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Courts. >> absolutely. >> now, when the president talks about taking money away from disaster relief funding, and that is under consideration right now, can you explain what impact that would have on your district? >> it would be terribly, terribly serious, the disaster recovery money that was allocated last spring in the appropriation process is absolutely necessary to shore up the levies in the sacramento region. and for one of our communities that has 35 foot levies all around it within momen...

Billion plus right now. as for the presidents idea of going around congress and declaring a national emergency in order to build the wall, lawmakers speaking out today seem to be against that regardless of their political party. >> nobody wants him to invoke it, and i dont believe the president wants to invoke it. >> this would be a terrible use of department of defense dollars. >> i dont think the president has that authority. >> he could, and that gives him more power. but what id like to see,...

You can control from anywhere on any device. and it protects you with 24/7 professional monitoring. i guess were sleeping here tonight. xfinity home. simple. easy. awesome. call, go online or demo in an xfinity store today. maria: welcome back were back with alabama senator richard shelby and senator youve been in the thick of all of these talks to potentially get this government back open. is there another way the president sees to fund the wall just to get the government open in the process? >...

Pretty much ordinary funding exercise, as you know, chuck, we resumed the ordinary appropriation process and as a result we have a very small sliver of the government thats unresolved in the shutdown mode. everybody gets paid. i think it gets resolved quickly and completely taking away focus from where it should be on a very, very strong economy and some really good economic news generally. >> well, but i got to ask you. i would tend to agree with what you said except the president decided no to...

Wall. after 40 years of talk it is time for action. fix the border once and for all now. limited time lawmakers return. are we heading for partial government shutdown? >> i hope not. the republicans control the house, senate and white house. i hope they dont shut the government down. last time we had an appropriation process it works well. it was bipartisan. the president was not involved. we were able to reach consensus and find common ground with our republican colleagues. that moved forward. ...

Fix the border once and for all, lawmakers return, congressman -- are we heading for a partial government shutdown? >> i hope not, i hope they dont shut the government down. last time we had an appropriation process that worked well, it was bipartisan. the president wasnt involved in it, we were able to reach consensus and find common ground with our republican colleagues. i hope we can do it again but the republicans controlled the house, the senate, and the white house, they will ultimately de...

Possible shutdown. guess who hes blaming? watch. >> republicans are in charge. if the government shuts down, its on their back. now, we want a couple of things. we want to make sure that tacting attorney general does not interfere with the mueller investigation. we believe our republican colleagues will join us, and we believe if president trump stays out of the appropriations process, we can have a good bipartisan agreement and the government can move smoothly forward. >> julie: the president s...

Go to the technology costs. what are the chances of passage? we have been talking about the wall. the president wanted the money available a year ago? >> we worked through the appropriation process. in the house we had the 5 billion in it. thats really flustered me in the past so why not advance it all. thats why i introduce the bill. well vote on this in the house. well take this up with the dhs appropriation bill. look at what they have been able to achieve when they work together and fought h...

Hearings, we can bring administration officials before our committee in open session to explain the policies of this administration. we can look at additional tools either through the appropriation process or legislation that we could work on. we passed a strong bill against russia early last year that was bipartisan, passed by 98-2 vote in the senate. there are things we can do but requires the republican leadership to release its members. >> its a good point. you passed the sanctions legislati...

Involved in every decision and every opinion that had his name on it, and every opinion that came through the court. whether he was the author or not, meaning even if it was an opinion assigned to another justice, he wanted to make sure that it was right. mark: i want to turn to something thats just occurred and thats this budget process and appropriation process in the united states congress. jim jordan has said that the congressman from ohio, and freedom caucus member, that they had 17 hours b...