you can tell. what should we be watching for over the course of the next hour? we re looking at whether or not more senate democrats will come out in support of this house c.r. there will be this vote at 10:00 and they need 60 votes to move forward to a final vote on this bill, and right now they don t have those votes. they are looking at a failed vote in this instance. you have four senate democrats who have come out and said they would vote for this measure, but that means they need at least nine more, and so they are in a situation here where they actually have been shuttling around. they have been having meetings, democrats are meeting now. the legislative affairs director has been shoveling between offices here. republicans are trying to meet. they are trying to figure out something they can get around that they can actually get to where they can keep this government open but as of right now, there is no plan b. i just ran into senate majority john cornen and asked him, what is
reason for us to get to this point, and for the house to pass a bill that only has funding for the children s health center, they are pitting one group against another. it s like do you want your right arm cut off or left arm? we shouldn t cut off any arms. we should have gotten to this long before tonight. as you mentioned, rachel, the people in charge of both the house senate and the presidency, the republicans, they set the agenda. they have brought us to this pass. at this point, we should all act like adults. as far as i m concerned, congress is a separate branch of government. for us to be waiting around to see where the president wants to go, it would be helpful if the president could tell us where the heck he is because he keeps changing his mind but short of that, we should do our jobs and take care of the d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. and children s health and community health centers opioids and things there is agreement on and get on with it and send a bill to the white house and the pr
it or not as he will. senator, you said there that nobody wants a shutdown. it does seem like, we don t know what will happen over the next two and a half, three hours but it does seem like that s where we re heading. do you have the sense there is a plan b or at least an after plan if we hit the shutdown at midnight, if there is no progress to be made tonight, what happens next? obviously the government starts to go through the process of shutting down. that s a painful and expensive process. when do things start up again to find a way to reopen it? this totally avoidable shutdown, if it happens, i would expect would be that there would be a sense of urgency on everyone s part to get on with it and end the shut down a.s.a.p. and address the concerns that we all agree upon. those are the measures that i just talked about. you sound like you ve been taken over by a drum major. a lot going on here tonight.
top of the hour. if you want to handicap how the vote will go, you re on your own. i do not bet but people are starting to read a lot into the fact that according to poll l politico.com, a members only meeting tomorrow morning on the topic of quote republicans continued refusal to work with democrats to keep the government open. so read into that what you will but i read that as democrats in the house not having very high expectations the government is about to get funded there by averting the shut down so everybody can go home for the weekend, not if they plan tomorrow why the shutdown happened. among the things that hang in the balance, obviously the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people who work for the federal government who are potentially about to be furloughed also crucial programs like the cdcs flu tracking program.
this could be unpredictable, it typically is. it s historic in modern times for a party that controls the white house, house, and senate to see the government shutdown on their watch. it is. we have you split screen right now. we can see a few senators, a few people in there. we were told earlier to be voting in a minute. do you think they re going to hold the 10:00 p.m. vote according to your reporting, the way the democrats are talking about this this appears to be a fore gone conclusion? i m going to ask my camera man if he can turn it around to see what they have on the air. you re seeing this, they have not started voting yet, it does not seem as you pointed out. i spoke to john cornyn a few minutes ago that he was expecting them to hold the vote. from where i sit there s no sign the plan has changed dramatically, i m going to keep texting and talking to my