James Lankford: “We need 60 votes to be able to do anything. In the Senate…”

“It was actually. Yeah. So we had, we've two, one, one Independent and two Democrats that had voted with Republicans from the very beginning at this point, but that's been it. We need 60 votes to be able to do anything. In the Senate, we have 55 right now that have consistently voted to reopen the government. But the rest of the Democrats have all said no, they want to be able to keep it closed. We're hopeful that at some point they'll obviously reopen this.” (05:36–05:44)

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