well, that s interesting. you normally see the white house press briefings sometimes end with reporters shouting out questions. that was actually unusually robust because of the fact that it looks like in 12.5 hours, we re going to have a government shutdown. nobody credibly said otherwise. that was mark short and mick mulvaney doing a press briefing. clearly, the press wanted more. the reporters wanted to talk more about this. they said they ll do it again probably later today. i will say that when you have a mark short there and mick mulvaney, it is a more substantive press conference. absolutely. you re getting answered. didn t feel overtly political, though they said at this time in 2013, when the last shutdown happened, obama was doing nothing about it and wasn t trying to do it, and the president is really interested in solving this. to that end, the president decided he s not going to mar-a-lago until or unless he has something to sign. for the moment, the president is
to produce a budget for the united states. we re going to move from dick durbin over to mick mulvaney at the white house and listen in. it surprises me. i ve been through some of these before. the democrats in the senate are opposing a bill that they don t oppose. they re for clean crs. they re for the extension to the chip program. many of them support the delay of the cadillac tax especially. they don t oppose anything in the bill, but they are opposing the bill. just want to let everybody know that we don t want this. we do not want a shutdown. if mr. schumer insists on it, he is in a position to force this on the american people. we re involved in managing a lapse or a shutdown, and we want to make folks understand that it
year. that is seven per day. seven per day. we think it is time to fix immigration problems in our country. we have put forward a proposal to do exactly that. we re continuing to have conversations. i think we had productive conversations yesterday with leader mccarthy, senator durbin and senator cornyn. they re making progress. what doesn t make sense is to say, we re going to shut down the government because you re making progress but i need something else. mark? mr. mulvaney? mark? let me ask a couple questions to director mulvaney. do the president s comments about kos-hole countries, what effort has there been to come to a deal? the president is actively working right now to try to prevent a shutdown. i will contend to you, it is dramatically different from what president obama was doing in
what does it tell us that he said steven miller specifically in his beliefs outside the fringe. the american people didn t vote for steve. it is interesting lindsey graham is putting this squarely on the hands of the president. we started this hour with a press conference from the white house with mark short and with nick mulvaney putting it all on democrats. it s kind of interesting, a key republican vote that is not going to vote in favor of the continuing resolution is saying that this problem starts and ends at the white house than we re inside the ten-yard line and the white house can fix that, garrett. reporter: yeah, let s be real about this. if there is a shutdown, the real cause the big picture long-term cause is a lack of presidential leadership. at the bottom line, if the majority leader, the republican majority leader of the u.s. senate as he said this week doesn t know where the president stands on an issue like immigration, how can anyone else. it s possible that bo
as a celebrity, he understands ratings and reality tv. i really believe the democrats want a shutdown to get off the subject of the tax cuts because they worked so well. it s the economy, stupid. did you ever hear that one? it s the economy. it is indeed. busy morning. we are watching the white house briefing room, where as hallie said, office of management and buck budget director, mick mulvaney, and mark short are expected any moment. senators are back at work this morning. it s almost 13 hours away from a government shutdown. late thursday, the house passed a short-term funding bill after some concern that the opposition of opposition from the freedom caucus. many of the conservative groups voted in favor, breaking with the 11 republicans who voted against the continuing resolution measure. six democrats voted in favor. five lawmakers can t vote at all. after a procedural vote on the cr, the senate is on the clock