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Victories in 2018. back in 2013 before the last government shutdown, dt had a different opinion about who to blame when there's a shutdown. let's listen. >> who's going to take the blame, board room here, who's getting fired? who's going to bear the brunt of the responsibility if there's a shutdown of the government. >> if you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. problems start from the top and have to get solved from the top, and the president's the leader. the interesting thing is in 25 year,s, in 50 years, in 100 years from now when the government is -- when they talk about the ...

Time to get there. that's a complicated issue. it's taken congress many, many years. what we don't have time with regard to tonight is we're running out of time in terms of the government, in terms of funding the government. i don't think moving forward with a government shutdown is going to be in anyone's interests. i'm hopeful that we're going to get that kind of compromise so we don't have a government shutdown. >> a lot of your constituents in alaska are either federal employees, civilian employees, military personnel or they're recipients of the federal government. how do you explain to t...

Chip, anything else, and we're now stuck with saying, gee whiz, maybe we should do what we should have done last fall. >> basically, there is a lot in this plan that passed the house of representatives over 230 votes last night, but there's a lot that you still want to include. you're not going to get that in the next few hours. how do you avert senator leahy, a shutdown tonight. how do you avoid a shutdown in the meantime? >> first of all, it doesn't fund the military adequately, it doesn't take care of our domestic programs, it doesn't adequately affect the opioid crisis which is affecting e...

Between senator schumer and the president? >> i hope the president talk some sense into senator schumer and the democrats we don't have the schumer shutdown tonight. it's a good thing any time the key leaders of our congress and our president are talking. i suspect the president told schumer he needs to talk a little bit more with senator mcconnell and speaker ryan. >> dana: if the schumer and the president were able to come together on some sort of immigration piece and if they come to a deal, do you think it something late you could support? >> obviously, i would have to look at the particul...

Calling on trump to step up. >> one side of the ten-yard line, we need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. >> in a moment, i'm going to speak to a democratic senator who says the president would be the one to blame if there's a shutdown tonight. all eyes are on washington, we have our special coverage out here in san francisco, and with so much at stake, we bring in a co-host for a special edition of "the beat." on location at capitol hill.