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To reopen the government without funding the wall. and that sent a big signal. the president tried to down play it in his remarks to the reporters but you can't downplay that six members of his own party walked across the line. >> i read your stuff, i know you have the best words. can you put into words the pressure on donald trump right now? >> there is a tremendous amount of pressure. the white house is really desperate for an exit strategy at this point. polling has consistently shown that the majority of voters in numerous polls are holding the republicans and trump responsible. and we rea...

Up and running again. today in the senate there were two votes on competing plans to end the shutdown. one from trump. the other from the democrats. both of them failed but the democrats' plan notably gathered more yes votes than trump's version. six republican senators, forgive me. they crossed the aisle to support the democrats' proposal. that kind of thing can get majority leader's attention and indeed, the vote appears to have jump started talks between mcconnell and schumer. democrats and democrats. while those talks were going on, trump appeared on camera to signal he could be open to so...

Line. he had this meeting at the white house on wednesday with conservative leaders. conservative movement types. and have really pressed on them to get their people to call their senators to make sure people stayed in lines, that senators stayed, supported the president' senators voting for the democratic bill. what that says is not just that they voted to reopen the government but they also voted to reopen the government without funding the wall. and that sent a big signal. the president tried to down play it in his remarks to the reporters but you can't downplay that six members of his own ...

Between republican ted cruz and democrat michael bennett. >> the democrats are fond of using the phrase, hostage taking. they are quite literally holding the men and women of the coast guard hostage because they want to win a political victory against the president. their objective here is to have the president back down and have not a single mile of a border wall built. >> these crocodile tears the senator from texas is crying for first responders are too hard for me to take. they're too hard for me to take. because when you, when the senator from texas shut this government down, in 2013, my ...

If you're building a smelter, you may not like the epa but you need it before you can get it going. so lots of people are at best, inconvenienced and really damaged. but people who aren't directly affected. just the sense that this is ridiculous. live from days without a quarter or a third of our government, over a totally phony fight with the wall. the democrats, whatever you think of them, they passed legislation reopening the government and said let's just set this aside with the border. and trump saying no and amazingly, and this is the core of it, mitch mcconnell and the senate republican...