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Off the campaign trail, come baa be the leader and we will negotiate with you. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. 8 00 in the east now. Where is the countdown clock. There it is. Less than 16 hours and the government shout down if the senate does not pass a shortterm spending bill today. Whats the calculus . Republicans dont have the vote, dont have the entire caucus in the Senate Behind anything. Theyll need democrats. Maybe as much as a dozen votes from democrats. The democrats are saying they wont support the gop plan unless protection for dreamers is in there. So right now they have the votes to block it. Meanwhile, President Trump was planning to leave town this afternoon for a big party at maralago to celebrate his first year in office. Cnn has just learned the president s plans may be changing. Republicans and democrats are blaming each other if the government is forced to close to night. Who will americans blame if this happens. Cnns ryan nobles is on capitol hill with the latest. Whats happening the morning, ryan . Reporter its at a mad dash by Senate Republicans to try to come up with the 60 votes they node to put in place the shortterm spending bill that was passed by the house yesterday. But as to where we stand right now, the votes simply arent there. I object. Objection is heard. I dont know why were adjourning when were in this urgent situation. This is irresponsible, and i just dont understand it. So i objection to the motion. Reporter tensions rising on the senate floor as the government barrels towards a shutdown with a deadline at midnight tonight. A 60vote majority is needed in the senate to pass the proposed shortterm spending bill that republicans passed in the house. The future of the bill is uncertain as more than a dozen democrats are ready to vote no because the bill does not protect d. R. E. A. M. Ers. Republican senators rind si graham and rand paul say theyll vote no. President jock f john mccain will be absent from the vote due to cancer treatment. Democratic senator joe manchin will break from his party and vote yes. We could get this done in a few short days and not kick the can down the road. This is the fourth cr that we have done and accomplished nothing. Reporter Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer tried to push for a vote last night but failed. Republican senators heckling schumer as he pitched a much shorter continuing resolution to allow the senate to continue debate over the next few days. However, aides to Senate Majority leader mcconnell are skeptical of this proposal. With just hours left before the shutdown deadline, the blame game is in full force. Democratic senators fixation on illegal immigration has already blocked us from making progress on longterm spending talks. That same fixation has been threatening to filibuster funding for the whole government. Two republican aides saying senator mcconnell is already drawing up plans to bring forward a series of votes that ulbe leading into midterm elections, especially for the ten democrats up for reelection in the states President Trump won. Democrats are holding their ground. I think we need to force the leadership on the other side of the aisle to take this issue seriously, and they havent for 110 days. If Mitch Mcconnell would have wanted a budget, we would have had a budget. This is like giving you a bowl of doggy do, put a cherry on top and call it a chocolate sundae. Reporter a new poll shows how deeply entrench both sides are. 57 of democrats believe its worth shutting down the government over d. R. E. A. M. Ers. 51 believe its worth it to shut down the border wall. Think only have 13 hours to come up with a deal before the government shuts down. Its important to keep in mind, this is the only real leave vag democrats have. Yes, they are very interested in finding protections for d. R. E. A. M. Ers. They would also like to see more funding for Disaster Relief. Theyd also like to see something put in to help with the Opioid Crisis. There are quite a few republicans that are unhappy with the shortterm spending bill. Theyd like to see more money from the military and theyre generally unhappy with the way this process is as it relates to the budget. So alisyn, the showdown continues, and time is running out. Ryan, you aret the epicenter of that shdown. Co back to us when you have aything to report. Thank you very much. We do have breaking news out of the white house now about how this potential Government Shutdown may change the president s plans today. Cnns abby phillip is live for us with all the breaking details. What have you learned, abby . Reporter good morning, alisyn. The president is expected in about eight hours to go to maralago in florida despite the threat of a shutdown. A Senior Administration official tells me this morning those plans are now in flux. The official says this person does not believe the president will go to florida if there is a Government Shutdown. The white house is still watching this, and they do believe that there will still be a deal made tonight, even if it comes at midnight. Now, they dont think that democrats at this point actually want a shutdown. They believe this idea of having a shortterm bill, a shortterm funding bill is a sign that democrats are getting cold feet here, and they also dont believe theres a possibility of getting a bigger deal in a shortterm period anyway. So the white house still feeling a little confident here that eventually they will get something on the table before a shutdown at midnight tonight but if there is won, there are no plans for the president to go to florida where he was initially planning to do a big gala to celebrate the oneyear anniversary of his inauguration. Thanks, abby. Abby phillip with the scoop. Lets bring in cnn wlit cal analyst and White House Correspondent for the new york times, maggie harman. First, an objective uth. He should stay. This is not the time to go to washington, d. C. Maralago. What did i say . Washington, d. C. Im tired. Its time to stay in washington, d. C. Thank you. Without you, nothing. And it is a reflection tell me if im wrong about this that he has been too uninvolved in this process. Fair point . Yes, although i think the issue with his involvement in this process is always dubious because theres a degree to where they dont always want him involved. Where he can be helpful is getting house conservatives on board. He has never quite been able to make that happen, at least not in many aspects. They know the optics is terrible. They know the optics will look awful for the president if he is seen partying 100,000 a ticket at his private club. This is an inaugural fundraiser this hes not even doing in d. C. He has been involved to some extent, he has been involved in talks. As messy as his relationship has been with members of the gop leadership, hes been involved. There are people with whom he has a Good Relationship including Kevin Mccarthy in the house. But the white houses read on a lot of these things has not been great because the staff is being pressed both from democrats who are very angry and dont want to deal without daca and from their own boss who tweets, as one white house aide put it to me necessarily incoherently about issues of the Child Health Care issue which is being bandied about as a leverage chip. Youve covered the president for a long time. When the rubber meets the wall, when his back is against the wall, a crisis like today, is he generally a cool customer . How will he be spending the morning and afternoon . I think hell be spending the morning getting updates and most likely talking to members of the gop leadership and whomever mitch mccome and paul ryan suggest it would be good for him to talk with. Will he be working the phones . Well be working the phones, doing what he does every day. How influential he is in doing that, of course, is the open question. Its not clear to me again because you saw yesterday, i believe it was Lindsey Graham said we dont have a reliable negotiating partner in the white house. He didnt just mean the president , but he was including the president. When you see the president tweeting his own view when you have had his staff working all week to try to get a deal done and he tweets something that appears to contradict it, it leaves members at the senate and the house at a loss for what to do. Im not sure how involved anyone wants him to be. Were lucky to have you this morning in particular because one of the flash points this week in terms of counterproductive behavior out of the white house, specifically the president , was we saw Kellyanne Conway say since the president has been elected, hes been with experts, hes learned things about mexicos border. It turns out there areivers involved e wall doesnt make sense. Then john kelly came out, and the general said the president has evolved on the wall. It means Different Things to him now. He says, you know, he was unen formed on Immigration Reform. That ward reportedly triggered fury from the president and led to him undoin all that process and tweeting the wall is an absolute, never changed. It was always going to be this, it has to be in the bill. What is it the deal inside the white house . Two things that you just laid out nicely about how this took place, i thought Kellyanne Conway got an unfair rap for what she said. She was criticized for saying he has discovered. She knows donald trump very well and knows how to speak in a way that is not going to incite an emotional riot. John kelly is not used to having to watch his words and he put it in way that made the president sound, dumb, frankly, and as if he was being hypermanaged. It was reminiscent of something we saw during the campaign when Paul Manafort said in a closed door meeting that the part that trump is playing is evolving. That sent him into a fury. My understanding is he initially was calm when he was first told about it by white house aide. He spent the evening talking to friends, people saying to him you really got undermined by john kelly today. By the morning he was very angry and he tweeted without mentioning john kellys name, but it was clear who he was talking about, the wall is the wall, and theres no deal without the wall. Im paraphrasing. This just in from the white house spokesperson. The president will not go to florida until a bill is passed. That makes sense. Yes. That is a sensible and rare nonreactive decision that theyre making. Its actually proactive as opposed to doing something and having a bunch of headlines they have to clean up. In a way, a little bit of both. Weve been saying it all morning, im sure others have as well, that this just didnt make any sense, makes them look bad, especially with Mitch Mcconnell saying on the floor, we dont know what hell agree to. We dont want to spin our wheels. It would have been terrible for the party certainly, for the gop. Although i dont think that has ever been an overarching concern for him certainly. But the video of him at this party would have been used by essentially either every hard right republican primary candidate who is challenging an incumbent or every democrat in a general election. It would have been bad for him electorally. Queen victoria could have used it in a campaign to show how passionate she is about letting people eat cake. Whats a great idea, why doesnt he do another televised meetings. Ask the leadership to come up. You say you want to cut a deal. You mean it. Ican people s that come to the white house, ill provide the lunch, mcdonalds, and youll make a deal here, let people see on tv again. Because hes not the center of the focus. I dont think he wants to star in a tv show that has a bunch of other cast members giving more attention. I burned a lot of calories coming up with that idea. I like it. With one stroke of the eyebrow, its gone. You mentioned mcdonalds, didnt burn up too many calories. Hes a lucky man to be able to eat that way and still anyway, most of us couldnt do that. Maggie, thank you. The big question, can republicans get democrats to vote for a bill to avoid a shutdown . Now we know the president is going to stay and do his job. With we have a gop senator next with the latest on negotiations and prospects. Your Insurance Company wont replace the full value of your totaled new car. 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Youve probably seen me running all over the country in search of our big idaho potato truck. But not any more. I am done with that. Ooh, ooh hot just gonna stay home on the farm, eat a beautiful idaho potato, and watch tv with my dog. Tv anncr the big idaho potato truck pulled into town today and its really a sight to see. Oh man. Lets go. distant you comin, boy . Sfx dog gulp woof. Breaking news. The clock dont lie. Were getting closer to a potential Government Shutdown. Cnn has just learned that the president will not go to maralago today for this anniversary dinner. Hes going to stay and do his job and try to get a bill passed. So what is the proposition . Republicans need democrats to pass a bill in the senate. Can it happen . Joining us is republin sator john kennedy of louisiana. Thank u, chris. Su good morning. So give us hope. Well, im encouraged. I was encouraged by what senator schumer did last night. Which is . Chuck instructed his colleagues or asked his colleagues on the democratic side to vote for the motion to proceed to allow us to take up the cr, and then i was sitting there listening to him. What i heard him say is hell agree to a cr, hes not going to agree to a continuing resolution until the middle of february. He wants a shorter one to allow us to keep going. Chuck is a very shrewd tactician. Its the first time ive seen him show flexibility, and i think he understands what we all understand. Which is what . It would be foolish to shut down government for 300 million americans. It just would be. Were talking about closing Opioid Treatment Centers and stopping checks to military widows and stopping the funding for Community Health centers. Im not saying the daca issue isnt important. It is. But right now its not an emergency. Nobody is being deported. The president gave us until march. I think we can probably get more time if we needed it because he controls immigration enforcement. I just hate to see it i jus hate to see the country shut down. I think its a mistake. Understood, upped stoond. Theres the great irony that you guys are deemed essential personnel and keep getting paid even though youre the reason for the shutdown thanks to the 27th amendmentment thats. I bet thats something the American People would get behind, changing that rule. The idea of what is urgent and what is not, every day families are having anxiety introduced into their existence as d. R. E. A. M. Ers because of this period. Youve had months to do something, youve done nothing. This is the democrats moment of leverage. Will you put a daca fix in this cr . Well, youre right, chris. Id also point out that every day families are experiencing anxiety over our refusal to extend the c. H. I. P. Program. I said a month ago, this is silly. You guys have delayed on that as well. Well, everybody has. And its in this continuing resolution. But youre in control. But we need democratic votes to do it. Were going to lose a handful of republican votes, two or three. We needy think about 12 democratic votes. Is the president in favor of c. H. I. P. Extension, Child Health Program extension . I think so. You think so. The president changed his mind on immigration. Yes. Theres nothing wrong with that. Thinking people change their minds all the time. You do, i do, most americans do when they test their assumptions against the arguments of others. Having said that, we need to know where the president stands. Lets suppose we reach an agreement with the democrats, and i think we will. I want to know the president is going to sign it. I respectfully ask him to please put on the table exactly what he would accept if he changes his mind after he puts it on the table, just pick up the phone and call us and say, hey, ive changed my mind on this, but lets talk about it. Why hasnt that happened . He is supposed to be the master of the art of the deal. It seems like he just keeps injecting confusion as opposed to any kind of conciliation. Well, i dont know. It could be a number of things. I honestly dont know. I probably shouldnt speculate, but it could be because hes getting conflicting advice. He could be using it as a negotiating tactic. Some people change and do things when they see the light. Others need to feel the heat. Around congress, it seems that we cant get anything done, which i regret, until we feel the heat. If i were king for a day, and im not and i dont aspire to be, what i would do is take some immigration bill and go through regular order, send it to committee, let everybody off of their amendments and then bring it to the floor and let us talk not just about amnesty, but let us talk about a rationally based, color blind immigration system like australia has. Let us talk about everify. Put it on the table and let everybody vote. Something will pass and something wont. Well try to solve this problem. If 87 of the American People, which is the latest poll, say help the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, why isnt that enough motivation to do a clean bill on that . Get it done, you supposedly all agree, and talk about these other issues separately . A vast majority of the American People also agree with mandatory everify. I dont think youre going to solve but one is about families in moments of need now, and the other one is something that is procedural, incremental, and theres really no connection between the two. I get security matters. But if you guys really do want a bill of love, as the president suggested before he denied the plan from graham and durbin, why wouldnt you just do that, deal with the urgency, put it aside, its done, youve helped those people and made good on your promise, and now do what youre saying. Bang out security, bang out the procedures and have more of what the president borrowed from george bush, comprehensive Immigration Reform . Chris, i dont see the urgency. I am not minimizing for a moment the anxiety that many of the daca folks feel. Im not minimizing. Forgive me, if youre not minimizing it, how can you see the urgency . Because no one is in danger right now of being deported. The president controls the deportation process, and he has said, i think correctly, that the executive order issued by president obama is unconstitutional. It was about to be thrown out in court. He said ill give congress until march. I think if we went to him and said we need until april or may, no one is being deported right now. Do you know that . Theres reporting out of california that there are i. C. E. Roundups going on and you have the a. G. Out there with this weird con flikt of state and federal law saying hes going to prosecute people who work with i. C. E. Agents. It seems like its pretty urgent right now. Im not saying the normal deportation process is not going on as the country enforces its immigration laws, but i dont believe the Trump Administration has said target the daca folks. Okay, fair point. Senator kennedy, i appreciate the candor as always. I wish you a very busy weekend. Ordinary id eve say have a good weekend. I hope you have to work your butt off this weekend and get something done for the American People. Its about time we did what the rest of america does and have to work on a weekend. As soon as you find out who is being unfair, who is failing to be resolute, well pick up the phone or you do the same and you come right back on and address it with the American People. Thanks, chris. Be well. You, too. Democratic whip steny hoyer voted against the house measure to keep the government up and running. Will his colleagues in the senate do the same . Whats his plan . He joins us next. N do it. We can do this. Atidelit our online planning tools are clear and straightforward so you can plan for retirement while saving for the things you want to do today. Whoo breaking news, the white house tells cnn that President Trump will stay in washington instead of going to his resort in maralago until a spending bill is passed. The clock is ticking towards the midnight deadline. Democratic whip steny hoyer voted no on the house shortterm bill. He joins us now. Good morning, congressman. Good morning. From where you stand today, is there any way the government doesnt shut down tonight . Thats up to the senate. It seems there are sufficient senate democrats, including Lindsey Graham, a republican, who believes its top to stop kicking the can down the road. Its time to stop dissembling, failing to agree. We have two parties, both parties are necessary to pass legislation. There needs to be compromise and the republicans have refused now for 136 days to come to some sort of compromise and agreement on what the funding levels are is is after the funding resolution. Congressman, republicans say its you democrats that are putting the fate of d. R. E. A. M. Ers, taking presence ahead of everything else. Youre putting it ahead of the military, ahead of the c. H. I. P. Program, the Opioid Epidemic and youre the oning thats dug in. Thats bologna, absolute bologna. We voted 183 of us voted in september for a 96daytime in which to reach agreement. Now, the principle thing, no matter what the republicans say, this is a funding bill. We need to reach an agreement on what the funding levels are going to be. We are asking for the same agreement that paul ryan made with senator murray four years ago to be continued. Thats all were asking, what paul ryan who is now the speaker agreed to. He has refused to negotiate on that. Now, when i say refused to negotiate, hes talked, but they have not come to an agreement with us on that. If they dont need us, if they just want to say no, tough, and were going to go our way, and your way is out the window, thats fine. And last night they cobbled together enough votes to pass a bill which, by the way, does not deal with opioids. It doesnt deal with Disaster Relief for florida, texas, puerto rico and the virgin islands. It doesnt deal with Community Health centers. Yes, it deals with c. H. I. P. For children, but guess where they go . Many of them go to Community Health centers. It didnt deal with that, didnt deal with other health extenders. When i say its a loan any, its bologna because its a talking point for them. They now want another 30 days to frankly do nothing. We dont know what agreements theyre going to reach. They havent offered anything as a compromise. Frankly, we said enough. Lets get to a deal, lets move forward. We dont want to shut down the government. Nobody in america thinks democrats want to shut down government. Were proponents of Government Services to our people. But if you shut down government tonight, how do you get to a compromise tomorrow . Whats the plan . Sit down and have the republicans agree to a compromise. So do that today . We can do it today. We can do it in the next hour. All paul ryan has to do is call up leader pelosi and mcconnell come up schumer and come to an agreement. Lindsey graham is voting against this. Hes a republican, a friend of the president s, plays golf with the president because he says hes tired of this chaos, this failure to agree and, frankly, Lindsey Graham has shown himself ready to sit down and come to rational, reasonable, productive agreements. Unfortunately the president has not done that, Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan has not done that. Thats where we are now. Congressman, how about this crazy idea the president is not going to maralagoor a big party he had anne hes going to stay in washington. What if he calls you all over again to that room where we watched the televised bipartisan talk you all had last week and today you all haggle it out . Very frankly, the president called us down to the white house a week ago tuesday. We thought we had an agreement, all 24 of us sitting around the table, that we were going to take care of daca, protected individuals and d. R. E. A. M. Ers. The president said does everybody agree . Yes. Guess who changed his mind 24 hours later . The president of the United States. Lipid s Lindsey Graham said weve reached an agreement, weve worked hard. We dont like some stuff. They dont like some stuff, and it was rejected out of hand. Mr. Mccarthy and i and the majority whip of the senate, john cornyn and dick durbin and i are trying to see if we can move forward. Frankly, we havent moved forward yet. Yes, the president its nice he stays in washington. But its not where he physically is located thats the issue. It is that he frankly changes his mind from hour to hour as to what hes for. And it apparently depends on which staffer talks to him at which time. Congressman steny hoyer, we appreciate you coming on with us. We know youre going to have a very busy day. Well be watching it closely. Thanks for being here. Thanks. We have new details about what happened inside that house of horrors in california. The couple on your screen accused of torturing their own kids. We have a live report next. Look, this is a terrible story, but we need to understand how this happened to this family in california and who might have known. Tese people, the turpins, they are accused of just horrific acts against their own kids, 13 of them. Prosecutors say their kids were held captive, tortured. David and louise turpin, those are the parents, theyre pleading not guilty to all charges. Cnns Stephanie Elam is live in los angeles with more. That plea makes it more likely that we learn a lot more through the prosecution if there is one of what happened. Right. To answer part of that question as to why neighbors didnt see anything, we also learned that the entire family, all 15 people, chris, slept durg the day and were up during the night. So that was part of the reason they say people didnt know. It goes along with what neighbors were saying to us, saying they were very pale, never saw them during the day. Take into account that the 17yearold girl that escaped through the window, she took one of her younger siblings with her, we understand now from the district attorneys office, and that other sibling ran back. She stayed on that plan, a plan she had been working on with her siblings for two years to escape. Get this, though. When police were talking to her, she didnt know what medicine was. Several other siblings didnt know what a Police Officer was. The abuse so involved and getting more and more involved as they moved to california in 2010. This is when the charges start for this family, when they moved to Southern California including tieing up, padlocking children and keeping them there, not allowing them to relieve themselves in the restroom, they had to do it while they were in clains. They say theyre suffering from Cognitive Impairment and nerve damage. They were allowed to only take one shower a year with the beatings and strangulations they were dealing with. Were told the children are relieved and that they are also doing much better in the hospital. But still, its a long road ahead for all 13 of these children, al thoef i can tell you, alisyn, the reason theres one less charge of torture because the 2yearold, the youngest of the children was being fed and not getting the beatings like the other children. Oh, my gosh. None of it makes any sense, stephanie. Yet, the human spirit of that one child, well all of them to confer on how to get out is remarkable. Than fork youhe update on this story. One year in the trump presidency, a small iowa town that helped elect President Trump is recalculating. Bill were explains. Reporter in monticello they still wind the clock tower by hand. , and still mix politics into their coffee down at darrells. It is so great to sit at the table of knowledge. Reporter its a tradition that goes back to truman. No president has ever tested the limits of midwest earn politics like number 45. Why the switch to trump . Trump pulled the wool over their eyes and his base has not recognized it yet. You think virgil has been calm, you think jerry has been bamboozled. Theyre so engrained with the crotchgrabbing liar. Trump wasnt my first choice, but hes doing a hell of a good job. Hes playing threelevel chess versus everybody else playing checkers. The ones that support him are either greedy or bigots or they just dont see it yet. If the vote were taken today, i think it would be different. If it werent for the electoral college, he wouldnt have won. [ humming ]. Can you sing, too . We run 800 acres of corn and beans, and then we do baime hay. Our kids actually buy their own 4h animals. They do the chores for them. That will teach you, right . That teaches you, yes. Reporter out at the adams farm did you vote for President Trump . Yes. Reporter the family republicans show little voters remorse. I think hes doing a decent job. I think we need to give him a chance. He went to the American Farm Bureau Federation meeting. I havent seen that from other president s. Throughout our history, farmers have always, always, always led the way. Reporter those words played really well around here, but his actions could end up hurting these folks. His nominee for chief scientist at the department of agriculture wasnt a scientist and then got tangled in the mueller investigation. He scrapped an obama rule that would have protected small family farms against big corporate meat packers, and hes threatening to tear up the trade agreement that keeps a lot of these farms alive. Now, nafta, thats another story. That does scare us pretty bad. You would go bankrupt . Yes. Im sure he has a plan. If he does pull out, i dont know what the plan is. Reporter somebody was telling me this town needs to be called the pittsburgh of the prairie because there are so many factories. Yes. Reporter there are worries at oak street manufacturing, a mom and pop maker of restaurant furnishings. Were hopeful as far as the tax reform. Were positive about that. We have grave concerns about his actions like what . Some of the stements that he makes theres just a lot of disrespect for a large number of people. As a republican, he was worried about his grandchildren paying the national debt. It doesnt seem to make a damn bit of difference anymore. Well have to have another obama come and clean it up. And then we can double our debt again. But he got you into the prosperity youre having now. Well give him all the credit for the stock market going up. Get your head out of your butt, man. Is there a safe word when things get too heated . Whats a good time to cut your rose bushes. Thats the safe word . Reporter so one year into trump, a state he won by almost ten points is producing a bumper crop of worry, even among those who love him most. Bill weier, cnn, monticello, iowa. The clock is ticking. We are literally counting down to when the government shuts down. Can republicans who are in control get democrats to work with them . Minnesotas newest senator, tina smith, joins us next. Winning shot. That was it for me. Thats why im quitting with nicorette. 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This is basically what the democrats in the senate are saying which is that our great country cannot be run a month at a time. These shortterm budget fixes dont really fix anything, and we need to get to the negotiating table and come to an agreement on issues that i think in most part we already have agreement on. I understand. But how does shutting down the government help . Is it easier to get to the negotiating table if the government shuts down . Look, we have republicans in charge of the house and the senate and the white house. If this happens, and i hope that it doesnt, it would be the first time that one party is in charge of everything and the government gets shut down. I think its important to realize that the only person who seems to want a Government Shutdown is the president. Hes the only one who is saying he thinks that would be a good thing, and we just have to be better than that. We have to rise above that and we have to get together and get this figured out. Thats what the democrats were saying last night on the senate floor, lets negotiate and get this figured out. Listen, if the government shuts down, i know youre saying theres only one person who seems to want it. However, democrats, this is not a riskfree endeavor and calculus for democrats. In fact, new polling by quinnipiac shows that democrats would actually get the blame in congress. Granted its a very slim margin, 34 of americans say theyd blame democrats to 32 who say theyd blame republicans. 21 say theydlame the president. The pointis, the blame would be spread around. When our americans send us to washington, d. C. , they send us here to solve problems and get things done. Thats what we have to do. Theres no reason that we cant come to an agreement. When we have bipartisan agreement that we need to do something about the Opioid Crisis in this country, we need to do something about people who are here because they were brought here as young children, the daca issue. We need to do something about the problems we have with Disaster Relief all over the country. Thats what we were sent here to solve. Those are the problems we were supposed to be working on. Theres no reason we cant get it done. We just had congressman chris stewart, republican, on last hour. Hes in the house, you near the senate. He said, if democrats could just give them a couple more weeks, you guys could hammer out everything youre talking about, but nothing can happen if it closes down tonight admitted night. Obviously youll keep talking, but just vote on this for the next month and then you can try to work on all those things youre talking about. What do you think of that argument . Well, how many times have we heard just one more month, just one more shortterm budget fix, and well be able to come together and get this figured out. Thats like the definition of insanity, to continue to do the same thing over and over again and hope for a different outcome. What we said last night is, if you agree, republicans, to come to the table and l Work Together on these issues that we agree on together, lets take anher three or four days if thats what is required to get it resolved. What did they say . They said no to that. They have a big problem, right . Theyre in charge of the house and the senate and parnltly they dont have enough votes, even among amongster that own party to pass this shortterm budget fix. Lets come together and get it figured out. When you say that, what does that mean . You democrats in the senate are asking for an even shorter Term Extension of like four days to try to get it to the table or are you going to be able to come to the table before midnight tonight . I have worked at the state level. Ive worked in city government. Local governments, businesses all over this country figure out how to come together and put together a budget, and i dont think we should expect anything less of the United States congress. I think its completely doable because we agree these are bipartisan issues that we agree on. When you say its completely doable, you mean in the next 15 04 . I think if we can agree to come to the table, if the republicans can agree to sit down and negotiate with the democrats which is what they need to do, i think we could resolve this in a few days. All right. Senator tina smith, we appreciate you being here. We will be watching with rapt attention how this all unfolds. Im glad i still have my innate optimism. Yes. Dont let them beat that out of you yet. Thank you very much f being here. Time for cnn newsroom with poppy harlow and john berman. Theyll pick up after this break. Have a great weekend. Copd makes it hard to breathe. So to breathe better, i go with anoro. Go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. I say, ill go my own way with anoro. 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