the way of congress reaching a deal. all i can say about the white house, their staff has been unreliable to work with on this issue. i think the president s in a good spot in terms of understanding what deal will work. he s just got to commit to it. the senate is going to do somebody has got to lead. the white house staff has been pretty unreliable. the house is locked down. the white house claims the deal that graham presented failed to address several of the president s must have issues in regards to immigration, specifically, securing the border, and fixing our immigration system as a whole. and tonight they are firing back saying in a statement as long as senator graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally, and unlawfully instead of our own american citizens, we are going nowhere. he has been an outlier for years. rick? rick: garrett tenney at the white house. garrett, thank you. of course the longer this government is shut down, th
funding, disaster relief, daca and border security and other important matters, that we ve been negotiating, and that i would like to bring to the floor, then they will stop their filibuster and this shutdown and let the negotiators get back to work. the congressional leaders tell me to negotiate with president trump. president trump tells me to figure it out with the congressional leaders. this political catch 22 never seen before has driven our government to dysfunction. rick: we ve got fox team coverage from our nation s capital garrett tenney at the white house with reaction from the trump administration. but let s kick things off with mike emmanuel on capitol hill. what s the latest on this bipartisan push to get a deal? we have got about two dozen moderate senators both republican and democrat meeting feeling like they need to get a deal to reopen the government as soon as possible. senator graham of south carolina is one of those senators, he