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Just listed? >> i've repeat lid supported a one-day or three-day cr because it keeps everyone at the table, keeps the pressure on, keeps the focus of the american people on us doing our jobs. i think if we support a three-week cr, we won't get any closer to actually resolving any of the underlying budget issues or other things that are coming due right now. >> so the government shut down continues. when that happens, a lot of other things shut down. like national parks, statue of liberty is among those closures. there are some parks and public lands like arizona's grand canyon, however, stayin...

An impact. yesterday, secretary of defense james mattis talked about how intelligence operations have to be stopped. training operations have to be stopped. our border patrol agents, our actual troops and service members, first responders, they have to work and not receive pay and that can only last so long. so the impact is very real. it does hurt and undermine our national security. we're working as hard as we can to minimize that impact. leland: noteworthy, the military and border patrol doesn't get paid, but congress gets paid. does that apply to the executive branch? >> i hope to get paid...

Weeks later and we're no closer. so we're asking to have a short-term c.r. and let's stay here and resolve the budget issues, the budget caps and let's -- >> define short-term. to me four weeks is short-term. >> well, no, four weeks means we'll delay the issues and come back four weeks from now. let's stick with the issues. we're close. a lot of progress on the immigration and the health care issues. a lot of progress on a lot of the appropriation issues on opioids and disaster relief and have results in the next week. >> but let's be realistic here. you're basically arguing over how much time...

Hi, molly. >> it's no simple task. democrats are saying, let's just focus on young illegal minors first and then get to the rest. but republicans say, not so fast. they want border security too and say they've been promised funding for a border wall before and then the funding didn't come through. >> i'm so mistrustful i think that we keep our promise first and then not give up our leverage until -- until we built that wall. >> but democrats say why wait, they believe they have enough bipartisan support to extend what's called da to -- daca to protect from deportation and also pass the dream a...

Majority? >> i'm not going to negotiate with the media on such things. what we want to do is have a -- we want to have a daca compromise, make sure the daca problem is solved. as you've heard me say time and again this has to be balanced so we don't have a daca problem five or ten years down the road. while we deal with the daca issue which needs to be dealt with, we want to make sure we have the right kind of interior and border enforcement so we don't have another daca problem down the road. the president is inviting republicans and democrats from the house and senate to advance this issue. ...