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Status quo. >> let me bring in our panel here. eugene scott is a political reporter for "the washington post." shannon pettypiece is the white house reporter for bloomberg news. jonathan allen is a national political reporter for nbc news as well. thank you for being here in the round again this morning. john, let me start with you. leader mcconnell knows he needs seven to join in with him. he knows he's probably not getting seven democrats. what's the calculus, what's the point? >> i think he wants to basically put this on the democrats. change the calculus. right now it's on the republicans....

Lawyers are not getting paid at all. for employers that government website that lets you check if somebody is eligible to legally work in this country has been down for weeks. some fortune 500 companies are feeling the pinch with no government contract money and contract workers probably won't get paid at all when the government reopens. market futures are down this morning. we're going to watch that. all of it's happening as the shutdown costs america more than $1 billion a week. first, let's get you caught up to speed on where things stand right now. we're getting our look at exactly what se...

Wall doesn't stop is that. what democrats are saying what the majority of americans, 63% which by the way over 30% are republicans in that latest poll they want not just a safe border they want decisions. a wall, a drone doesn't cover even conjunction all the areas i just mentioned. >> sean: why did democrats support $50 billion just in 2013? why were they making the case and sounding like donald trump just four years ago? >> majority of democrats did not and i know nancy pelosi did. but, remember, at one time. >> sean: schumer, hillary, obama, biden. >> correct. when you go back to when bush ...