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Round of drama around rosenstein about the did he say that we should invoc -- was it the 27th amendment? >> 25th. >> 25th amendment, sorry. does he wear a wire? i always wondered, was there going to be a chance the deputy attorney general could sit down and go -- this is two entities the president has had lots of twitter anger for. colliding with one another. i thought there was a decent chance he would come out in a f feud of the "new york times." >> fair enough. that came on the heels of the "new york times" op-ed, you know, anonymous oftnone op-ed. we know that those two things got under th...

House and senate. there's amnesty considered for illegal aliens that fall in the daca category in exchange for elimination of the lottery visa system. the diversity whatever you want to call it. also elimination of chain migration and border security. that seems to be the frame work of the negotiations now. whether that frame work will produce something that can pass in the senate and house. i don't know. can't say. >> kwi quick question. when it comes to a shut down if there is one you get paid 27th amendment to the constitution. you can't pay congressional pay until the beginning of the year...

>> historically speaking every government employee has been paid in full. >> often it's back pay, right? very often people live check to check. they need their money when they are supposed to get it, not when you decide to get your act together. >> that's one way to look at it. the other way to look a at it the federal workers aren't working, they are getting paid for not working when they get that back pay. there's some benefit to not having to do the work and still get the money. with respect to the 27th amendment, i'm willing to consider anything and that's one ofrt options that perhaps we ...

Members of congress. that's in the 27th amendment. which i think we should change. but that just goes to a larger problem, which is we have these continuing resolutions because congress won't do its main job, which is to pass a judgment. a budget is a blueprint for the government to work. and it's been months since the house kicked over something to the senate. that's why i supported with the organization no labels a measure called no budget no pay, which pass a budget they don't get - paid. and i think that would go a long way toward eliminating these stopgap measures that we keep having over...

Act together. >> another way to look at it is the extent there is a shut down and federal workers aren't working. they get paid for not working when they get the back pay. there's some benefit for not doing the work on the job and getting the money for not having to work. with the respect to the 27th amendment i'm willing to consider anything. that's an option we could look at in the house and senate. you have hit me kind of off guard. i haven't to have the cascading effects might be from the suggestion you make. i'm certainly more than happy to consider it. if we can get some movement in that...