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>> put it up. he disagrees with you. said nobody wants to shut down before the holidays. the president says, house democrats want to shut down for the holidays to distract from the very popular just passed tax cuts. house republicans dont let this happen. pass the c.r. today. keep our government open. >> reporter: right. i want to underscore the part he says house republicans, dont let that happen, because, you know, leadership here is counting on and increasingly counts on, the president to try...

Congress passes a cr which is going to fund the government. im told thats likely to happen after he leaves washington and he goes back to florida to mar-a-lago. the bill is likely going to be sent down to him where hell sign before the beginning of the year. >> does the president intend to help sell the bill to make it more popular with the american people? >> this is a huge question. this bill is pretty unpopular, about 33% of americans according to a cnn poll say they do not approve of this bi...

There. >> republicans tested the waters with two options. one, an interim bill that funds the government at current levels through mid-january and includes bumps that increase spending, renewal of the controversial domestic fisa program, and some assistance for childrens health insurance. the second, stand-alone $81 billion supplemental disaster spending bill for hurricane damage. in the wildfires in california. some say republicans waited too long to do all of it and spent too much time focusin...

But i can tell you one program wont be reduced is the chip program. >> look, i hope rick is right. senator, excuse me is it right. >> we all do. >> but we need to note for the record the republicans control the house and the senate and chip expired in october. the money that is left in some states will certainly run out by all accounting and analysis out there by the end of february mid-march. >> thats why they put money in the cr. >> but its not the same thing as the program. and the republican...

Cuts on the white house lawn, republicans are now racing to keep the lights on with a stopgap government funding bill in january. here are some of the items theyre leaving for another day. payments to stabilize obamacare, which president trump says hes effectively repealed anyway. thats not entirely true. no permanent fix for chip. 9 million low income children depend on this for care. 800,000 dreamers will spend the holidays fretting about their future. >> for his part now, president trump is d...

Passing, the president weighing in on twitter as he often does, house democrats won a shutdown for the holidays in order to distract from the popular tax cuts, house republicans, do not let this happen. past the cr today and keep the government open. they did just that. we will bring in the panel from steve hayes, editor in chief for the weekly standard, and we started, real clear politics and a host of no labels radio and mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. if we have this vote, ...

Vote yes for it? >> i dont know, im reviewing the c.r., it has some extras on top of it, there seems to be a short term extension of the chip program. i can only vote for these temporary fixes, these efforts to kick the can down the road so many times. i may not vote for this c.r., it sends dreamers, families who rely on chip into the holiday with still a high degree of uncertainty. it was another opportunity for us to do our job that we didnt measure up to. >> senator, there was a time when dem...

>> yeah, but the democrats will support the children health insurance program, as well. >> no, they will support it, youre correct, but they want other things added to the cr as well, not just -- >> well, why not just have a clean bill on the -- >> were not objected to that -- >> you would support them? >> yes. >> and not include other extraie extraneous stuff? you agree the president would support that and sign it into law right away? >> he has supported it, he has. >> lets talk a little about ...

>> bret: yeah. and as far as the government shut down, it seems, ainsley, that were heading towards, you know, another punt apes ains i dont think punt. >> i dont think thats going to happen. the republicans are going to push for that so they can go home for christmas and come back in january. we havent seen a shut down. its very rare to see a shut down. last one was in 2013. i doubt thats going to happen. republicans really want defense spending and democrats are saying yeah, thats final. if yo...

Speaker, hes wanted to do so for a long time. maybe not affect people in their 50s or 60s, but people in their 40s and 30s, theyre not going to get the same benefits as some of the older people. >> we have a great working relationship with the skpeepeak and theres a lot of projects were working on together. >> lets talk about this childrens health insurance program. not a whole lot of money, but 8 or 9 million people kids get their health insurance this way. is the president committed that it wi...