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Cory gardner said to garrett haake of nbc, let's get the government reopened. we'll see this week if there's more pressure from some other republican senators. but you could see that that's where it starts to build and mcconnell could eventually come to the white house and say, guys, we got to get this government open, we got to figure something out. >> nick, is that where the pressure comes, whether it's susan collins in maine or tom tillis in north carolina? these republicans in what are still swing states, are these the republicans senators that go to mitch mcconnell saying this is a joke, ...

As a democrat, how do you trust that? >> you can't. >> let's bring in kasie hunt. elise and nick are back with us as well. senator king, mitch mcconnell has i think three senators so far to call for an end of the shutdown. how many is it going to take for this president to realize it's a no-win battle. >> it only takes one more to get to a majority in the senate. if you're talking about a veto, it will take a lot more. there are underlying institutional issues here. this is not only about a wall but it's about a president that doesn't seem to realize that there are constraints on what he can d...

In the middle east to try and tamp down concern over the president's hasty announcement on syria, as republican opera at the mike murphy noted on twitter, you can tell that things at the white house have gone totally bat blanc whk had go-to guy for public policy clean-up is bolton. welcome to "morning joe." with us we have national affairs analyst for msnbc news and executive producer of showtime's "the circus, joel heilemann, nick c nick, and "washington post" and political analyst philip rucker is with us as well. joe, what a way to start the week. there's so much going on and so many lies t...

It was so reliable on that front. the facts don't matter to him in those situations and it continues to be the case that he holds it now very close for the same reasons. >> and he even admitted, nick, that when people got distracted or wandered off that he would bring back the wall. he said it was the best applause line. what about his own people admitting to the "new york times" that actually this was just a memory trick for him in 2014, they came up with the idea of a wall because they knew donald trump didn't like to read or perhaps he doesn't know how to read, it's hard to say, but everyon...