesterday and this morning, but i had good discussions. this deal is getting close. fighting on behalf of main street businesses. thats not the voice not being heard loud enough on capitol...

Already no deal to be had and schumer said that just a little while ago, why would i give the president this photo-op? so the present shot right back at him, im going to take a photo-op of my own. but i think the reality is that this is going to get done in the halls of congress, the spending deal. and the idea is that the republicans, mitch mcconnell and speaker ryan need cover from the president on this deal. and all of them, the republican leaders need democrats to get this deal done. its not...

Immigration in the bill. and d.r.e.a.m.ers. based on the theatrics we saw from the presidents tweet to the democrats pulling out of the meeting its not looking good. >> matthew, and ruth, im curious, i got the sense that both trump and chumer and pelosi they were all looking for a way out of this meeting. i hate to be that cynical. are either of you that cynical. >> i dont know what sparked this presidents tweet this morning. if i were pelosi and schumer, remember in september that was a deal th...

Schumer. >> there is a certain they theyre when you have the bully pulpit of the presidency, when you can force them and light up the phones for them to call their senators and pass a bill, you want to do that. and trump has not yet learned how to do that. >> of course everyone is making a political calculation here. first of all, whats remarkable to me is leader nancy pelosi and schumer says he doesnt want to make a deal when he made a deal with them. this is all the president wants to do is ma...