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Let's find a path, have Trump guarantee that a deal is a deal · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: And I'm joined now by Senator Tim Caine of Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Senator. I know you heard Secretary Duffy there
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  Speaker 1: talking about the onus is on the Democrats and that
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  Speaker 1: you are fighting to get illegal healthcare for immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just got to say, Martha, that's a lie.
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  Speaker 3: The healthcare battle is not about healthcare for illegal immigrants,
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  Speaker 3: and Sean Duffy knows it. It's about millions of Americans
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  Speaker 3: who in the last few weeks have gotten premium increase
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  Speaker 3: notices that tell them that Donald Trump's.
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  Speaker 2: Big beautiful bill is delivering.
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  Speaker 3: Them big, ugly health insurance bills within the next few
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  Speaker 3: weeks unless we can find a fix. And so what
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  Speaker 3: we're asking for is, let's find a path to a fix,
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  Speaker 3: and let's also have President Trump finally engage in the
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  Speaker 3: negotiation and guarantee that a deal is a deal. If
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  Speaker 3: we shake care on a deal for thirty days or
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  Speaker 3: for three months, he won't immediately start firing more people,
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  Speaker 3: clawing back economic development projects, going after blue states or
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  Speaker 3: blue cities, and allowing funds to be used in red cities. So, look,
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  Speaker 3: we're looking for a path to fix people's health care
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  Speaker 3: costs and we're looking for the President to agree that
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  Speaker 3: a deal is a deal. Thus far he's refused to engage,
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  Speaker 3: and we avoid shutdowns or get out of shutdowns all
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  Speaker 3: the time when the President engages.
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  Speaker 1: So, Senator, it has been thirty three days. Democrats chose
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  Speaker 1: not to support that short term cr which would have
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  Speaker 1: kept the government open. You could have negotiated. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: some pretty devastating impacts on people looking at for snap
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  Speaker 1: on air traffic controllers, on air travel. So what have
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats gained from this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't look at this as politics.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the President told the House do a budget,
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  Speaker 3: and his words.
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  Speaker 2: Don't deal with Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: So Senate Democrats put an alternative on the table twelve
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  Speaker 3: days before September thirty that fixed the healthcare wreckage that
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans caused, and that ensued that a deal would
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  Speaker 3: be honored both by Congress and the White House. The
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  Speaker 3: President refused to meet until the day before the deadline.
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  Speaker 2: He had Democrats in.
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  Speaker 3: The Oval office, and as soon as they walked out,
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  Speaker 3: he put up an AI generated video of them wearing
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  Speaker 3: sombreros and talking in AI generated fake voices, saying they
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  Speaker 3: didn't say the guy's unserious, but we're serious to give
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  Speaker 3: twenty billion dollars. Hold on, he's been willing to give
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  Speaker 3: twenty billion dollars to the Argentines and meet with them,
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  Speaker 3: wreck the White House, have a great Gatsby.
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  Speaker 2: Party down at mar A Lago.
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  Speaker 3: He has not done what he said needed to be
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  Speaker 3: done in twenty eleven sit down with Democratic leadership.
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  Speaker 1: If Senator I just want to go back to the.
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  Speaker 2: Will be resolved in a matter of hours.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, excuse me. I just want to go back to
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  Speaker 1: what Democrats have gotten during this period, not talking about politics.
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  Speaker 1: What have Democrats gained during this period? And how long
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  Speaker 1: can this last?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Martha, I'm a United States Senator, and yeah
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  Speaker 3: I run as a Democrat and I'm a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: But I just don't approach my work that way.
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  Speaker 3: So when you ask what Democrats have gained, what we're
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  Speaker 3: focused on as the American people. We want President Trump
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  Speaker 3: to stop firing people, canceling economic development projects. We wanted
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  Speaker 3: to stop raising everybody's costs. You know, health care costs,
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  Speaker 3: energy costs, housing costs. Halloween's more expensive, Thanksgiving is more expensive,
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  Speaker 3: the holidays are going to be more expensive. So we're
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  Speaker 3: asking the president to simply sit down and do what
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  Speaker 3: all presidents do. We can find a budget deal that
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  Speaker 3: puts us on a path to a healthcare fix. I
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  Speaker 3: don't need all the i's dotted and t's crossed. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to be on a path so that people's
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  Speaker 3: bills don't spike. And I want the President to agree
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  Speaker 3: stop the wrecking ball, stop the mass firings and the
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  Speaker 3: cancelation of projects you don't like. And I think Americans
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  Speaker 3: understand that, and that's why they look at Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 3: lack of engagement and overwhelmingly say that he's really more
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  Speaker 3: to blame for this.
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  Speaker 1: We just have a couple of minutes here, but you
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  Speaker 1: recently said things are coming together. They are reportedly conversations
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  Speaker 1: among rank and file senators to try to negotiate the
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  Speaker 1: reopening of the government for a few weeks. Is that
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  Speaker 1: going on right now? Are you part of those discussions?
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  Speaker 2: I would say, Martha, I'm sort of at the edge
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 3: There is a group of people talking about these two issues,
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  Speaker 3: a path to fix the healthcare debacle and to guarantee
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  Speaker 3: that if we reopen government.
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  Speaker 2: I'm calling it a moratorium on mischief.
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  Speaker 3: If we agree to reopen President Trump's got to stop
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  Speaker 3: the firings the FAA.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking air traffic control.
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  Speaker 3: They've forced twenty four hundred people out of the FAA
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  Speaker 3: during Trump's first year, when they were already short three
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  Speaker 3: thousand air traffic controllers. Stop the firings, the games playing,
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  Speaker 3: stop going after blue cities and helping red cities. Let's
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  Speaker 3: have a moratorium on mischief during whatever this period is.
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  Speaker 3: Get on a path to fix people's healthcare. If the
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  Speaker 3: President engages, we will be we will find a deal,
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  Speaker 3: I think within hours.
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  Speaker 1: And Senator just quickly if you can. You're there in Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Virginia holds key elections on Tuesday. Are you confident that
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  Speaker 1: Democrats can sweep this?
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  Speaker 3: I feel really good about it, Martha. And here's why.
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  Speaker 3: In Virginia. We are the best red to blue turnaround
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  Speaker 3: in the country in the last twenty five years. And
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  Speaker 3: the way we've done it is by focusing on the economy.
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  Speaker 3: Abigail Spanberger our candidate three pillars to her campaign affordability, jobs,
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  Speaker 3: and education, which is about kids, but also about our workforce.
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  Speaker 3: Her opponent is running ads on offbeat cultural issues that
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  Speaker 3: don't really matter to the most people in Virginia Democrats
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  Speaker 3: focus on the economy, winning the economic argument, delivering economic results,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why the state has moved from red to
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  Speaker 3: blue so dramatically since two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks so much. Good to see you this morning, Senator,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Martha. Good to be with you.