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16 days the last go around, what did you learn about protecting military families that didn't work out this time? can't we fix that and make it separate wesco >> we've got to fix it and we have to make it separate. you are really getting to the heart of the issue. as long as we are making military funding conditional on some other issue, whether it's immigration or epa funding or whatever it is, as long as were doing that we are making these men and women who are risking their lives for us political ponds. now they will get their paycheck but we are back under the stopgap spending measures tha...

February 16 but the prospects in the senate are much less optimistic, making a shutdown a very real possibility. republican senator lindsey graham announced yesterday he would not support another stopgap spending measures telling reporters enough is enough, that a fourth short-term extension since october is too many. with graham against the measure and fellow republican senator john mccain absent because he's in treatment, cancer treatment, senate republicans need the support of 11 democrats to pass it. in a interview with reuters yesterday president trump said a government shutdown could hap...

Question is when will the american people decide they've heard enough of washington crying wolf, jenna. jenna: i think they might have decided that. the bottom line is that we're open for business, but everybody is aggravated. >> reporter: exactly correct. jenna: i wanted to be sure. i think i mixed up mcconnell and reid's name by the way. i didn't mean to do that. thank you for not correcting me on television. i appreciate it. >> reporter: you do a great job. jenna: everyone is aggravated, right, that's what we can take away from that. jon: everybody is aggravated. but there is a little bit o...

Majority leader harry reid yesterday it was going in the right direction. the fact there was a meeting scheduled between them in the white house today should be taken as a good sign but i got to tell you i was just watching the senate floor and we saw reid on the floor really accusing republicans to moving the goal posts in these situations and then mitch mcconnell with them on the sideline. >> what about a stopgap spending measure? like an extension. will the president go along with that? >> reporter: right now house republicans have proposed one week stopgap spending cuts. the six times the ...

Nancy pelosi. ron kristy, republican strategist for christie's strategies. we keep hearing if there is a shutdown, senate democrats, house republican, they take the political hit and the president looks like the one trying to find the middle ground. but that's not stopping speaker boehner from pushing for these additional cuts. so how much does he actually have riding on this? how much skin in the game, so to speak? >> i think the ironic thing, thomas, president obama, the reason we're in the situation we're in, the house and senate democrats and president obama failed to pass a budget last ye...