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Supported, but they really don't know and they have not yet figured it out. >> that is so baffling to me, david, that the president wouldn't know that it is a six-year c.h.i.p. extension. >> i give him credit for knowing. i assumed he knows and i assume that he blew up the deal because he didn't like it. >> the fisa thing was complicated. there were different parts of fisa to understand. still seemed like as the president he should understand it, but i would argue that that wasor complicated than something like this. this is a pretty straightforward deal. 28-day extension of funding, six-year ...

Control. let's talk about chip here for a second. nancy pelosi took -- she had a news conference a short time ago. this is what she said about this chip extension, the six-year extension that was inserted. >> this is like giving you a bowl of doggy doo, putting a cherry on top and calling it a chocolate sundae. this chip should have been done in september, first of all. second of all, we wanted ten years. we wanted permanent chip. which, by the way, saves $6 billion. >> we're talking about the children's health insurance program of course. the idea being here that if democrats don't vote for c...

Side need 60 votes to pass a spending bill through which means they really need the support of about 9 democrats depending on who republicans end up voting for. so they have some wiggle room here. as negotiations continue tonight, many want to see other things added to spending bill, not just daca. many say they want extension of the chip extension, children's health insurance program money thrown in there. will that be enough to woo the senate democrats? still outstanding question. but that's senate side. there are major problems house side among republicans to get the spending bill through. ...

First, the house has to find the votes to pass this. democrats are likely to sit on their hands and make republicans come up with all those votes by themselves. but that's why that c.h.i.p. extension is in there, to see if republicans can lure some democrats across the aisle. if that can happen, this thing goes to the senate, and there it's sort of a game of chicken, to see whether democratic senators are really willing to withhold their votes without a daca fix. they need now nine democrats to cross the line here and say yes, we are willing to vote for this. so republicans are hopeful that th...

Short-term funding measure, they say they want to wait until they're looking at a long-term funding measure. so she says that she's received assurances from paul ryan, from mitch mcconnell, that this is going to get done eventually. it's not a great situation if you're susan collins but she is saying this is going to happen and she has leadership assurances as well. >> david, quickly, does that hurt her? >> well, if she doesn't get this done, it could potentially damage her reputation as sort of delivering on the things that she has said are her priorities. but if, indeed, as rebecca is indica...