senator manchin: let me thank you for being here. we're open for business again, the couldn't vi open for business, the government is open for business, and my good, dear friend here, susan collins, from maine, we're the two most bipartisan, centrist voting members. with that, we have basically taken over susan's office as our little switzerland. that's where we meet. in a bipartisan way. everyone is talk with each other. trying to help each other. and not at each other. and i want to thank susan for always being here. we started this in 2013 in the first shutdown. we were just so frustrated, her and i were talking, we said can't we just get some like-minded people together? that's how we started pushing our leadership into a bipartisan bill. it was natural for our common sense coalition to do it again. susan comes -- comes to the friend and away we go. i want to introduce you to my good friend, susan collins. senator collins: today is a day to celebrate. we have shown that a determined group of senators working together across the a

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to joe manchin most politicians i'm not saying they're not principled. saying they don't care what they believe in. but they're about survival. especially in an election year. your survival instinct kicks in. you're going to ask people to vote for something they promised they would never vote for when they can still be primaried. good luck, mr. president. >> yeah, but you can also structure these votes in such a way that you can give a pass to some of these people that have those difficult situations. >> do the math. you're running out of numbers. >> the hastert, you can probably observe the hastert rule and still do that but you would need large numbers of democratic votes. >> and also we're talking about this speech and what the president was talking about tonight, immigration, in a vacuum here. don't forget what was going on when he walked into that chamber. the president was meeting with his deputy attorney general and his head of the fbi about the release of a memo regarding the russia investigation. >> chief of staff. >> sorry. right. the chief --

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claire mccaskill, joe manchin. heikcamp was another.hen it comes to the politics of this, john tester in montana. montana, a deep a red a state as there is ever going to be. he is a democrat. he is up for reelection this year. he is sticking with the democrats. he's sticking with the base. and i think the calculation is, look, no matter what i do, no matter how i vote, republicans, conservatives, they're going to put somebody up against me who will make a strong appeal to base voters in montana. i stand absolutely no chance of winning them over even if i voted with republicans on this measure last night. he did not. he voted with the democratic leadership unlike the democrats from red states. john tester and others look at this and say all the energy is on the side of those on the left, the far left of the spectrum in the democratic party. i'm going to stick with them. they are my pwefpt prospects. that's how the politics are playing out on a micro level here. >> thank you, mike, for capturing the base at the democratic senate. and they

host: joe manchin some of the lawmakers, -- joe manchin some of the lawmakers, fundraisers. this is coming on the eve of president trump's first year in office. he postponed a trip or he was going to hold a fundraiser with donors. he says he is going to stay in washington until the continuing resolution, a short-term funding measure passes. in thebeen stalled senate. the house passed the measure last night. let's see what ann has to say. independent. caller: hello. host: go ahead. caller: i want to follow up on what joe said about what can president trump do. am leaningendent, i more and more to the conservative republicans, that president trump has his heart in the right place. he is trying to do the right thing, and the congress is entrenched by people who make their living from being politicians. they don't want their applecart upset. i would include lindsey graham in that. they are trying to maintain their positions without thinking what is the best for american people, people like joe come a who are being undercut by these illegal aliens. i think it is absolutely wrong

and manchin, don't forget, trump has dissed him a little lately.rump wants to get in his good graces to a certain zreeg. this is a senator that walks a fine line. >> he walks a fine line. he's a hero. i love what he's been trying to do, stick up for coal country. but i want to tell you right now, if he wants the democrats to respect him and have a big enough caucus, he needs to respect the democrats. >> what we saw tonight, was is that any different than what we always see in the state of the union? senator santorum, one side always sits down, it seems like it happens all the time. >> and nobody shouted. >> no booing. >> it's hard to see because as i commented several times to van that many times at least as i'm watching here, many times it was that divided thing they only showed the republican side, sow never got a chance to see the democratic side. >> we were trying to support the president. >> i don't know what was going on with who was picking camera angles but many of these divided things i didn't see what the democrats -- it's hard to get a f

i just watched joe manchin say schumer does not mean that.

steve: you look at joe manchin he gets.d of the government shutdown which was ended three days which was dumb that the democrats would do that over daca, the president tweeted out, made it very clear, no wall, no daca. now the democrats are understanding if we're around a negotiating table, it will be you get this, i'm going to get that, if they're going to get caulk can, they will build the wall. ainsley: brian, don't you think centrists agree with that? the wall is good, we'll spend money, keep drugs out of our country, we'll have a close tab who is coming in, who is not coming in, who is in and out? the daca families, no one wants to send them back home or to their original countries, they were babies when they got here. they never lived in these other countries. brian: joe manchin said i don't have many daca situations in west virginia. he is not taking that much of a risk. the main reason why chuck schumer caved he was losing his democrats. they would not go along with him. they only need 10. is chuck schumer saving fa

joe manchin represents a state, west virginia, that donald trump won by 42 points. nancy pelosi represents a district in california that hillary clinton won by 77 points. it is not surprising that you are going to see some differences in those two. >> bill: you think? thank you, sir. nice to see you. stay with the fox news channel. in depth coverage, analysis, state of the union address. bret and martha have the cover up to the speech and a little after that as well. the talk of the week tomorrow night in washington, d.c. economy, immigration, reprieve from the speech we heard last week in davos. >> sandra: a big moment. all right. this is a fox news alert for you on another deadly attack this morning in afghanistan's capital. at least 11 afghan soldiers killed and 16 wounded when a suicide bomber attacked an army unit guarding a military academy. isis claiming responsibility for the assault which is kabul's third deadly attack in less than two weeks. afghan officials say the taliban was behind a bombing on saturday that killed at least 103 people. we'll have much m

you have been extremely professional. >> thank you, senator manchin. no pun intended, but that was a critical question. it's so important to the discussion. we recognize that we have extraordinary opportunities for advances in these technologies, but if we can't safely and reliably and affordably gain access to those base elements that we need to manufacture them, and i appreciate what you have said, miss gross, that this is not just in the automotive, as we look to build out many of our renewable energy sources, whether it is wind turbines and the fact that you need to have the coating on the blades and the coating comes from so many of these minerals. it is an issue that i think has finally registered an appropriate level of attention within the government. we have been pushing it for years. we feel like we have a chorus of voices that are saying, hey, yeah, this is really important. let's not forget it. let's go to senator stabenow. >> thanks very much. thank you, again, to all of you. there are so many different kinds of issues that come into play

. >> you used to work for joe manchin, chris. joe's manchin arguably in one of the toughest positions in this country in elected office. hailing from an extraordinarily red state, but she a democrat. how is joe manchin going to feel the pressure next year? >> well, i think just like any centrist, you know, in the united states senate, or even in the house, they're going to be inclined to work with the administration to have degree but cooperation doesn't mean capitulation. you don't sacrifice ideals and what democrats believe. senator manchin or any other democrat in that position will look at what is the president actually going to propose? when will he propose it? who will take the lead on it? a bipartisan team? in terms of immigration or infrastructure. these are the key questions that set the tone early on, and to be honest, if you look at the last year and then some, it's hard to trust or believe that the way the republicans have operated will change one iota. whether you're joe manchin or not, you're going to take that with

cotton, lankford and grassley and senator tillis of north carolina and a separate meeting with joe manchin, a senator from west virginia and doug jones from alabama. the first time the president has met with senator jones. they are taken to be moderates on the democratic side. people the president believes he can work with. the white house says there has been progress in negotiations over daca. there has been a realization on the part of the democrats that they need to provide more money for construction of the wall and that at the same time the white house is willing to give a little bit on the number of actual daca recipients there might be out there. melissa, the current number that folks are working with is 690,000. the democrats contend there could be as many as two million because a lot of daca -- potential daca recipients haven't come out of the shadows. the white house indicating that two million number may be a little on the high side but willing to go up from the number of 690,000. >> melissa: the truth is nobody really knows and we won't know until we do something about it.

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>> probably manchin is wanting us to think that.my answer. >> i don't think it was just manchin. i think that the white house managed to get the upper hand in the spin war on this. >> that's it. >> they were much more aggressive. say what you want about whether it's a bully pulpit or twitter, the president and his people were more loud, more insistent, more consistent, more ruthless, they also had ads out there from allies that, you know, stretched the bounds of not only credit -- in favor -- i think chuck said for now, it's not worth it. >> you're a bloomberger, breaking news, broomberg wire, trump said he would talk to special counsel mueller under oath. >> under oath is the keyword. we have been trying to get him pinned down on that. he's talking about comey being a liar, comey went and spoke publicly under oath, would trump be willing to do the same thing publicly? >> were you able to advance any of the timing on this? that's just saying if he agreed to do this, we don't know that he will do it under oath, but lying to the fbi i

heitkamp have been stalwart voices for men and women in their states, senator man china china -- senator manchin for the miners in west virginia and others across the country. we come to the floor tonight to urge our republican colleagues to join us in doing something to shore up pension plans for millions of americans, millions of middle-class workers in this country, teamsters and carpenters, they put their money into plans year after year. they knew they wouldn't be rich when they retired but they thought they could live a life of decency. they offered 401(k) salary increases. they said give me a lower raise but put money in that pension. these people earned these pensions. they are the backbone of america. but now after all their hard work and all their savings, several multiyear pension plans are at risk of failure through no fault of the worker. families in my state and across the country could see their retirement savings slashed, teamsters, miners, carpenters, food service workers are at risk of losing security through no fault of their own. they weren't responsible for the stock market

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plus west virginia democrat joe manchin. as one year anniversary of the trump administration approaches we'll have cbs news nation tracker pole that plains why the president has lost support. plus plenty of political analysis on the news of the week. it's all just ahead on "face the nation." good morning, welcome to "face the nation" i'm john dickerson. yesterday was anything but a good morning in the state of hawaii. where an emergency alert went out to residents and tourists warning a missile was headed their way. today there is outrage about the incident that it happened in the first place and that it took so long to send out a second alert saying it was a false alarm. cbs news david begnaud is in honolulu, david, good morning. >> good morning, put yourself in the shoes of people walking around the island. alert comes out on cell phone saying there's a missile inbound to hawaii. people were abandoning their vehicles on the freeway. one family put their children in a manhole. and before officials could get out a second ale

he blew off about some things. >> manchin very supportive of president trump.est justice department official in the cross-hairs is rod rosenstein. that's according to four sources. two of whom tell cnn trump vented about removing rosenstein after the russia probe. his advisers stating that is a bad idea. firing rosenstein is the only way to get rid of the special counsel. >> "new york times" reporting that rosenstein approved an application to extend surve surveillance on carter page. the justice department had reason to think page was acting as a russian agent during the campaign. >> rosenstein's reported appearance in the memo suggests that republicans may focus on him and effort to undermine the russia probe. democrats who read the nunes memo accuse republicans of cherry picking facts to create a misleading version of events. senior white house aide says the president wants to release the memo although the justice department warned doing so would be reckless. >>> 34 minutes past the hour. expect twitter reaction from the president after trolling reached new

senator manchin of was virginia. and senator mccaskill of missouri.owever, republicans did not keep their conference in line. there were republicans who voted no. senator jeff flake. senator lindsey graham. and senator mike lee. he also had senator rand paul, who forecasted his no vote early on. senator mcconnell had to vote no as a procedural move. voteate senator jeff flake -- why did senator flake vote no? he tweeted he was promised, in part, a vote on daca in exchange for his yes vote. he tweeted -- my thoughts on daca, i maintain that the only way to find out what the president supports us to put a bill on the volt -- for an vote on it. they were trying to secure a deal before midnight. they were unable to do so. so we find ourselves in a shutdown. the president up early and tweeting democrats are far more concerned with illegal immigrants than they are with at ourat military southern border. they could've easily made a deal but decided to play shutdown politics instead. we need more republicans in 18 in order to power through this messed, he sai

,f you are senator joe manchin you are thinking about that midterm reelection fight. thinking about what that state of west virginia wants to see. it probably is not what bernie sanders wants to see. we are just around the corner from these midterm elections. in order for the republicans to get enough democrats on board, they got to focus in on centrist democrats. vonnie: it feels like it's been a trade-off. children's health insurance for immigration. threats are going out, you want to cut off relief to the dreamers as well. is it fair to pick one issue against another saying you have to wait on that one but we are fine with going ahead? tim: life is not fair and i think the floor of the congress is a place where you see that in action. -- they the democrats are thinking ahead to the midterms and they want to settle trump with this. i think it is interesting how silent the president has been since friday. he has not taken to twitter. he has not been having his aides throw flame balls. i think he feels chastened. that will not last long but at least momentarily. shery

joe manchin is an interesting vote. he's a democrat from west virginia in a trump-friendly state up for re-election. he's not the only one in that position. that's mitch mcconnell's hope, that he can pull more people like joe manchin over to his side to try to get this bill over the finish line. at this point, john and poppy, joe manchin is the only democrat that has said he'll vote yes. >> ryan nobles, we'll let you run down the speaker of the house behind you. off you go. we're getting new information meanwhile about how the white house feels about all of this. abby phillip is there for us this morning. what are you hearing? >> reporter: good morning. this shutdown threat is scuttling the president's plans to go down to florida. a white house official told cnn's jeff zeleny this hour that the optics, they recognize the optics of this would be absolutely terrible and that he really can't go if the government shuts down. so here we are a few hours away from that very prospect and the white house still thinks they can ge

so the question is do you have more than just donnelly and more than just manchin, does it turn into tester in montana, casey in pennsylvania. that's where you start to look. if you're republicans, you're looking to take down a dozen democrats, the first place you look at are those democrats in trump-won states. >> one of the people you said that may be under pressure in trying to make the case, there he is with his branding, the trump shutdown, quote unquote. democrats call it the schumer shutdown, republicans, rather, take a listen. >> there's no reason for senator schumer and the democrats to short circuit that and shut down the government. >> i hope schumer will realize that now is not the time to play politics. >> there is no reason on god's green earth for the democrats to insist on shutting down vital government services. >> when you listen to that messaging, steve, and this is the last big question, do you think that politically that can take hold around the country, or does it cut against what everyone's been hearing for a year from donald trump, which is that he's the boss,

that's what happened. >> joe manchin, thanks very much for coming in, senator. appreciate it very much. >>> coming up, more on the breaking news. word of a possible white house shake-up. could more aides be leaving? we have new reporting just coming in. >>> and president trump holds a bipartisan immigration meeting telling lawmakers to strike a deal and he'll be the lightning rod for any criticism they get. >> i'll take all the heat you want to give me and i'll take the heat off both the democrats and the republicans. my whole life has been heat. i like heat the in a certain way. hey, you every talk to anybody about your money? yeah, i got some financial guidance a while ago. how'd that go? he kept spelling my name with an 'i' but it's bryan with a 'y.' yeah, since birth. that drives me crazy. yes. it's on all your email. yes. they should know this? yeah. the guy was my brother-in-law. that's ridiculous. well, i happen to know some people. do they listen? what? they're amazing listeners. nice. guidance from professionals who take their time to get to know you. >

. >> democratic senator joe manchin joins us in moments. and prime time speech, president trump is getting ready to deliver his first state of the union address. >> the united states is once again experiencing strong economic growth. >> but which president trump will show up? >> no politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly. >>> hello. i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is stormy. that's a reference to the tenor no town not a reference to the porn star who was paid by the trump lawyer for her silence. president trump will try to alleviate tensions. according to a senior administration official, the president's speech has been in the works for many weeks. if the president sticks to his prepared remarks he is expected to take a victory lap take touting his tax reform plan. he also plans ahead by pitching his new immigration frame work to the nation and to congress. late saturday night the president was up tweeting about the plan which includes a proposal for the d.r.e.a.m.ers covered by daca and atta

reference to joe manchin on just a few minutes ago and house speaker ryan who avoided any blame for the shutdown. also the democratic contenders listed. the losers, chuck schumer, the left, and the dreamers. what do you think? caller: i think that sounded good, that was correct. i would add the president on there. -- heschumer tried to say is been absent all weekend. no, he has not been absent. he told chuck schumer on is the government is closed and you are not paying my troops, i am not talking to you. host: he comes under the category of "mixed" from the hill newspaper. the president getting mixed reviews. let's go to sheila joining us from mckinney, texas. hopefully you have not been waiting for an hour, sheila. caller: no, just 20 minutes. i've lived in texas since 1948 which tells you a little bit about my age. without hispanics, our state could not run. i admire them very much. they came and it illegally and otherwise and we put them to work. without hispanics in our state, we would be in trouble as a state. construction, restaurants, lots of service industries. we could not func

brian: joe manchin. >> that is about it.any of the families in the oval office yesterday. the power really comes through when you meet them. you meet the family, whose children were gunned down by ms-13. you meet these unbelievable heroes that lost their vision fighting for the country. just on the show and some others. you met unbelievable, the story of the young man from north korea, who was run over by the train, went across china on crutches, holding up his crutches of the power of seeing those people, it is just incredible. steve: how would you describe the demeanor of your father? it was more disciplined than before. when he was talking about north korea he didn't talk about little "rocket man." he didn't use a lot of the flourishes that makes donald trump donald trump. it's a little different. >> concept of knew american era is perfect. that is what this is. you mentioned 82 times he mentioned america. that is what the state of the union should be about. it is about the union. it is about our union. it is about our co

encourage them to join i have had good conversations with both leaders senator collins and senator manchin and that is very good to speak as democratic leader, i am encouraging them to come forwar forward. i remember the old senate the individual senators were involved to negotiate important and difficult issues and it made senate a better place and the members were more fulfilled in our ability to get things done much more likely. our task is different than last week the senate rest find consensus and for that reason we need to start from a new place. my negotiation should dictate talks here on the hill. that was then and this is now. that was a hope that last friday the president would have reached out to support something that he wanted that we wanted and he proclaimed to wanted to but it didn't happen. so now the group has to start in a new way with no preconceptions to come together to find a bill to garner 60 votes. that is a job for the senators who came together so well in the last two days to protect dreams t is our moral obligation and the senate is in the spotlight. . . . .ur pr

democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia called the proposal "a good starting point." manchin is part of a bipartisan group dubbed the common sense coalition that helped end the government shutdown and plans to meet again this week. >> we have people with expertise, thom tillis, a lot of good people, james lankford. a lot of people with knowledge are in this group. so i think we can find a pathway forward. i really do. >> sreenivasan: republican senator lindsey graham defended the proposed $25 billion trust fund for border security. >> you don't need $25 billion for a wall. you need wall systems. you need roads, you need redundancy. you need to fix old fencing. we're not going to build a 1,900-mile wall, but $25 billion can be spent wisely. >> sreenivasan: senator graham also weighed in on another hot topic on capitol hill: last week's "new york times" report that president trump tried to fire special counsel robert mueller last june. graham said he doesn't know whether the story is true or not, but would pass legislation that would protect mr. mueller from being fired

i just watched joe manchin. we need 25 billion for the wall. [indiscernible] if you have a river that is uncrossable, you can't build the wall. there are areas that are rough. probably 800 miles of wall. we have a lot of wall under construction. we have a lot of fencing that is under construction, under reconstruction right now. i think it will be very successful. if you don't have a wall, you don't have daca. [indiscernible] >> people are concerned they will be deported if you do not have a deal. president trump: tell them not to worry. they should not be concerned. put 25 billion in a fund. 25 billion for a wall. if you look at the immigration problems, with security, they say it is about $180 billion. that wall is a great return on investment. it is probably the best return on investment ever made. that is the ultimate return on investment. we are saving hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars by building that wall. [indiscernible] >> i want to clarify something with you. you said we would give daca and have a larger

host: -- guest: joe manchin who is a led the charge along with a susan collins, the moderate republican from maine who often rises above the fray and two attentions and above the crowd whenever there is a crisis or standoff. she is crucial to defeating to the health care legislation earlier this year and also was crucial to pack think -- the passing tax reform. she was hosting meetings in her office. there are more than 20 democratic and republican colleagues. she had a bipartisan group that reached as big as two dozen. weekend and yesterday, they met a negotiated and they figured out what it would take to reopen the government. the ones that presented a plan to the democratic leadership and ultimately the republican leadership, and they brokered this deal to get the government reopened. it is a criticism of moderates schumer to change his position because what the democrats agreed to on monday was not all that different. it was very similar to what they rejected on friday in terms of the month-long pass. they did get commitment from mcconnell to bring up legislation, but republicans an

two key swing votes in the senate were joe manchin and susan collins and they held a joint news conference after the cloture vote and here is what they had to say. let me say that i thank all of you for being here and this is a good place to be because we are open for business and the government is open for business. , susan friend here collins, we are the most basically and we have office andsusan's that is where we meet with everybody talking with each other and trying to help each other. alwaysto thank susan for being here. thetarted in 2013 with first shutdown and we were so frustrated and we just want to get some like-minded people together and that is how we started pushing the leadership into a bipartisan bill. it is very natural for this common sense coalition to do it again. andn jumped to the front away we went. i want to introduce you to susan. >> today is a day to celebrate because we have shown that a determined group of senators working together across the aisle can result in positive action. in this case, the reopening of government. when the government shuts down, it repres

joe manchin, we've known each other a long time.'ve seen you be a true advocate for your people as governor and senator in west virginia. i have never heard you say that anything sucks before i read that "new york times" piece. obviously you've had it. what sucks, my brother? senator, tell us why you said that. >> chris, i got to the point -- so many good people up here, both democrats and republicans. they're all my friends. i work with them. when you get us together, it sounds like we make sense. we want things to work. and all of a sudden all the power transfers to two people, the majority leader and minority leader who makes a decision what moves and doesn't move. the majority sets the agenda. i keep thinking my be loved robert c. byrd laying in his grave, he's got to be twisting and turning thinking how did we get to this. we've got to come back to regular order and where other senators have input and our voices are heard. we're able to move the dialogue. that's where you saw the common sense coalition come together with susan

but what i can say is this, as with the case of joe manchin, all of our senators are going to look atoposal whatever it ends up being and hopefully we'll have input into this pros which we've not had really to date. they'll look at it and decide whether or not it's in the best interest of the people of their states. if they think it is, they'll vote for it. if they don't think it is, then they'll vote against it. we have lots of members who don't like the fact that this proposal looks like it will underfund veterans. it does not adequately deal with the opioid epidemic. frankly, running a government two weeks by two weeks on a cr, hurts our military readiness and all the federal agencies that are trying to work for the american people. again, until you see a proposal, it's impossible to see how people will vote. the way things are headed, the way the president is taking this right now is in a very bad direction toward government shutdown. >> you brought up the military. one of the things the president and some republicans say is amnesty or funding for d.r.e.a.m.ers, protections for dr

i've had very good conversations with both leaders, senator manchin, democrat, senator collins, the republican. what they are doing is very, very good forhe body. speaking asemratic leader, i coag theinds of groups to come forward. i remember the old senate. i remember that individual senators were involved in negotiating very important and very difficult issues and it made the senate a better place. it made the members feel more fulfilled and it made our ability to get things done much, much more likely. our task is different from the task last week. the senate must find consensus. for that reason, we need to start from a new place. my negotiations with the president shouldn't dictate talks here on the hill. that was then, this is now. what happened, it was a hope that last friday the president would have reached out and supported something that he wanted to get something that we wanted and he proclaimed to want too. it didn't happen. so now the group has to start from -- in a new way with no preconceptions and come together and find a bill that can garner 60 votes. that's a job for these sen

the interesting point is that that manchin, senators manchin and jones really haven't been on the forefront of the immigration issue. so it's sort of unclear what was accomplished. but what is clear here, don, is the white house wanted to send a message here today now that the government's reopening that they're willing to talk about immigration to get a deal done. >> okay. so dana, i think you and both pamela mentioned that the president, maybe it was better that the president didn't get involved because he might muck it up. who knows. but was the president intentionally muzzled over the weekend? did it ultimately help to get a deal? was this probably the best thing for him not to get involved in this? >> you know, was he intentionally muzzled? my experience and all of our experience over the past year is that when people try to intentionally muzzle the president it doesn't work so well. having said that, my sense is that he kind of understood the moment and that this was an issue where it didn't go well on friday as the clock was ticking towards the shutdown when he had chuck schumer over

senator manchin is up for re-election this year.e is that bad, if he is that miserable, move on and let someone else take your job. that applies to any of my colleagues. >> sandra: what grade would you give congress right now? >> are we doing like a bell curve? >> maria: no, no curve here. >> i would say looking at 2017 i would say a b, which was an improvement over a c plus, you know, in the session before. so, when i ask people in my district how many bills would you guess have been -- this applied to last year president obama's time in office. how many bills would you guess were passed by a republican congress signed by democratic president in the answer i get most often is zero. the answer is well over 300. ask about 2017. how many bills would you guess were signed by congress and signed. almost 100 bills. these are important bills to move our country forward. but what it doesn't sell. >> maria: why do we think it doesn't in the poll numbers for congress are always pretty low. why do we think they are stuck in low favorability r

is manchin is campaign on that? will manchin be in office long enough to find out? >> what we're seeing here is they're actually laying people off. at&t is bound to lay off thousands. and now we just found out that $46 billion in revenue was cut because tourism costing people jobs. liz: those job layoffs probably in the works for a long time. you see no -- do you see zero upside in the tax cuts? >> you know, -- liz: you didn't see anything good in the 2 million people getting bonuses? you see no good there? >> and like i said, if it pays off in the long run, yes. but what we're seeing is that trickle down to people losing jobs. the tourism is directly -- liz: yeah, but it's not because of tax cuts. it's because restructuring the u.s. economy, as it usually goes. here's the thing. companies are also immediately raising pay whereas states are phasing in minimum wage pay increases over years out. a lot of companies are raising pay immediately. that has to have a positive effect right, giano? >> absolutely it does. and what we saw over the years we talk about individual

the point he had to make, i can't tell manchin not to vote for this anymore. i can't tell claire mccaskill in missouri. i can't force them to continue to keep government shutdown when the republicans have a funding measure. this is the split inside the democratic party about how is the path to return from the wilderness more purity, is it more ideological purity. if you recall, this is what republicans went through in 2009, 2010. they couldn't quite figure it out. that's maybe what cost them the presidency in 2012. >> let me ask you about this. he was writing about this issue in particular about the shutdown and immigration. i want to get your take on it. he said, the democrats have two masters to serve the base and the people who keep electing manchin and john tester and claire mccaskill. the republicans can get majority by revving up their base. democrats cannot? >> that continues to be right more now. unfortunately for democrats, they are betting on a future that may or may not materialize in which democrats are more hispanic voters fewer white whitevoters.

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i've had very good conversations with both leaders, senator manchin, democrat, senator collins, the republican. what they are doing is very, very good for the body. speaking as democratic leader, i encourage these kinds of groups to come forward. i remember the old senate. i remember that individual senators were involved in negotiating very important and very difficult issues and it made the senate a better place. it made the members feel more fulfilled and it made our ability to get things done much, much more likely. our task is different from the task last week. the senate must find consensus. for that reason, we need to start from a new place. my negotiations with the president shouldn't dictate talks here on the hill. that was then, this is now. what happened, it was a hope that last friday the president would have reached out and supported something that he wanted to get something that we wanted and he proclaimed to want too. it didn't happen. so now the group has to start from -- in a new way with no preconceptions and come together and find a bill that can garner 60 votes. that's a jo

people like joe manchin and susan collins and others. we're hearing people want to get the government back open. that of course we've got to address dreamers and border security and there's energy in our caucus to do that but we need to get the government back open so we can have that conversation and sit together and work together. this going on to your respective sides is not helpful. >> josh, you were one of the six house democrats who voted for the cr. how do you get your fellow colleagues to follow suit? >> my job and tom's job, we got together this weekend, a huge group of us in a bipartisan manner of the caucus. what you're hearing from everybody, democrats and republicans, we need to get the government back open and we've got to solve this problem and we've got to actually vote on these issues. you're not going to do it if you're just screaming at each other from the corners. so i'm hoping today things start to thaw out and what we're saying to all our colleagues is let's get back to the table. that's what the people want, is to

>> someone like joe manchin is always been a moderate voice in the senate. there has to be give or take and he decided is there something to agree with the president on some things and move forward in the senate to continue regular order. neil: what do you think will happen, a couple weeks from now when all this hits the fan presumably, what happens? >> i think what we learned past weekend nobody wants another government shutdown and it has to be bipartisan solution will come out in ther from front. i think after the meeting last night, bipartisan group of senators got together to talk about daca fix. things look like they will be able to get something done so a couple weeks from now we'll not be looking at another government shutdown. neil: lady, sorry for my confusion. that was on me. you both handled it very, very well. by the way when they were speaking we're getting a bulletin from northrop grumman, indicating it will be the latest company to share the wealth, not directly pegging promises of a thousand dollar check to each eligible employee, they have

floor where time after time standing ovation by the republicans and i think with the exception of joe manchin from west virginia who stood with us and said that the rest of the democrats sat on their hands and i will just use the word it was disappointing. the president did say we should set aside differences and find a common ground. how was that possible at this point? >> certainly it should always be possible when we fund our military. we did see the democrats standing up on that as well and be sequester on the defense funding so there were those moments and i think we just need to build on those moments and it's going to come down to the conversation of those young children that were brought here but althat all of us have compan for and if we could get at it over the finish line and ending chain migration and the visa lottery which i think most americans support perhaps that can be the start. president trump did reach out across the aisle and we did see a few possible agreements. >> as we wrap up, paint a picture of the buffalo area that has seen its share of difficult times economically

heather: an democratic senator joe manchin tells nancy pelosi to get on board with president trump's fire from the left. heather: welcome back, the flu outbreak, take a look at this now shaking the nation as schools in 12 states have keeping their doors closed to prevent further spread of the deadly virus, so what do parents need to know to protect their children and when should they keep their kids home from school, valid question, with me now dr. nicole saphier. >> thanks very if me. i had a friend who died from flu at the beginning of the month in ohio. this is affecting people who are healthy and comes on very, very fast. >> yes, so this is absolutely one of the worst flu seasons on record, however, it's definitely not the worst if you go back to the spanish flu in 1918, significantly worst but does remind us of that and strategy that is can come from the flu, you can't write off the flu being just the flu and as you said comes off really fast, particular strain h3n2, people people mistaken them for a bad cold and they get better and go back to work and all of a sudden they are r