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With political favors. here with reaction minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann and iowa congressman steve king. i know you tried to persuade the speaker and leadership all day to go for a short-term cr. what is the possible explanation why they would not do something that was so smart that would have given them more leverage and power come the new year? >> well, i think the reason why they did it is because the political establishment made a decision months ago this they were going to get am...

This compromise bill. so as you mention the politics are fascinating. you have the president and vice president calling rank and file democrats asking them to vote in favor of the package. you had nancy pelosi and elizabeth warren on the other side saying stand up and fight. bottom line it got through. there were conservative defections because some of them wanted to vote to fight the immigration executive order. it now appears that that will happen in february when funding for homeland security...

Shes outnumbered. i think what it shows is president obama preferred a longer term budget deal to keep the government open. remind you, last night, like at 9:00 at night, we were up on capitol hill hearing that there might have only been a three-month cr that would have kept the government funded just through next february and we would have this huge fight over the government staying open in just a couple of months. i think the administration wanted a longer term deal and found that their levera...

Fiscal year ended. were cramming all of these things in. nobody had a chance to become familiar enough with the challenges in campaign finance law, the changes in derivatives. theyre slipping the bill so they can be taking votes on that. those should not be part of the budget. what we should be discussing is what are the national priorities. how much do we want to be funding infrastructure and education and scientific research? also, a lot of parts that arent part of the budget discussion how do...

They got several policy concessions related to this bill. what are they likely to go for in the coming year as we have another need to raise the debt limit, another bill to fund the government next fall. what sort of policy changes might we see as part of those negotiations? >> i think the first thing we have to watch for is the cr on the department of homeland security. thats going to be the next time republicans go head to head with the president on some of his policies like executive actions ...

So this was the fine line that the republican leadership and specifically house speaker john boehner had to walk. to fight this next year on immigration. >> they certainly could have gone with a short-term cr otherwise the democrats would have been responsible for shutting down the government. chad, great job. obviously you helped all of us here at fox. joining us now fox news political analyst juan williams and from the weekly standard fox news contributor steve hayes. theres a reason in my min...

Think. and that was if you talked to conservatives like michele bachmann and steve king, they were very disappointed the night before last where this was not made an order their amendment to sort of shackle the department of homeland security, shackle the spending in some way the dhs would handle immigration services. and that amendment was not made an order. the problem of course then a democratic senate and harry reid probably wopt have thought too kindly of that and president obama would have...

>> i voted against the cromnibus like many of us did. we need to stand up. if we had stood together last night and if the president had stood with us, many said that we would have had a short-term three-month cr. but the president could have made it clear that he would not sign that. he should say to congress do your job. you have a job to send me an appropriations bill. we have agreed on $1.1 trillion as the spending cap. you do your job within that framework. ill look at it and ill sign a full...

Political savvy of senator warren. this was a debate of doing a short term cr and all of the circus was about immigration. warren was able 20 turn this debate into something else, focus on a specific thing in the package. that is turn the debate and turn democrats away from the white house. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> amazing. no one will defend it. its just in there and youve got to pass it. >>. all right, the other biggest story in the news, the response from the cia. thats ahead. live in...

House is foxs own ed henry. i guess weve got a new world order in washington tonight, ed. >> we do. >> and why would john boehner not wait for the new congressional majority and just do a short-term cr? >> well, thats a good question. and i think john boehners going to be facing that come january. everyones going to run out of town now if in fact this gets through the senate. thats still a hurdle that has to be met. youve got democrats like senator elizabeth warren saying she may hold all this u...