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A bipartisan stopgap failed to avert the shutdown or. the u.n. security council has agreed to deploy cease fire monitors to yemen the cats are unanimously approved an initial thirty day deployment to the flashpoint city of her data is a truce came into effect in her date on tuesday but its been marred by sporadic outbreaks of fighting between the government and hooty rebels. thousands of people have taken to the streets of the hungry in capital budapest for another night of anti-government prote...

Billion dollars bill for a border war between the u.s. and mexico the democrats say there are more effective solutions to border security but trump refused to sign a bipartisan stopgap il to avert the shutdown. it was one of donald trumps most divisive election promises a wall running the three thousand kilometer length of the border between the u.s. and mexico to keep illegal migrants out of america trump still insists the wall is needed to counter drug smuggling human trafficking and gang viol...

The ground, in the lead up to this, kurds, we want to work with people on the ground in other instances. will they work with us now that they see we abandoned allies on the ground who may now be slotted. im not so sure. there is also a more subtle domestic consequence. it may materialize and may not. the democrats are taking control of the house next year. it is not impossible to imagine what democrats in the house, impeachment happening. they dont like donald trump. there are questions of campa...

>> bret: there are some senators already home. how does this logistically work? i tried to press the house majority leader on the logistics of getting it passed the house and getting it passed the senate, how does it come to completion? >> the senators we are told by the vice president yesterday that they could pass this and go home. a stopgap, short-term measure. >> bret: it has the 1.6 billion for the wall? i dont think it did. >> thats old money, it hasnt even entirely been spent. they let th...

Steve: a little old budget with the phone there. brian: late night for lawmakers. the senate approving a stop gap spending bill to fund the government. that bill with no new money for the border wall now heads to the house. jedediah: griff jenkins is live in washington with the very latest. >> good morning, guys, yeah. they saw and sung christmas bills. stop gap spending bill by voice vote that kicks the can counsel the road until february 8th. mitch mcconnell says this keeps the debate going. >...

Morning morning. >> well, kasie, thank you so much, and kristen, as well. thank you for leading us off. you will be with us throughout the hour as things will develop, as they will. and joining me from capitol hill is chris van hollen and, senator, thank you for joining us, a member of the house appropriations committee. and obvious ly, mitch mcconnell does not go to the senate floor with something this imp pornt right before christmas without thinking that the president would sign off on it. >>...

Brian: paul ryan sent the house home and we dont know who is coming back, a lot of them lost their jobs, a lot of them retired. what you are going to need is a vote to get 5 billion over to the senate to get the 5 billion. not going to get it because you need 60 to pass it through. the question is where is the compromise here? because shuman said this yesterday. is he enjoying what he says is a lack of willing room. wiggle room. >> they should join us in one of these two proposals which would ge...

Congress or the president should be paid when the government is shut down. maybe they will come together in 36 hours and cooperate and pass bills for seven departments and criminal justice reform and various and sundry other things theyre working on. theres no excuse for them to be leaving when they dont have a consensus plan and theres nothing on the table. just walking away from negotiations is irresponsible. again, we could see another stop gap. this is like what happens when president bush d...

Want to ever foresee keeping something like this on longer than six months. this should be a stop gap to keep them from possibly ending up a statistic dying of a drug overdose or being trafficked. steve: all right. >> which are horrible situations. >> one other quick thing, steve. i think its harder if i have an app. like the one i mentioned on the phone. you have heard time getting the phone away from your child than the g.p.s. thing away from them. steve: everybody who has iphone find my iphon...

Both sides. not necessarily both parties because theyre of some people need to go different ways on this. there are chasms in both partie parties. i do agree that a 2200-mile wall doesnt make sense. he will run into a lot of eminent domain issues, and that will get tied up in the courts. i think the world is not a safe now as it wasnt too thousand six when democrats voted for border funding and protection. ask them in 2006, because many of them are still in congress. ask dianne feinstein, what w...