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You have a slim majority, so the grip isn't too tight on the house and the senate, but if you can't deliver on policies that are popular and you've got all the power here, you've got the majorities, what's the case to democrats to say give us another chance next november? >> look, i have kconfidence they're going to get it done. i'm used to this conversation because it's part of the process. we get confused in the moment, who is up, who is down. at the end of the day i care about one thing and that's results. i really believe this and i just think there's too much evidence to back this up, so ...

Demonstrable progress. >> i believe california has more federal and state employees than any state in the country. we know if there is a government shutdown, those workers will not be paid. was it a mistake to pair funding the government with the debt ceiling waiver or increase which republicans have said they will not support? >> well, if we don't make progress, it will have been a mistake. right now it's right to hold up to the bright light of scrutiny the absolute absurdity, hypocrisy, the rank politics that is all things mitch mcconnell. where nancy pelosi and democrats did the right thing...

World. our kids are watching and we can't even address the debt ceiling. >> senator, democrats made the call to pair it knowing that republicans have said they're not going to vote for the debt ceiling. was it the mistake to put the salaries of those 1,050 federal workers in california knowing they could have gotten the debt ceiling funded and separate it from that race? >> i'm glad that rank hypocrisy has been reinforced, but you're assuming a scenario i'm not assuming. meaning, it will be a mistake if we don't make progress. i believe we will make progress. i think we're too situationally fo...

Mediation effort was needed and why it seems to be futile that it doesn't break through the basic cycles here. i collected last week a half dozen statements by kerry each of them saying if we don't make progress, we are going to end up in another war. and there wasn't progress. the peace talks broke down and we are in another war. >> eugene robinson, jump in. >> david, what -- as this unfold, what are we hearing from the palestinian authority from abbas? the more modern voice of the palestinian people, how are they reacting to this war? >> abbas saw this war as a mistake and he is moving towar...