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Still to blame. >> rick tyler, i was speaking with representative gates in the last hour. representative gates said $2.6 billion, i'll do that. he was agreeing to 1$1.6 before. in trade for that, the democrats would get the bridge act which would be a temporary grant to work for those who are related to daca. do you think that might work here? >> i do. i think the democrats, they're clearly in the strongest bargaining position. therefore, if trump is not going to move off add the idea of money for a border wall, then the democrats have every right to ask for something in return. and so they sh...

Accepting that offer. this is something that apparently was going on but has only broken into the public today. dems waiting to hear what they'll accept because they don't trust his word through his intermedia intermediaries. as you may know, plenty of people don't follow every piece of political news. they're not following the first hour of the shutdown but word is getting out that donald trump did shutdown the government with no plan. more people blaming him for it than any other party. 47% of americans in the new reuters poll. trump's acting chief of staff also struggling today to outline a...

Shutdown. heard what phil mattingly said, now we could be talking about how many weeks, not how many days, the shutdown is going to be going. what does it look like to you now? >> i think it will be weeks, not days. it's very difficult to know what the president would be willing to sign, and mark meadows, being one of his chief allies in congress, in the house, unless and until those house members indicate what they're willing to sign, and then have a bill pass the house and get over to the senate for consideration, it will be weeks. i would just echo, again, what phil said. the senate passed ...

Honest week's pay for an honest week's work and there are times when i've never supported a government shutdown, but where a government will shut down and you know that it's coming in advance. this is not that. this is an after the fact we're going to shut the government down, and we're not really clear what our bargaining position is even going to be. so i think in this respect, it's extremely unfair to those workers. and it's -- to be retiring and i'll be going out in a time when the government is shut down because we can't come to an agreement on that. and frankly, again, the senate passed ...

Who has the appetite to extend this the longest and who the shortest right now, would you say? >> i just got off the phone with a democratic aide who says that democrats are not going to budge on what the senate already passed, which is this idea that essentially there will be no border funding in the cr. so, democrats are digging in and saying they're not going to do this. president trump through his incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney, has already signaled that the white house is willing to come down on the initial $5 billion ask, but the president himself has not fully endorsed that. so,...