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We're at a shutdown. there's no way the house could actually pass anything that's different than what they sent to the senate. the only thing that might save them is if schumer and mcconnell are working on flipping ten votes. i think both bases have been served through this, and the party leaders know they have catered to their base in going up to this brink. the question is what does history hold? because these shutdowns, i've been through 20 years of them, they do not take a linear jump. we remember gingrich complaining about being in the back of it plane. in '13 we remember cruise and his c...

Administration where the hard right is the veto. and i think that's an objective statement, by the way. this time around it's the hard right on immigration who don't want to ever have their name soiled by being for anyone who try tuesday live in this country whose parents came in illegally just to try to make it as americans, people who grew up and wanted to be americans and have kept their nose clean, haven't broken any laws under the provision of the executive order. and even the long path they're seeking after themselves, and so this is the hard line against immigration we're seeing here. a...

The 13 functions of the federal government, they would work out a fiscal policy. they would agree on it and get it through the senate. those were the days where you actually compromised, and you came to the office in the morning with the idea you'd find a way to compromise. it's been often said tonight on your network that the republican party controls both houses of congress and the presidency. well, they don't actually control the u.s. senate. because today you can't get oa vote on anything without 60 votes, and that means the republicans have to pick up nine votes from the democratic side, ...

Business had to run this way? for folks just joining us that's chuck schumer drinking what we hope was water. durbin of illinois is seated in the right hand frame. mcconnell standing there with cornyn. flake is at the seemingly outer orbit. there's a shot of, corker and flake, probably the two biggest critics on the republican side of this president, on opposite sides of leader mcconnell. and pat lahey is about to walk across the bottom of the frame. this is your senate at work. >> i think senator john kennedy, the republican from louisiana who i think quickly is becoming the most political ce...

45 minutes was supposed to force everyone to get a deal done. and if you say there's any clean way for daca and the d.r.e.a.m. act done, is there a cruelty to that? >> it has been disturbing they have been unwilling to sit down and negotiate until the last second. we tried, for example, even last night to say let us take the vote you're planning to take tomorrow, let us take it tonight. we can tell you it's not going to pass and let's use that 24 hours to work out a deal. but it's brinksmanship, and mitch mcconnell is putting the entire nation at peril. you asked me about the republican leader...