read state red states where they re going to be up for reelection this year and feel vulnerable politically potentially. but not enough democrats to get this over the finish line. for the most part,democrats recognize that their base is very energized by this immigration issue. you re getting more information david. our reporteder reporter repa house democratic leadership meeting has been called. obviously house members who thought they were going to be out of town by now have been hanging around to figure is this something that s going to come back to them. prams th perhaps they ve gotten a read on what s going on in speaker ryan s office and leader pelosi wants to give them a sechbs of where they are. the house democratic part of this seems rather done at the moment. if the senate were to pass
the top. the president is the leader. he s got to get everybody in the room and he has to lead. if there s a shutdown, i think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the united states. he s the one who has to get people together. reporter: the president just fwe tweeted about this meeting with chuck schumer. he described that meeting as an excellent preliminary meeting with senator schumer. making progress, he said, a four-week extension would be best. we should just point out in the last several minutes a white house official came by our booth inside the white house and said that a short-term cr, a five-day cr, continuing resolution, is a, quote, nonstarter. so the white house is drawing a bit of a line in the sand at this point in that if they agree to something tonight, it is going to be a longer term continuing resolution. when they re just talking about
party continues to push them forward to not give the votes there. i think the key issue right now as we watch the clock tick down is, is there an end game at all. people say something s happening, talks are clearly ongoing. but as of now a final proposal, even a final potential proposal still not in the works, at least not publicly, wolf. not yet. phil, thank you very much. it s important to note that the president tweeted excellent preliminary meeting in oval with senator schumer. making progress. 61% in our new poll say it s either very or extremely important to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. that puts a lot of pressure on democrats and republicans to come up with a compromise. i wonder who the 36% are who don t want them to come together. that s very odd. that said, we ve been through this for six years now. we have these almost shutdowns,
is yes right now. i think democrats are probably also looking at what happened during the government shutdown in 2013. the polling after that showed that most americans blamed republicans for the shutdown. but then in 2013 republicans won the senate. so there wasn t really any sort of consequence for what they did. you re getting some new information, david? yeah. our congressional reporter lauren fox is just reporting some color that s happening outside. there is a bipartisan meeting going on right now trying to figure a way forward here. tey apparently opened the door and saw the press waiting out the door. somebody could be overheard asking is there a different door we could go out of because clearly they didn t want to answer the questions. they went out a different door except angus king, who seemed unusually upset and would not comment on the status of how things were going. that doesn t sound very
near shutdowns constantly. i think the public is exhausted by these and is constantly like let s just fix it. trump campaigned on the idea he would bring washington together. my sense of him right now in the shutdown is he s kind of involved. he had a meeting at the last moment. he didn t go to mar-a-lago after all. but he s still not really leading the country in any way. he s not really in charge of these fiscal matters and it s not clear he can bring everybody together in a compromise. three democratic senators have said they will vote in favor of this republican proposed legislation. there you see him right there. two republicans, land say gram and ra lindsey graham and rand paul say they are going to vote no. in a vote like this, you need 60. there s still a long way to go. yes. according to that point, mitch mcconnell is still eight votes away. he needs to find 11.