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Repeatedly throughout the night. senator lindsey graham has been proposing a three-week continuing resolution, basically saying that the current funding bill that would go till four weeks, reduce that to three weeks, give people the opportunity to work on a resolution for the daca issue, work on a resolution for a two-year spending bill, the myriad of issues that are still out there right now. that is his pitch. the groups have been going back and forth. republicans were circled journalistjust a short while ago around mcconnell. schumer was surrounded by democrats talking about the pathway for...

Don't come up with anything? what's the point? >> you've seen both democrats and republicans be pretty positive about where they're going. they're trying to find a pathway forward, we're ten days out from a shutdown. this is a very important step in washington speak, in a washington kind of manner for this to happen. certainly a deal on this will be cut for the big four leaders of congress with the white house. they've been negotiating behind the scene as a lot. people seem pessimistic that they'll be able to find a deal in the next ten days. >> why are they more pessimistic today? >> this is ...

>> last night there was optimism and pessimism throughout the night and into the early morning. you met. can you talk about what specifically changed? >> let me just say every meeting we were in, in susan's office and meetings susan and i had separately, was always an optimistic meeting. we always knew that there was a pathway forward and it was a reasonable pathway forward. most importantly should we ever have shut the government down? absolutely not. other people felt differently. the bottom line was not to keep it shut down. it should never be shut down past this past weekend. we knew that....

Washington is too often hyperpartisan and driven by the ideological groups on the far left and far right rather than the sensible center. >> let me just -- >> please, senator. >> when i first came in november of 2010 after the death of senator bird, and i was a two-term governor and i made the decision to come and people were kind enough to send me here, the only group i found to look to the middle to find a pathway forward and find solutions was no labels. it was democrats and republicans, and it was ceos and rank and file country interested in their country. susan has been there listening an...

President trump late last week after he said exactly what he said he would do on the campaign trail, with which is consult with his generals and his national security team, weigh the facts and the evidence, and take action. and he did that. >> we need to make sure that russia fully understands the actions that assad took, the commitments that syria has made, and russia has equally agreed to those same understanding, so getting them back on the same page first and foremost would seem the logical step. >> logical step indeed. speaking of the next logical step, you want more information. u.s. per...