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The senate floor and vote this bill. reporter: but there are no signs the senate democratic leader is willing to budge. president trump, you will not get your wall. abandon your shutdown strategy. you re not getting the wall today, next week or on january 3rd when democrats take control of the house. reporter: ten hours to go ahead of a partial government shutdown and there are no signs of serious negotiations, dana. dana: i wanted to ask you about this. it comes up over and over again. this idea of a so called nuclear option in the senate to try to get this done. what s the latest on that? reporter: it s something president trump has urged as recently as today. the problem is, at least four senators, republican senators, are posed to changing that threshold from 60 to 51. they are retiring senators lamar alexander, jeff flake, jon kyl and orrin hatch all saying they re opposed to changing that to a simple majority.
PresidentBorder-wallReporterUnited-states-senateBillFloorTrumpDemocratic-leaderDemocratsGovernment-shutdownWhite-houseControlSort of a reasonable bill? right. what the republicans are saying, look, the wall is not really a wall. it is all so political that it s no wonder voters at home look at this and say, what are you doing? what is the point of all of this? i think it comes down to today. can the united states senate reply in kind? can they pass probably what would be a shorter short-term funding bill, one they passed took them into february? what you might see from the senate now is here s one that will take us into the second week of january. let s try that. their hope is that if you re a senator, your hope is you can lob it back in the house one more time and say, okay, what do you say to this? dana: before the congress changes? oh yeah yeah yeah. that s what republicans would like. democrats, though, to get to those 60 votes are probably
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