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Hunt and there is sort of two different dramas playing out. one very predictable and one not and both sides of the capitol there, the senate, rand paul is trying to slow -- gun up the works and -- on the spending issue. and then house democrats -- rand paul being rand paul. and then the house democrats are debating whether they should kill it or not. so what do you know? >> reporter: chuck, this is really unfolding minute to minute here. democrats are meeting behind closed doors to try and decide what to do. we had sort of assumed that because nancy pelosi was behind closed doors in the leader...

Re-visit that? let's say the house should flip and they force that point? what would you do? >> the american public doesn't want to see taxes go up. we all know that washington does not have a revenue issue. they have a spending issue. that's one of the things i was advocating for with this bill. we have a great opportunity this year looking at the spending side, especially tackling mandatory spendling sight. >> neil: so you would refight their repeal efforts? you would fight whatever effort to rescind this? >> absolutely. the tax bill is working for our country. we knew it was going to work f...

Included in the funding bill. or you are going to point fingers at it very clear to me that if you tell your party in the senate that she can vote on this, this is a procedural issue. this doesn't come down to the facts. the different between fact and fiction. the american people don't understand senator schumer in the minority has the ability to shut down the government. he just did it and he continues. >> there was a path forward for republicans on this. i want to pull up the latest quinnipiac poll. you know what, we are actually going to go live. we are going to hold on. they were deciding ...

You got to do it and i think democrats are willing to make some concessions in order to get a deal. it's the president that's stopping everything. one of love is that he says it's about the military. how the military got into it, i don't know. how about the immigrants? they are criminals. oh, yes, tied to terrorism and crime. strange to justify something that lacks justification is a spending issue. >> jesse: we did a story yesterday about an illegal alien who shot two deputies. >> juan: how many times a day do you want to do stories about american citizens that commit a crime. here's the thin...

Happened, senator dick durbin holding out for a daca deal. senator rand paul was on "fox and friends" this morning and he said these two things should be separate. >> i think the immigration debate is sort of separate from funding of the government, but that is a question. will the democrats hold up spending and funding of the government over this issue? i've still thought immigration was going to be settled separate from the spending issue. i still think it will be and should be. >> but again, trace, the question is, would they have some kind of deal in order to get the votes they need from d...