some will remain reluctant. >> joining us now again, mike viqueira. of this 1:00 a.m. vote that was proposed by mcconnell was that workers could wake up this morning and get back to work and make sure they're getting paid for this work. that was proposed at 10:00 p.m. last night, it was shut down by schumer and then it was moved to 12:00 noon today. the hope is that they can get this thing passed and that the government will reopen and everybody can get back to work. if we don't necessarily see that happen, there will be a huge impact on government workers. talk to us about that. >> right. as the workweek begins and the sun is about to rise in washington, hundreds of thousands of federal workers and people really across the country who interact or go to national parks or some administrative function of the federal government, wherever they may live, are going to have shuttered doors today. than it really does hit home. all the drama and disruption we've seen over the last 48 hours, let's bottom line this thing. it appears that the democratic unity, th

. >> mike viqueira is back with us now. t's talk about the senate since that's where this cr stalled last night. talk us through the vote. >> well, you know, there have been a lot of moving parts since the sun went down in washington last night. a lot of drama, a lot of talking behind closed doors. and even on the senate floor. but the upshot is as the sun gets ready to come up here in washington, nothing has been resolved and we are now almost seven hours into the first shutdown since 2013. you mentioned what's been happening in the senate last night, a dramatic vote started at about 10:15 p.m. this was really a fe conclusion. what they needed was 60 votes to move forward on the snding bill that would have kept the government open. democrats larmgly were against it. it did not include the children's insurance program that they've been asking for, demanding as part of any spending bill. they did lose four democrats. those in red states up for re-election this coming year in 2018 in the fall, including joe manchin of west vir

. >> mike viqueira, thank you. >>> to jeff bennett, jeff, good sunday morning to you. we got the president really blaming the shutdown entirely on democrats. does that make it harder for senators to come to an agreement, that kind of publicity? >> the president suggesting democrats care more about undocumented immigrants than service members, it's hard to see how language like that entices them to work with the white house. it's as if democrats and republicans are still negotiating what the table should look like, right? as mike pointed out, you have this new line of criticism from the white house suggesting that the senate change its rules to prevent such impasses from happening again in the future. take a look at what raj shaw, the deputy white house press secretary had to say about this early this morning. >> we think the senate rules are candid. they don't make sense when you're dealing with somebody like chuck schumer. if we want progress in this country, we have to get rid of the filibuster in a lot of these instances. >> the white house suggesting that the senat