capitulating to the house freedom caucus, the far right that, blocked the bill. shannon: juan williams and ed henry, thank you both, we ll check back with you. we re just about under 16 minutes, now, until we get to the midnight deadline. thank you gentlemen. late night talk show host jimmy kimmel and paul ryan speaker got into a fight over chip. kimmel tweeting this, shame on you for making chip a bargaining chip, shame on you for tying our kids lives to immigration and shame on you speaker ryan for doing anything other than funding chip cleanly and immediately. prominent democrats dianne feinstein claim people could die because of the shutdown. are republicans really that heartless? congressman steve stivers and mimi walters, the chair and vice chair of the national republican con congressional committee, great to have you in. good to be on. shannon: are you that heartless? that is the way the mead yeas going to play this. well, no.
guess here comes flake for another orbit. but it looks like bem mcconnell just voted no. the vote was open until the marriage leader et. any senators wishing to change their vote? the yeas are 50 and 49. three first of the centers not havesi build the green to. i had a social a part of the
get that vote tonight. i move, mr. president, to table the motion to refer. as for the yeas and nays? is there a sufficient second? there is. there is? the clerk will call the roll. mr. alexander. aye. ms. baldwin all right, so we re sitting here with jonathan la mere as we see some of the senators head to the cloak room. what just happened was mitch mcconnell said let s keep things running until february the he also suggested we allow the appropriate time for people to meet and going forward on the deal. certainly, though, there is not much in the way of bipartisanship on display it right now.
no. mcconnell just voted no. the vote was open until the majority leader voted. so mitch mcconnell just cast his no vote and we re going to keep the audio open. any senators is in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 50 and the nays are 49. and the motion is not agreed 3/5 of the senators, the motion is not agreed to. majority leader? i enter a motion to reconsider the vote. motion is entered. i just want to call to the attention of my colleague s statement part of a statement of the white house press secretary tonight. presumably on behalf of the administration. it simply says, we will not
pulls well on the republican side of the aisle. democrats want to make this about daca. what we are going to have some time either tomorrow or maybe even as late as 1:00 in the morning saturday is a procedural vote to end debate. this is what s called invoking cloture. needs 60 votes. let me run through the math. right now there are only 50 available republican votes in the senate. john mccain is away. there are three republican nose. we have jeff flake which will be about a half hour ago he s going to be a no. we have rand paul of kentucky and lindsey graham of south carolina. joe manchin, democrat from west virginia indicates he would vote to end debate. from south dakota, he indicated he will be a no. he says he will probably be a yes. you need 60 votes to end debate. even if you are 47 republican yeas, you are still short of 50.