Meanwhile, as Liz reported, Congress is not meeting today.

It's in part to the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

But when the Senate returns tomorrow, the question is, will anything change?

What is the way out of this shutdown?

Our congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardam has more.

Party leaders are not budging.

President Trump is increasingly threatening Democrats and acting against Democratic states.

But there are some in the Senate trying to talk across the aisle and find a way forward.

One of those is Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who joins me now.

Senator, you were center stage yesterday on the Senate floor during one of the votes.

You had an exchange of ideas with Democrats. Obviously, there's no deal, but other than Democrats

suddenly agreeing to your funding bill, what are the possible ways forward here?

There really is no other way to start than starting government and opening it up again.

And that's part of the message that we're trying to share is there's lots of ways using regular order,

the traditional way in which we do appropriations and everything, to accomplish a lot of really good things in the Senate.

But nothing will happen until we get government opened up again.

And the best way to do that is with the continuing resolution that we've offered that would

end on November 21st.

There's just simply the best way to approach it while we've still got time is to open government

back up.

And that's the message we're trying to share with our

Democrat colleagues. Now, you and I talked about this. I know that you told Democrats you

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