. >>> a short time ago senators ben cardin chris van hollen in lisa murkowski held a news conference to talk about efforts to end the government shutdown. their briefing on capitol hill ran about 15 minutes. >>> good afternoon good evening, over the last several days and weeks there have been a group of bipartisan senators that have been in discussion on ways that we can and the shutdown and responsibly take up the border security issue. senator murkowski and i agreed to lead on the floor of the united states senate this afternoon. we had i think it was 18 senators, 19 senators who spoke on the floor evenly divided between democrats and republicans. we expressed a very common theme. that thing was let's get government open, give us some time and then we are committed to working together to come up with a bipartisan proposal for border security in this country , that we have confidence that working together we i want to secure our borders we all want to build different things may be different views as to priorities on burner security but we know that working together we can reach a po

senator murkowski and myself agreed to lead this afternoon. we had i think it was 18 senators, 19 senators who spoke on the floor evenly divided between democrats and republicans who expressed a common theme. the theme was let's get government open, give us some time and then we are committed to working together to come up with a bipartisan proposal for border security in this country. that we have confidence that working together we all want to secure our borders. we. want to do different b things. there may be different views as to priorities object border security, but we know that working together we can reach a positive conclusion. we were able to do that in the appropriation process on homeland security and border security. we believe we can do that again in regards to the president's request. so we recognize that there's going to be a gret deal of disappointment with the votes today. we know the harm happening today. no one hz to et are are mind had of that. and some of those businesses may not be open nx week. we recognize that. we wer

that was republican senator lisa murkowski calling on president trump to help congress reopen the government. the shutdown has now entered its 25th day. president trump is now backing off his threat to pay for the wall by declaring a national emergency. kron 4's washington correspondent mark maredith is in washington with the latest. president trump is rejecting calls by republican senator lindsey graham to declare a national emergency on the southern border..."i'm not looking to call a national emergency. this is so simple, you shouldn't have to. graham says an emergency declaration would end the partial government shutdown.and allow the president to order the pentagon to build a border wall...even if congress disapproves."i think there is a crisis at the border. i think it fits the definition of a national emergency."but the president himself admits that may not work...since the order would likely be challenged in court. meanwhile...the fight over border security...has created the longest government shutdown in u-s history."the government remains shutdown for one reason...the democrats wil

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." >> kelly, i want to get you to react to what lisa murkowski said on the senate floor. you know this place well, and i'm curious if you think that lisa murkowski is speaking more than for just lisa murkowski. >> count me in as one who says that shutting down the government is not governing. nobody is winning in this. maybe question get a short-term reprieve. let's do a short term cr to allow us to process this, but let's not keep the government shut down while do thwe do this. we can figure these things out, everyone is talking about leverage. it is all political leverage. well tell that to the people who are really worried. >> she is used to bowing alone in opposing president trump these days. there is a silent growing morality against the president. >> she was alone in opposing justice kavanaugh, she has been tested politically. she won a write in save yourself return to the nat. that is not an easy thing to do. not with her last name. >> precisely, yes. all of those letters, spell it right. she is echoing what is the most reasonable position that many office holders

senator lis murkowski is just the latest republican to call for an end to the shutdown. she joins cory gardner, susan collins. this afternoon the president told abc's john carl that federal workers are behind him. >> these people have to go without their paychecks. some are being forced to work without pay. some have been furloughed. >> they're all going to get their money and i think they'll be happy. i say it often. many of those people that you're talking about so humans the way you express it. many are on my side. i've had so many people, the beautiful thing is we're social media. the world can write to you. and you look at social media. so many of those people are saying, it is very hard for me. very hard for my family. but mr. president, you're doing the right thing. >> are they all? chuck schumer appeared with federal work orders capitol hill. they tried to put a face to the shutdown. >> federal employees absolutely, completely and without reservation opposed to this government shutdown lockout. >> end the shutdown. if something happens to any of our professionals

the point that lisa murkowski makes is an important one.t be president forever. two can play this game. oh, income inequality is a national emergency. i think we should spend "x" billions of dollars on this. look what president trump did before i got here. you also see senators from the states that are being hit by this shutdown, rural states, large forests, a lot of furloughed forest workers and so forth. oregon, alaska, main. you are starting to see some fracturing on the right when it comes to standing together with the president on this the longer it goes on. that was quite a scene we saw there with these congressmen out there speech i phiing to an empty chamber. they are not in washington doing their job at the same time 800,000 people didn't get a paycheck. i grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck. a lot of these people in washington, who are supposed to be in washington who aren't, aren't living paycheck to paycheck. >> nearly 80% of americans live paycheck to paycheck according to the stats. >> the president is saying h

lisa murkowski, republican of alaska, a moderate.ollins, republican of maine and cory gardner from colorado. the politics in colorado have swung since he was first elected as a freshman in 2014. >> shepard: so those defections, can we expect that at some point there might be more? if you get to 60, you can get something done. >> again, the math is the math. they got to 52. a long shot to get to 60. >> shepard: i'll say. all right. should there be more from the floor, we'll let you know. first, breaking news now on fox news channel. nicholas maduro, the head of venezuela, said to have been a fraud, he says he's closing its embassy and all of its consulates in the united states after the united states backed his political rival. it's a crisis full blown in venezuela now. it's still unfolding and it's certainly has huge global implications as countries pick sides between the two. who both now claim power. steve harrigan reporting. he's covered venezuela extensively for years. who is this thinking on how this will play out, steve? >> in

lou: speaking of stopping, murkowski standing there on the floor blathering.ean they don't have the guts to make sense. her language was like watching marshmallows blow in the wind. ridiculous. >> there's four of five of them of the week. she's one of them. at the end of the day they can't make a difference. they can talk on the floor. the votes are not there to move the bill without the president's permission and the president needs to make it clear. lou: mitch mcconnell made it clear there's not going to be a vote on any of this nonsense. why isn't there some movement on the part of the political office of the this president's white house to get ahold of each one of these senators and make it very clear. either you get on board as a republican and we move forward to deal with a national security crisis -- this isn't a game. this isn't something, you know, some trite nonsense, the platitudes that murkowski and roomny arromney are spewing. >> at the end of the day, everybody knew where the president was and what the president wanted. this has to be very clear.

senators might be like gardner, murkowski. this will not go day after day, week after week. >> and an own goal as they say in soccer from commerce secretary wilbur ross this morning, you know, the comments about how oh it's fine for the government walking that back, what's that going to do you think to resolve this? >> you know, mccarthy was asked about this when he was talking to reporters he very clearly said that he feels the pain of federal workers workers that this is hardship for them and neither party wants to be seen as sort of heartless or unsympathetic to those facing hardships here i will also point out to mccarthy that whether the idea of $5.7 billion in boshder security but that didn't include a new wall, if that's something that would be a nonstarter with republicans. he said absolutely so. so i think that even though the president and republicans may be getting murdered in the polls, i think amongst the base this is playing well i think that's part of the reason why the president has taken such a hard stance on

alaska republican senator lisa murkowski was in the meeting. yesterday she became the third of the four republican senators to defect from the trump position. she is opposed to the trump position. here's what senator murkowski told reporters after that meeting with the president today. >> i wish that there had been more opportunity for question and answer, but, you know, the president was very clear in what he was asking for, which was unity from the republicans. i reiterated that i thought that there was unity when it came to supporting our national security and providing for secure borders, as well as to deal with the humanitarian crisis, but i did suggest that there was some separation in terms of how long the shutdown would continue, that folks are impacted whether they're in the state of alaska or wherever around the country. >> maybe no one in the room translated that for donald trump. lisa murkowski is saying that, sure, there's republican unity on policy, but there is no unity on the shutdown. lisa murkowski does not want the shutdown t

>> ink it think it's rumblings spoke to lisa murkowski and she said she was going to bring this up notet into a policy back and forth, but it's the issue of people are already coming into their offices and people are being affected by this shutdown and this is the wrong way to go, and we need to reopen while we continue to resolve the differences and those calls will start to grow. what will be interesting to see is in the past when there have been differences between republicans and the president on capitol hill when he goes to these senate lunches, oftentimes they will hold back and not say anything to his face. he's the president and he gives his monologue and maybe takes questions and maybe doesn't, you don't hear a lot of direct pushing on the president during these moments and it will be interesting to see whether he actually gets some of that today from people like senator murkowski and others and whether that affects their strategy because right now as abby said there isn't a strategy. the president may be indicating that he'd rather negotiate with democrats than declare this n

not quite as moderate as lisa murkowski but at the end of the day he's trying to find a solution. i thought his press release that came out after the votes was interesting. he said well i voted twice to open the government for the republican plan, the democratic plan. susan collins said the same thing. let's look at cory gardner, republican from colorado. the politics in cory gardner's state have changed a lot since 2014. it's gone further and further to the left. he's up in 2020. and so to vote on both the republican plan and a democratic plan to reopen the government, that's probably good politics for cory gardner. >> did all of those people vote for both bills? >> no. i mean you only had -- let's see here. let me crunch this out here. you definitely had all of those and then the only republican defections you had were cotton and lee. cotton in particular cited issues with immigration saying it doesn't go far enough. he talked about pathways to citizenship, anchor babies. that was some of the rez las vegases that senator lee and senator cotton had with the bill. and that's where

>> murkowski was one of the few senators on capitol hill today. house and senate adjourned this afternoon. they will be out until at least monday, which gives you an indication of where the negotiations are at this point. murkowski is frustrated everyone left so quickly and are not in washington to solve the problem. tomorrow will hit the record as the longest shutdown in u.s. history. >> thank you very much. it all comes at 800,000 federal workers are missing their paycheck. 000 is what the paycheck said today. rusty long is a furloughed federal employee who works for the department of agriculture. you are a single income family. your wife cares for your children, one has cerebral palsy. how are you handling it? >> it's been tough. you have to plan for knowing there's not going to be a check and figure out which bills you can put off and cut back on nonessentials. >> i mean, what have you been doing? have you been trying to pick up other jobs or side jobs, freelance to make ends meet? how has it been going for you? >> i'm fortunate because of wha

murkowski, mr. murphy, mrs. murray, mr. paul, mr. perdue, mr. peters, mr. coordinateman. mr. reed, mr. risch, mr. roberts, mr. romney, mrs. rosen, mrs. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders, mr. sasse, mr. schumer mr. scott, mrs. shaheen, mr. shelby, ms. cinema, mr. smith, ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan mr. chester, mr. mr. mr. toomey, mr. you doll, mr. van hollen, mr. warner, ms. warren, mr. white house, mr. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> mr. young -- >> mr. pence: senate will be in order. a quorum is present under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved and the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak their -- for up to ten minutes each. t >> sen. mcconnell: i ask if we. >> the presiding officer: with s-res. 1. >> informing the president of the united states that a quorum of each house is assembled. >> is there an objection to the measure? >> the senate will. >> the presiding officer: to the measure. >> the resolution be agreed to, and laid upon there the table with no intervening acti

that would be senators murkowski, collins, gardner.ollins and gardner up for re-election, i'm not sure about murkowski, you would probably know that. do you think that the white house would be able to understand their electoral situation and maybe give them a pass on their circumstances? >> understanding and caring are two different things. and i don't -- i think that probably what this president would like more than anything, would be for the senate to pass legislation and then him be able to veto it, then override him so he doesn't have to take the blame with his base i don't think, this president its alone. i don't think he cares what happens to lisa murkowski or anyone else. he's thinking about 2020, he's thinking about his -- he see thinking about him. i know this, on a friday and i did a back of the envelope calculation, on friday we're looking at a minimum of $5 billion that would have been normally put into the economy on a payday for these federal workers. we're looking at low end, billions of dollars. more money than is even

lisa murkowski moments ago speaking out talking to man manu raju saying that the government should ben. i think we can walk and chew gum. this is obviously turning against the president. the white house knows it has a problem. vice president pence late today on capitol hill meeting with house republicans. will herd of texas represents more of the southern border than any other member of congress and says a wall is a bad idea. he said it incredibly directly. he tells cnn he is not convinced by pence's argument. patrick, look. a president can't afford to lose support here. >> no, reopen it? then discuss it later which is what democrats have been saying. this is the problem that he's going to face, whether someone like a jonie ernst of iowa or shelly kaputo and other republicans who are even closer to his base than certainly like a murkowski will start saying let's separate this. let's focus on getting the government open. we need homeland security open, tsa workers need to get their paychecks. everybody who works for the government is putting in work deserves to be paid and then we'll g

lisa murkowski is one to watch. alaska has a lot of government workers who are dependent on transactions with parts of the government like the interior department. businessmen deal with government all the time. the shutdown really has a real effect on her constituents and on businesses in her state and she's always been a little more courageous than some of -- many of her colleagues, i would say. so i mean, we'll see if finally we get some stiffening of the spine by republican senators. i do think -- they will start hearing -- democrats should really put the pressure on. the president of the united states is going on a photo op that he himself says is pointless, which will cost a lot of money to texas. half his cabinet is flying off to davos next week. ordinary government workers who are working in good faith or told to be furloughed are not getting their paychecks and people who deal with the government, depend on the government are having their businesses and their lives in all kinds of ways disrupted. i really th

and i think we'll see lisa murkowski, there's been reporting from politico she is considering confronting the president in the meeting today, 1:00 policy luncheon. we've not seen those luncheons become controversial in recent memory, oftentimes we expect or go into them saying i'd love to be a fly on the wall and turns out that nothing really contentious actually takes place inside the room. but that could potentially be different today and so we're going to be tracking very, very closely just how much this is changing inside the republican conference because what that might do is change mitch mcconnell's perspective. he got badly burned by the president before christmas and had somewhat stepped away from the negotiations and has been going along with the white house saying i'm not going to put these bills on the floor if the president won't sign them but he's also very attuned to his own members and if they start to make a significant shift as a body i think you'll see that reflected in his actions as well. >> and the fact-checking on this is going on every which direction but, julia, yo

here is the reaction of lisa murkowski. >> well, then mr. president, when are you going to help us open the government? >> she is one of three gop senators who are publicly calling for the shutdown to end. >> house republicans will deny iowa congressman steve king committee assignments after he made remarks defending racism. king staying completely silent as he left his office. king has a long history of outrageous comments relating to race and immigration. he criticized the gop move saying mccarthy made, quote, a political decision that ignores the truth. he says his quotes were m mischaracterized. july fo judge for yourself. he said white nationalists, white supremacists, western civilization, how did that language become he offensive? >> a pair of high profile republican condemned king. mitch mcconnell calling his statement unworthy of elected position and adding if he doesn't understand why white supremacy is offensive, he should find another line of work. and mitt romney tells cnn king should step aside. as for the president's reaction,

welcome back ceilidh. >> lisa murkowski and susan collins making waves, what a surprise. i thought with the low bit more of a minority in the senate that might break down a little bit. >> i guess not exactly right in your hearing the media amplify this thing republicans are going to come against the white house when they were the defectors from the towing the line for the gop or pay the president was very encouraged with the meeting today. he walked out feeling more unified than ever. >> what will it take to bring democrats to the table because they have to show up with something. they keep saying no, no, no but at some point something somewhere has to bend their buccal. >> democrats are getting nervous. we are seeing cracks with steny hoyer worried about 50's of an thousand paychecks going out and debbie engle out coming out and saying we need to find a compromise somewhere. you are starting to see some fishers. last night sealed the deal and it might take until friday when the paychecks don't go out but last night the american people saw compassionate commonsense soluti

lisa murkowski/ -r- alaska:"i want to figure out a way so we can reopen quicklymeanwhile 800,000 federalmployees remain without a pay check. rep. nancy pelosi/ -d- house speaker:"he thinks maybe they could just ask their father for money, but they can't," ( robin ) that was kristen holmes reporting. the president is scheduled to leave the white house at 6-15 this morning and land in texas at 10-45. we will be following it for you all morning long. ( robin ) back here at home, the shutdown is affecting local families... as many of them are bracing to miss their first paycheck this friday... kron 4's gayle ong spoke with u-s coast guard families in alameda and how they're dealing with what could become the longest shutdown in u-s history. the government shutdown is now in its 19th day..and for these bay area coast guard spouses, politics is the last thing on their minds.anja cangemi is the president of

lauren fox on capitol hill says lisa murkowski will now join cory gardner and susan collins. we have three republicans who say they will move over. that's significant but you need more. >> you need 13 to advance and you need 20 to make it veto proof, which if the president objected to it, that would be the problem. they're not going to get anywhere close to it. >> collins on the ballot in 2020, murkowski has worried a lot about that. >> she's very, very frustrated about it. these are the three we expected. there might be one or two more. >> there is no, oh, my president, you're cracking. >> then what, i guess? what is the circuit breaker? do we have to get schumer in a room with the president and break it to him somehow? okay. i leave it on you. >>> anger at the trump administration. ast tuesday four course feast wednesday and more. five days. five deals. fifteen dollars. see you before six. >>> fresh frustration from democrats on capitol hill today. cabinet secretaries now cancelling on congress. both secretary steve mnuchin and azar have refused invitations to testify on ca

murkowski: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senior senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i listened to some of the remarks of my colleague from maine. i appreciate so much of what he has said. the reminder to us all to be acting in good faith here. and i'd like to just take a few moments this morning to just say count me in. count me in to be operating in good faith. count me in as one of the many in this body and the many around this country who want to ensure that we have strong borders in this nation. that we have true and meaningful border security, whether it is at our southern border or whether it's at our northern border. whether it's our borders on land or whether it is our borders on sea. count me in as one who is prepared to deal with the difficulties, the true humanitarian issues that we are seeing on the southern border today with an influx of children and families, those who are seek something asylum, those who are frustrated with our systems, count me in as one of

lisa murkowski who you mentioned in the intro, it is interesting to watch her getting angry over theweek or so. more and more of her constituents have been affected. i don't think we cross the red line here. there are a number of republicans in safe republican seats out in western states like montana or wyoming, folks that have similar ratios. high federal work force, folks that needs those money need those jobs. incredibly, we may need to see more pressure and unfortunately, that means more suffering for folks before the political cal discuss changes much further. >> is the pressure being felt by the white house anymore than it had been filled? lindsey graham says the president should come to a short term deal. is that being heard? >> there is certainly pressure inside the white house where officials have been struggling over the last few weeks to come up with a solution. some sort of an exit ramp out of this shutdown that would secure border funding for the president and that wall. the president himself does not necessarily feel the pressure to reopen the government just yet. he ha

this is lisa murkowski, as she's on her way home to alaska. this is what she said. >> i'm a little bit frustrated. thursday, yesterday afternoon at 1:45 we had our last vote. folks pretty much ska dad theed for the airport. i'm here. my trip is a little longer. and so there's not a lot folks to be talking to right now if we want to engage in these discussions about how we in the legislative branch might be able to offer a path forward. >> how can members of congress go home? >> one of the things, the reality is they don't have anything to do unless mitch mcconnell decides to bring up any of these bills and pass out of the house. so in some ways, maybe they will go home. they will get an earful from their constituents. she's calling for some compromise. maybe based on what's coming out of the house. so i think sort of symbolically it looks terrible for a lot of these senators and house members. particularly the ones still taking their salaries. you had some say they don't want to take their salaries and will donate them to charity, but most of

>> reporter: lisa murkowski has become the third republican senator to break with the president and call for an end to the shutdown before addressing border security. she says thousands of furloughed government workers are worried about their next check and adds, there is no reason they should be held hostage to a political dispute. suort ite house as it is not from republican lawmakers. >> i need to stalled and we need the democrats to step up and get the job done. >> reporter: federal democrats one by one, separating. they will vote on bills to reopen two agencies today and two more tomorrow but mcconnell says he will not allow those bills to come to the senate floor unless president trump agrees to sign them. nicole killian, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> president trump is scheduled to fly to texas to visit the border tomorrow. >>> a person of interest is in custody for a hit-and-run that injured a 14-year-old bicyclist. police say the car dragged the teenager four blocks leaving him in critical condition. police are still looking for one hepe. tued on 101 bringing traffic to a standsti

we've seen lisagu murkowski movi your way today. joining senator collins. so you've now got at least three republicans. are there more coming? >> i do believe there are more coming. and, lawrence, that's why this evening in the senate, senate democrats said that the first order of business has to be to pass these two house bills that are the h keys to re-opening the government. let the president decide what to do with thempr when they get to the desk, but mitch mcconnell should not be a-wol in this -- ine this debate. and so we -- we blocked consideration of the legislation that mitch mcconnell will want to take up, sb and said the priority has to be solving this government shutdown and the way to do that isve to vote on those two houses bills then we can ha a conversation about the most effective way tout secure our border. securing our border has never been the issue. you know that.cus the issue is not wasting taxpayer dollars on an ineffective wall that mexico is supposed tofe pay for. >> senator chris van hollen, thank you very much for c joinin us toni

to translate what lisa murkowski is stating there. cr. a continuing resolution to reopen the government at the existing funding levels. you see a crack in the republican facade here now and it depends upon how deep this fissure goes which will dictate the president's next move. >> mike, thank you for that report. setting us up nicely. julia manchester and tessa baronse no, baronsen. where does the white house stand? is that clear? >> it is not. >> if it happens, the definition of the word emergency as opposed to classify this as a national issue. why has this not happened? >> it is not clear. the president has contradicted himself multiple times within the same span of a few minutes the other day, he is not looking to declare a national emergency and then he said he might. what it shows is that, you know, trump is spinning his wheels here a little bit and trying to figure out a way out of this. both sides have really dug in their heels and the president is just desperately trying to find a solution that will allow him to reopen the govern

today in this meeting, for instance, lisa murkowski of alaska said she is going to raise this concerncifically in front of the president and say to him point-blank that she is concerned about the effect the government shutdown is having on both her constituents and americans broadly. over in the house we see republican leadership really cracking down on the rank and file, trying to get them to stay together and not vote for a bill that's going to come up tonight to re-open one of the shuttered agencies. this is part of the democratic tactic to make republicans go on record to keep this shutdown going. so i think trump today, his audience is very much his own party. he's trying to rally them and trying to keep them together and say remain with me with this for now. >> so when he comes in and he says we have tremendous support for this and he's trying to project this sense of a unified republican congress on this, is his visit to actually try to unify the congress poking holes in his own argument as he walks up the stairs there? >> you might say that. it's clear that they need to rally

here are senators tim kaine of virginia, who represents many furloughed government workers, lisa murkowski, who needs funding for the coast guard. and mark warner, also from virginia. madam president, and the last two days i've stood on this floor and asked that the american government reopen. on thursday, i asked unanimous consent to proceed the bipartisan house bill funding security agencies. the majority leader rejected my request. asked unanimous consent to the bipartisan house bill funding security agencies. the junior senator from oklahoma, on behalf of the majority leader objected to my request. today marks the 29th day of the government shutdown. 29days of fiscal pain and mental anxiety and national humiliation. 29 days of families worried about mortgage payments, canceling medical appointments, losing their place at a favorite daycare that they can no longer afford to pay for. 29 days of being required to travel to work without being paid and without receiving money to put gas in your car to get to work. 29 days of being unable to add your newborn child to federal health insurance

both consider lisa murkowski of alaska says she will study it. house speaker nancy pelosi called the bill a nonstarter and plans for the house to vote this week on separate bills to fund the government. both the house and senate are in session on tuesday. the house scandals and at noon eastern and is live on c-span. the senate begins at 1 p.m. eastern live on c-span two. c-span's washington journal, light everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, a discussion about race relations in the united states. with columnist art strong williams and author leonard stein horn. and we talk weather shutdowns affect on those receiving assistance from hud with national low income housing coalition president and ceo diane intel. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. now a discussion of staff turnover and the trump administration both in the white house and the executive branch agencies. and how compares to previous and distractions. this is about 45 minutes. .- previous adm

however, the most important statements may have been from lisa murkowski, the republican senator fromlaska who says she doesn't think that we should shut the government down while passing these appropriations bills. senator caputo from west virginia saying the same thing, john. >> we are two days away from this being the record -- the longest shutdown in american history. and that's the big problem that the senators are beginning to feel that pressure because there's no good reason and no clear exit ramp. the reason the president was saying privately as reported "the new york times" that he didn't think this would change in minds is the speech wasn't designed to. he talked about a crisis of the soul, a crisis of the heart, but this was an american carnage speech designed to demonize undocumented immigrants and rally the base around him. and to a degree unlike anything we've ever seen. and unfortunately what's also intentionally being obscured is the fact that study after study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes per capita than n

we're seeing people like lisa murkowski and lindsey graham trying to find a way out of that.lamar alexander, cory gardner from a blue state of colorado. he's up for election next year. but at a week when we started toee comments from people like lisa murkowski, the reason from alaska with a huge federal presence and lindsey graham with the channel open to president trump talk a little bit about ways out of this. let's have a listen. >> count me in as one of the many in this body and the many around this country who want to ensure that we have strong borders in this nation. let's do a short-term cr to allow us to process this. but let's not keep the government shutdown while we do this. >> the national emergency idea is one way to try to get the wall built. it has its own problems. just pick. >> lindsey graham said to declare an emergency now and a lot of people are looking at that, hard as it is to believe, as probably the most likely way out of this, because it enables the president to save face before his political base. which after all is generating a lot of what we're see

lisa murkowski/ (r) alaska"well, then mr. president, when are you going to help us open the government?"the white house strategy to blame democrats -- pres. trump"the democrats don't want to do anything about it."-- isn't working.a new poll from cnn shows 55 percent of those surveyed blame trump, while only 32 percent hold democrats responsible.the government has now been partially closed for 24 days, and americans are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown, especially at the nation's airports --where the majority of t-s-a employees -- who, according to their union, average less than $40,000 a year-- aren't getting paid.christine vitel/ tsa employee"i'm a single mom. my son just graduated his first two years of college. he's going back. i'm not getting paid. i just bought a house, i'm not going to be able to pay for my mortgage." but some white house officials are brushing off those hardships, including the president's economic adviser, who told furloughed workers to think of it as a vacation kevin hassett/ white house e

so i would give a cautionary tale of warning to the mitt romney's, the lisa murkowski's, the senator collins, don't double-cross trump on something like border security. this is an important issue to the base. >> thank you so much. >> thanks, fred. >>> congressman steve king tells his home district today that he is not a racist. the latest on his controversial comments straight ahead. >> plus, roger stone tells cnn that despite being indicted and arrested, he feels vindicated. his explanation, coming up. in the newsroom. all new lexus es. every curve, every innovation every feeling. a product of mastery. lease the 2019 es 350 for $399/mo. for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. mucinex cold & flu all-in-one. fights... ...sore throat, fever, cough, sinus pressure, chest congestion, headache, nasal congestion, body pain... all in one. did you really need the caps lock? get tough on cold and flu symptoms. mucinex cold and flu all-in-one. since you're heading off to dad... i just got a zerowater. but we've always used brita. it's two stage-filter... doesn't compare to zer

. >> we heard from several senators about the federal shutdown, including alaska republican lisa murkowski. >> kind of unusual to be here on a saturday morning in washington dc, recognizing midst of a partl government shutdown for now 29 days it seems to met this is absolutely appropriate place where we should be we should be here working trying to figure out how we get back to business of governing and i think it's fair to say that there has been a great deal of frustration. i think of the floor of senators assembled in this chamber todayd are part of a group that has shared that frustration on a daily if not hourly basis. i think there have been very good faith efforts to try to advance discussion on by person basis, bicameral basis, trying oto allow for a process that would allow us to consider the work, legitimate request of the president who has clear priorities when it comes to border security and that we need to do and how we might need to do it. it's a very difficult to do it when we are not fully governing, when you have a partial government shutdown, when you have many women who

because senator lisa myrrh skous sky h murkowski has said let's have the discussion, but let's do itly from funding at least parts of the government. let's listen to what she said. >> let's allow for the operations, these governmental functions in these six other departments, allow for them to continue. and, we here in congress working with the president and his team, we can focus on his very legitimate concerns about border security. >> could you sign on to that funding the six or seven other departments through appropriations and then have the border security discussion separately? >> no. i'd like to resolve it now. i'm on the appropriations committ committee as well. one of the bills we tried to get done was the bill that i chaired, the financial services general government bill. all of these are important to me. president actually said back in june and july of last year that we are not going to do appropriations this bill without doing additional border security. it's not like he dropped this on everybody at the last second. he said it for months and months and months. we should

as et we just saw with lisa murkowski, impossible. there's starting to be a break here. the challenge for the white house is that they are facing a democratic party that is rather united and emboldened in their position to oppose this wall on both moral grounds and in saying it's just not necessary in their view for border security. so trump and the white house are trying to keep their party together. >> phil, we're going to be talking to you about a couple other issues coming up. thank you so much to the other two. >>> prime witness, more on michael cohen's decision to testify publicly before congress. what's he going to say? what could it mean for the mueller investigation and mean for the president? the top democrat join iing us, next. stay with us. oin iing us, next stay with us the question isn't whether he should be impeached any more. he's the most corrupt president in american history. and we all know it. the question now is, how fast can we move past this president so we can build a more just and prosperous future? please, join the more than 6.5 million american

reporter: senator lisa murkowski there. senator lindsey graham tweeting out, declare the emergency. to see this over. both sides dug in. back to you. connell: dug in. thank you, edward lawrence on capitol hill. melissa. melissa: president trump wrapping up roundtable on border security and safety just moments ago. my next guest was at the meeting with the president. here is lessry -- leslie rutledge, arkansas attorney general. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. good afternoon. melissa: what was the biggest news came out of the meeting? >> that the president spoke with law enforcement and leaders across the country this, crisis is real, not manufactured. we must talk about victims of violent crimes. we must talk about the drug influx not just on border states and border communities all across america we're being impacted by lack of security on our southern border. it is time for members of congress to get back to work and to vote to put in this wall. to put in the security for all americans. melissa: let me put to you some of the argumentings that those on the other side of deba

we've seen lisagu murkowski movi your way today. joining senator collins. so you've now got at least three republicans. are there more coming? >> i do believe there are more coming. and, lawrence, that's why this evening in the senate, senate democrats said that the first order of business has to be to pass these two house bills that are the h keys to re-opening the government. let the president decide what to do with thempr when they get to the desk, but mitch mcconnell should not be a-wol in this -- ine this debate. and so we -- we blocked consideration of the legislation that mitch mcconnell will want to take up, sb and said the priority has to be solving this government shutdown and the way to do that isve to vote on those two houses bills then we can ha a conversation about the most effective way tout secure our border. securing our border has never been the issue. you know that.cus the issue is not wasting taxpayer dollars on an ineffective wall that mexico is supposed tofe pay for. >> senator chris van hollen, thank you very much for c joinin us toni

scale of the crisis apparently ghana's less attention than the murder of one journalist as artie's murkowski if expects. the killing of jamal has shot jeep sparked a media firestorm televised crusade by journalists pundits columnists week after month or less democracy. in the disappearance of washington post contributor if you want into a building a never came out of the building the murder happened because shogi had died media here is building any us response such as journalists of all to show and murder that the saudi so it was almost overnight the saudi government was made up pariah outcast directly accused of killing of the coulee one man the saudi government denies it's complicit saying it was done by elements suddenly suddenly everyone remembers the war in yemen congress are beginning to catch on to the nature of this regime likely they are not telling us the truth about what happened. why would we believe them the bay are intentionally hitting civilians inside you know this really needs to alter our relationship we need to bring an end to the conflict in yemen make no mistake what's h

lisa murkowski (r-ak) 17:06:28) "the folks back home say enough already. we want to know what re youdo to get the govt back open" (standup: nikole killion cbs news the white house) "house speaker nancy pelosi now says she's willing to meet face-to- face with president trump...to try to break the impasse." thursday's the president's commerce secretary faced criticism for questioning why furloughed workers need food banks on cnbc: (sot: wilbur ross/commerce secretary/courtesy: cnbc) "i know they are and i really don't understand why." 800-thousand federal workers are set to miss a second paycheck friday... on day 35 of the partial government shutdown. nikole killion, cbs news, ot tsessioof congress t use ante pass a resolution setting the date and time.) tonight the city of san jose has approved a pair of proposals to help government workers who latest developments starting at 4:30. new at 11: levis plaza in san francisco is reportedly up for sale. the office and retail complex houses the headquaters of jeans pioneer levi strauss. according to the business times -- the 800-thousand squ

lisa murkowski/-r- alaska: let's set them aside, let's allow for the operations, these governmental functionsn these six other departments, allow for them to continue.the white house reiterated wednesday that would ánot be an acceptable route.so...the stalemate continues...as this government shutdown now threatens to be the longest in united states history.in washington i'm omar jimenez. another storm rolls through the bay area... and now there's concern that storms on the horizon could pose problems for the already water- logged ground. we'll show you where the damage was done. (vicki) plus... a sigh of relief for people in california-- after a last minute deal to extend real i-d compliance. but another deadline is approaching. details on what this means for travelers. (grant) plus... a manhunt is underway for a gunman... after a high school football player is killed. and tonight we are hearing from the boy's coach. we'll have that story after the break. the question isn't whether he should be impeached any more. he's the most corrupt president in american history. and we all know it. the qu