Allstar games, world series games, alltime best, for me as a yankees fan, the most important stat, if we reached the seventh inning of a baseball game i knew it was over because we could always go to mo. He certainly deserved the unanimous votes, something they refused to give to stan williams, Mickey Mantle and jackie robinson. A pitcher who single handedly gave up the greatest pitch in the boston red sox, bill millers single in the ninth inning to drive in a run to tie the game in the 2004 American Championship series. Red sox went on to beat the yankees. I knew it was a mistake going to you. You remember what happened in the first season yankees opened up at fenway. Fenway gives him a huge cheer because he gave up that hit and he stands and smiles and tips his cap. Thats the kind of guy he was. We yield our time back to you from mario rivera, i know theres other news in the world today. Yes. I could have gotten extra sleep. To making a move on the shutdown since it began, the senate will vote to break the deadlock now in day 33. The republican proposal will provide 5. 7 billion for the southern border wall and give trump his money for the wall, plus temporary protections for Daca Recipients and other immigrants. Democrats will offer to fund the government until february 8th and continue negotiations. Neither is expected to achieve the 60 votes necessary to move forward. Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell appeared to back off his pledge earlier this month not to hold quote show votes, votes that have no hopes of passing but failure could push leaders towards a compromise. Party leadership remained locked in their positions tuesday. Senate majority Mitch Mcconnell to fund the wall and democrats to open the government first. President trump said give me the wall or ill shut down the government and then unless you give me the wall i will keep the Government Shutdown. Now, President Trump is saying give me the wall and make radical changes to Legal Immigration or ill shut the government down. Open up government. Open the government, lets talk. We cannot have the president every time he has an objection to say, ill shut down government until you come to my way of thinking. Understand, that is part of the point of this. If we hold them hostage now theyre hostage forever. The president made a bipartisan offer that will accomplish everything democrats said needs to be accomplished right now immediately. All that needs to happen is for our democratic friends agree its time to put the country ahead of politics, take yes for an answer and vote to put the standoff behind us. So President Trump tweeted yesterday quote never seen Mitch Mcconnell and republicans so united on an issue as the border wall. Its a sentiment endorsed by most capitol hill republicans including newly sworn in mitt romney in an interview with u. S. Policy. Com. Is there any discussions within your colleagues in the senate about trying to put together something that would get 67 votes which would be enough to override a president ial veto. Thats your power under article i. You are a ko equal branch. No question. I think its extremely unlikely, would say, were not going to follow the president s lead on this. Now, who knows what happens a long, long time from now and what kind of occurrences there might be. I think republicans will say, look, the president is negotiating in our behalf, we will try and work with the white house, not against the white house. Michael steele, lets talk about where this stands in terms of the democrats. Are they under any pressure to cave here any way . I still dont see it. I dont see where the democrats have pressure on them either within the process itself or with the public at the moment. Within the process itself, nancy pelosi will negotiate but open the government first. You said you would take the responsibility of shutting the government down and proud to do so and you wont blame the democrats for that. Fine, lets open up the government and go to discussion. Publicly, the people are still siding with the democrats in terms of who they look at as the logjam, who is to blame. As this gets into this week, for the second pay period you now have federal employees without paychecks and the narrative is increasing, mika, youre seeing more and more stories coming out of the heartland of this country out of those red states around the country that are showing just how hard this is hitting, the comments of mitt romney, he talked about you never know whatwha whats going to be happening down the road, youre down the road, buddy, this will hit like a you know what storm for republicans. This is what passes in then shutdown, we will hold two votes, not likely to get 60 votes, either of them. One, the republican vote to get President Trump his wall, 5. 7 billion. The democratic vote is to reopen the government temporarily without the wall and negotiate immigration as an issue. Is this a step along the way to get somewhere else or purely symbolic for both sides . One would hope its a step along the way, but if you look at the content of those bills they have not moved one inch. The president asking for 100 of his wall and democrats saying no way. In the house there was a group of moderate democrats showing some signs of pressure in theyre putting together a letter, lets at least let the man have a vote. We know it will fail. What has to happen is we have to decide if the democrats will give a face saving measure to this president because he is not going to cave, nancy pelosi is not going to cave but there is a way and road map for this weve done in past shutdowns, to have a temporary spending bill where theres a gentlemans or gentle ladys agreement to have a negotiation. What does that vehicle look like . Who makes the first move . Right now, i dont see any sign anybody is moving in that direction. Like tom said on this program last week, why dont we listen to the experts. The experts tell us, yeah, we need some reinforced barrier in some places. Can the democrats allow the president to call that a wall and declare victory and give the other aspects the experts say we need, like increased drones and Border Patrols and most importantly infrastructure at ports of entry where we all know the real problem exists. This impact of the shutdown was real. Because there was no agreement to open the government by midnight last night, hundreds of thousands of workers will miss a second paycheck. Tsa workers are among those who will go without pay. In a press release the agency said theres a 7. 5 of unscheduled absences up 4 from a year ago. A Union Representing prison offices in kentucky has put up billboards demanding Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell end the shaun reading violent offenders are getting paid and members of Law Enforcement are not. Members of the coast guard about to miss their second paycheck in a row. Many have been required to work without pay until the end of the year. The commander of the coast guard called this situation unacceptable. Were five plus weeks into the anxiety and stress and your nonpay. You as members of the armed forces should not be expected to shoulder this burden. Ultimately i find it unacceptable coast guard men and women have to rely on food pantries and donations to get through daytoday life as service members. The fbi is receiving calls to reopen the government that shutdown is affecting Law Enforcement operation. Claims the funding freeze is hampering efforts to crack down on terrorism, sex and Drug Trafficking and violent crime. One agent says the shutdown is affecting an investigation into ms 13 gang members. The investigation has gone on for three years and resulted in 23 indictments but the probe has been hampered by an inability to pay for a spanish interpreter. They claim the bureau has not been able to pay for safe places to meet with its informants or pay them for their information. This means not being able to make regular meetings and missing out on information all together leaving a concerning gap in intel relating to national security. Steve rattner, this is getting real across the board. At some point does the overall economy begin to suffer . I think the overall economy is already suffering. The First Quarter gdp number we began on january 1st. Estimates starting to suffer. I have charts im sure we will get to later showing those estimates are coming down. The white house itself said the shutdown would cost. 13 , sounds like a small number but multiplies for each week of the shutdown. No question this is already having an economic effect and not just disappear when the shutdown ends. Eddie, the Republican Party, since 1968, has notoriously known as the party of law and order, gone out of their way to be the party of law and order. The fbi association released a report how disfunctional the bureau is becoming because of the shutdown is quite revealing. I talked to two agents yesterday, one, they cant get buy money for sources on the street. The other was even more troubling. They cannot retain right now, because of the no pay structure, because of the shutdown, linguists who listen to intercepts from overseas, which is quite a critical component. Yet, in the United States senate no matter what theyre talking about it basically comes down to roberts rules of order versus common sense, life on the street. Were in a bizarre world situation. The idea of holding the Republican Party to its past history with regard to law and order or fiscal responsibility, all of that seems to have been thrown out the window. Whats important for us to keep in mind, at the heart of this, this is a manufactured crisis. At the heart of this whole thing are a whole bunch of lies. What does it mean to think about two sides, democrats and republicans, engaging each other in good faith as they try to end the shutdown when at the heart of the whole thing is a lie. We have to keep that in mind. If we lose sight of the fact donald trump has lied about the crisis at the border, hes lying about the effect of the wall. Hes lying about Public Opinion with regards to the desire for the wall, then to keep asking democrats to capitulate to that lie seems to me to give way to something that will undermine the very fabric of the country. Sninting what eddie said about the lie, speaking to one of the fbi agents, he suggested all the talks about the dangers of the wall and drugs coming in, in a more certified fashion, the suggested they send the transcript of the el chapo trial to the president to read. The el chapo trial has been fascinating laying out all the ways drugs get into this country. Getting over the wall is not one of them. A little over a month, december 19th, there was no crisis, was not going to be a wall, a story on the front page of the Washington Post that said President Trump backs away from the wall. That same day, ann coulter and others went crazy and said you will have a joke presidency if we dont get that wall, here we have this crisis, cant hire interpreters and people not showing up for work at the airports and a big tunneling of the wall happened last week and a portion of arizona that is steel, 400 people went under and over the wall. What about the democrats here . We heard again yesterday from congressman clyburn on the show. He said, we cant set the precedent when President Trump wants to get something done and he cant get it done and shuts down the government and takes his ball and goes home and we say, okay, we give you what you want. We cant do that. Where does that leave democrats in negotiation. If you say they have to give a little to make a deal and let him save face. Let me underscore his point here. Yes, hes right. An unpopular president if you look at the poll ratings, there is no telling what the next issue will be that he decides is an emergency. Back to the other point what the vehicle is, again, all we have is history. When you look at history of these shutdowns because weve had a lot of them in recent history, the way out of the morass has always been a temporary agreement. I believe if the democrats were willing to say to the president , well give you some portion of the wall, its really semantics, wink wink kind of agreement, that essentially is reinforcement of the current structure or maybe a little bit of extension of it and allow him that face saving type of agreement, maybe that is the way out of it but i dont see that right now. You cant have that if the two sides arent talking. No one sees an end. You wonder, one thought is to give him the money. Remember, captain ahabs obsession with the great white whale which proved to be his undoing as readers reached the end of Herman Melvilles classic moby kick. In the city lines of the muddy potomac, washington, it is a driven and disturbed president s focus on imaginary invasion of migrants that is proving to be the final undoing of his once iron grip hold of a certain brand of american voter. Even these trumpists have decided shuttings down the government and damaging the economy and making air travel less safe is not Worth Winning a political punchline. Theres too many things wrong with trumps imaginary wall to name. And no one, including republicans ever thought it was a good way to secure the border. No one. Besides, President Trump assured his voters mexico would pay for it and clearly its not, we are. Donald trump owns the shutdown. Now, the question is what if democrats start thinking about ways to own the solution. Democratic congressman colin petersons cry to give trump the money for the wall, it seems wrong headed but might be the beginning of democrats efforts to seek Common Ground if trump starts grounding himself and border arguments in reality. In many ways it would be morally and uncomfortable for democrats to give an inch. It is clear. Why should they . Trump is slowly withering away politically, that is clear. Perhaps the widespread human suffering caused by the shutdown and the danger could make some democrats feel the need to seek Common Ground, go higher when they go lower and do their best to try to get the Government Employees back to work. Trump will be immature and obstinate. That is a given, we expect that. Maybe just maybe democrats should take the high road, and one possibility would be they do that, give the money, get what they can in return for the wall and do what donald trump wont do, which is show humanity for the people who are suffering. It might be worth a try, something to consider at this point in day 33. Still ahead on morning joe, theres yet another contender jumping into the democratic president ial field. Can a midwest mayor break through . Plus, Congress Sends a message to the white house by strongly backing americas commitment to nato. But not everyone was on board. Why some members are still clamoring to abandon the global alliance. 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