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Capitol hill. joining me eli stokols. also with me correspondent for pbs news hour, yamiche alsendor. i'm going to put you on the spot and ask if you think the government will be shutdown tomorrow. late night negotiations have any hope? >> i tried to stop making predictions january of last year. >> 2016, you and me both. >> i would predict that this doesn't end tonight. >> yamiche? >> i don't predict this ends tonight mainly because both sides seem so dug in on what they want out of this. and the white house seems to be pretty much not playing a huge role here, which even though it's going to ...

Coal miners and pensions for teamsters. if they don't get fixed, you'll have people that work 35 or 40 years of their life driving truck away from home or climbing in the coal mines and have their pensions cut in half. that's a people agenda. >> all of this you're talking about, it's much harder to explain. it's more complicated than republic the trump campaign put out an ad saying democrats are for illegal immigration. illegal immigration being their phrase. >> if trump was worried about illegal immigrants he would have accepted senator schumer's deal to give him billions of dollars for borde...

>> and that's the sticky point. >> we can't do that. senator mcconnell can promise that the senate will do something or will not. he can't promise that president trump will do something. but the limits of the power of the united states senate extend to the united states senate. and that's the only thing senate democrats in the minority but using the filibuster to shut down the government can hope for. some agreement to keep working on the bipartisan spending and immigration legislation that they have been working on for months. >> michael, your former boss, john boehner, sort of, you know, hun...

In a famous exchange he blew it up. last friday, senator schumer, a leader, had a long and productive one-on-one meeting with president trump and staff and felt optimistic they come to an agreement about all the issues we face about spending and community health centers and children health insurance program and daca and disaster relief to have it walked back by the white house two hours later. to get our leaders to share the framework we've approached, i think it would be a big step forward. i'll tell you, kasie, what i'm most hoping we'll hear at some point this evening is leader mcconnell re...

He comes out, and calls the president a liar. when, indeed, that's not the factual basis of what actually took place. >> what transpired behind the scenes? administration official is telling nbc news tonight that trump and schumer's conversation on friday was derailed by the white house chief of staff, john kelly and stephen miller who share a hard lined stance on immigration. is that your understanding? >> that's not my understanding. and anybody who would suggest that this president can be manipulated by his chief of staff or stephen miller doesn't know this president in a real way. >> why d...