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Floor this week in the senate, and i sincerely hope that our colleagues from across the aisle will work with us on this. let's get this passed, let's end the shutdown as well as fund border security. maria: so you are going to bring this to the floor on tuesday. do you believe you'll have the votes? >> you know, i think it may take some work, but i think we can get there. look, we've got provisions in here that the democrats have indicated they very much want whether it's daca or humanitarian assistance or technology at the border points of entry. these are all things that they've said they wa...

And, obviously, ends the shutdown. what do you believe your colleagues on the left will have a problem with in terms of that list? >> well, look, these are things that our colleagues have voted for before. in addition, we'll include the appropriations bills which are bipartisan and they have supported as well as the supplementals for disaster assistance to help with the hurricanes we had in florida and georgia, with the fires in california, the earthquake we had up in alaska. so, look, this is -- it's very compelling. these are things that they've wanted, that they've promised to their constit...

And i sincerely hope that our colleagues from across the aisle will work with us on this. let's get this passed, let's end the shutdown as well as fund border security. maria: so you are going to bring this to the floor on tuesday. do you believe you'll have the votes? >> you know, i think it may take some work, but i think we can get there. look, we've got provisions in here that the democrats have indicated they very much want whether it's daca or humanitarian assistance or technology at the border points of entry. these are all things that they've said they want in the deal. we're putting t...

The party that is beginning to really push this because it's been taking so long, without question. and i think you will see more and you will hear more. doesn't mean we're fractured and that everybody is split apart, it just means that we need to get this done -- maria: right. >> and, you know, real quickly, i think that there's ways to do that. so if we all know that we want to do something about daca, we all know that we immediately want to open up our government, then we know that the problem is border security. so let's sit down. maybe we need a panel that both sides agree upon that would...

Maria: inaccurate. so should we continue with all of this stuff going out there and the zeitgeist to make people think on the one hand the president said to lie, on the other hand, you know, the president said that, you know, he just wants the wall and doesn't -- and the democrats want border security? i mean, honesty, i think, is what we all want on both sides of the aisle. >> one of the reasons i think donald trump got elected was because the american people were tired of partisan bickering. and they thought that it would bring a change. unfortunately, it hasn't brought a change. i think you...