bipartisan group came up with, he s gone back on his word on that front. that s why we are where we are tonight. some democrats have crossed over. before that, give me your assessment to this, and then i ll ask you the question. brian is i think overstating the support for whatever daca deal he s referring to, there s not legislative language that anyone has 60 votes on the floor. i agree there s bipartisan support for getting the deal done for the dreamers. we don t have legislative language that we know for sure would win? we know there s plenty of support for chip, and plenty of support for keeping the government open. which is why it s mind-boggling democrats are voting for those things tonight. all you need to know, joe manchin in west virginia, donnelly in indiana, mccaskill in missouri, jones in alabama. they re in red states. all of these people live in red states, most of them are on the ballot. that s all you need to know about the politics of this, the democrats are
they said that he will not be speaking tonight. maybe there will be a paper statement. maybe a tweet. we don t know. but i m sure the american people would like to know from their leader what s going on. how does he stand on this? let s bring in hey, don. is that scott? go ahead, scott. i just wanted to respond to brian real quick on the president. brian said they won t accept a three-week deal. they don t want this deal that s currently on the floor that passed the house by a big margin. the only thing they will accept according to brian is to stick a daca fix in there, whatever that looks like. i m not aware of the legislative language it would be. let s just pretend there is a document floating around. so that s the only thing they will accept. otherwise, it is permanent shutdown. it is indefinite shutdown. what is there to negotiate? what would you have the president do if the only thing the democrats will accept is this one thing and nothing else? there is no negotiation.
we appreciate that. if you get something, let us know. we ll put you right back on the air. i want to get back to rebecca berg, david rohde and brian fallon. my question, david is honestly, i get it. this is politics. this is washington. it s fine. play the blame game. but at this moment when americans are like, what is going to happen? this government is going to shut down. most people are like they don t really know it s the weekend and what effect it s going to have. so they re concerned. don t they want to hear from the president, and don t they want some re-insuranassurance that eg is going to be okay instead of the blame game? why? i think the messaging will grate on people. is it going to be the trump shutdown, that hashtag, or the schumer shutdown. this is an opportunity for the president to show some leadership, but this is no surprise that he s not getting into the nitty-gritty of a deal. he s never done that. the tax cut, the repeal of obamacare, the white house was
were widely blamed for that shutdown. of course you remember ted cruz and some others held up the government spending measure over concerns over obamacare even though they were blamed for that shutdown, of course, they won the senate in 2014. so you have to think that some democrats tonight are thinking about the way that played out and what it might mean for them. is this a risk politically that could pay off for them or at least not be damaging for them in an election year. it s very interesting. i want to bring in brian fallon now. brian, should the dems take this proposed three-week deal? i have to say this came over as an urgent at 9:16 p.m., and people knew that before they started voting. so i mean are they going to change their minds now? this whole thing with lindsey graham and then lindsey graham saying he couldn t sell it, what have you, this came over at 9:16. anderson was still on the hour. does this matter at this point? no. i don t see why the democrats would go for
idea that when one side over the last however many years has been playing by the marquis of queensbury rules, the other side has been playing by ultimate fighting rules, that s the democrats and republicans, you re not going to be able to sit down at a table and hash out the fine deal points until both sides have a little bit of fear of the other side. even though democrats are risking some things for november by going this way, what they probably have decided here to do is say look, let s let manchin, donley, vote for cloture, and everyone else is saying, let s hold out. i want to bring in brian fallin and scott jennings, welcome to the program, here we are brian and scott, in the middle of all of this, what s your reaction. brian first. this vote that s happening right now is a show boat, it s a sham, don. they could have had it last