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Ground. >> we are 19 and a half hours from a possible government shutdown. the senate adjourned last night without voting on the stop-gap funding bill without a clear path to resolution. >> both sides dug in. democrats are resolute and determined and united against the measure. on the senate floor, chuck schumer floated the idea of the stop-gap measure that funds the government for a matter of days. aides to mitch mcconnell do not see the point. >> when schumer said he was not quote trying to play for political points, several republican senators laughed out loud. mcconnell went after the demo...

Together. brooke, democrats in the senate, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell can't move anything forward without democratic support. the big question has been democrats, just like in the house, are fired up about this issue, that there's been no daca resolution, don't want a short-term spending bill. want a two-year deal. whether or not they would take the threat of a shutdown and move it across the line to actually voting for a shutdown. democrats had a closed door lunch a short while ago. i'm told inside that lunch the caucus was almost entirely unified that, yes, they want to keep sena...

Of the most divisive if not the divisive he has talked about. talk about a wall that spanned bord border to border was an admission that the caucus found interesting. what the president wants in any potential daca resolution, or any potential daca deal is up for a debate. how big does the wall have to be, is it a wall system, is it barriers. what he wants on family migration or visa lotteries. all of these positions up in the air and complicated everything on capitol hill. >> and how close are they to making the deal. >> not close. the gang of six -- bipartisan

I've been in washington for 30 years. i remember when the government shut down under reagan, under clinton, under bush, and i've got to say, i think democrats are making a big political mistake here if they basically -- look, the party that gets blamed for a shutdown is the party that wants to shut the government down. that's why newt gingrich got blamed, it seemed like he wanted to shut down the government. in this instance, democrats are saying, we don't care if the government gets shut down because we want our way on daca. >> the folks in washington, they seem to be a part of this -- this w...

Comprehensive immigration reform, which is a hard problem. you had 68 senators pass it in 2013, you can't get it through the house. we have a more pressing issue involving 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers, people who were brought here as children through no fault of their own, who will begin to be deported in march if we don't solve this problem as soon as possible. donald trump said he wants to solve the problem. i will take his word on that. paul ryan said he wanted to solve the problem. mitch mcconnell said he wanted to solve the problem. 70% of americans want to solve the problem. we could just solve...