I want to start with garrett haake, you are in the center of the action. Weve been hearing from lawmakers. To my ears, i dont hear any break in this gridlock. Whats your take at this hour . Reporter yeah, you with choose your own news here at this point, depending on who youre talking to. Im outside a meeting thats been going on Susan Collins office and the democrats coming out have said no comment, on made vague comments like theres been progress. Lindsey gram just left. Hes been probably the sagelemost key negotiator. He sees some of the dynamics as potential something to be optimistic about, specifically this idea that the senate would be able to move forward sometime
optimism their close to turning a corner. The work will continue at least until tomorrow. Just to drill down on the point you make, they are considering essentially the deal that seems to be gaining the most team is this shortterm threeweek deal. So the question is why would democrats go for this deal when they Wouldnt
fulfilling your responsibility as an elected member of the united states congress. you know, i m very disappointed that mvp mcconnell and the other republican leaders in the senate side are not standing back and saying, look, we have got to make this in every way a fair trial that looks at the truth, looks at the fact, that allows for this kind of evidence to be pressure d so that member ca make an independent decision. that is their responsibility that is what they are sworn to do. if they just try to kind of ram this down the throat of the country, in order for them to
what else do we no about how this happened? s.e.,y great behind the scenes reporting from our colleagues that revealed that on thursday night, mvp mcconnell had the phone call with the president, sort of saying the gig is up. on thursday that s when the two votes took place. you ll recall that the democratic plan tutly got more votes than the president s plan. more rpgs had cro more republicans had crossed over. a clear signal to mitch mcconnell that the dam was about to break inside the republican caucus, in the republican
when you had chuck schumer to come in, there was this hope that they could reset relations, and that s rapidly devolved. i hear those relations are almost worse off now than the relationship between mcconnell and reid. that s such a critical part of it. you raised the shutdown of 2013, and an interesting lesson came out of that. the republicans got the blame, yet they went on to big victories. could we see the same thing? or are democrats risking potential victories? it s certainly a gamble right now. of how this will play out, particularly in swing states. there are 23 sort of vulnerable seats that are up in the next election. they have to defend those seats in states where immigration is not popular. very quickly, last word. you have 30 who aren t running for reelection.
mcconnell himself say he doesn t know where the president stands. let me and that is the relationship and that won t get done. let me let caylee jump in here. you want to respond to a whole host of things that the governor said. what do you make of the fact that president trump from the perspective of democrats getting the blame for this. well he doesn t deserve the blame. that is ridiculous. because there is nothing in this bill that democrats oppose. they are for c.h.i.p. and funding the government. and in all due respect to governor rendell, it is not rhetoric when we say that democrats are holding the future of 9 million children and 2 million of them sick hostage to the fate of 700,000 illegal immigrants. that is truthful. the washington post glem kessler dismantled the jimmy kimmel argument that that was not true. it is true that the house passed a bill to sustain c.h.i.p. democrats have never produced legislation to sustain c.h.i.p. the short-term c.r. funding in dec