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The 60-vote threshold. that is significant. theyre going through this process. the vice president is going to be one of the chief negotiators. has been throughout this along with the presidents son-in-law on the shutdown. and so what comes next? one of the big issues is to test the boundaries of what are the votes. when senators make their very first in the 30-plus days of shutdown, first attempt to vote on something, where weve seen the house passing bill after bill to open up different departm...

President. like anyone whos been a shifty lawyer for a potentially corrupt boss, hes kept lots of receipts. hes kept lots of documentation. if this were to be a public hearing, i almost think this would be bigger than anything that mueller could come up with. even if its private, what were going to hear, whats going to be expressed from the members of the senate when they come out of the room saying i heard this, i heard that, hair slicked back, frightened, terrified of the story, politically i ...

Since just before the shutdown began. h his rating is the lowest in two years. a new poll found his approval rating has fallen to 36%. asked if a border wall is worth a government shutdown, 71% said no. i know fox news has their own numbers out that a little higher. maybe its somewhere in between. these numbers are going down. >> the white house is well aware of the poll numbers. the other numbers that matter today, thats the vote count out of the u.s. senate. what happens there with these two p...

Basically whats happening right now is there is an agreement to have votes on proposals that are likely going to fail. the democratic proposal to reopen the government until february 8th on one hand. heres the positive news to failure on the floor, if there is one. sometimes you need to show proposals cant pass before you get in the room and start negotiations. i think theres some optimism that if they prove that neither can get the 60-vote threshold. so maybe that will bring folks into the room...

California all those things the president talked about. then the other bill is the house bill that was passed. >> that only opposite up the 25% of government that was shut down until february 8th. so were going to end up. even if that passes, are you in the same place again on february 8th. so at least theyre taking a vote. but again, this is not. ive spoken to my colleagues. my friends on both sides of the aisle. there isnt one person that is actually seeing these things, seeing that actually p...

The trick tore bring people to the table and actually have a discussion, a real discussion we havent seen for days, maybe even weeks. right now, we dont have the answer to that. >> thank you very much. i want to go to democrat trick political commentators for us. you heard phil, unless the president really changes his stance, theyre not going to pass. so it seems from that perspective to be a waste of time while federal employees literally, they dont get the go ahead by mid-fight, they cant issu...

Saying, look, $5.7 billion. if you think about it, you know, were willing, as long as we get the $5.7 billion, were willing to pretty much talk to speaker pelosi about anything. anything is on the table. its going to be above, below that threshold. they see it as a, you know, this is nothing compared to the 867 billion dollar ad bill that the farm bill that they pass. also, the two bills include a little over $12 billion in disaster funding also. theyre a lot of the colleagues i spoke to today w...

60-vote threshold and he is encouraging them to step up. >> the opportunity to end all this is staring us right in the face. thats why well have a vote on this legislation on the senate floor this week. all that needs to happen is for our democratic friends to agree it is time to put the country ahead of politics. take yes for an answer and vote to put the stand-off behind us. >> the second bill is what many democrats want. it would fund the government through february 8th. it has already passed...

The democrats are already shooting down. good evening to you. votes are set for thursday in the senate, one proposal from president trump, the other on a plan in the democrats favor, the bottom line, the senate majority leader is selling the presidents plan. >> to reject the proposal, democrats would have to prioritize political combat with the president ahead of federal workers. ahead of daca recipients, ahead of border security, and ahead of stable and predictable government funding. >> but mo...

Mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. mike? >> shep, good afternoon. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell notes this is the only bill, the one hes going to present to the senate this week that president trump would sign and reopen the government immediately so the majority leader is telling the democrats to take the deal. >> the opportunity is staring us in the face. thats why well vote on this legislation on the senate floor this week. all that needs to happen is for our democratic f...