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Would pass the senate and we stand a good chance of opening government. >> and the -- another senate piece of business i really want to get you on is confirmation hearing for william barr as the president's attorney general nominee. it looks like he has no resistance from senate republicans, and so that seems like he will definitely be moved out of the committee on to the senate floor, and after some debate if nothing changes in these dynamics, it looks like he will be confirmed. do you expect that to be pretty much a party line vote? >> well, i think we still want to get more information from...

Not going to be easing on sanctions. we actually should be tightening sanctions. so i think it was a very healthy vote. it was an uphill battle to try to get it passed and get over a president veto, but i think it's a clear message we disagree with the president on how he's managing the relationship with russia. >> is that an indication of what would happen if mitch mcconnell were to allow a senate vote on the government funding bills that nancy pelosi has moved through the house of representatives and sent to the senate? >> there's no question in my mind that the majority of senators would vo...

They were 20 years apart. 20 years later, those same countries, those same european countries were all very strong allies thanks to, among other things, an organization called nato. >> and american leadership. >> yep. >> and we were not recoiling from the leadership responsibilities around the world and mr. trump is doing it every time, whether it be on syria or whether it be on issues like our nato alliance. >> john barren, thank you very much. >> thank you. really appreciate it. and when we come back, lo11 republicans broke with the president today on russian sanctions. they voted against ...

Miles of wall and still there's going to be roughly 1,300 miles of open stretch. from the republican side, they say, if we can just build the wall, it's still an enormous problem and from either side, it's not going to get solved. >> this has vexed administrations of both parties for decades. and back in march, we passed over $600 million of money to build more or reconstruct border wall or fencing that exists today. that was all authorized in 2006. and oh, by the way, hillary clinton and joe biden, chuck schumer and barack obama voted for that back in 2006. so this argument today that both pa...

But what's interesting, erin, is that after the president left the room, according to one source, the vice president stayed in the room and asked democrats, are you going to put an offer on the table? according to the source, democrats did not. their position is very clear and very simple. they want the government reopened right now. they want to talk about all of this other stuff, all of the border security issues, after the government has been reopened. so in other words, we are really right where we've been this entire time. 19 days and counting. there is no end in sight to this government ...