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Michael steele, john boehner had a hell of a time as you well remember trying to corral congress because you had, as jen was talking about, the tea party this there making his life miserable. is there -- can you just assess, so far, the leadership that has been exhibited by the republican leadership and the white house in trying to get a government funding bill through. give them a grade. >> i think they get an a-plus. i think they offered a bill to keep the government running for 30 days. coupled with a six year extension of the children's health insurance policy. once schumer and pelosi deci...

Happened on the floor. because if you recall, the vote was open for about two hours with senators kind of fleurying about, talking in these really intense negotiations. of course we asked senators when they got off the floor what happened, what went on. and basically the outlines of this deal that hopefully will kind of start to move the ball again, people agreed instead of the four week funding resolution, let's do it three weeks. it runs out february 8th. and senator flake told us there does seem to be a commitment now from majority leader mitch mcconnell to bring up his legislation with sen...

[ overlapping speakers ] >> who controls the house of represents. >> they passed a funding bill. >> who controls the senate? >> at this point, given the filibuster rules, senator schumer is in charge of whether they pass this funding bill. >> not true. what about the four republicans who voted no. what happen -- what is their role in this. because four republicans, of your own party voted against this deal. >> they did. but it easily would have passed if senator schumer -- >> but it is their fault. >> it would have passed if the democrats did not vote no. >> you understand you have unified con...

Couple of them, i have every reason to believe they did so on principle and it is the right to do so just as it is chuck schumer's right to obstruct and shut the government down. >> so you are saying only one party has principles and chuck schumer is some sort of abject evil and your party, when they don't vote against their own leader's bill have principle but the democrats do not. >> no. i'm pretty confident i didn't say that. >> because their principle was you can't take 9 million c.h.i.p. kids hostage and then say it is the daca kids or the c.h.i.p. kids and they felt in principle it is im...

Whoo! i got my money! pointless, irresponsible shutdown, funds the pointless, irresponsible on the floor of the senate -- >> -- and low income families. none of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle could point to a single thing in the bill that they oppose. not one thing. that is why -- voted for it last night. [ technical difficulties ] >> it would have passed smoothly and been sent for the president's signature. accept -- except that the democratic leader took the extraordinary step of filibustering this bipartisan bill and initiating his own government shutdown. why? well, because h...