fundamentally disagree. this is not that, this is just two sides that can t come together on the things they do agree on, you have a majority of the house and the senate who say they want to continue daca. and there was a deal to do that. nobody says they want to shut down the government, and there was a deal to keep it open. nobody wants to do this constant deadline stuff. a majority of the house and senate want to extend chip. even with all of that, they can t make the deal, and the president who as we ve said over and over was supposed to be the guy who makes deals, he s been the deal breaker, he s the one blowing up the deal when congress manages to get the parties up together and get something done. you couldn t get a better example of how bad things are in congress. molly, david, i need you to stand by. i want to bring in senator jeff murkily. how are you going to vote? it s going on right now, and
washington post, and an msnbc analyst. robert, i see you re up on the hill. anything you can add to our reporting? what they re doing in the capitol, is they re trying to figure out can they do a short-term bill in the coming hours so these negotiations can continue. i spoke to senator graham and others and they think the white house can come together and have some kind of promise on the d.r.e.a.m.ers vote or something like that. they just need a few more days. so the question tonight is will they tweak that house bill that goes for a month and just make it for a few days? robert, i m going to interrupt you only to bring in a member of the u.s. senate. senator jeff murkily, a democrat from oregon has joined us off the floor of the senate. why did we just see the leaders
intensive negotiations to get this deal done. all right, we ll look for you to ereemerreemerge on the floor. thank you so much, jeff murkily, democrat from the state of oregon. chris matthews has called into us. obviously the host of hardball. chris, we re walking tom cotton walk around on his phone. there s a little caucus going on of sanders, durbin and warren just one step up off the floor. i said this last week, i don t mean to insult a bunch of drunks, but this is government by seemingly a bunch of drunks. well, it s not the way they used to do it. and not to be the old guy here, but, brian, i remember when i was working for the senate budget committee back in the 70s, and we had a bipartisan budget. they would work out every one of
senator jeff murkily in his 13 hour straight holding on the senate floor. this is purely a protest. he can do nothing to delay the ine inevitable that s going to happen. that does look exhausting what they re going through. he at least had a chart there, though. we ll see if he gets to the ted cruz green eggs and ham point of nothing. show and tell does help. thank you very much. so these international cry sees are unfolding. david axelrod will be here with his biggest worry on the bottom line. and this chef is known for eating bizarre foods on tv. before he was famous, his life was spiraling out of control because of drug and alcohol addiction. a one-way plane ticket turned his life around. that s the story. my grandmother taught me how
welcome back, everyone. i m alex witt alongside ayman mohyeldin and louisbuerg door o. democrat jeff murkily remains on the senate floor speaking on the protest of supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. he began speaking just before 7:00 last night just hours after the final debate on gorsuch s nomination began. the final vote is expected on friday. a dangerous storm system is moving eastward after creating major damage. the storm dropped baseball size hail and a possible tornado may be responsible for damaging a fire house in goodman, missouri. damaging winds, flooding, hail all expected in the southeast. baltimore s mayor and police commissioner have pledged to move forward with police reforms with or without the justice department. this follows the doj s request