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A motion to defer. >> as for the yays and nays? >> is there a sufficient second? >> there is. >> the clerk will ka ul the role. >> mr. alexander. >> aye. >> misbaldwin. -- >> all right, so, we're sitting here with jonathan le mere as the pages go to their stations and we will see some senators head to the cloak rooms. what just happened was mitch mcconnell said let's keep everything running to february the 8th. just ten days from now. he also suggested that it will allow the appropriate time to, you know, for people to meet and work out, you know, going forward on the deal. certainly, though, ...

Note his first year in office, instead, he will be in washington with no public event scheduled. now could there be private negotiations? senator schumer called tore them with the four heads, then the president, himself. we will see, certainly this is a shutdown reprieve could come soon, it also, these are parties dug in, particularly on immigration. there is a chance this could go on a while. >> once they've crossed this rubicon. >> there is less motivation to walk it back. they could stay there. as we have been noting, it's january 20th. the remarkable timing. this comes on the first year of...

You, congressman, david jolly who so often joins us during normal times on our broadcast, erica western weren'ter has suredly chosen the night shift for the pawing post. she's off the floor. erica, what have you seen that fills in the picture of what we have been covering on the floor tonight? >> reporter: well, as you heard senators schumer and mckwonally speak there after the vote, this is all about messaging, trying to get the upper hand with the trump administration and senator mcconnell trying to brand this the schumer shutdown and senator schumer and the democrats calling it the trump sh...

House members in town. they will have a vote as early as noon tomorrow. so we get a three-week delay the reality of mcconnell and schumer is they are no closer to a deal right now. they absolutely are not. that was a lot of ininvestigative and senatorial language. two important things, one is i believe and john meacham should have been the person to point this out. he might correct me on this, donald trump might be the president trump of the united states who most quickly got to preside over a government shutdown in one year. the second thing that we also have to look at is, senator kennedy, y...

Cliffs, to have, you know, deadline wisdom, you know, you would have told your kids, i would tell my kids, if you wait until midnight to start your paper, it's probably not going to be a very good paper. that's what we're watching right now. it's a lot of term papers being written very, very fast. >>ion meacham, joining us from america. give everybody my best, john, we're stuck watching capitol hill. but i appreciate your contributions. what passes for break news as john was talking, chuck schumer has stood up, jonathan le mere, he's walked over to his republican counterpart, lindsey graham wa...