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Working behind the scenes. do they feel they've made any progress? >> reporter: at this point, not really. i will say one of his top deputies, mark short, the head of legislative affairs, he's been um on capitol hill talking to senators. he just came out and spoke to reporters a few moments ago and said he still feels like there's a chance they could get a vote on this c.r. tonight. as you heard from phil mattingly, it is becoming exceedingly unlikely they're going to have the votes to get that house c.r. passed. then it becomes let's make a deal. can they find some other alternative that is g...

News lik wre drinking out of a fire hose. people talk about this will be an albatross around democrats' neck if we shut down government because we want to protect daca. a few weeks ago we were talking about bump stocks because of a mass shooter in vegas. so we move so rapidly through these news cycles that what happens over the next 24 hours to two weeks, will it have an effect? november? i highly doubt in will. but if we're able to get a deal on daca today or before march 6th, how will that have an effect? positively on election. i think that goes into the calculation. >> going back to this m...

They don't have all the republicans on board. you can't say you have a unified caucus. democrats know what we're fighting for, our message is clear, and we never have a clear message. our message is clear, we're fight willing for daca, dreamers, americans period. >> the problem the democrats are going to have, there's a bill to keep the government open. and they oppose it, you had a republican house vote handily to keep the government open. you had the republican president support this bill that just has to be voted on to keep the government open, we'll have a weekend here, we have a grace per...

I just want to play that. >> it's a bad day for the military according to general mattis. i think the real world needs to deal with the 800,000 daca recipients and the overwhelming need to rebuild our military and increase funding that's going to get us there within a month. >> -- first time that you're feeling optimistic? the first time today? >> this is the first time i've felt like, okay, enough is enough fromeverybody. the president is going to get -- gr graham/durbin is going to be made law. it was a good proposal. i think it can be made better. we're going to get hopefully more things fo...

Discussed throughout this night, anderson, raised a litany of concerns about the process, about the daca issue, about the trust issues they have with the white house. the idea that they would back off where they've currently walked themselves into at this point because of a one-week reduction in the c.r., right now i'm told from democratic sources, people are skeptical. here's the issue. republicans doengt need all 49 democrats here. they need what i'm told, about 12 or 13 at this point. they already have a handful. we tked about them earlier. those red state democrats, already three our four ...