what are we going to see on the senate floor? we re going to see an effort by the republicans to keep the government open for three more weeks, until february 8th. but that is a time frame democrats say is too long. they will not accept a february 8 time frame. they want about a week or so in order to force the republican s hands, to cut a deal on immigration. what a senate democratic source told me this morning is they need to see a pathway to passage on immigration in order to get something through, in order to agree to reopen the government. that s something that republicans are saying that s not going to they re not going to agree to. they re saying no immigration talks until the government is reopened. that is their dividing line. before the republican conference meeting this morning, i had a chance to catch up with a number of members who recognize is this is going to be very politically risky, not just for democrats, for themselveses as well. do you think the president is sh
these talks, but yes, the trust gets lost between these members who are trying to work out a deal because now they are sort of divided amongst themselveses how they characterize this meeting. like so much of this presidency, these comments made were not helpful. if there is no deal, it makes this bipartisan meeting just eight days ago that was televised really seem like a fever dream at this point. we have moved so far away and the president s doing nothing at all at this point to try and bring democrats and republicans back to the table. mark, the president isn t just tweeting. i want to share what he said on sunday. take a look. no, no, i m not a racist. i many at least racist person you have ever interviewed, that i can tell you. did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments? they weren t made. the least racist person ever interviewed. president trump, who is the commander in chief of the
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it may be good for me, but i m not sure there s a lot of coal workers or miners that have llc. it was the reagan-clinton combination that brought down the deficit, that balanced the budget eventually, that caused about 20 years of economic growth. do you really believe these tax cut also pay for themselveses? you have to have the cuts in spending to go with them. therein when ronald reagan s political problem, because the republicans controlled the house, they didn t control the senate for the first few years, but they did control the house which controls the purse strings and that was tip o neill and he wasn t going to go down that path. and in the clinton white house, we got there with balanced budgets. he doubled the federal
national political reporter of the washington post, and robert, you ve got a piece, i believe, in the paper that talks about the reaction to that moment, particularly, last night, amongst the gop. how would you characterize the fallout from that sort of gasp-inducing moment? chris, phil and i just filed that story for tomorrow s paper and it s a historic moment for the republican party because what trump did on the debate stage has prompted a lot of republicans in tough senate re-election races in house races across the country to scramble right now to protect their seats, to protect their places in congress as they think to themselves, there s maybe a landslide on the horizon, and they don t want to get swept up. what is the thinking there about how they protect themselveses? we ve been hearing this kind of thinking all throughout and heard it particularly after that the tape came out in which trump is sort of boasting of sexually assaulting women. we saw some people unendorse