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Didn't become bargaining tools. >> i agree with that. we in the house passed 12 appropriations bills before the end of the fiscal year on september 30th under the leadership of the chairman of the appropriations committee. those bills did not pass in the senate. i think we have a responsibility now to move the nation forward to end the shutdown and to fund all of these programs. as i understand it, what is occurring in the senate is perhaps a bill that will fund the government until february 8th. >> what do you want to tell them about getting this done? mitch mcconnell says this is chuck schum...

I think, though, that that message that they're sending to d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s essentially is that you know what, you're important but you're not the priority. and i think that they're going to run into the risk of actually really getting their base very, very angry at them because d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s essentially are saying the democrats who also failed to pass immigration reform that they also essentially are doing what the republicans are doing which is playing with their lives and using d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s as kind of bargaining tools. >> peter baker, you heard sort of between the lines in chris coons c...

Exchange. th that, for example, how we pass every minimum wage bill. >> what is the pill republicans have to take? >> the amnesty part. i'd say probably 99% of republicans have run against am necessar amnesty. issues readily related to immigration or birth right citizenship are all good bargaining tools i think the democrats in terms of good faith negotiation should consider some of those things. >> we haven't heard daca referred to as amnesty by the leadership here who all supports it and the president in sometime. he was against it during the campaign and then kind of shifted as he became pr...

It is refreshing to see this unvarnished and see how it is unfolding without all the strict messaging which i am not a fan of anyway when everybody reads from the same script. here is one thing i think we should all keep an eye on. if this infrastructure bill comes out. it will give donald trump the bargaining tools that he's most at home is which would be money for project. they cannot do what they call this is jargon air marks anymore in congress. give me your vote. you cannot do that now. i think there is an incentive when the president gets down to it because you cannot help design whateve...