to upgrade your phone, douglass. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. our breaking news. u.s. drone strikes killed two al qaeda hostages including an american. caulous also killed two americans who were al qaeda operatives. we re back with congressman peter king. he serves on the homeland security committees. we heard from a fellow republican duncan hunter he was
difficulty in reaching common ground in congress and now there s another deadline for next week so what happens if they can t cut a deal and the money runs out? a national reporter from the washington post joins us now to weigh in on this issue. good of you to join us today. thank you. you know, a lot of republicans are not happy with any of this at all. congressman peter king of new york, for example, tweeting there are terrorist attacks all over the world and we re talking about closing down homeland security? this is like living in a world of crazy people. but as you know, there are other republicans who are against this measure because of president obama s executive order about immigration. so, what s your best guess of how all of this plays out next week? well, viewers at home are probably having a little bit of deja vu, because this is a similar break we saw in the fall of 2013 over the larger government funding which led to a government shutdown. you had republicans like
govern. we might not agree with president ob doesn t help anything or anyone to shut down the government. we re seeing that obviously on a smaller scale now with this homeland security fight. and the optics as peter king said politically are just terrible for the republicans. the republicans especially when we re talking about isis and all the homeland security threats, even though if the homeland security funding did get cut off most essential personnel would still work, some 80% of homeland security workers would go to work without pay. they d eventually get backpay. but for americans at home to hear we re not funding our homeland security department, it doesn t look good. you are right on all the fronts. i think that s what congressman pete king was talking about and you talk about the optics of all this, charles krautheimer said the republicans have already lost this issue, he said to go on with this again and again would not be good at all for the gop and he adds that democrats
president s executive actions on immigration. the senate approved that again just moments ago. the house, now, will vote on it within the next few hours. they lean toward extending funding for three weeks. just three weeks. some house republicans say don t fund the department at all. doesn t need the money. listen. when you look at the department of homeland security, at least 85% of it are essential services which means whether or not the funding runs out, the essential services will continue. border patrol, custom border protection, i.c.e. among them. there was a real government shutdown a year half ago for 17 days in october of 2013. i don t remember it being an issue back then. the other republican king in the house, peter king of new york, he disagrees and disagrees strongly with the other congressman steve king. he said if i have to vote against republican leadership, i will. i m not going to see
and not sleeper cells? not sleeper cells can i be the voice of reserve and play cronkite here for a second? which is one person acting alone, a lone wolf, is only capable of doing so much. they can maybe do a dirty bomb. they can t create a nuclear bomb. isn t there a limit on their ability? what pete king would like in response to this is completely out of pro portion. he is supported profiling of muslim organizations. many australians said, we don t blame the minimum community. so i think he s using this to raise awareness to his issues. my friend and colleague peter bergen would say al qaeda is not going to bomb the pentagon city mall. it s not big enough for them. it s not what they do. now we re in a time where terrorists will try and animate that lone wolf and trigger that lone wolf to bomb the local mall