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>> republicans tried to -- when republicans tried to add a discussion about obama care to the funding process in 2013, we are accused by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer of inserting a nonfiscal -- nonfinancial issue into the spending process in order to shut the governent down. how is that not exactly what is happening today? there is no reason to have to deal with daca this week. no reason to deal with daca before the end of february. the middle of february. daca doesn't expire until march 5th. this is purely an attempt by the senate democrats, led by mr. schume, why we call it the schumer shu...

So-called dreamers, protections under daca are slated to expire. marc short says democrats are missing an important point. >> there is no legislation to vote on. when they say that they need to keep daca and solved, shows that this is really about politics and not about policy. >> negotiations for a fix to daca are ongoing, and the two cosines are said to be making progress despite the setback caused by senators dick durbin and lindsey graham's attempt to a runaround to the process last week that led to the now infamous oval office meeting. the white house charges that by insisting daca be par...

>> when republicans tried to add a discussion about obamacare in the funding process in 2013 we were accused by nancy pelosi of chuck schumer of inserting a non-financial issue into the spending process in order to shut the government down. how is that not exactly what's happening today? no reason you have to deal with daca this week or before the end of february -- the middle of february. daca doesn't expire until march 5. this is purely an attempt by the senate democrats led by mr. schumer why we call it the schumer shutdown in order to try to get a shutdown that they think this president ge...

The president's comments. >> when republicans tried to add a discussion about obamacare to the funding process in 2013, we were accused by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer of inserting a non-fiscal, non-financial issue into the spending process in order to shut the government down. how is that not exactly what is happening today? there is no reason you have to deal with daca this week. no reason you have to deal with daca before the middle of february. daca doesn't expire until march 5th. this is purely an attempt by the senate democrats, led by mr. schumer, it's why we call it the schumer shutd...

Legislation raising the nation's borrowing limit, the debt ceiling. is that a good idea? >> i think we should be voting up or down on harvey. i think these things should be separate. if they're ultimately packaged together, i'm going to stand by those who are devastated in texas, but i really think we should be voting separately on those. >> all right then. well, if congress doesn't pass a spending bill, we could see a partial government shutdown. that's not something anybody wants to see. congressman reed, what do you think? >> yeah, we had another item of discussion last night in the caucus ...