How the Shutdown Impacts Americans; U.S. Government Shutdown as Senate Rejects Funding Bill; Lawmakers Resume Talks Today to Reopen Government.
VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN HOST: -- live in Washington where despite last minute, negotiations and huddles and votes, the government is shut down for the first time in more than four years. The art of the deal, president could not reach that deal with democrats and a few republicans. Just a few hours ago, they marked the one year anniversary of his presidency by rejecting a budget bill.</s>CHRISTI PAUL, CNN HOST: The president is reacting on Twitter this morning as well saying democrats, "Could have easily made a deal but decided to play shutdown politics instead.</s>BLACKWELL: CNN's Ryan Nobles is live on Capitol Hill. Ryan, we've learned that some lawmakers are expected back on the Hill in just a couple of hours. RYAN NOBLES, CNN Washington</s>CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's right Victor and Christi. The House will return here to Capitol Hill to begin negotiations. In fact, they will gavel into session at around 9:00a.m. this morning. Then at around 10:00, House -- House republicans and democrats will go their separate ways and begin to have conversations behind closed doors about what to do next. Then, the big moment comes at noon, that's when the Senate gavels back in. The ball's really right now in the Senate's court. They're the ones that have to take the next move because the House has already passed to short-term spending plan. The question is, can the Senate gather the 60 votes necessary to do that themselves? At this point, that doesn't seem possible. In fact, listen to what was talked about last night on the Senate floor right before the shutdown went into effect.</s>SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: Perhaps across the aisle some of our democratic colleagues are feeling proud of themselves but what has their filibuster accomplished? What has it accomplished? The answer is simple, their very own government shutdown.</s>SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), SENATE MINORITY LEADER: President Trump if you are listening, I am urging you, please take yes for an answer. The way things went today, the way you turned from a bipartisan deal, it's almost as if you were rooting for a shutdown.</s>NOBLES: And you could tell just from the back and forth there between Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer that this is really more about a blame game. There doesn't appear to be a real effort right now to begin the hardcore negotiating that is necessary to come up with some sort of a grand bargain. In fact, what is likely to happen today is a conversation about another continuing resolution that will be a bit of a short-term fix to this problem instead of a month long continuing resolution, one that would end around February 8th. This is a deal being floated by Senator Lindsey Graham. And in fact, Lindsey Graham was among a group of senators who voted no yesterday and it was both republicans and democrats who flip side. There was a group of four republicans who said that they were not going to support this continuing resolution and then a group of five democrats all from Trump friendly states who said that they could support this continuing resolution. So you can see, this is a problem for both republicans and democrats and there's a lot of talking that needs to be done today that there's any hope of this government shutdown ending anytime soon. Christi and Victor --</s>PAUL: All right. Ryan Nobles, appreciate it so much sir, thank you.</s>BLACKWELL: President Trump tweeting this morning about the shutdown, four tweets within the past hour blaming democrats for the political panic on Capitol Hill.</s>PAUL: CNN's White House Correspondent, Abby Phillip with us now live from the White House. And we should point out, the White House came out initially with some pretty strong language. The president doing the same again this morning.</s>ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right Christi. The president waking up in this building right behind me with a government shutdown on the one year anniversary of his inauguration when he thought he would be in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago resort celebrating and instead he sent out this tweet this morning noting his inauguration anniversary today calling it a nice present from the democrats he said. "This is the one year anniversary of my presidency, democrats wanted to give me a nice present." But he then also went on to talk about the fact that he thinks that this shutdown proves the need for more republicans in Congress. He wrote, "For those asking, the republicans only have 51 votes in the Senate and they need 60 that's why we need to win more republicans in 2018 election. We can be even tougher on crime and border and even better to our military and veterans." Now, White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders last night channeled a little bit of President Trump's anger and frustration about this situation with some Trumpian language. She put out this statement calling this, "The Schumer Shutdown." She wrote, "Tonight, they put politics above our national security, military families, vulnerable children, and our country's ability to serve all Americans. We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demand. This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not legislators." Obstructionist losers, the kind of name calling we would typically see on President Trump's Twitter feed. Now, after these talks between Senate democrats -- Senate Democratic Leader, Chuck Schumer and President Trump failed to produce any kind of deal yesterday, it is not clear whether we are going to restart any negotiations today. The White House is putting their foot down, they do not want to talk about immigration. They only want to fund the government. Christi and Victor --</s>BLACKWELL: All right. Abby Phillip, of course at the White House. Abby, thank you so much.</s>PAUL: So let's bring in Stephen Moore, CNN Senior Economics Analyst and a former Trump Economic Advisor. Matt Viser, CNN Political Analyst and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief for the "Boston Globe." Patti Solis Doyle, CNN Political Commentator and Hillary Clinton's former Presidential Campaign Manager. And Andre Bauer, CNN Political Commentator and former Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Got it all out. Welcome everybody, glad to have you here. Want to listen real quickly to President Trump, then citizen Trump back in 2013 when the government shutdown and who he said then was to blame.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And the president in all fairness, he's the leader, he's the one that has to get everybody to get in a room and get it done. They're not going to be talking about Baner and Reed and all, they're going to be talking about President Obama and what a disaster the administration was. So he does have a lot of pressure to get this problem solved. He's got a big problem.</s>PAUL: Andre, does President Trump have a big problem? Does this sit on his shoulders?</s>ANDRE BAUER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well it does in some ways. I mean, he's missing the opportunity he bought not to be talking about so many accomplishments in the last year. I walked by when we broadcast last year this very day and thought about how exciting it was to see him take over and he's had a lot of victories. But the fact that we're not talking about those victories really hurts him. I don't know what he could have done any different, he sat down with Schumer yesterday, they tried to work out a deal, didn't sound like Schumer want a deal. It may very well be a smart move on the democrats to not have people talking about the accomplishments of Trump Administration the first year but instead talking about a government shutdown technically would be a good move.</s>PAUL: So you're saying you think that the democrats did this to avoid the subject of the positivity but it could come out of the president's first year?</s>BAUER: But so much is done in Washington, it's not about the people, it's about politics. It's not why -- I believe that the president said we need more republicans, I think we need term limits. I think we need all of them to know this as a part time job, not for a long, long time and part of the big problem is as everybody is posturing about getting reelected more than anything else and it's disappointing. I saw it when I served in elected office in both Houses and then in the executive branch and people so often make all their decisions based on what's best for me in the next election and that's what's best for the people I represent and I think you saw that happen yesterday.</s>BLACKWELL: The latest CNN poll number show that as compared to funding the government, DACA comes in priority at 34 percent of the respondents but funding the government is 56 percent. Do these numbers work for the democrats in drawing these line on protections for DACA recipients?</s>PATTI SOLIS DOYLE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Look, I think -- first of all, I think DACA is very important. We have 700,000 dreamers who basically don't know what their future holds for them. They are living in great angst. But the republicans had every chance to fund the government. They control the House, they control the Senate, they control the presidency. And this is their fundamental job of Congress is to fund the government and they haven't been able to do it. We've been working on CR after CR after CR. For the democrats I think, it is about DACA but it's also about disaster relief, it's also about C.H.I.P., it's also about military, it's also about funding the government. And the republicans haven't been able to get any of that done on a permanent level, on a two-year budget deal.</s>PAUL: So matt, I want to ask you because a lot of people are waking up and they're going, "Look, both parties new this was coming. They knew what the deadline was. Why is it that they cannot come to some sort of an agreement?" When you're talking about government employee, some of who makes $500 a week, they live paycheck to paycheck, why when you know that this is on a horizon, you cannot come to some sort of agreement?</s>MATT VISER, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Its striking and kind of ridiculous frankly. I mean, everybody knew the issue set, everybody knew where the sticking points were for weeks leading up to this. The republicans knew that DACA was a big deal for democrats and they knew that they had to win over some democrats on this. It wasn't a secret that they could not do this alone and democrats says that they're one point of leverage really in a minority is to use the budget frankly, to have that. And President Trump had that big meeting a week ago to sort of set the stage for negotiations around DACA and around immigrations. So Congress doesn't operate well without a deadline, so they sort of put all of those sticky discussions until really the 11th hour or almost literally, you know what I mean? There was very little activity throughout the day aside from Schumer going to the White House. There seem to be no urgency on the part of either party because they -- I think they both felt like they had a winning hand heading into last night. And now is the question over do -- does either party have a winning hand?</s>BLACKWELL: And Stephen, looking forward, we know that Senator Graham was excited about this potential for a three week continuing resolution. Although they couldn't get the votes for 30 days. I mean, it -- why would he be optimistic that he could peel off a few more of at least those red state democrats to support three weeks when they wouldn't support 30 days? I mean, is that fool's errand?</s>STEPHEN MOORE, CNN SENIOR ECONOMICS ANALYST: Well look, I would -- I thought that cooler heads would prevail last night and they would get some kind of deal to keep the government -- I mean, this is silly. This is just stupid. Why are we shutting down the government and disrupting people's lives? Although, the good news for people out there, this will have about zero impact on people's lives because it's a weekend and it's only nonessential services of government that are affected. But this does come down to the immigration issue. Look, it's not fair to say, "Well republicans could control everything, they could keep the government open." The democrat -- just to be real clear about this, the democrat's filibuster of the budget yesterday in the Senate which required 60 votes. You're right, republicans have 50 votes, they don't have 60. And so unless they could get 10 democrats to come over, the government was going to get shutdown. It's interesting on the politics of this that the three democrats and the Senate who voted with Trump and the republicans were the three e that are in the most vulnerable seats in Indiana and West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota. So I think the democrats understand the politics might not be on the side on this. One last point, you said, could -- should we open the government for three days, three weeks, four weeks, six weeks? We're still going to ultimately come down to this issue about what to do about this immigration issue.</s>BLACKWELL: The immigration issue.</s>MOORE: And there is a big divide. Republicans are essentially saying, "Until you help build the wall and until you participate in border security, DACA isn't going to happen." And democrats I think are vulnerable on the charge that they are very weak on border security.</s>BLACKWELL: But Senator Schumer said yesterday that he put the wall on the table in that meeting with the president, we'll talk about that. We got to take a quick break but everybody stay with us. Much more to discuss. Hundreds of thousands of workers, billions of dollars, this government shutdown will be felt far and wide.</s>PAUL: How will it affect you, we'll talk about it.