chuck schumer put it on table. he went there anyway in good faith effort to get something passed. and as you point out, the republicans knew they needed 60 votes. and they knew that the democrats weren t going to do it without daca. which 87% of the people in the united states support. so this is a wildly popular program. it should never have been rescinded and the democrats ka iminto this and said republicans did two things that are very bad. what is rescinding chip funding. and rescinding daca. we want both of them. and it s not negotiable. you don t put children up against 800,000 children brought here and should have protection in the united states. it was unethical to be pitched like that. and democrats stood firm and said we don t cast aside the 800,000 people. the question republicans are pointing out, they wanted a
furious lobbying, after the government shutdown, into saturday morning on the senate floor in live view for everyone, no resolution and one clear fact, things are going to get worse before they get better. instead of trying to figure out the pathway forward, republicans and democrats framing who is to blame. for senator schumer, there s one answer. every american knows the republican party controls the white house, the senate, the house. it s their job to keep the government open. it s their job to work with us on a way to move things forward. but they didn t reach out to us once on this cr. no discussion. no debate. nothing at all. it was produced without an ounce of democratic input and dropped on our laps. reporter: for republicans, it s clear.
debate. that was the majority leader. we also heard from democrats. they are calling it the trump shutdown saying the republicans have control of the executive branch of the house and senate. it took almost two hours for the vote to become official. that is almost unheard of. through that time, it was a foregone conclusion, but the arm twisting continued. we have how it all went down. reporter: at one point on friday, with the clock ticking, it appeared, at least to some democrats, there was an opening to prevent a shutdown, the republicans in congress, the democrats in congress, the president, republican donald trump in the white house from seeing things fall apart. senate minority leader, schumer to the white house where he said he put money for the wall, something democrats have been opposed to on the table for a deal. a deal that would never come.
the united states. you see democrats blaming republicans and republicans blaming democrats. with regards to leadership, the u.s. president actually had thoughts on leadership in the face of a shutdown before he became president. let s listen and we ll talk about it on the other side. problems start from the top and have to get solved from the top. the president is the leader and he has to get everybody in a room and lead. if there is a shutdown, it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the united states. he s the one that has to get people together. from the president s mouth. some are asking about the president s leadership and where it is now. we know from president trump and citizen trump s style, he s flip-flopped, depending on the situation and always going to put himself in a good light as having provided the best possible leadership and anybody who disagrees with him, there s
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