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President trump himself, judge, said that nobody is going to blame the leaders in the senate and the house, they will blame the president when they have a shutdown. he should get all the parties into the white house, put on a pot of coffee, lock the doors and stay there until they have a deal. judge jeanine: dan? dana: why do you start with chris? he's so includeless on politics. who is -- he is so cluesless on politics. chuck schumer is calling it the schumer shutdown. chris, you worked for schumer? >> i did. >> you understand there is a filibuster process. >> i absolutely understand there is...

Pointing out this vote count. the vast majority of democrats voted to shut down the government and not fund children's health insurance and yet again, i, who am labeled a staunch conservative and spotless in voting to fund this program, so, again, it's an interesting world. >> so, what happens to this bill when it gets to the senate? do you think it passes there or do you think there will be a shutdown? >> i'm hopeful that it passes. it is interesting, because i think america needs to do a better job understanding the rules of the senate. if, in fact, you're going to get to the point where you...

They are arguing whether this should face a 60-vote threshold through the filibuster process. is there anything more to this than the usual majority leader would like to see a 51 vote threshold and the minority always wants 60 vote threshold. is this standard argument we have heard before? >> as you know, lawrence, having served in the senate, both parties take exactly opposite positions, depending if they are in the majority or minority. when you are in the majority, you want to limit filibusters. when you are in the minority, you regard the filibuster as sacred and not to be tampered. both p...

So the question is, would i have loved to have gotten everything done in the first two years, absolutely. because for the next six i could have relaxed. but what we do is we choose to push as hard as we can on all fronts. some things are politically easier, some things are politically more difficult. some things we're able to get done given the schedule in the senate, or in the house. one of the biggest challenges that we've had on a lot of these issues was what's called the fill i buster in the senate. even when we had a majority in the senate, in order to get things passed, we had to get som...

There are millions of people who are not going to go bankrupt because they got sick because we got that done. so the question is, would i have loved to have gotten everything done in the first two years, absolutely. because for the next six i could have relaxed. but what we do is we choose to push as hard as we can on all fronts. some things are politically easier, some things are politically more difficult. some things we're able to get done given the schedule in the senate, or in the house. one of the biggest challenges that we've had on a lot of these issues was what's called the fill i bus...