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How confident are you that we are going to be able to avoid a government shutdown this time around? >> no question about it. the last thing we want is to have a government shutdown. we knew going into it when we passed this previous cr, that december the 8th we were going to have to do something else and were prepared to do something else, and to extend it, im not sure how long it will be extended, im not sure what its going to look like, but i can assure you were going to get that done and avoi...

That, i apologize. i have tremendous respect for your work for the u.s.o. im ashamed my actions ruined that experience for you. im so sorry. sincerely al franken. >> after this disturbing story surfaced yesterday, senators on both sides of the aisle call for an ethics investigation into senator franken. joining us now with reaction is fox news correspondent at large geraldo rife vary andra fox news contributor and c.r. tv dot-com host deneen borelli. what should happen to al franken? >> he got c...

Ted kennedy and somehow we had to -- i dont know, expunge our guilt. i dont feel any guilt. people are coming over here and they have more rights than american citizens. >> tucker: i dont understand, its such a great country. cr: what are the people who live here hate it so much? its perverse. howie, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: senator republicans release their own tax plan today. whats in it, is a good for you, is it good for the country? all that with a si...

What do you think? >> well, so ive not seen the entire bill and ingisted it, right? but there are lots of concerns. you have to educate people on, you know, raising their standard deduction. really takes cares of lots of folks and itemization isnt as big of a deal. you lose your homeowner deduction because you get another credit. december 9th comes up. the cr runs out. this fiscal cliff, daca reform. lots of things that have to happen before the end of the year. republicans are in a squeeze and ...

Precaution. chris sims is with the sheriffs office and he joins me now. thank you for being with us. of course, richard spencer says he is flattered by the state of emergency that has been declared ahead of his speech. he even thinks its quite funny. why was the state of emergency declared. >> we would like our community to know and our speaker to know -- we are not using his name because we do not condone his speech. we would like them to know the declaration of emergency is not in place based ...

Democratic caucus clearly whether not vote for a cr, will not vote to increase the debt ceiling, unless something happens which is 800,000 visas. >> unless you protect the d.r.e.a.m.ers youre not going to vote -- >> theyre not majority. its their budget. they run the snenate, the white house. you want a budget, do a budget. you dont want to protect the d.r.e.a.m.ers, do your own budget. part of the democrats responsibility is to be an opposition and to take when they attack our lgbt community, w...

And horrible disaster post andrew. no coordination between agencies or levels of government. this is not happening this time. >> you think lessons have been learned. >> absolutely. first of all, building and construction codes and shelters and how to get to shelters, everybodys been preparing and after we saw what happened in houston, people got the message. >> people are talking about the scope of damage here. because that path is going up right the entirety of the state. >> its a big one. >> t...

$15.25 billion relief package yesterday. many republicans left frustrated after president trump cut a deal with top democrats to pay or read legislation with a three month increase in the debt ceiling. one of the three republicans joined just now opposed to it, marsha blackburn. i understand you have placed your boats, havent you? >> i was a "no" vote. we have a debt ceiling increase and cr, and we dont get those reforms that we need. i dont like the harvey and irma relates to all of these packa...

Personal behavior. a sense there is not that much they can do other than he comes back around to push the issues. >> as we wait for the final gavel here on the house floor. go ahead, your point. >> the extension of the debt limit erases the extraordinary measures the treasury have done. they will use the extraordinary measures in december to take this into perhaps february or march. a few weeks, maybe a few months. so, its not necessarily the case that these two dates are right together. >> that...

Came up and strengthened our hand for three months because we made it clear we would not do any longer debt ceiling than we had of the continuing resolution. is this more on the subject than you want to know? stop me if it is. >> we want to know more. >> the technicality of c.o.r. and debt ceiling. intelligence and appropriations is my focus. but, the -- as the conversation went forward, if we are not going to take anymore time then what the cr is, we can have six month or the department cant li...