. >> the day before the vote 30 republicans are uncommitted. reagan calls them down to the white house, sitting around the cabinet table, he said i am here to listen to you. he called the guy on his right who said i am with you but my constituents, reagan sat there and didn't say a word which seemed like 5 minutes and then he looked at everybody and said i was confused. i thought this was about country. i didn't know it was about constituents and he got up and left. that was the end of the meeting. we won by one vote. heather: before reagan forced the issue and demanded that they vote what seemed like 30 no votes turned into 30 yes votes, the message being if you put people on the spot sometimes they can vote differently than you think, donald trump seems to have gotten that message. charles payne, charlie gasparino, look who is here. i am not running for new jersey governor. ben stein is lamenting that. charles payne first on the message that you can put off and put off but you got to vote and better to get it out there even if you lose it the

. >> the day before the vote 30 republicans are uncommitted. reagan calls them down to the white house, sitting around the

republican,mmitted or i was uncommitted.hey said they were going to support israel, defund planned wall.hood, and build the those three things we need. aside from a shutdown, what does the president need to do, the republican leadership in congress need to do, what do they need to do to achieve those goals? caller: the president needs to stand firm. congress needs a wake-up call. there is no more flip lopping to get the next pro-life vote, were next budgetary vote. we have to get out of debt. we are not going to have a country. we will be like greece if we don't get out of debt. host: the president's tweets prompted responses from many members on the house and senate. on the floor, chuck schumer talked about the president's tweet and what he thinks would happen if a shutdown did happen. here is chuck schumer from yesterday. [video clip] >> we saw democrats and republicans working together in the best editions of the senate. the president disparages it in a way that is destructive, saying "that's have a shutdown." president h

it was a tough vote. 30 republicans are uncommitted.agan calls them down to the white house where we're all sitting around the cabinet table. by the time we got around the table back to my, almost everybody was with reagan. it was just their constituents. so reagan sat there and he didn't say a word, what seemed like five minutes. then he looked at everybody, he said, you know, i was confused. i thought this was about country. i didn't know it was about constituency. he got up and l. he got up and left. that was the end of the meeting. neil: how did the vote go? >> we call the roll, won by one vote. neil: interesting, maybe there is a lesson here, if the leadership is waiting to get the votes, that maybe if they hold the vote they will have the votes? that's what happened. they had the votes you but it didn't look that way going into it. freedom cob cause member louie gohmert of texas joins us. what do you think of that, do the vote, yea or nay, see how it goes? >> i was thinking we should have done a vote last week. think about it, the

. >> okay, the day before the vote, 30 republicans are uncommitted. reagan calls them down to the white house, we're sitting around, and i he said i'm going too listen to you. he said i'm with you, but my constituents, and by the time we got around the table back to me, almost everybody was with reagan. it was just their constituents. so reagan sat there and he didn't say a word. it seemed like five minutes. and then he looked at everybody, and he said you know, i was confused. i thought this was about country. i didn't know it was about c constituen constituency. he got up and left. that was the end of the meeting. >> neil: how did the vote go? >> we called the roll and we won by one vote. >> neil: interesting. maybe there is a lesson, the leadership is waiting to get the votes, maybe if they hold the votes, they'll have the votes. >> look, had william barrett travis not drawn the line into alamo, there never would have been a battle. you've got to bring things to a vote. and we have a rightte. >> neil: what's worst, senator, going down to a vote tha

republican party that is deeply philosophically divided and you have a president who is philosophically uncommittedompletely. so in the absence of a value-driven presidency, what you have is this situation we're in right now, the status quo. >> charlie's point is a really important one. when you think about health care, just take health care. why did president obama get obama care of? because he believed in it and fought for it and rahm emanuel and others are saying you're nuts to be doing that. because trump doesn't really have a philosophical underpinning to any of these policies no one really knows what he'll sacrifice. >> creating one more aspect, "the wall street journal" reporting today mr. trump had one or more recording devices that he used to tape phone calls from his office, the three people said. this refers to when he was in business. all former high level employees who worked for mr. trump over three decades. they saw devices in use recording phone calls. michael steele, this a reference to the fact that the president said there might it be recordings of his conversations with comey. h

i can tell you uncommitted. and this is the same answer every time i am asked this on any issue.i can tell you i'm committed to that issue. i served on the national resource committee. i'm very focused on environmental issues and i have been involved in a number of them here and on the other side of the district, including funding the delaware valley studies about pipelines. funding the national estuaries program and increasing that. i and committed to those issues, but the budget includes every bit of spending in the federal government. and what i will do is look at the budget in its entirety and look at where the takes and the thing to disagree with, and i will have to make a judgment about whether i can support them. i can -- >> [indiscernible] our water. our drinking water. rep. macarthur: that's important that onet i can't say issue will cost me to vote no on the funding of the entire federal government. i won't say that on anyone issue. -- any one issue. the budget is not the one time a vote on that. i vote on issues affecting clean water, our environment. all the time thos