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Intensity of the voters on each side. the democrats now are sitting where the republicans did at this stage in 2010 before the tea party explosion. there are two -- look at all of these numbers in the polls. it seems to me like they're two big stories here. one is that if you combine the polling you're just referring to, joe, with what we saw on tuesday in the primaries in various states around the country, is that democrats are playing a very strong hand heading into the mid terms. whether there is a blue wave coming. how big that wave is, we don't know. but right now there's every indication...

Short-term spending bill for these, how in the heck are they supposed to agree on 12 different appropriations? >> melissa: because it's their job. >> lisa: i understand that, but that's ultimately the problem at hand for congress right now is it's hard for them to agree upon anything. but i will say, i do think that democrats did themselves no favors and shutting down the government only daca. they weaken their hand heading into more of these sites as well as looking at the debt ceiling fight. >> harris: i have a question. who is a politically benefit to kick the can down the road on dreamers ...

They put all of the sticky discussions until the 11th hour, almost literally. there was very little activity throughout the day. aside from schumer going to the white house. there seemed to be no urgency on part of either party. i think they both felt they had waning hand heading into last night. now is the question of does either party have a winning hand here. >> and looking forward, we know that senator graham was excited about this potential for a three-week continuing resolution, although they couldn't get the votes for 30 days. why would he be optimistic that he could peel off a few more...

>> well, he said the first thing out of his mouth. i said, hey, you want to talk about health care? he said, what's there to talk about? that's kind of the mood on capitol hill. the air has kind of gone out of the room and everyone is rolling into work a little later than normal. he had a cup of coffee in his hand heading into another briefing. this is what is going to happen. we are going to negotiate. he said, i'm not going to tell you what i want. a lot of that over the next couple of days. >> kasie hunt getting ready for the next rodeo. thank you. appreciate it. let's talk about president ...

Russia's president, vladimir putin. the real concern, hallie, is the types of tense moments we all witnessed this morning at the breakfast could weaken this alliance and ultimately strengthen putin's hand heading into next week. hallie? >> kristen, hang with me for another 45 seconds here. i'll ask the ambassador and general clark to stick around, as well. we're about to see the president hammering away at germany. strongly condemning this pipeline deal that germany has entered into with russia. we'll explain that just after you see the president's remarks. president trump said this did come u...