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saners chairman of the budget committee, ron wyden chairman of the finance committee, cory booker, patty murray, brian schatz the house members attending the meeting of the liberal groups were congresswoman pramila jayapal, congressmen jim mcgovern the chair of the rules committee,

joining me now is democratic senator patty murray. thank you for your time. post" reports democrats are privately beginning to acknowledge they're unlikely to prevail in the face of a gop blockade. is there a plan b and does it mean the government shuts down and defaults? >> this is an unbelievable made-up crisis that the republicans have put on us. we pay our bills, just like every family should. we have a process that we do that, that we have a vote in the senate. we have always worked this out to make sure that our economy doesn't collapse, and we aren't known as the country who doesn't pay their bills, to our businesses or to anyone else. we need to do this job and get it done, and it really is appalling to me republicans decided to take this, our country, our obligations, in some sort of hostage situation. that should not be occurring. we expect them to step up just as i have in the past when they have been in the majority. we intend to take that vote next week and, yes, we realize that they are being very belligerent about it right now. see what happens

i remember at one point senator patty murray who is sitting at the table saw smoke billowing and she ran to the window and said there is smoke coming from the pentagon. we all jumped to our feet and went to the window to watch what little we could see from the window and there began the chaos. >> when the second plane hit the tower, at the senate leadership meeting, do you know what you thought? >> when we had our meeting there was a good deal of casual conversation, what struck me that i wasn't getting the attention of anyone around the room, talking to an empty chamber, to get their attention. everyone was consumed by what was going on. >> looking back can you imagine having that meeting in light of everything that happened that morning? >> the meeting didn't last but a few minutes because right at the time all this was happening, capital policeman broke in and said we are getting out of here. i need everyone to come right now and there was a mad scramble literally running out of the capital building. i saw young staff. i even saw senator bird carrying a couple books and having som

and i remember at one point senator patty murray, who was sitting at the table, looked out and saw smokelowing, and she ran over to the window, and she said, my god, there's smoke coming from the pentagon. and so we all jumped to our feet and went over to the window to watch what little we could see from the window, and there began the chaos. >> host: let me go back to the moment when the second plane hit the second tower. you're in a conference room, you're meeting with your colleagues at this senate leadership meeting. do you remember the faces of your colleagues? do you remember what you thought? >> guest: well, it was interesting, usually when we had our meeting, there was a good deal of casual conversation. but what struck me was that i wasn't getting the attention of anybody in the room. they were all watching the monitor, glued to the monitor, and i was virtually talking to an empty chamber in terms of my capacity to get their attention. everybody was completely consumed already by what was going on. >> host: and looking back, can you imagine having that meeting in light of everyt

saners chairman of the budget committee, ron wyden chairman of the finance committee, cory booker, patty murray, brian schatz the house members attending the meeting of the liberal groups were congresswoman pramila jayapal, congressmen jim mcgovern the chair of the rules committee, congress woman kathrine clark, congresswoman babara lee, and congressman mark pocan. after that meeting pramila jayapal released a written statement that the majority of our 96 member caucus will only vote for the small infrastructure bill after the build act passes. the bill congress woman pramila jayapal is now calling the small infrastructure bill is not the largest infrastructure bill in history, and has already passed the senate with a bike artisan vote. this afternoon senator bernie saners feature to read a statement with ten other democratic senators saying we . the ten democratic senator joining is kirsten gillbrand senator, mazie hirono, senator ed markey, senator alex padilla, senator tina smith, senator jeff merkley, brian schatz,. that written statement of the senators reminded all the democrats in congre

on into the leadership meeting and we had just started and soon after that i remember senator patty murray looked out the window and saw this big black billowing cloud out of the window, and she said my god something's on fire, so we all rushed to the window and we could barely see it, but right over the pentagon there was this big cloud of smoke and a plane had just hit the pentagon. right about that time our security details rushed into the room and physically demanded we leave the building and run as fast as we can because we had heard that another plane was going to hit the capitol at any moment. i can recall literally running out with my fellow leaders and i can remember seeing senator byrd , who was then in his late 70s early 80s, carrying two heavy armfuls of books, running out himself out of the building. we had no idea where we were running, we were just running. we had no place to go. i detail decided to take us to the capitol police headquarters, which is a four-story building about a block away. we took the stairs up to the fourth floor and they pulled down the shades and becau

soon after that, i rim or senator patty murray looked out the window and saw this big, black, billowing cloud out of the window and she said, my god, something is on fire. we rushed to the window. we could barely see it. right over the pentagon, there was a big cloud of smoke in a plane had just hit the panic on. right about that time, our security detail rushed into the room and physically demanded we leave the building and run is fast as we can because we had heard that another point was going to hit the capitol at any moment. i couldn't recall literally running out with my other fellow leaders in aiken can river seeing senator byrd, who is in his late 70's or early 80's carrying two heavy armfuls of books, running himself out of the building. the amazing thing is we had no idea where we were running, we were just running. we had no place to go. because we didn't know where we were going, our detail decided to take us to the capitol police headquarters, which is a four-story building about a block away. we took the stairs up to the fourth floor and they pulled down the shades and beca