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They want a government shutdown as leverage and taking funding for the governments and our troops hostage. they are open about that. its their strategy. in 2013 senator schumer said this very tactic represents governmental chaos and now he is actively orchestrating a shutdown. he started a new #by the way. #schumer shutdown. >> the democrats are exactly doing what they always blame republicans are doing, which is holding the federal government budget process hostage to their own -- what they wou...

Happening by friday. you have democrats and some republicans say they are not going to vote for a short-term funding deal. some of them are saying its because of they dont get daca or some kind of deal, we run out of money at midnight on friday. there is this battle over what happens. former representative, steve israel, democrat had this to say. he said republicans cannot afford to shutdown the governmente ever had. democrats have the upper hand and they should play it. >> i think the democrats...

Happening by friday. you have democrats and some republicans say they are not going to vote for a short-term funding deal. some of them are saying its because of they dont get daca or some kind of deal, we run out of money at midnight on friday. there is this battle over what happens. former representative, steve israel, democrat had this to say. he said republicans cannot afford to shutdown the government in one of the roughest midterm environments theyve ever had. democrats have the upper hand...

There is no crisis here. theyre holding our troops hostage for this issue that has nothing to do with funding our military. infuriating. >> tucker: the bill that you are backing is literally main stream in that its major components are in the middle of the polling on the question. >> exactly. >> tucker: but the senate version which is being supported really driven by lindsay graham and jeff flake, lindsay graham said jeff flake will do whatever i tell him to do. a bench of republican senators. i...

Regulatory relief and confirming 12 circuit court judges and a united states supreme court judge. >> sandra: what is setting up to be the big legislative priority in the new year. >> there are a couple of things. were anxious to complete a budget cap deal to get a spending bill to rebuild our military. thats a priority. we face several national security concerns. the president submitted a budget last february for the resources we need for 2018 and plan to do so for 2019. but because the impasse ...

$85 billion. to fix it, we need to set aside the arbitrary notion new defense spending be matched equally by new nondefense spending. >> democrats are digging in, saying there needs to be a matching increase on domestic priorities. >> we can start on the budget with opioids, veterans, health care, pensions, childrens health insurance, disaster aid. they corepublicans dont want the so-called dreamers, children brought to the country illegally by their parents, to complicate budget talks. there is...

The obama administration. we had a national defense briefing from the cia, secretary of state, secretary of defense general matt is going through. the challenges around the world and making sure america is continuing to be safe. those are the things we talked about for a day and a half. >> the budget agreement must lift spending caps with parity between defense and domestic priorities. it must include the disaster aid, and the aca protection with border security. >> dana: the democrats demand an...