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This is paul ryans congress. after that it is nancy pelosis congress. ralph norman is back with us. has the door reopened, sir, on your satellite window? you can hear us now? >> i can. leland: all right, your thoughts. mitch mcconnell said, basically, us working on this in the senate was useless. were hitting the pause button. your thoughts. >> well, two things, leyland, its not about money. the $5 billion is .125 of the total four trillion budget, money that we spend. and secondly its not abo...

Government open, as you can see right there, 217 votes at the moment. that essentially means theyre going to have enough votes to get this out of the house. this does not mean that this bill is going to become law. tomorrow, the senate is going to try to take up this bill, and we expect it to fail tomorrow, probably in its first procedural vote. a at that point, then what? friday night is the deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. they just called the vote in the house. it did pass, 21...

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello, im pamela brown in today for brooke baldwin. we start with a white house in crisis. we are just ten hours away from a government shutdown, and you can see the countdown clock right there on the screen. senators have started the voting process on a temporary spending bill and now theyre waiting for some senators to return to washington to cast their votes. those senators left town thinking it was a done deal. the chances of it passing are not look...

$700 billion last year. recently $716 billion for the military. they were talking about $5 billion. its a tiny fraction, but unfortunately they devoted their lives to making sure it doesnt happen. what should happen, that was for political reasons. we are going to be working hard to get something passed in the senate. there is a very good chance it wont get passed. its up to the democrats. its really the democrat shut down. we have done our thing. when nancy pelosi said you will never get the vo...

Things are happening that havent happened in our government for a long time. the other night as you know we had a vote on border security and think we want to discuss this for a second. they voted 217 to 185 approving strong border security and the money necessary to take care of the barrier wall or steel slats. whatever you want to call it. its all the same. it was a tremendous evening for the republicans to be honest with you. the level of spirit, the level of happiness, a lot of people came o...

By a vote 217 to 185: 8 republicans voting against it they said they had to muster these votes because president trump was going to threaten a veto. here is what is in this bill. 5.7 billion for the border wall. 7.8 billion for disaster relief and funds the government until february 8th. this was a defeat for democrats who claim the g.o.p. didnt have the votes. now democrats are branding this the trump shut down. >> the president of the united states prefers to shut government down. >> president...

We put up 217 to 185 in the house, we gave president trump tremendous leverage in this negotiation to keep america safe. >> julie: the department of homeland security. i want the talk about the funding if they were to get the $5.7 billion. they estimate the border wall would cost $21 billion. an m.i.t. study that estimated the costs could double that. even if the $5.7 did pass where does the remaining $15 billion come from? >> thats over years. in the next year he needs $5 billion to build the w...

House republicans were great yesterday. here is what house majority leader kevin mccarthy had to say after the vote. >> the senate, compromise and make sure we keep the government open and that the states get the number of months and the damage done to them. we have work to do. >> mike emanuel is on the hill. any sign of democrats coming around in the senate? >> good morning to you, not so far. which suggests this funding push could get stuck on the deadline day. the vote last night in the house...

Breaking overnight the house passing a spending bill with $6 billion for the border wall, the senate must come up with a bipartisan agreement before the government runs out of money at midnight. carley: the clock ticks closer to a government shutdown. a lot happened overnight. >> reporter: 20 hours to go, different picture than yesterday, looks like the senate has a solution to avoid the shutdown. house republicans mustering up 217-185 vote to pass funding for the border wall. eight republicans ...

Congress, why now? like two years later? >> you are right, we should have done it earlier, we should have done it on march with the big spending bill, we told the american people we would. then december, didnt do it, then we said we we will do it r summer 21st, we did it tonight in the house. just a few minutes ago, it passed, even though last week in the oval office, nancy pelosi said the house cant get people to past a border security wall, funding for a border security wall, we just did a few...