the president is always looking to assign blame. is he at this point assigning blame inside the white house that we are at the government shutdown threshold. so far president trump is blaming democrats for the fact that there might be a government shutdown and specifically the fact that they want to see the pathway for citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers in a bill pass here, however if you look at what the president said this morning, it was the president who undermined his own strategy by sending out the tweet about the children s health insurance program, which muddied the waters on whether or not he supported the short term resolution. and then you had paul ryan come out and say before the house vote, of course, he supports it, i talked to him on the phone, he tells me he s behind it the way it is currently. by the white house statement that came out said he supports the short term resolution, but it wasn t clear as mitch mcconnell brought up on the
tomorrow. he wants to put as much pressure on the democrats that plan on voting against the bill, he wants to put as much pressure as possible on the democrats in an effort to make them flip and in effort to make them look responsible for what could and looks like could be a potentially inevitable shut down if they don t get anything done tomorrow. is there any indication chuck schumer is considering allowing this to go to a vote, in other words, shopping the 60-vote threshold, letting it go to a majority vote and then on the bet that possibly the republicans can t even have those votes for the majority? there is no indication that would happen. seems to bed a vat kat advocaing idea. he doesn t want to extend this another month. he wants to have these
vote. you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they don t think there s anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely leaving the scene of the shutdown, how do you expect that will play? well, it s not so much that he s at his own property probably playing golf while tens, if not hundreds of thousands of government workers are furloughed, which is bad optics, i would surmise. but it s also a wasted opportunity. after the 2013 shutdown, one of
but it is presenting a few interesting and difficult quandaries for lawmakers on the hill. this morning the president tweeted that he didn t want a six year c.h.i.p. extension, which was news to everyone in washington d.c. because that s what the republican strategy has been and is for funding the government. what we were reporting today is that it threw things momentarily into utter chaos on the hill. where republicans are to check if the bill they were attaching the entire government funding operation to would end up being vetoed by the president. that s a peculiar thing to have to inquire about 48 hours before the government shuts down. so he s creating a lot of problems for the process and it doesn t make mitch mcconnell s life easier or chuck schumer s life easier.
negotiations in my life. another thing interesting about lindsey graham, he also said he would not vote for the house passed cr, which tells you something. which is that mitch mcconnell may not have 50 republican votes for the partisan house passed bill. so mitch mcconnell has probably failed to get a majority of his republicans to vote for his bill. there s a bipartisan that will pass easily. but he can t get the votes for the house cr. so he s leaning on democrats to cover for his own failure. i ve been wondering about that myself, and i ve been wondering about whether the democrats and chuck schumer should drop any 60-vote threshold and watch this go to a vote on the senate floor and see if it fails on the majority