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Point of why they can't move forward with an agreement. what's your take? >> i've been there, done that. we went through this back in 1995 and early 1996, i remember correctly. the sky did not fall then when we had a partial government shutdown for a number of days, and the sky is not going to fall now if we have a partial government shutdown for a number of days. it has to do with whether or not congress is ready to do what the american people demanded of it in the last election and that is to start getting our fiscal house in order. >> how do you see this impacting the republican party movin...

Health services. republicans want to shut down the government because they think there's nothing more important than keeping women from getting cancer screenings? this is indefensible and everyone should be outraged, men and women should be outraged. the republican house leadership have only a few hours left to look in the mirror, snap out of it and realize how positively shameful it would be, mr. president. for months this conversation has been about billions and trillions of dollars. it's been about weighty issues and difficult decisions. this debate is about saving money. that's what we tho...

If we're able to reach agreement before midnight, then at least theoretically, both bodies, the house and senate, could pass a very short term, two or three day stopgap measure in order to have the time to complete the work on the full measure and then adopt that sometime next week. or -- and that would avert a shutdown. it's possible also that because in the senate it would require unanimous consent, somebody might disagree with that process and would object. in that case, it would take a few days for us to do the -- in effect the paperwork to get this done and that would then result in a go...

Taking place as we have our countdown clock as we're watching this ticking off every second. >> reporter: i guess the good news is we still have 12 1/2 hours to come to an agreement. in case it isn't obvious, two possible scenarios. a last hi-minute agreement down the wire. others might interpret that as 11:00 tonight. or the other possibility is we have a shutdown and that raises more questions. will this be a shutdown that simply lasts over the weekend and all sides come to an agreement after the rubble is cleared after that initial we'll see after the shutdown. after they sift through the w...

Replace bill through the house? folks, it's a razor thin margin. this will go down the wire again. welcome to "early start". it is wednesday, may 3rd, 4:00 a.m. in the east. nice to see you all this morning. let's begin here. president trump and his administration are facing a major public rebuke from an official fired from president trump himself. former acting attorney general sally yates is prepared to testify that she warned the white house michael flynn was lying about talking to the russian ambassador. a warning that came three weeks before flynn was fired as national security adviser....