this, you identify who is essential, and when you identify people who are non-essential, you have to ask yourselves, do you really need these employees all the time? and that s one of the ways that i think the trump administration can spin this and say this is how we shrink the size of government. rick: all right. i guess we shall see. also the patriots are going to win the super bowl 52. rick: we will see that too. that or the other game that s going on we can t talk about. thank you very much for your time tonight. thank you, rick. rick: coming up later we speak to one member of the house republican leadership about what it will take to get the government back up and running and what might be the path of compromise. that s coming up at the bottom of the hour. right now a power to the poll rally taking place in las vegas. part of the women s march movement. could it help get more women registered to vote this year? plus, there appears to be no one in sight to the government sh
hi. reporter: where are you coming from? buffalo, new york. reporter: why was it important for you to be out here today? it s such an absolute nightmare what we are going through and i had to be out here with my daughter and my sister to show our support for daca and for, you know and against donald trump. reporter: so many issues. this has become an umbrella movement for all of that. we re marching down 6th avenue, second annual women s march in new york city. back to you. mariana atencio, thank you very much. vanessa ruble and theresa. vanes vanessa, let me start with you. it was characterized as an umbrella movement. how is this march different from the one last year, either deliberately or as of what s happened here over the last year? look, i think last year it was the birth of the movement. and we ve seen a real development in what s happened since then. so i think the huge numbers that came out in 2017 really inspired
what we need to do is have a better clear understanding of our path forward to really guide this nation. and that s what s lacking. the president will not give us that leadership. he has failed now, at least twice in the last two weeks. we need for members of the senate, both democrats and republicans, i applaud senator k collins. i think she is a person of good values and high integrity, any effort to make a bipartisan movement forward i want to stand on and hope i can support. you had senator mitch mcconnell last night blaming the democrats, you have the president blaming democrat blaming mr. schumer as wel wonder about the productivity of this blame game. i also wonder what you would say to somebody who faults the institution itself? we had a statement from your colleague senator john mccain saying this is congress fault, principally, both republican and democrat. i wonder how you respond to that. yes. i ve seen changes in time i ve served here and i do believe many on the floo
women s march movement has shown is that women are not monolithic and we can t be marginalized to one issue. we care as much about planned parenthood getting funded as we do about daca and child health care plan as we do about education reform. that our issues that are affecting us are broad and deep. what we are seeing is a continual attack by this administration and a stop hold by men and women, predominantly women across this country who are saying, oh, no, we re not going to play this game wh you the way it s been played before. nessa, i want to ask you about how that energy has played out last year. how much of that was deliberate, do you think? was it organized or a mechanism put in place to make that an out let for the energy we saw last year and seeing today as well? i think it s a combination of an organic outgrowth of what s going on. women across the country, in our network alone. we have women in every state
a lot of the stuff that s happened since in terms of the airport protests. certainly it is the inspiration for a lot of stuff like the me too movement, times up and so forth. i think that right now the movement is maturing. it s going past getting out into the streets. and i think we re really, really now focused on elections. i know we are specifically taking this energy that you see in the streets today, and i think it s incredible, and pointing it laser focused at the mid terms. and i just think that s the evolution of the movement right now. i want to get your sense of sort of how this energy was abled to be captured in the way it was, i imagine, after last year s marches, a lot of people wondered what the next step was going to be. right. what do you make of what s happened the last year and the outpouring you ve seen? i think it s been an amazing day today, as it was a year ago as we saw thousands and thousands of women and men come out and make sure their voices got hear