From the New York Times on Michael Barbara. This is today from Shit hole to shut down the story of the past week from the perspective the only democratic in the room when the president's now infamous remarks started it all and if there is a shot down whose will it be it five January? Ninety, So is the effort to pass immigration reform dead in the water present from tweeting laid this afternoon, Senator Dickie Durban should dickie, derby, Senator Dickie Durban under Dickie Durban, totally misrepresented what was said. The doktor meeting deals can't get made when there is no trust, Durban, blue dot back and is hurting me.

Tearing When was the last time anyone called you did when I was about for years that, when I just haven't heard before I remember and my mother hated it and told all of our relative stop calling him dickie I wish my mom we're here. She could call the Brazil Beyond on Thursday morning. My colleague calls I spoke to Senator dip Durban about how much has changed since his meetings with the president last week, when the two We were discussing the terms of about partisan immigration deal the first me was on Tuesday in the cabinet rooms. Six version. The president asked me to sit next to him. That was the fourth time. I ever had a conversation with the president during the course of the many cap reform, Dignan, I agree and I'm thinking goodness I've really commenter high cotton. Here,

He said several times send me a bill now sign it. We ve gotta, do this just now. Business delay? It? And so I came back this group, we ve been negotiating by partisan seller group. We ve been working together for months Are we going to close the steel, the president's ready to go and we did in a matter of twenty four hours, and I call the president back because he asked me to on Thursday morning at ten o clock and said. Mr President, we have a bipartisan agreement in the Senate. It hits all four points you raised. Some underlines gram of South Carolina coming over to explain the two great he said I want a slow walk this. Let's get this done, so- when's in I two hours later two hours after this phone call were scheduled to be in the oval office with President, the big shock was when we looked in, so we the only ones invited in a matter of two hours. Someone had five other members of Congress to senators and three house members most of

I have a pretty virulent opposition to any immigration reform, so the deck was stacked against. This is present, walked in the room and so had ended. The discussion go. Did it start out immediately contentious and we did you sit down just saint? Will I can't take this deal? It started off of Lens Graham sitting right next to the present describing what we agree to and he barely head censure two out of his mouth than the president's started, commenting who is who is affected by that? What is this going to do? It was a very tough conversation, starting immediately the present who was so open two hours before was not open when we talked to him in that and the oval office. Now you didn't push back can the president in the meeting, but Linsey Gram did from from Europe not a glaring, did because it was a moment. I thought

to myself, Durban what're, you gonna. Do you just can't sit here silent right? So this is an event. As the president and lenses stepped in and blessing, he gave the most articulate extemporaneous defence of american immigration. Then I can ever ass for any was very explicit. He used the vulgar term which the president used repeated it to him in describing his own family circumstance. I've compliment publicly and privately over and over again it was a great statement. I spoke up on a number of issues. I said if you separate the Haitians from the El Salvadorans in the who were here under temporary protection status, it's pretty obvious. What you're doing it's obvious racial decision

you were the only democratic the room. I think. As far as I know right, do you think that there is any possibility that he kind of just forgot that I just didn't hold back? I don't know the answer that I looked round the room. Yes, I was only when there from a democratic point, so you know we both in politics a long time. People talk differently, in closed doors, and you ve been in these discussions, but this was beyond what you would normally. It was beyond after lunch and I left the room and get in the car together Combat Capitol Hill. It was silence in the car. We just witnessed something that neither one of us ever expected. I came back here people centers centres I down down and talk to immediately or for five of them to describe exactly what happened as we try to decide what to do next, they said you look shaken. I said I was

so this is a tricky question cause. I don't exactly know how this all came down in. My understanding is that you did not leak. This I'd rather not, and I instructed my staff not too so, would you have preferred in some ways this hadn't come out because of their chaos, its caused in the dock and negotiations? I think now that the american people have a clear understanding of the president's motivation on immigration. It makes it easier to confront, some of the things is suggesting if you're marathon campaign. This was all about security and terrorism in all these people get men here and dangerous, stop these Muslims and so forth. Then it can move to know we're really protecting american jobs while it Thursday meeting the White House brought up another part of this debate which had met surface before, and I think it is a major part of the present Calculus, and so in the area of this ultimately have clearly a little bit more of an honest discussion. I think,

organize discussion. I also think that when we look at present immigration policy, most of which I can see gotta be excessive and unfair. That will put in the context that this may not be about secure. Your jobs at all, it's something else! So do you think there might have to be a shutdown for awhile to force the issue? If think we can avoid it. I think what's gonna happen here is you're going to have a bit of a push back of matter. Rebellion from members of both about the fact that fact on our fourth continuing resolution, further your listening, The continuing resolution is an excuse. We can agree on a budget, so we're just gonna push. The candle road, as they say for another few days. That's awful Mitch Mcconnell, having us the cr and saying to the Democrats, take it or leave it It is no way to run a government of the greatest country in the world if there's a short term Sierra. Without back a deal you vote for it, no so you're off come off well,

He's going to be extremely interesting, forty eight hours or so here. Thank you center. They Sabena, thank you, I'll be right back America's biopharmaceutical com These have one very important thing in common, a common enemy they're, making great progress Has there collaborating ways they ve never done before? In a matter of weeks, they progressed from potential treatments for cover. Nineteen,

Nobody is an anti virals that have shown positive results to several promising vaccine candidates. Get the latest updates at Ph Rna Dot, Org sash corona virus, because science is how we get back to normal jarvan. What are the conditions under which government shutdowns Hap? Let's look at the last time the government down. That was in twenty thirteen Jonathan Weissmann covered that shut down for the times. Remember, legislation will not fix everything that ales our healthcare system, but it moves us decisively and the right of Barack Obama. This is what change looks like the present United States. Why? I think that we need to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms that will bring down across the carpenter. You have Republicans in control of the House of Representatives Devil

Rats, don't had control of the Senate. The leader of Senate Democrats, Harry Red, has already made it clear. There will be no defections on his bill. The differential Mama cure his dear dear it's a waste of time. As I said before, and if I will call in this mix at this moment, are tea party Republicans you have just been elected and they are particularly rancorous right. The tea party republicans were swept into power in control of the house in two thousand and eleven what's happened here because all across the country we have Republicans and Tea Party Canada, making huge gains. Over Democrats, the new tea party rising started ten crews from Texas Tea Party uprising of sorts nationwide, throw the bombs out near an angry bunch. They want to show that they still have control of the house. They could still push Barack Obama time is running

to pass a spending bill and avoid a partial government shut down on Tuesday. But today that's one TED crews. The sender from Texas decided no government spending can be approved by Congress unless it strips all money from the affordable correct. I intend to speak in support of the funding of bomb care. Until I am no longer able to stand crews win over to the house and he actually went behind the backs of the republican leadership he met with House Republicans, mothers, tea party, guys and he rallied them, and he said, let's just not support any kind of spending bill, that funds Obamacare that doesn't kill the care the evidence overwhelming. This law is a rain rank. He inserts language into the House budget Bill the bill to keep the government funded

hoping that it would pass the houses and somehow I don't know how to get through the Senate The mainstream wing of the GEO pay is firing back led by the Senate's top Republican Mitch Mcconnell, who opened fire on the TED Crews Wing of the party in the Wall Street Journal Mitch. Mcconnell, who said cruises, shot down strategy, a tactical era. It was not a small play. It had no choice. Of success. So crews is drawing a hard line among some republicans align. That seems impossible that the other side can accommodate exactly it was going to say, from the very beginning, not only what is no way that President Obama was to sign into law some kind of spending bill that got rid of Obama CARE, but it was never going to pass the centre

because remember the Senate needs sixty votes and the Democrats were never going to go along. We're not gonna, be extorted countries like extorted, we're not negotiate with a gun to warheads are going to allow the Republicans to say give us what we want for the economy is going to close think about them, so they just put in their back pocket and they pass their own spending bill. Mcgovern's going to shut down in three days can hours five minutes and nine seconds. The Senate has acted, got it. So the house led by crews, who, oddly enough in the Senate, passes a bill that says we're gonna, try to kill the affordable, correct and linked to the budget. The Senate says that's, never happen, so it has its own. More traditional bill had just keeps the government funded, but of course, as we know from you, those two things have to be reconciled and there can't be reconciled. So then, what

it is now exactly midnight here on the EAST coast and for that this time in seventeen years. The american federal government is as of right. In the process of shutting down the actual government shut down, while you were sleeping car was Miss the midnight deadline to pass a crucial spending bill, law makers went back and forth and back and forth in the end got nowhere. The government shuts down for seventeen two, he more than five million disabled veterans won't if their checks, the national Institutes of help, began turning away dozens of children, many suffering from cancer from drug tribes, hundreds of thousands of federal workers haven't been paid since not lack could at the Smithsonian S room is Airport American India. Since the set Dale, I went from low wage and in no way I'm a hard working mother and I just wanna let Washington. No, that is not fair, because we have. I have worked so hard to pay my

every year mainly government sat Down- and I wasn't metaphor always anathema weren't. Real people are far by government shutdowns. This Republicans shut down did not have to happen. I want every American understand why it did happen. You know when the government shuts down it really signals to Americans that their hatred of Washington is found, T that Washington doesn't functional right. This really shows that Washington is just not working might be more specific one faction of one party, one house

Congress in one branch of government shut down major parts of the gum all because they didn't like one law. The Democrats really played this and, of course they have Obama in the White House, Obama has just been reelected, he's pretty popular he's a lot more popular than house Republicans, and so he is able to use the bully pulpit to frame this as a responsibility on the part. Of the Republicans wireless away, their market fight over here trying to try to bring government down to size, try to do our best to stop Obama gear, and ultimately, that's all. I ever gonna hold onto their position that railways are ready to act or document. Captain John Vainer speaker of the house, and goes to the Republicans and says you have to just open the government. We brought you good bye. We did everything we could do to get them to the table and to negotiate Vegas Gap train no no down, so we ve got to get fired,

the reason for our members about only when will the government reopen what effect this will happen tomorrow and, ultimately, after weeks spent facing off consonant partisan denies that often seem to ride across they do little adversaries set aside their differences through reach this important agreement. They get nothing out of this I feel ass though they have not one single concession and the government simply reopens the federal government. Shut down is finally, finally, over after sixteen days, eight hundred thousand federal workers sent home Museum, zoos and national parks closed and an estimated twenty four billion dollars the american economy, and how does that ultimately affect this faction of Republicans? These tea party, Republicans that started this on twitter to, I think you have to look, the political ramifications to understand where we are right now, because at that time the Republicans took a huge hit in the polling american

like we're, not happy in their especially angry at Republicans, and it looked like Democrats, we're gonna have a real resurgence. The polling showed that Republicans were being blamed and that their prove a writings were in the absolute toilet. The majority of Americans do blame the Republican Party for the government shut down. President a fair is much better, but you know what that was. Twenty thirteen campaign is over by twenty fourteen people have argued saw tonight, have made. Choice. They had roared back move. Georgia will somebody five of them, though I heard that loud and clear in the state, the Republicans took control of the Senate in twenty four hours tonight we commit ourselves to building a government. We can be proud of again they gain seats in the house. Night is looking like a very, very good night and the lesson that Republican from that is well, you know it wasn't pretty, but in the end it didn't hurt- and I think Democrats are probably taking the same was and in fact

It didn't really hurt Republicans it didn't it. Not me, I heard him in the short run, but you know in politics memory, is extremely short and the events of twenty third in just were not on the minds of voters when they went to the polls in November. If twenty forty, property now breaking days. Time is running out rather than from says that governments should put happen Friday. Saint Democrats would be blamed for that. After rejecting a bipartisan immigration propose it says. Time is running out for a deal, but even a republican say they don't know what the president want. So here we are in twenty eighteen five years later, The battle lines are around immigration rather than healthcare, but I am struck by another difference. In this case we don't have a divided government, the Republicans control it all. We dont think of government shutdowns being

read without a divided government. While one of the reasons we have appending shut down, fight because although we don't have a divided government along party lines, we have deep divisions with in the Republican Party and we have Donald Trump in the White House. Donald Trump is a divisive figures, so divisive that he's not able to bring along Democrats even to a fairly modest proposal to keep the government open and he's doesn't seem to have the I will see to really rally even all the Republicans member, some Republicans are going to vote against suspending bill as well. It's not just Democrats, so the president has effectively so divided the republican Party that it's as if we have a divided government, as we did back in twenty thirteen, we have a fractured government it's more than divided, because we can even neatly draw the lines. It's a mess, but from what you have told us

it doesn't sound like the government shut down in twenty thirteen really affected the people most responsible for the tea party candidates in the following elections. So why should anyone, whether Democrats or Republicans, right now? Why should they worry about real repercussions for two in us over into a new shut down. I think the Republicans worry most because there are already in such bad shape. President Trump is very unpopular and we ve already seen a series of special actions go to the Democrats and Republicans need a winning streak and they are unable to mountain. They just passed his big task that was supposed to show that they could govern and then, just a few weeks later, the government shuts down that just stops their message that they are actually a

pretty of governance. Democrats are in a different position. Democrats do run a risk here, but they just feel like nothing whatever for hall on their shoulders, because the american people just tender that any disarray is president prompts fault. Johnson, thank you. Thank you on Thursday night the House voted to didn't thirty, two hundred and ninety seven to pass a temporary spending bill that would keep the government funded through February. Sixteen but bill, still need Senate approval and at least a dozen democrats in the Senate would have to do. In their republican colleagues, in approving the measure with out protections for young undocumented immigrants there his little chance of that happening by the

headline of midnight tonight. It's really almost an amateur our for speaking about time, because should have been done. We could have come to a place where we have come to a budget agreement, as well as protecting our dreamers, which is part of the agreement as we go forward, but instead Republicans our daily Dally taken there. All time. Maybe they just don't believe in governance, Here's! What else you need to know today on Thursday the Trump Administration announced that it was creating new protections for healthcare providers have will ledges or moral objections to performing abortions, sex change operations or other medical services as part of the plan, the wife

those has created a new office within the Department of Health and Human services, the conscience and religious freedom division, and is urging people to contact the office with complaints of religious discrimination The announcement, which came one day before today's annual march for life in Washington, has been a priority of anti abortion. The daily. Is produced by field Elk, Lindsey, Garrison, Rachel question. Any brown Andy Mills I x rays, Collar Roger Clare, tennis, Getter, page cow it and Michael Simon Jobs, with any help from the recent Anderson Sir Tobin- is our executive producer. Samantha headache is our editorial director. Our technical manager is

a fisher and our sound engineer is Peter sale. Our theme music is by Jim One and Ben lands of wonder special thanks to Michael gold. Sam. All night and Mikhail who shot that's what I like about you. Do you avoid tough problems and shy away from a debate. Do you think uncertainty limits potential? Neither do we have a university of Chicago Booth, school of business. We believe in asking questions and questioning answers with campuses in Chicago London and Hong Kong. The booth MBA is for people who see challenges opportunities and what the skills to make positive change in any market anywhere in the world, ready to find your community search Chicago booth DOT. Eddie, you today to learn more