U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., shed some light this week on an intense conversation recently caught on video between himself and Sen. Katie Britt, R- Ala.

“This was a conversation she and I were having right after Republicans passed the recissions bill,” Murphy told The Bulwark’s Tim Miller.

Last week, Congress approved a bill backed by President Trump that will rescind $7.9 billion in allocated funds for foreign aid and $1.1 billion for public broadcasting.

“She and I write the Department of Homeland Security budget together,” Murphy continued.

“She’s the chairman, I’m the top-ranking Democrat. And I was saying to her, how on Earth are we going to write a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security when the president is engaged every single day in illegal activity?”

Murphy said Trump is “ignoring the funds we’ve appropriated to protect people.”

“And you guys have telegraphed to us, that if I sit down and write a bipartisan bill with you and get something in there that’s really important to my state or the people that I care about, you’ll just use the recissions tactic to cancel my spending afterwards,” he said.

“Why would I trade baseball cards with my friend if he tells me I’m going to break into your house tomorrow night and steal my cards back?”

When Miller asked Murphy if he thought he “made any ground” with Britt during their conversation, he wasn’t optimistic.

“I do think Republicans understand the mess that they have created,” he said.

“I don’t know that they’re willing to solve it.”

“It is true that you can’t really come to a bipartisan agreement on a budget if you’re staring your partner in the eye and telling them that you’re going to use this dirty trick, recissions, in order to cancel out the deal within months,” he concluded.

Britt kept the details of the argument private in a recent interview with Trey Gowdy on Fox show Sunday Night in America.

“I’ll allow the contents of the conversation… to stay between the two of us,” she told Gowdy.

“Where you can see eye to eye with someone and have common ground move it forward.”

“But when you don’t, you let them know,” she continued.

“And I think he saw that firsthand.”