Politically, from that statement, this white house thinks and well see whether theyre right or not, they can weather the political storm from a Government Shutdown by saying were not negotiating until schumer backs down. They think inside the white house from my conversations with senior officials there, that Chuck Schumer overplayed his hand on daca and they are going to push back here and say we gave you six years of an extension, a long time for Childrens Health insurance, a program, chip as its known that, democrats said they had to have. The president gave on that. Said hes willing to work on daca. The bottom line is, this white house is taking a very hard line in these negotiations. Shannon sounds like it from that statement. All right, ed henry live on the beat for us, thank you. The president foreshadowing a shutdown a short while ago, tweeting, quote, its not looking good. White house correspondent kevin cork joins us with where the white house goes next. Youre right. It was i
the anti-obama movement. i had a sick feeling that what had been bubbling up was now a grassroots organized movement against the affordable care act and it was going to make it much harder to get the legislation done. so we met in early august of 2009 to talk about the prospects. the president started the meeting by asking me what i thought. and i told him i thought we still could get it done. i wasn t sure how, what the path was going to be. he then went around the room and heard from a lot of other people. the chief of staff, rahm emanuel, had asked that we consider something less than the full affordable care act. why not do a bill that will cover the parents of children who are covered under the state children s health insurance program? that would add some people to the rolls, it would be making some progress, the president wouldn t have failed at health
to lift the filibuster. this med sure needs 60 votes because democrats have used that filibuster option to require those 60 votes. and mcconnell raises an important point here, there are enough votes for the simple majority. but the one piece of leverage that the democrats have is this filibuster option and they have chosen to continue to deploy that option, and the way that mcconnell described it in his speech, is he talked about the policy measures that are in this bill including funding for the children s health insurance program, he said chuck schumer is viewing them as hostages for the taking to be used as leverage for the negotiations that are going on, on a whole host of issues, primarily daca. will senate republicans just try and convince democrats to get rid of that filibuster and keep the government open, if senate