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Quit. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. they were debating on twitter who is to blame for the shutdown with hash tags. now it is sellout. he got rolled and the left is not happy. it is 4:30 eastern time. back to work this morning for 800,000 federal workers after an unscheduled long weekend. president trump signed the stop-gap funding bill ending the shutdown. it funds the federal government for less than three weeks. >> great. the house and senate voted to end the stalemate after mcconnell firm up immigration and measure to protect d.r.e.a.m.ers. as the ...

Fold. jeff flake and lindsey graham. agreeing to vote on the stop-gap known as the continuing resolution. they believe the white house is not doing enough to strike a deal. >> senator, do you think you can come up with agreement by the 8th? >> i don't know. i hope we can, but i doubt it because that relies on the white house to actually work with us on this and we have not seen that yet. >> the white house staff i think is making it difficult. i talked with the president. his heart is right on this issue. i think he has a good understanding of what will sell. every time we have a proposal it i...

>> reporter: battle lines drawn. partisan fights breaking out. no one talking about the path forward. instead, everybody talking about who is to blame for the shutdown by all accounts looks like it will happen. the issues are not new. democrats want some type of daca resolution or daca deal attached to the short-term spending bill. mcconnell said there is a short-term spending bill to allow the daca discussions. they should pass that and move forward. as long as those are not bridged, a deal is not on the table to bring the parties together and bring the white house into play. there is no path...

Looked at things. campaign to governing are two different things. >> campaign promises are apparently made to be broken. chief of staff says head on the campaign trail was uninformed about the wall. and new signs trying to limit testimony as steve bannon goes before congress this week. did he slip up and reveal a detail in the russia probe? i'm alex marquardt. >> dave is under the weather. i'm christine romans. nice to see you this morning. the federal government's authority to spend money runs out tomorrow. two groups of lawmakers to watch. the house is expected to continue the resolution t...

Which is bipartisan piece of legislation that has over 200 cosponsors. you have the heard aguilar bill called the u.s. act which emerged a few weeks ago. and you have the tram work that was considered and put into place by the six senators, including senator graham and durbin and menendez. so these are the three rails we must take to make sure we reach a consensus. and finally once and for all take care of all the issues pertaining to the dreamers. >> so on this issue of taking care of the dreamers as part of the bill, the effort to keep the government running, putting these two things togethe...