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And senator manchin democrat talking about their votes today. let's watch today. >> can you talk about what specifically changed? >> every meeting we were in, the meeting susan and i had, was always an optimistic meeting. we always knew there was a pathway forward and it was a reasonable pathway forward. most importantly, should reach of the government down? absolutely not but there were other people that felt differently. the bottom line is not to keep it shut down. we were all moving in a very positive movement towards that. leadership was still -- i'm only going to say this. the rules of th...

Now, jim kind of alluded to it. when you talk to republican leaders on capitol hill and their top advisers, they're very comfortable with where they are. they think as this all plays out politically they can win this fight in the public perception, in the public sphere. they believe the proposal they have on the table is a reasonable proposal and democrats should be willing to take that. but, don, we talked ad nauseam about this last night. the issue for democrats is that there is a significant trust deficit. they don't trust the white house, they don't trust the republican leaders in congress...

Mitch mcconnell is in the mood to deal in anyway. they believe the four-week stopgap is the pathway forward, that means they're going to try to make things as difficult as possible for democrats in the days ahead, i will tell you, i had one republican source tell me flatly, a couple hours ago, the wild card in this issue will always be the president, they don't know when the president is going to step in and try to change the dynamic, they thought for a period of time that might be happening, clearly democrats thought for a period of time today, that might be happening, i think there's two thi...

Furious lobbying, after the government shutdown, into saturday morning on the senate floor in live view for everyone, no resolution and one clear fact, things are going to get worse before they get better. instead of trying to figure out the pathway forward, republicans and democrats framing who is to blame. for senator schumer, there's one answer. >> every american knows the republican party controls the white house, the senate, the house. it's their job to keep the government open. it's their job to work with us on a way to move things forward. but they didn't reach out to us once on this cr...

In the house. speaker paul ryan tonight had a closed door conference meeting with house republicans where a lot of republicans and a lot of senior aides came out of that meeting saying, things are pretty good. we think we can get this four-week spending bill done. we think we can get the majority to move this through, kick this over to the senate. now with this group of conservatives meeting behind closed doors, deciding that they are not in support of this, they're back to square one. right now, they need to figure out a pathway forward, or for republicans who don't want to deal with the daca...