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Enough fentanyl coming in to kill everybody in the country. Isis smugglers, and all the numbers you just heard. Can the c. R. Be a way to get leverage to get ill leave that up to others. Well, and let me say this and we should wrap up. But some of yall may know brandon judd, the head of the National Border patrol union, brandon is a good friend. Ive spent a lot of time talking with Brandon Judd About what the Border Patrol sees and one of the interesting things brandon says, he says they dont pa...

What you could see is a one-week continuing resolution and a sense to continue funding government at the current level so they can continue to negotiate a deal. but as you are saying democrats including the white house are really trying to put the squeeze on republicans right now, shannon, by saying if you do continue to fund the government the current levels that would mean less money for the department of defense, veterans affairs, for the chips built in a whole bunch of other things they hope...

Susan collins. to the congressmans point, there are a number of people who are probably teetering right on that edge of saying, look, lets pass this spending resolution that weve had that theres been support for in the past, separate the border security issue, but really the other issue that the leaders are dealing with is the president and frankly, not wanting to put his members in the conference cross wise with the president. its more than just saying is the president going to veto the bill or...

Sometimes they are putting these big bills, firearms. saturday morning is going to be about 500,000 high school students coming to the capital to rally about firearms. firearms have not been resolved. >> thank you for your help in covering this. senate passing the $1.3 trillion spending resolution. we will be rightmewi back. definitely doesnt have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance.

To vote on them. you have members voting on legislation that they dont know is in the bill. thats a problem. >> lawrence: secretary mattis said no enni in the field besides budget cuts and operating under spending resolution. theres a bigger impact with the military. >> lawrence: we got to get our military under control. theres been so many accidents. i think because of the under iffing. they are not getting the training that they need because they have to cut and slice. so we got to take care o...

Our unaddressed issues here. the larger issue for all of us is we dont have an agreement on increasing spending for our defense and domestic needs, were still under the budget agreement caps. we still dont have a resolution to appropriations. thats one of the most urgent things to work on the next two weeks. >> senator coons, to the daca commitment made by majority leader mcconnell. those senators you were talking about, harris, booker, gillibra gillibrand, warren, they say they need something m...

Democrats in the house who suggested they would vote for the cr, nancy pelosi has been pushing for all members of her party to vote against it. its going to have to be passed overwhelmingly with republican votes but they could conceivably come up short. some members of the so-called freedom caucus have indicated they are not satisfied with this, particularly the fact that it doesnt get full funding, the kind of spending increase they want to the pentagon and that they might vote against it. they...

As far as the agenda, getting back to issues that really affect peoples lives, we had that meeting between the big four, is january 19th and the government funding. an awful lot of things that democrats want to attach to it, they are in effect saying we are not going to get a spending deal unless we get a daca deal and republicans are saying absolutely not, they are separate, there is a separate deadline. democrats are coming under real pressure from a lot of their base, especially obviously his...

Caroline shively in d.c. live with more details. >> k., kristen. sometimes congress treats mom ms. lopez and sometimes they come through. republican leaders are planning good in the next few weeks they may vote on taxes, individual mandate, sexual harassment in the entire federal government will shut down if they dont pass a spending resolution. the senate is set to vote on tax reform this week. the houses are to pass its version. >> i predict we will have a new tax code for the new year in for ...

Entire federal government will shut down if they donts passive spending resolution. the house has passed its version are ready. >> i predict will have a new texaco for the new year and a new era of american prosperity. americans deserve a new texaco. >> it will increase the debt unanimously. it will be a job killer and will raise taxes on the middle class. that has a big impact on the lives of all americans. >> democrats are pushing to amend the spending bill and allowing dreamers to stay. >> we...