So let me ask you, why not reopen the government and just give a few weeks or however long this extension would give us to work out a plan. We can solve this today. I mean, The president just in the White House indicated that he thought that Republicans in these races did so poorly because of this government shutdown. Well, that should be an incentive for them to negotiate this. This isn't rocket science. This is pretty easy. Extending this by a year at least temporarily solves the problem. (03:33–03:43)
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Asserts that the president believes Republicans performed poorly in races due to the government shutdown.
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