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Senator manchin emphasizing that he wants these bipartisan talks to continue. as you know, the senate democrats have little room for error wan evenly split senate which gives manchin a lot of power and say in terms of how these talks proceed. many democrats have interpreted president biden as speaking to republicans as not necessarily a sign of reaching a bipartisan agreement but more so about trying to convince senator manchin, senator sinema, other senate democrats who want to work with republicans issue they have tried everything in terms of reaching across the aisle but there isn t a deal to be had. you heard the reporting from our colleague jasmine wright, vice president harris doing her homework before her first foreign trip to central america. her team has been trying to distance the vice president from the difficult situation at the southern border. the political pressure, though, still there. why do you think congressional ....
Tonight. as much as the president would like you to fox on the wall and nothing else, this is about the shutdown. the clock is ticking. there isn t a deal if there is a isn t a deal by midnight, and let s face it, the chances are slim to none that the government won t be acble to make their net payroll, and 800,000 federal workers will find themselves running out of money to pay their rent, to buy food, to do all the things that a lot of us take for granted. and despite what the president may think, they re not all a bunch of washington bureaucrats. outside the d.c. area, the states where workers were affected by the shutdown are most concentrated are alaska, montana, and idaho. not d.c. insiders and bureaucrats. half of the affected workers do not have college degrees. ....
President can be forgiven in looking at the issues there and saying well, wait a minute, we re trying to get regime change, we re trying to get rid of bashar al assad, and at the same time we re trying to go after one of his main enemies that is isis. does this really make sense? are we really going to close this deal? let s work on isis and let s simply let others work on bashar al assad. that would have been a sensible issue. he could have said to his military commanders, look, i want a strategy that gets us out of there but does not create a situation where we somehow reinforce assad or something and then people get to work on papers is that possible? we ve been in these wars not syria but afghanistan and iraq or for over a decade. is what you re saying we want to ....
Keeping the government open. that s not a democratic priority. that should be a priority of the whole of government. to the degree democrats are getting pressured, it s from their left, from progressives, saying don t make this deal, we don t want this medieval wall. he i say there s perhaps one wrinkle. i heard from a democratic source of mine a long time ago that democrats can t help but try to good afternoon even when it s not their job expect and the argument here would be that in a republican-controlled washington which we are still in until the first week of january, this should by all accounts be republicans problem to fix. but democrats have a tendency-a a constitutional tendency sometimes to try to insert themselves into problems that are not technically theirs to solve. and i think what you see right now is democratic leadership sitting back saying this is a problem generated by the president and we would like to hear his solutions to get out of it. come january that gets a ....
In exchange for protections for daca. he threw that deal in the trash. and now it s two years later when the democrats are about to take control. and he had a republican-controlled house and a republican-controlled senate and he did have a deal on the table. it seems like the reason he s got no deal now has more to do with him than it does with anybody in congress. well, i d also tell you there was a federal court ruling that reinstated daca which took the leverage off the table in terms of the fact that it needed to be done. if that gets overturned i think that deal comes back and there may be something long term in that respect. but also as you know while, yes, technically republicans do control the senate, when it comes to senate appropriations you re going to need 60 votes, so you have to have democrats on board. they re using that minority power to hold up the entire spending process. ....