Week and follow it on all of the cspan networks. And online any time at cspan. Org. A rebroadcast of washington today and live on cspan radio. The bill before us, three things that every republican and democrat should be able to support. First, it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february 8. Second, it extends Health Insurance for nine million Vulnerable Children and third, it will enable congress to resume bipartisan talks on the important issues facing our nation. Host with that, the federal government is beginning to reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day and welcome to washington today. It is monday, january 22. We have a new countdown clock, 17 days until the government funding runs out. Today is a shortterm continuing resolution which expires on february 8 in exchange for ending the stale mate, republicans have promised to take up the daca bill. Steve scalise returned to the capitol after surgery that was art of his recovery from a gunshot suffered at a congressional baseball game practice. The Court Ordered pennsylvania lawmakers to redraw their congressional map ahead of the 2018 Midterm Elections. Vice president pence announced the u. S. Embassy will open in jerusalem before the end of the next year and he said the door is open for palestinians to enter negotiations. We begin with this headline. Transpired is earlier today. Senator schumer i expect the majority leader to abide by this agreement. If he does not, of course, and i expect he will, he will have breached the trust of not only the Democratic Senators, but members of his own party as well. Through these complicated and lengthy negotiations, democrats have always sought to be reasonable, to act in good faith and get Something Real done. The te all of our entreaty president was stoib gnat. Despite bipartisan support for daca, the republican majority dithered. Host the Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Joins us live here is bob cusack. What a weekend. Guest both parties were playing chicken. Now republicans are basically getting what they want and thats different than prior shutdowns weve seen in the Clinton Administration and obaMa Administration, without a doubt theres a lot of frustration with senator shume own capitol hill and among immigration activists. Host what happened between last night, we heard senator schumer on the senate floor, and mid morning today . Guest i think the pressure from centrist democrats, they got more and more nervous. If you think about it, fridays vote was to advance the funding bill. Five Democratic Senators voted for it. Fast forward to today on the procedural motion and there were 333 senators who caucused with the democrats who who caucus with the democrats who backed basically the same bill. The timeline was a little different. The republicans were unified in their message. Very aggressive. In 2013 when they were trying to get rid of obamacare funding they were not. They were on their heels. This situation was different, the republicans felt they had the upper hand. A lot of democrats are saying they blinked. Lets go through some of the Senate Democrats who did not support todays action. Senator sanders of verm, Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts, ka ma la harris of california, kristen jill grand of new york. What do they all have in common . Guest theyre all thinking about running for president. Those candidate whors thinking bout, who are in the senate, they were critical of what senator schumer struck. Another vote i thought was interesting, senator tester who is up for reelection voted against this but without a doubt you were seeing, weve written about the intraparty fights on the right. Theres a lot of intraparty fights on the left. Schumer was stuck between his centrist democrats running in red state this is juror and the 2020 possible president ial candidate. Host your colleague was reporting there was a smile on the face of senator mcconnell heas heard the reaction from Chuck Schumer on the senate floor. Guest yeah, and you dont see Mitch Mcconnell smile much he keeps his cards to his vest he said there will be no shutdown. The shutdown did happen butic he was surprised that schumer played this card because remember you go back to december, right before christmas a similar type of stopgap bill got a lot of support. Less than 70 senator bus enough to advance it. This time shouper schumer said were not going to go for this. That the only there could be another shutdown. This was over a timeline. I think some democrats are saying, well, we lost the battle but were going to win the war because were going to get a dreamer package. Well see. Host and here on the senate floor, Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell. Senator mcconnell i thank the gentleman for his comments and his indication he intends to support the measure before us. I think if weve learned anything, i think if weve learned anything during this process its that a strategy to shut down the government over the issue of illegal immigration is something that the American People didnt understand. And would not have understood in the future. So im glad weve goten past that. We have a chance now to get back to work. And therefore, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the demand for a quorum call be waived. Host earlier the republicans were going after Chuck Schumer the democrats. Gip they were. And the reason they were was to increase their leverage. I think they won the p. R. Battle over the weekend. I saw far more republicans being aggressive and hammering the fact that these democrats didnt oppose a lot of what was in the bill, they just wanted the dreamer package as part of this bill and they just kept ham thearg home without a doubt and i think they were active on television stations. That i think changed the dynamic but still i think a lot on the left wanted schumer to continue to battle that he should have continued to fight until they got a lot more. Guest were talking to rob host were talking to bob usack, and on the phone is jerry connolly, thank you for being with us here on cspan and cspan radio. What happened among Congressional Democrats . Mr. Connolly i disagree with what bob said fundamentally. If you compare what mitch friday night. He said ill shave a week off the c. A. And i will agree that if we havent dealt with some of these issues including the dreamers i will give you floor time to allow that to proceed. Theres a lot of conventional wisdom about democrats blinking first. Come february 8, if the republicans havent allowed us to proceed the entire discussion is going to be on round of our choosing. Im looking forward to reopening the government. We didnt get everything but if youre disappointed, were in the minority in the senate and the house. Host let me get your retooks your colleague, Luis Gutierrez, he said, democrats are still not willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country legally. Mr. Connolly its easier to blame your friends than to actually hold the people who cause the problem. Democrats didnt create this problem. It wasnt a democrat who resigneded the rescinded the executive order. I love luis but i have to disagree with him here. Hes picking on the wrong people here. When we do that, i think we eat our own young and it sets the cause we all share back. Host nancy pelosi was critical of this deal. Number one, do you think Going Forward into february, the next deadline that House Democrats should have more of a say into whatever is struck and number two, Luis Gutierrez said hes willing to trade, hell trade the trump wall far deal on dreamers. Do you agree with that . Mr. Connolly luis is disappointed in democrats for not somehow insisting the government stay shut until something happened. I dont know what that would be given the fact that were in the minority. But hes also now willing to give away trumps wall that was promised to be paid for by the mexicans. I had no say in that. No one asked my opinion of whether im willing to live with a wall. And i thought just a week or two ago that that was a nonstarter. That was a deal breaker. Any inclusion of a wall in any r. Up until this point was anathema to the democratic caucus. That was our position and luis had that position. Guest what about communication . Do you want House Democrats to have more say when the final, final deal is struck, assuming there is one . Mr. Connolly absolutely. I think there has to be a lot manufacture discussion within our ranks about strategy and about the outcome that are realistic, that were seeking. Host congressman connolly, i the its been a busy day and vote this is evening, thanks for joining us here on cspan and cspan radio. Mr. Connolly its my great pleasure to see the democrats win one tonight. Host and one more question, will federal employees including those in your district receive back pais for today . Mr. Connolly our understanding is that the bill coming from the senate will include restoration of any lost salary. I hope thats accurate. Host thanks for being with us. Bob, lets go down memory lane you probably remember this on aturday morning, lets listen. [video clip] im a bill just a bill im stuck on capitol hill a few key congressmen debate will the nation let me be a law i hope and pray that they will but today i am still just a ill host you remember that . Guest i do remember that. Thats probably the extent of my knowledge when i came to washington about politics. I thought it was helpful. Host i played this because thats not the way the process is working today. Guest no, its far more complicated. I have a lot of friends who are not washington insiders who are saying, what is going on to get through this complicated prosofse attaching passed stuff, how does it get passed, and pingponged back between the house and senate. Those were simpler times. Host will it change in the Midterm Election . Guest i dont think so. There are members pushing for reforms for an open process, certainly in the house, whether its democrats or the republicans, the majority usually limits amendments so they can drive home their agenda. I dont think so. I think the only chance for reforms to the process, and it is kind of a crazy process, some things are added at the last second, handwritten on the side. I think if the House Majority in 2019 is very narrow, well, then, maybe some members will demand and theyll band together and say, we need to have more of an open process at least in the house. Host we have a new countdown clock, 17 days, about 2 na weeks what does that mean . Guest theyve got to get another deal in that amount of time. Thats not a lot of time. The house members after this vote will be leaving. Theyre not scheduled to be here this week theyre not going to get much of anything done. Then it comes down to less than two weeks. So theyve got to get a deesm i think its going to be difficult. As you know, steve, congress has been debating Immigration Reform for over a decade. George w. Bush tried to get it. He said ill see you at the bill signing ceremony that didnt happen. The senate five years ago passed a bipartisan bill, didnt move in the house. So even a small issue like the dreamers which is not comprehensive immigration reforl, i think will be very difficult to get any type of deal in 17 days. Host this shutdown looked and felt very different than 2013. No barricades along the world war ii memorial. There was a headline at politico that the Trump White House wanted to make this, quote a kinder and gentler shutdown. What was the reasoning behind this . Gip mick mulvaney, who was in charge of the shutdown, said were not going to weapon size it like though ba Ma Administration did for leverage. The obaMa Administration said they did use it for leverage. This was mostly a weekend shutdown so really the question was, would parks be open, of course today people didnt know whether they should go into work. Now obviously theyll be back to work tomorrow. I think with a different approach that this white house took and probably paid off a bit. Host this is a headline from mother joans saying the Senate Democrats have traded one looming problem from another. In taking the deal democrats have drawn the wrath of fired up activists in the base that feel betrayed. I mention that from mother jones, theres a similar headline at associated press, joining us live is julie tate, the Washington Bureau chief for a. P. Thanks for being here with us. Let me ask you about your story and reaction from democrats on the action by senator schumer today. Immigration advocates and liberals have been at this back and forth with schumer for a couple of months over what to do with daca. You saw at the end of the year 20 17 a lot of frustration over the fact that schumer didnt push democrats to hold the line on that c. R. Then in january, we saw a lot of immigration advocates were heartened by the fact that schumer seemed he was going to take this. But you see them flip back again. Theyre frustrated that this was only a threeday shutdown. They feel like theres no way that Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan will make good on a promise to put something on immigration on the floor. And frankly thats not even what theyve been promised at this point. Its a promise from mcconnell to debate these issues. Host could we find ourselveses in the same situation in another 2 1 2 weeks . Absolutely. I think thats frustrated people so michigan. Weve hurtled from one crisis to another. You could envision a scenario in early to mid february where were having the exact same debate. Democrats are pushing for daca, for immigration to be part of the spending bill or at least for there to be a separate bill that gets passed before they approve more government funding and republicans say no, this is about keeping the government open. I dont think that democrats got much of a guarantee that this will go any different in february. Host let me turn to bob cusack, manager and editor in chief of the hill newspaper. Guest i want to get your take on what the role of the administration, the president made vulgar remarks behind closed doors that het set back talks, when you talk to people on both sides of the aisle were talking democrats are saying yeah, we didnt win this battle, maybe well win down the road. Republicans spiking the football, how do you think trump did in this . Is he a winner of this or a loser of this big battle . I think hes a little bit of both. In talking to democratic aides over the weekend they pointed to that moment when he was in the oval office, made those vulgar remarks, as a turning point for the caucus. A moment where the moderates, some of these folks up for reelection in november said you know what, we cant hang with the president on this one. no audio] but i think the president also stayed quiet for the weekend and that, frankly, helped. Guest thats true. Where does this put the Senate Democratic lead her headline at a. P. Is schumers decaying hurts schumer. Is this his first major test since taking over from harry reid . Yes. This is a party thats been languishing, they could make arguments on health care but ultimately republicans stopped that from Going Forward. This is the first moment where you saw democrats being able to actually exert some rev raj leverage and schumer got a lot of praise from the liberals in the caucus from liberal activists last week for the position he was taking but youre really seing that shift today. Host one final question, ill first pose it to bob and then get your reaction, julie. If the shutdown continued into the week, where would that have put schumer . Guest i think he made the decision it would have hurt his party. Democrats had a good 2017. Trump did not get any big legislative win until the end of the year. He did get a big win on the tax bill. But i think some of these democrats in trump states who are up for reelection were thinking, things are going pretty well for me. This was risk. Once the shutdown happened, it was risky for both sides. I think democrats saw, its riskier for us, lets end it now, at least until we get closer to the deadline, and then maybe another, big, long shutdown. Host julie, your thoughts on that question . I agree with bob. I think theres a difference between a weekend shutdown where you had fairly minimal impact and a weekday shutdown. Thats what we were starting to see today. Federal workers with a lot of uncertainty, a lot of impact being predicted about the actual work theyd be doing and i think schumer and particularly those democrats were on the ballot in november in red states decided it just wasnt worth that fight. Host julie pace, Washington Bureau chief for the associated press. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me. Hip back with bob cusack. We remember where schumer was in 2013. Guest it was something speaker baronner and Mitch Mcconnell didnt want to follow, it led plups, tdown, blamed on ted cruz was a big part of that. He is Still Standing behind that today. Host heres what he said today. Im glad we got a minute to open up again, it was a mistake for Chuck Schumer to shut down the government three days of the schumer shuttown. The reason Chuck Schumer forced a shutdown is his far left base is enraged. Theyre angry. They hate the president. And their demanding a senate demanding Senate Democrats oppose everything,