we will get this fixed. tim fox news sunday, mick mulvaney says while he is optimistic and hopeful congress can reach a deal to end this soon, he believed some democrats wanted the shutdown to distract from the president the comp which men on the anniversary of his exoneration. up i get over that, there s a chance this thing gets done before 9:00 on monday morning and if that doesn t happen it can go several days. other democrats want to see the president give the state of the union during the shutdown. albania said the administration is doing everything it can to minimize the impact of everyday americans that the longer the shutdown goes, the harder it will be to do. gillian: thanks for that, garrett. leland: as curate and he told us, a war room being convened at the white house they are down to what they just called their essential staff and i lost every one of those pictures of the essential staff is the fellow sitting next to me, deputy white house press secretary.
something nobody loved, but everyone could live with. something good for the country. it would have staved off a government shutdown on friday. it could still reopen the government today. so mr. president, i m willing to seal the deal to sit and work right now with the president or anyone he dez signates, let s g it done. meanwhile, the republican leader would have you believe we democrats forced the shutdown. he first forgets that several members of his own party voted against the cr. are they holding the government hostage? doesn t seem that way. the republican leader accuses democrats of holding up pay for our troops. speaker ryan blamed the senate on tv, but yes, senator mccaskill offered a motion to make sure our military gets
miscalculation of huge proportions. but it doesn t need to go on any longer. it can stop today. so let s step back from the brink. let s stop victimizing the american people and get back to work on their behalf. senate majority leader there with the opening remarks from today. let s go back to garrett haake before we get to the white house and e reaction to all of this. did you hear anything different from these comments today than what he said yesterday? to my thinking, it was a lot the same. the rhetoric may have been somewhat different but the concept exactly the same. that was a new verse of the same song tr mitch mcconnell
march. all of these other things are an emergency. one non-emergency issue that our friends on the other side are trying to shoe horn into this discussion doesn t reach that status of emergency until march. this is pure folly. the american people know so. that s why in a recent survey a majority said keeping the government open is a higher priority than shutting down the government over the issue of illegal immigration. that s why headlines all across the america are laying the blame for the shutdown right at the feet of senate democrats and their filfilibuster. the democratic leader could end this today. we can get past this manufactured crisis and get on to a host of serious issues before us that require
doesn t comport with the discussion doesn t surprise me in the least. i think we should be careful of taking lavrov s word. he doesn t have good communication himself. when i heard tillerson describe that in lavrov s words, i wondered is it that the president accepted that putin is not going to move off the dime of saying he absolutely had no responsibility rather than accepting putin s comment as true? i just wonder if there is an interpretation thing there. could trump have accepted the fact that putin is not going to move from this position, because everything tillerson was saying was trying to paint the relationship about moving forward. he didn t want to get caught looking backward. i think what happened is they brought it up, they acknowledged the elephant in the room, and then they said we have a lot of other business to discuss, let s move on. pretty much what secretary tillerson said. to be absolutely fair, we would be having a very different conversation here if, in a