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They support chip. in fact, every member of the finance subcommittee democrat voted for this extension. they don't want the cadillac tax going into place. they always supported clean crs. ordinarily, you'd simply put up a clean cr and let them vote. it worked in the house. >> is it take it or leave it on the bill that passed the house? democrats have to support the bill in the house for us to avoid a shutdown? >> the house passed a bill. the senate has a couple choices. they could not take it up. this is basic civics. either they take it up and pass it, don't pass it or change it and send it b...

It, that the president's lawyer set up a company by which to pay somebody for a non-disclosure. what do you make of this? >> well, let me start by saying, i don't think there's anything sexy about dirty old men in politics, but unfortunately, we have had a lot of those, going all the way back to president warren harding. this president, however, donald trump, is unique. his financial conflicts of interest, his use of money to get what he wants, his mysterious sources of financing and now there's talk about money laundering by steve bannon, by the people who put together the dossier and others....

>> you said before, everyone who agrees they want a solution on daca. so what is the big sticking point on your end, about keeping the daca fix out of this bill? >> it's not ready. you don't vote on a summary. you don't get to vote -- there have been months on work, as you see with my major piece of legislation, it doesn't and shouldn't come together overnight. there is no daca bill to vote on, and there is no emergency in terms of the timing on daca. daca does not expire until march 5th. there's absolutely no reason to tie these things together right now. >> if i can follow up on that, again,...

>> well, that's interesting. you normally see the white house press briefings sometimes end with reporters shouting out questions. that was actually unusually robust because of the fact that it looks like in 12.5 hours, we're going to have a government shutdown. nobody credibly said otherwise. that was mark short and mick mulvaney doing a press briefing. clearly, the press wanted more. the reporters wanted to talk more about this. they said they'll do it again probably later today. >> i will say that when you have a mark short there and mick mulvaney, it is a more substantive press conference....

Minimum wage to $15 an hour. i'm talking about m&t bank in our backyard that's doing the same thing. we're seeing the benefit of tax reform. that's impacting people on a day-to-day basis. that's what we come to d.c. to do. >> congressman, what happens tomorrow if there is a shutdown and constituents start calling you? is there a role that you have to play in order to try and undo it? if we get to the inevitable in 13 hours and there is a shutdown, and i don't see any senate vote schedules, and it doesn't look like they have the votes at moment, so at this moment, if i were a begging man, i'd b...