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Regulation. >> 18 months ago you had a shot at this race. >> yeah. >> why not give somebody else a shot? >> i owe it to the people of alabama, not the republicans running in this race. this is a race for united states senator. if people want them, they'll elect them. but i have a strong base here and they'll elect me. >> i -- i asked roy moore directly about president trump and about don junior who tweeted yesterday, don june yort president's son said yesterday, i can assure everyone that by running roy moore is going against my father and doing a disservice to all republicans across the count...

Of what was it? watchful waiting. come on now. there's no such thing as watchal waiting in this white house. >> there's no such thing as watchful waiting here, but i think it's also very rare for them to have a deliberate strategy. they seem to do a lot more reacting off the cuff than they do proactive, strategic planning. and as disenheartening to see, i think it's troubling on policy grounds. what we are seeing now though is this find crouch as they try to wait out and see what the mueller report will look like if as rumored it's about to drop. >> let's turn to nadler. should he be issuing s...

Happen? >> reporter: something will be introduced but there won't be votes for at least another couple of days. what we are going to see today was released last night. mitch mcconnell is likely to take it up today. it closely mirrors what the president announced on saturday. that is the republican proposal. what it is $5.7 billion for a wall. the tradeoff is a three year extension of doma protections and temporary protected status, they believe that is a compromise. democrats reject that proposition saying on the first front they don't want to negotiate anything on border security unthill til ...

To. if that sounds familiar, it is because it was rejected earlier in the week by democrats. where this all ends, nobody knows. there will be a shutdown at midnight and talks to find a way out of this will continue. >> we heard senators on the floor the last time they spoke saying, listen. we won't come back unless there's something that all sides are willing to back here. so that next vote won't happen, any idea when the next vote might happen, it sounds like no. >> not at this point. that's tangible movement. the idea that the show votes, or the procedural votes, people putting up bills and ...

And there's been some talk among democrats that they want to attach legislation to protect the special counsel robert mueller. jeff merkley was on the show last week. seemed to acknowledge that he would perhaps vote to shut down the government if it didn't include such a provision. is that your position as well? would you vote against this funding bill if it doesn't include protections for robert mueller? >> no. no, i think there are ways to protect robert mueller and i think there are ways to do that. there's a bipartisan bill out of the judiciary committee that mitch mcconnell could bring to...