Page 627 - Cr News Today

Multiplied by 21. thats the length of the time of the cr. that gets you to 320 7 what pushes forward today is earlier this morning laguardia airport initiated a ground stop for all incoming flights. the rubber really started to hit the road in terms of the shut down there, at the presidents favorite airport. even though he has called it a third world airport at times. but thats where he keeps his private plane. he is a new yorker, and people in new york or people who are flying into new york get...

Lets not wait. >> shannon: would you vote for a three week cr? it has to have a large down payment on the wall? democrats didnt seem like they were for that either. >> here is what is frustrating. how can you do that when you have pelosi saying, i will not provide any funding? that is not a real negotiation. so the democrats are saying, no funding. what would help you to do a three week or two week continual solution if they wont negotiate? >> shannon: donna brazile told dana perino that pelosi ...

Mechanism that keeps this from being how they do business on capitol hill. and in the white house. >> martha: we have seen it time and time again. >> harris: twice in the last year! >> martha: they can never get -- even when they do come to a resolution in order to keep the government open, it always turns into a continuing resolution. a cr. they do this in little three weeks, six weeks, three months. >> harris: thats okay if they are continuing. my point is that when you leverage with the shutd...

He says the senior source says the three week cr, which by definition reopens the government at existing levels, would provide some sort of conference committee vehicle to fund dhs. the department of homeland security. fox is told that in the house they could approve this by voice vote, or by unanimous consent if the g.o.p. is on board. fox also told that they could -- and this is an all caps -- could also do it via voice vote or unanimous consent if they can get all 100 senators to agree. or no...

Three week cr to give us chance to read a compromise would be the best way to move forward. >> the latest update we got from the president was that he would agree to a short-term continuing resolution as long as it came with a down payment for the border wall. so far, democrats have not come close to offering that. harris? >> harris: peter doocy. and while that report was going on, this breaking news came together. 1:30 p.m. eastern, the president of the united states will be in the rose garden....

Friday, b, this has gone on for 35 days. theres an outside problem with air traffic control at a ground stop in florida -- or in la guardia, rather, and issues related to can they -- now that they have defeated the known bills, can they do something short term. so various sources, both democrat and republican, have been saying, there is this coming together in a bipartisan way of wanting a short term reopening of the government. but everyone is saying, youve got to get a sign-off from the white ...

That hillary clinton won in 2016. some of them are in states that went for donald trump but may not have gone for donald trump by the whitest margin. >> there are a lot of federal worker say what are we doing here? as we have been doing all along. we see son is getting ready. >> donald trump started this mess. >> yes. >> the government was not going to be shutdown back in december. they were set to pass a clean cr. >> he went back to his words. he was swayed by voices and coulter and others. he ...

>> youre working your sources over there. well get back to you. phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. you heard the president say if mulch mcconnell and chuck schumer could come up with a reasonable agreement, he would support t definition of a reasonable agreement, though, remains outstanding. >> doing a lot of work there. one of the key issue bes weve seen the last four or five weeks is that both parties, regardless, democrat or republican, having a difficult time trying to pin down exactly wh...

Wall, will they then commit giving the rest of what they requested when they have to fund the government for the rest of the year? of course, wolf, the big question of the year is asking for $5.7 billion for the rest of the year. thats not all the money they want for the border wall. thats what they want in this years budget for right now. if this is essentially what theyre asking for, a down payment, this would be a down payment on the down payment for the border wall. you have to assume next y...

Secretary saying this ill read it to you. senator mitch mcconnell and senator chuck schumer are meeting now to see whether or not they can work out of the deadlock, as was made clear to senator lindsey graham the three-week cr would only work if there is a large down payment on the wall. so, two things here. one is that the white house is signaling that president trump is willing to consider a short-term bill to reopen the government, to fund the government for a short period of time if it comes...