the senate plan was the second part of what they had been talking about, which was to put forth a separate bill that would deal with just the november piece of the president s executive action on immigration. and that failed even though three red state democrats sided with republicans. so the mcconnell plan of doing it in two steps only went 1 for 2. they are sending a message but what really matters now is what the house can do. there is a sense around here that the department won t shut down it has a different feeling than in some of the brinksmanship moments we ve seen before. maybe it s a bit of shutdown fatigue or because of some members think there s a way out here and it may be that short term extension. our sense is that that could get through the senate if it gets through the house. but as we know you ve got to let each step play out because there are no guarantees until the voting is actually done. so the senate has weighed in and said let s keep it open for the remainder of
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going over to the white house, if you don t see me again, you ll know what happened or send out a search party or something to that effect. let s bring in chris stirewalt now, host of power play on foxnews.com. sounds like ted cruz is headed to the white house. wouldn t you like to be a fly on the wall during that meeting? some. no. i would like to stay as far away from that as possible. [laughter] lots of politicians and lots of people very upset today because what s happening now, martha, is shutdown fatigue. both sides are getting ground down. tempers are getting short, anxiety is getting high, republicans are taking a big hit, and the president s taking a hit. it s not sustainable. martha: it is not sustainable. and look at those numbers and really the american people appear to be more disgusted with everybody from the president to republicans to democrats in congress than they really have ever been in the course of looking at these numbers. so one of the points of debate,