Out the way forward. one would expect they re talking to administration officials, mark short, the white house legislative liaison, has been on the hill. they can be having direct talks with him. and/or being on the phone with the president, chief of staff kelly, and others. they re simply putting together what happens next. and clearly, if they knew what was next, they would simply say, okay, the vote is over, limited move on to the next thing. but instead, they don t know what they re doing next. that is why we re seeing the vote still open, even though it s been counted, even though everybody knows that this motion, this bill to keep the government open has failed. and we re just minutes away from it technically closing down. they re leaving the vote open, procedurally. hoping that they come up with some other plan. shannon: all right. juan, want to bring new here, i read an interesting piece by a political analyst who lanes to the left who said this is do or die time for the demo
Wyoming who intended to hold to floor at all costs. does the senator yield? i think this is under my time. if i can respectfully ask the chairman, since we ve only had this bill for an hour. we have as you can see, a number of sators who want to spk and i woulrespectful ask if there any time we will have between now and the vote to make any comments, since we have just had the bill for a very short amount of time? it will obviously impact millions of americans. i think the answer that i gave was perhaps your time might be better spent taking a look at the bill. as the clock ticked toward midnight, mike pence got to the hill to cast a deciding vote. the first vote began at 20 minutes after midnight. the last lever democrats could pull which was a request to send the bill to committee for debate. that vote would certainly fail, and it did. even with that first vote, they kept the first vote open. talking vice president pence on the floor, it was becoming clear, he was stalling.
does the senator yield? i think this is under my time. if i can respectfully ask the chairman, since we ve only had this bill for an hour. we have as you can see, a number of senators who want to speak and i would respectfully ask if there s any time we will have between now and the vote to make any comments, since we have just had the bill for a very short amount of time? it will obviously impact millions of americans. i think the answer that i gave was perhaps your time might be better spent taking a look at the bill. as the clock ticked toward midnight, mike pence got to the hill. the first vote began at 20 minutes after midnight. the last lever democrats could pull which was a request to send the bill to committee for debate. that bill on certainly fail and did it. even with that first vote, they kept the first vote open. it was becoming clear, he was
does the senator yield? i think this is under my time. if i can respectfully ask the chairman, since we ve only had this bill for an hour. we have as you can see, a number of senators who want to speak and i would respectfully ask if there s any time we will have between now and the vote to make any comments, since we have just had the bill for a very short amount of time? it will obviously impact millions of americans. i think the answer that i gave was perhaps your time might be better spent taking a look at the bill. as the clock ticked toward midnight, mike pence got to the hill. to potentially cast a tie-breaking vote to chants of shame from protesters. the first vote began at 20 minutes after midnight. the last lever democrats could pull which was a request to send the bill to committee for debate. that bill on certainly fail and did it. even with that first vote, they kept the first vote open. talking to vice president pence on the floor. it was becoming clear, he was
Millions of americans. i think the answer that i gave was perhaps your time might be better spent taking a look at the bill. as the clock ticked toward midnight, mike pence got to the hill. the first vote began at 20 minutes after midnight. the last lever democrats could pull which was a request to send the bill to committee for debate. that bill on certainly fail and did it. even with that first vote, they kept the first vote open. it was becoming clear, he was stalling. nearby, john mccain was talking to two senators who criticized the bill. then pence was talking to mccain. mcconnell did not have the votes and the vice president was trying to change it. and they kept the vote open for over an hour. the clearest foreshadowing happened when mccain walked over to democrats. they were joking around and