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Senator flake. this is not the first time president has not been sensitive to the values of this great nation. one of those values is the freedom of expression. we can disagree with the president and that doesn't mean we're not patriotic or committing treason. we have the freedom to stand up for what we believe in. the president was shown the office when he walked in with the applause that he received from all. when he says things we disagree with, we have no responsibility to just appease his ego to stand up to applause. what we did was patriotic. what we did was protecting our rights under o...

Itself. we are going to be putting it up onscreen as well. we are going to start going through this point by point. we are talking about first of all, a white house cover letter written by don mcgahn, white house counsel, and he points out that the constitution does vest in the president the authority to protect national security secrets from disclosure but he has the responsibility also to as well as classifying, he can declassify so it's very clear he has taken this step today to declassify this memo, send it back up to the hill and the hill has now distributed it. of course, it is only the ...

Levels, democrats are talking about, how close are republicans to getting a deal on plussing up military, plus the domestic programs? >> well, the budget caps are obviously a very important. our military families told us over and over again that readiness is being affected. and there is one thing that the military hates worse than a continuing resolution, and that is a government shutdown. so the most important thing is that we get government to reopen and continue the negotiations on the budget caps, which will give the military and some of our domestic programs like opioid funding the money ...

Between this moment and the noon vote. tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. is a good spot to circle. the democrats will meet. and at the same time at least scheduled right now the bipartisan group of senators who we have been watching over the last two days they're going to meet to talk about this. if they're going to be the six or seven democratic votes that jeff flake was talking about, they'll come out of the bipartisan meeting. i don't expect to see the harris the murphy, warrens, of the democratic party decide this is good enough. there maybe moderate democrats who say enough is enough. and we want to...

O'donnell. garrett, i want to start with you. take us through the back and forth. i know you were on the second floor. what did you see? what was the mood like? and how do we proceed from here? is schumer going to take this? >> reporter: that's the million dollar question. it seems like chuck schumer wants to let this marinate overnight. if you think about all the other deals and starts of deals that we've had over the last week or so about this, the x factor has been and remains the president. the possibility here that a deal that gets struck tonight could be undermined by the president at 6:...