11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. We have been meeting at this hour for sometime now, and each night weve been counting down the days. And it is time to say this. This was day 365, a full calendar year of the trump administration, and we find ourselves quite literally in the 11th hour of a high stakes standoff inside the u. S. Capitol in washington and stretching across town to the white house. A Government Shutdown threatens to take effect less than an hour from now on the oneYear Anniversary of Donald Trumps inauguration. A short time ago a senate vote failed as you know if youve been watching our live coverage, and that cleared the way in effect for this shutdown. Throughout the day congressional leaders from both parties have been in talks with each other and with the white house in an attempt to hash out something. At one point President Trump summoned the Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer to the white house for a meeting that lasted about 90 minutes. Subsequent reporting has it that the president did not share his plans with his staff before Chuck Schumer showed up. Despite that meeting, all of them maneuvering all day, all night leading up to the ismoment, no solutions have apparently been reached. Leaving the nation for the first Government Shutdown under unified Party Control ever of congress and the white house. A few moments ago if youve been watching our live coverage, you saw this moment take place. We saw chschumer and mcconnell, ranking gentlemen in both of their parties, head off the floor to it right of the main desk into the senate cloakroom. We dont know why. We dont know for how long. But the point was also made during lawrences broadcast that for something to work at this hour, to avoid a government shout down the coordination that would be required with the house and across town at the white house would be something indeed. So you see the two leaders there talking. Lets go to our correspondent on the hill, garret headache whoak working for us. Really the only thing that logistically seems possible to do that a at this hour would be to swing in those votes for the senate to pass the shortterm cr and extension that has been on their desk since about this time last night. This was a vote that could have happened 24 hours ago but instead goes now to the very last minute. Im staring at the doors of the house of representatives, behind our cameras here. The lights are on, the doors are locked. The other question is if not this, what . What can be agreed to . During the course of the day today weve heard floats of other extensions of government funding for a week or two weeks or even three weeks that didnt have some of these other things attached. The idea being lets shorten the time line here, force both parties and the president to come up with some kind of a deal. But its unclear if the four republicans who voted against this deal or enough democrats whod be willing to cross the line, the atmospherics around this, you had democrats outside the capitol tonight holding a rally saying we wasnt give up this fight. Were going to keep fighting for the d. R. E. A. M. Ers. Were going to keep fighting for an actual budget. To back off now simply for a different cr with a different end date looks unlikely. The question is what will the two Party Leaders who do have so much control over what happens in that body, what will they come back with when they come back to the chamber if and when they do tonight. Were watching it closely, garret. But tell us before we lose you, what happens now . 56 minutes from now, whats the mechanism . How will we feel a Government Shutdown at 12 00 midnight eastern time . Well, brian, most people probably wont. Thats probably the reason theres some kind of Broad Spectrum optimism here. If they think theres a potential deal, if nothing else i suspect well hear more of these lawmakers talk tonight, but we may inch closer to some sort of agreement. And they will be back here tomorrow. We already know the House Democrats have already told their caucus be here tomorrow morning at 10 00. So the effects for most people will be delayed perhaps long enough that lawmakers can work something out over the course of the weekend. But again thats going to require buy in from the president , which hasnt happened here. And both parties have complained about. We heard from Mitch Mcconnell this week he doesnt understand where he stands on the issues, and we heard Lindsey Graham. And we got the same sense today from Chuck Schumer despite spending 90 minutes with the president today, they couldnt come to even the contours of an agreement to give the democrats something to hang their hat on. While youve been talking, and i dont know if we have control over which angles of the senate floor we show, if we can take down the banner in the upper left, there is Chuck Schumer. Chuck schumer is talking with jeff flake. While garret was talking Chuck Schumer emerged from the republican cloakroom. At the bottom of your screen with his back to you is Lindsey Graham whos been involved in the talks all night. So this is right now kind of how a bill becomes or more appropriately doesnt become law. You are watching your u. S. Senate at work, and to many of you some of the faces you see bernie sanders, the independent who caucuses with the democrats, some of the faces will be familiar. But also it should be noted schumer is still over in the republican side of the well of the senate. That is for the lack of a better ter term, Enemy Territory for him. Hes talking to jeff flake like hes going to meander back to the left side. We have not seen Mitch Mcconnell yet. And we are now in the process of zeroing in on the clerk of the senate. I think that was a brave try to try to zero in on linda graham. So there is a schumer in the foreground going back up the democratic side. Jeff, can you add anything from over there . Reporter i can. I can tell you this, garret laid out really well the political kind of play here. I can tell you that meeting that Senate LeaderChuck Schumer and President Trump had earlier today, have a bit more color to share about that from a white house official. Were told that the president while he was meeting with senator schumer and senator schumer relayed to us what has been described a laundry list of demands he wanted in a twoyear deal. The response from the president was thats not going to happen today. The president encouraged him to work out his differences directly with Mitch Mcconnell. And we can assume from what happened tonight that Mitch Mcconnell didnt budge from his position. We know, brian, that congress is crisis activated institution. For the last three and a half months theyve been running on a series of these stop gap measures. Until now they had no reason to turn off the lights in the federal government as they might in less than a hour. The difference here is that democrats are dug in. They believe they have political leverage. They believe this issue theyre advocating for, protections for the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, and beyond that they feel its a moral issue worth fighting. And were seeing this play out apparently now on the floor of the u. S. Senate. Thank you for that. Let us know if theres news from the white house. We have robert costa, National Political reporter for the washington post, and an msnbc analyst. Robert, i see youre up on the hill. Anything you can add to our reporting . What theyre doing in the capitol, is theyre trying to figure out can they do a shortterm bill in the coming hours so these negotiations can continue. I spoke to senator graham and others and they think the white house can come together and have some kind of promise on the d. R. E. A. M. Ers vote or Something Like that. They just need a few more days. So the question tonight is will they tweak that house bill that goes for a month and just make it for a few days . Robert, im going to interrupt you only to bring in a member of the u. S. Senate. Senator jeff murkily, a democrat from oregon has joined us off the floor of the senate. Why did we just see the leaders of the republican and democratic caucuses disappear into the cloakroom . Whats going on is everyone has voted except Mitch Mcconnell. And mitch hasnt voted yet because hes trying to buy time. The majority leader now realizes this plan from the house is dead, its not going to happen. That the principles were standing on, Health Clinics need tee boo address w, defense need to be addressed and certainly members of the community who have not had their status nailed down for so long, that needs to be addressed as well. We need to make sure we take care of the d. R. E. A. M. Act. So what do you have to say to a park ranger tonight who has to either post a sign for reduced services or no admission tomorrow or may indeed be fur lowed. How do you explain this to a federal employee . Well, i think that employee should be outraged that these issues that we were bringing up last summer because it should have been resolved before the fiscal year were delayed because republicans wanted to wipeout health care for 30 Million People in america. And then they had this tax bill, and in that they did not want to deal with the basic of government. They didnt want to develop the spending bill. They proceeded to delay and delay, things of which theres bipartisan agreement. We have a bipartisan daca d. R. E. A. M. Er bill. We have a bipartisan Childrens Health care bill. We have a Bipartisan Health care clinic bill. And so we have been saying we will happily keep the government open, keep it open for one day, keep it open for three days, but there has to be a short period to force the Republican Leadership and President Trump to sit down and get the deal done. But the deadline coming up in 45 minutes was supposed to force everyone to get a deal done. And if you say theres any clean way for daca and the d. R. E. A. M. Act done, is there a cruelty to that . It has been disturbing they have been unwilling to sit down and negotiate until the last second. We tried, for example, even last night to say let us take the vote youre planning to take tomorrow, let us take it tonight. We can tell you its not going to pass and lets use that 24 hours to work out a deal. But its brinksmanship, and Mitch Mcconnell is putting the entire nation at peril. You asked me about the republican leader and democratic leader leaving the room together into the cloakroom. What theyre doing right now is theyre probably discussing how to do a very short couple days continuing resolution so we stay open and were forced to do intensive negotiations to get this deal done. All right, well look for you to ereemerreemerge on the floor. Thank you so much, jeff murkily, democrat from the state of oregon. Chris matthews has called into us. Obviously the host of hardball. Chris, were walking tom cotton walk around on his phone. Theres a little caucus going on of sanders, durbin and warren just one step up off the floor. I said this last week, i dont mean to insult a bunch of drunks, but this is government by seemingly a bunch of drunks. Well, its not the way they used to do it. And not to be the old guy here, but, brian, i remember when i was working for the Senate Budget committee back in the 70s, and we had a bipartisan budget. They would work out every one of the 13 functions of the federal government, they would work out a fiscal policy. They would agree on it and get it through the senate. Those were the days where you actually compromised, and you came to the office in the morning with the idea youd find a way to compromise. Its been often said tonight on your network that the republican Party Controls both houses of congress and the presidency. Well, they dont actually control the u. S. Senate. Because today you cant get oa vote on anything without 60 votes, and that means the republicans have to pick up nine votes from the democratic side, and they werent going to get them tonight because the democrats were committed to daca, and also they were promised they could get it by the president weeks ago. On the other side as you mentioned tom cotton, very hard line against immigration, they dont want to have their fingerprints or votes on anything that looks like amnesty, anything thats proimmigration theyre afraid of. So youve got the democrats that dont want to do business with the president after what he said about people of color around countries around the world. Theyre free thought to vote with him. They dont want to be in political bed with him. And on the right youve got people who dont want to be seen in anyway open to immigration, especially illegal immigration. Whatever theyre seen in terms of delaying this vote its still a fight. And its rough. And i hate to say the federal government runs in such a ragtag way. We are ingrate country of the world, and we cant seem to govern ourselves with any kind of class. As you speak, im watching murkily who has just reemerged in the chamber. Hes at the center top of our picture. Some interesting gatherings among republicans on the left hand side. You see grassly of iowa, portly of ohio. These are the pictures we dont have control over. This is Senate Television that decides to switch back and forth. Chris, weve not seen the majority leader come back out of the cloakroom. Are we going to hear from does anyone on the phone you think with the president or maybe his chief of staff or maybe the legislative director . You know, normally, yes. But it seems like President Trump in the last couple of days has left this up to his like his onus is saying doing what you want to do, kids. Its almost cartoonish because he is the leader and he would be the one to say, look, i can push this with the more conservative members of the house caucus. I can push this and maybe get a couple votes out of them and we can get this to it floor tonight. He would normally be the one to squeeze people. But im not sure hes involved. I think its Chuck Schumer with the hot hand. Hes got the hot hand. He doesnt have anyone in his caucus pressuring him to do business with this president tonight. And in fact i think hes got a lot of people on the streets tonight, activists, resisteres who dont want to see any deal. I think chuck is the boss tonight, and i dont think therell be a deal unless he wants one tonight. And i think he wants one tonight because that means hell be responsible and accountable for it. This is what its coming to, though, accountability and a willingness of politicians to stick their necks out and say, okay, heres the deal. Its not everything we want but its good for the country. Theyre not in mat mood right now. The democrats dont want to deal with a president whoo whos talked ethnically as hes done in the last week of people of color. I think thats something hes probably going to have recognize in the next couple of days, its time for him to give because of his own misstatement. This is a president keenly attuned to marketing. And with a selfcurated image as a deal maker we just came on the air and announced this was day 365 of the trump administration. A year ago they were celebrating their inauguration, litigating the largest crowds Human History has ever seen. Here we are a year later. A lot of americans have gone to bed early tonight because of their plans to go march on the streets of their city and town again tomorrow. But this president who was supposed to be in maralago, a hundred thousand dollars a couple to celebrate that first year in office, hes losing tonight that winning battle because americans so attuned to be watching cable news are watching this on the u. S. Senate. Absolute paralysis. And it used to be when president obama was in office, a different kind of disaster. It was very patterned. He would cut a deal with john boehner, then the speaker of the house. And then by the time boehner got in his car, boehners chief of staff said you just made a deal you cant hold. It cannot hold with our hard right, our freedom caucus. And this time around the president cuts a deal on tuesday of last week, ask then by thursday his chief of staff, john kelly and steven miller, his right wing mand, i guess, his righthand man have convinced him he cant make the deal he just made. So he brings in two hardball people, tom cotton and purdue of georgia and they basically ambush the democrats of good faith, especially dick durbin. I think its very similar to before. And its complete confusion and congestion and failure, and its now carried into this administration where the hard right is the veto. And i think thats an objective statement, by the way. This time around its the hard right on immigration who dont want to ever have their name soiled by being for anyone who try tuesday live in this country whose parents came in illegally just to try to make it as americans, people who grew up and wanted to be americans and have kept their nose clean, havent broken any laws under the provision of the executive order. And even the long path theyre seeking after themselves, and so this is the hard line against immigration were seeing here. And i think thats the reason. Its not the numbers tonight or the politics. Its just theres people who dont want to welcome people to this country under any terms. Our thanks to the Irish Catholic from philadelphia into introducing yiddish into our broadcast tonight. Chris matthews, t