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Tone and rhetoric going into 2020, nancy pelosi failed that test, not that she didnt condemn one of the worst and loudest voices. elijah cummings, congressman, did. he did condemn us on twitter and said this is not the kind of language we should be using, and if you actually want to prevent the sort of impeachment talk, you should be taking the elijah cummings route, not making the same mistakes nancy pelosi did today. >> bret: lets not sugarcoat it for the president uses salty language quite a ...

Some of these issues. they each think of themselves as presidents themselves. and so to be playing a foil and fee be a lapdog to donald trump is not going to play well with very individual senators like mitt romney. considering the fact that donald trump keeps moving the goal posts, i mean theyre going into battle with a general, if you will, who keeps moving the goal posts in the middle of the battle and hes going to leave all these senators out on the field and politically vulnerable. >> and r...

Considering the fact that donald trump keeps moving the goal posts, i mean theyre going into battle with a general, if you will, who keeps moving the goal posts in the middle of the battle and hes going to leave all these senators out on the field and politically vulnerable. >> and ron, we know strategically as we all do in this discussion that the one thing that the leaders in the house, leaders in the senate need to do in this kind of situation is hold onto every one of their members in any vo...

Season. thats one of the incentives. the other important thing he did say, and the big question, is whether or not the president is good to his word, if he says and conveys this to pattinson and kushner and others that he is willing to accept a deal, will he keep that deal if the republicans and democrats announce this, say this is what were voting for. thats a critical point, procedural move they agreed to yesterday that all three sides have to vote on something thats real. it is not a test vot...

They say this is the deal youre going to vote on, not a test vote, a real vote, youre confident that the president if vice president mike pence says, yes, hes willing to go along with this, that he is? >> i am confident. weve agreed in the senate were not bringing anything to the floor until we know all three bodies have agreed to it, then we can expedite it through the process on the floor. >> reporter: whose fault is this? obviously the president is pointing at the democrats. and he has flippe...

The government is shutdown and those government workers are furloughed and will not be getting a paycheck so long as this shutdown lasts. steve, weve seen a lot of conventions and norms shattered over the course of the last two years. but right now, this is playing into a dreary ritual of brinksmanship and politics, both sides blaming the other for not having the votes. only one problem if youre president trump. he publicly proclaimed in that infamous oval office photo-op, that fight that he had...

Because all five relevant parties are in agreement. president trump, speaker ryan, leader pelosi, leader mcconnell, and leader schumer. the house has adjourned for the night. members are expected to be in session saturday around noon. the senate has also adjourned. senators are being told theyll be given 24 hours notice before a vote happens. the bill passed by the house thursday night with 5 billion in wall funding never had a chance in the senate because it requires 60 votes to advance to a fi...

Houses of congress. the next time we vote will be on the agreement, not another test vote. so with that, i yield back. >> mr. president. >> the senator from tennessee. >> mr. president, i ask consent, following my remarks the senator from delaware, senatbe recogniz. i want to thank the leaders for their discussions, the vice president. i thank him for his presence here today. in my own view, a government shutdown ought not to be a part of budget negotiations any more than chemical weapons should...

Leaders for agreeing to go forward in this manner. it allows us to move forward in a positive way, and yet it keeps negotiations alive many on. only a bill can pass this chamber now that has all of their agreements and i thank them for going forward in this manner. >> senator from arizona. >> i thank the two leaders for this agreement, and senator from tennessee, the senator from alabama, senator jones and others who have worked to ensure that the next vote that we have in this chamber will be o...

That, to pass the spending bill in the senate. mcconnell needs 50 just to advance this measure, but im hearing that system republicans are skeptical that he could get those 50 votes. >> you are not the only one, poppy. i think there is a lot of anxiety this morning about exactly what the republicans could pull off here before the midnight deadline that could shut down the government. we will see this test some time after the noon hour here on the east coast where the senate will gather and they ...