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Secretary Gina Raimondo & Nick Clegg were on "This Week" Sunday, June 6. This is a rush transcript and may be updated.

Though he says no to the latest proposal tonight after speaking with the lead republican negotiator, she's going to speak to senator caputo again on mondays. should he be doing that? i understand there is a lot of ways to look at this but i can look at it and say going from $1.7 trillion to $1 trillion when the other side goes from $250 billion to $300 billion. one side is moving a lot than the other. the two sides are really far apart. they push the big lie which led to the insurrection. they voted to overturn the election results. they did not support the impeachment even though donald trump...

That congressional ability to decide how money is spent, you take away the biggest tool congress has in the unique balance of power our constitution creates. >> senator collins thinks that this way he's doing it, she thinks, is still unconstitutional. >> we'll see. the courts are going to decide that now, not the congress. we're going to have to every six months, apparently, double down on our view of whether this is a good thing to do or not. senator caputo and congressman cole and i were at the border tuesday and wednesday of this week, and what's happening at the border is making a differen...

In all candor one of the things i wish the president said last night was i heard him talk about the need to have a guest worker program. because he says we're at 3.6% unemployment and we need more labor in our country that. would help alleviate some of the crisis at the border. that is something i think the president should be more forth coming in saying he supports because i do think there's a possibility for partnership with democrats on that. >> joe, honestly it's so interesting when we listen to mark because it sounds like everybody's closer than the entractable situation that we find our ...

Night, one from the president and one from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. not a great performance by the way. however, the most important statements may have been from lisa murkowski, the republican senator from alaska who says she doesn't think that we should shut the government down while passing these appropriations bills. senator caputo from west virginia saying the same thing, john. >> we are two days away from this being the record -- the longest shutdown in american history. and that's the big problem that the senators are beginning to feel that pressure because there's no good reason ...