they were beginning to outline that today. there was the possibility that maybe they would have these two votes tomorrow, both votes would fail, then they would go to the negotiations for the first time to really talk about what could be a wall without calling it a wall and how they could both sides claim victory, a short term continuing resolution, and then a real negotiation. but this seems to be escalating the pressure, this letter from the president to nancy pelosi, just when they might have been starting to edge toward negotiations. yeah, and the personal dynamic here between nancy pelosi and donald trump, the two leaders of the two parties and of the two, you know, respected bodies of government, is important here. they re not talking right now. they re not in what you would call good negotiations at the moment. there s just been bad blood over the last week beginning with nancy pelosi s letter effectively saying, let s table the state of the union until after the government re
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well-accustomed to these sort of expressions of first amendment rights, where these workers are saying they want to get back to work, andrea. kelly, a lot of these people, some may be some are from other agencies, obviously. but when we talk about it, we ve been focusing as well on public service contractors, security officers, people who cook, who clean, who do very lowly paying jobs, who have been without pay for a month, and are not going to get their pay back. always, as you know better than i, the congress votes after the government reopens, people getting back pay. that the not a good deal. they get paid, but the contractors don t. exactly, contractors go without pay. in this particular shutdown, the legislative branch has been covered so a lot of people who work on capitol hill are getting paid and are coming to work.
very complicated. and therefore it takes time. and so i would love to see a cr to open up the government and then allow congress to actually come to the table with each of their proposals. we re hearing a new proposal now that representative allard has worked over the weekend on that they re going to present. i look forward to seeing that. what if it doesn t include money for the wall? should they give in and give him going to be called a wall just to get past this? look, i think that you have to have first steps. they presented their first step in the senate, the senate bill, mitch mcconnell s bill that they re going to vote on tomorrow. now it s time for us to put our position forward. does it deal with border security? how does it deal with border security? does it deal with dreamers? is it just for daca recipients or the entire dreamers? is it for three years renewable status or a pathway to legal
accept help from family for something that we really truly don t have any control over. that s just one person s story. multiply that by all of the numbers of people and the coast guard and their families. that s true. i mean, like we said at guantanamo, i was at guantanamo bay in november. those are people who are away from their families. we don t think about the coast guard deploying. that is a mission they re deployed and their family isn t getting anything. we re hearing this across the federal gofr federal government. it is important to remember they are part of the armed force ands they aren t getting salary. it is important the family speaks out when they can t do that. julia ainsley, thank you so much for all of your reporting. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. tonight since announcing her 2020 run, senator kamala harris joins rachel maddow live for a one on one interview. that is not to be missed. watch rachel maddow tonight at