that. look, i don t disagree with you, senator paul, but the government is going to close in six hours and you need to do something about it. i m interested to most senators would say he ll give in. i don t know. and the longer he waits, remember the logistics process of this hold on one second. phil mattingly, our congressional correspondent, is up on capitol hill. phil, what happens now? let me lay out the back story of what s actually happening. senator rand paul has made very clear he wants an amendment vote, he wants a vote that would allow the budget caps to be maintained. that issing? the reason why you saw senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and senate democratic leader chuck schumer on the floor together was because senator schumer wanted to make clear we have folks who want amendments too. you can t open this up for just a single amendment. because of that there will be no opening up of the deal. now, here s what that actually means. senator rand paul if he choos
everything gets filibustered. they haven t nuked the filibuster on legislation yet. so instead of there being a situation where let s have an amendment vote. let s have a debate. a debate and an amendment vote? that s the last thing these party leaders want to trot out there on the floor. because a tough vote is the last thing one of these vulnerable 2018 democrats wants to have to face. so i think it s broken. the government. mostly you can point to the fact that the u.s. senate is broken. it does not function as the senate was thought was going to function. let me say a couple of things. mike on your point about the last time we ve had this on guns. we had a 90/10 issue on guns and we couldn t get anything done. it s odd to me that the elected representatives of the people don t seem to want to do what the people want them to do. secondly on the current situation, there s an easy, there was a trade. there was a deal, right, between the democrats and trump until he reneged on it. wh
millions of dollars on life insurance. back with our political specialists epts to go back to capitol hill. the latest drama on the senate floor. republicans ran into a roadblock. what are you hearing, phil? reporter: the issue that s frustrating republicans all day has come to almost a head right now. i m being told that the deficit trigger, the issue that republicans were huddled in the senate well talking about why that amendment vote almost went in a very bad direction for republicans who to pass this bill, that trigger has run into significant problems. they are not sure how to structure it in a way that complies with the senate budget rules. i m told they re still trying to figure out solutions right now. if you want to know what that
paraphrase the vice president, a big deal. the first lady in greensboro, north carolina, after that amendment vote, it is historically a black college, and saying, invoking greensboro four, scott hall, invoking that civil rights narrative. she didn t say and gay marriage and marriage equality, but certainly there s no way you can stand in north carolina invoke the greensborough four and not be talking about it. good point. the north carolina story, people want to say the african-american community are going to vote against gay marriage and that hasn t always been the case. that was a mixed bag last week. you had naacp coming out, other pastors wanted to get rid of this amendment.
health as well. today, house democratic leader nancy pelosi railed on republicans for the blunt amendment vote. here it is. the republicans are kicking off women s history month by bringing the blunt amendment to the floor in the united states senate. instead of talking about jobs, which is what the american people expect and deserve us to be doing, what they sent us here to do, we ve moved on to the blunt amendment. a blunt sweeping overreach into women s health. part of the republican agenda of disrespecting women s health issues. caroline, this seems to be going far beyond women s health issues, and now becoming a cultural issue about the standing of women in our society. how do you see it? well, i see it as a coordinated campaign, because it s happening at the federal