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Process. he knows what can be done to make things work better. it was really an agreement that we can move forward with these rules in place and it will make our congress more efficient. it will make us more effective and it will give individual members a bigger voice as we go forward. we know that were one-half of one-third of the federal government. but we are the division of government that writes appropriation bills. were the ones that have more control over the spending. weve got to figure ...

And again, i think the only such solution is that daca plus border security compromise. and i dont really see senator mcconnell moving. and part of the story here, steve, is that the country has grown so numb to these shutdown situations. you look at these financial markets. theyre kind of ignoring it. i think most americans are ignoring the situation, obviously with the exception of the federal workers who are suffering through this. but the country is so sick of this shutdown drama, so many pe...

Encourage the white house and democrats both in the senate and in the house to negotiate until there is something thats amenable to all parties. and again, i think the only such solution is that daca plus border security compromise. and i dont really see senator mcconnell moving. and part of the story here, steve, is that the country has grown so numb to these shutdown situations. you look at these financial markets. theyre kind of ignoring it. i think most americans are ignoring the situation, ...

Pass the house, can pass the senate. obviously that means 60 votes and get the presidents signature. so i think in this case, senator mcconnells really doing the best anyone could given his position, which is just to encourage the white house and democrats both in the senate and in the house to negotiate until there is something thats amenable to all parties. and again, i think the only such solution is that dhaaca plus border security compromise. i dont really see mitch mcconnell moving. part o...

That, but time is running short. >> and reality check for us this morning, manu. what is a partial government shutdown at the end of this week, if it happens on friday, what does that actually mean for the american citizens who rely on their paycheck right around the holidays from these jobs that would be furloughed? >> it could affect more than 400,000 employees. about 380,000 of whom could be furloughed. there are essential employees who would have to show up to work, but they would not get pa...

Next sever weeks and months, obviously the democrats chances of retaking the house are looking really good. and a lot of times, in these kinds of shutdown situations, you see blame bounce around a bunch of times. i dont think it is a great weekend for trump to have his first anniversary and have the government shut down when he ran on fixing the government. >> cleaning up the mess. by comparison, lets look at the polling before the 2013 shutdown and then also the 95 shutdown. right before the 20...

The fact that we continually run out of money and are continually in shutdown situations is absolutely ludicrous and shows our financial mismanagement. if we have bills -- if we have bills -- piers, if we had bills that attacked funding to the budget that they passed, we would never be in this situation. >> carol, the obvious answer to your crowd-pleasing point is that, of course, the shutdown doesnt help the national financial situation. it makes it massively worse. and this is the problem, is ...

Second. i want to bring in a woman and try to calm things down. carol roth. >> i want to bring some common sense to this conversation. first of all, i want to thank haley for her service. we have to face the real reason why we are in a government shutdown. it is not because of obama care or not obama care, its because the government has run out of money. we are the wealthiest nation in the world. the u.s. government employs more people than anyone. the fact that we continually run out of money a...

I want to bring in a woman and try to calm things down. carol roth. >> i want to bring some common sense to this conversation. first of all, i want to thank haley for her service. we have to face the real reason why we are in a government shutdown. it is not because of obama care or not obama care, its because the government has run out of money. we are the wealthiest nation in the world. the u.s. government employs more people than anyone. the fact that we continually run out of money and are c...