longer shutdown than was originally anticipated. this is being played out in the court of opinion here, alex, and really the way this is going to be broken is whichever side blinks first, whichever side emerges behind in that battle for public opinion. we see republicans led by president trump trying to boil this down to a fight between those young immigrants, so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers they re holding out for. they want anything that passes to fund the government to allow those that were brought here at a young age to stay in this country. republicans are down to a simple fact this is the military, getting their paychecks on time, men and women in uniform versus a relatively small population of those d.r.e.a.m.ers. meanwhile democrats are on the pr offensive. we saw chuck schumer any number of times yesterday trying to say that president trump is unreliable as a negotiator. senator schumer saying negotiating with president trump, remember he sat down with
trump. obviously we ve got two people atop the ticket. flawed messengers for whichever side. and in the house democrats must pick up 30 seats to retake at majority. so they are doing everything they can to tie their gop to trump. like in this new ad, targeting miami area congressman carlos curbelo. but he tells cnn he wants nothing to do with trump. i m not feeling better about the presidential campaign at all. it seems like every discussion is who to trust least and who lies more. so it is a shame. north carolina senator richard burr is running in one of the country s closest races and he s concluded it makes sense to back trump. despite the nominee s crude remarks about women. i don t think this is something that we dwell on after somebody has asked for forgiveness. privately senate majority leader mitch mcconnell agreeing
while the air force investigates the deadly crash of an eighth plane. one of these based in charlotte, north carolina. we expect to learn more in a news conference this afternoon. we know that four of the six crew members were killed, including this man, lieutenant colonel mike mckiel who spoke to one of our affiliates on saturday. lizzie o leary with the latest out of washington. what s the latest? reporter: latest is that they are investigating the cause of this crash while the other c-130s are grounded, grounded by the air force right now, and that essentially really diminishes the ability of the forest service to fight a lot of wildfires. the way the service does this is they use a number of different planes, but some of the big guns, as you said it, are the c-130s that are on loan from the air force as part of this fire fighting fleet. this is not the first time a c-130 has crashed, a relatively horrific crash in 2003 when essentially a c-130s wings folded up ward and
day, there s going to be more of this, particularly after what happened in the liberation square in cairo, whichever side feels more aggrieved, they re going to try to get out people in greater number the next day. friday, is a holy day in the muslim world. often there are protests after prayers at midday. that s why he friday was mentioned earlier in the week, but given what s happened in the days subsequent to that, i think each day here can bring the potential for more violence, bigger crowds as this goes day to day from and we ll see how long it takes for it to play out. ron allen for us. thank you. as events in egypt escalate, the white house continues to walk a fine line calling for orderly reform. meanwhile, president obama and his 2008 adversary senator mccain wrapped up a private meeting to talk about policy. savannah guthrie joins us to talk about this. a short time agoing in today s white house briefing, sect gibbs said that president obama has