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Continued spending at last years level without any reference to additional needs or changes in priorities. so that crs are stopgap measures at best and an indication of failure to do our job. we have sent to the senate a bill that has six of the bills unrelated to homeland security, and the senate ought to take them up and pass them. and we want to soft the department of homeland security problem today not next week, six weeks from now, or have a cr that lasts until september 30th. >> but friday...

Day and if it continues for a significant period of time, is there an expectation that these people will continue to work week after week without getting paid? people cant do that. they cant live that way. >> the law expects it, but there can, like i said, there will have to be stopgap measures. people have to pay their bills. they will start to resign. by the way, if they work, dont pay -- arent paid and then resign, the law says they still have to be paid retroactively if they work, aside from...

Democrats want $0. $2.5 billion for border security sounds pretty reasonable. i think democrats are unable to explain why not. >> harris: if you are buying a house, i could see that. but, with this, apparently -- and representative carter of georgia told me this earlier, buddy carter -- that its somewhat the lingo, too. can we get to a place where we just call it national board of security, as lindsey graham has suggested, senator? rather than calling it a wall? which is what is apparently offen...

Reporting, we heard it was somewhere in the realm of $2.5 billion for border wall funding. according to mulvaney, democrats didnt even make a counteroffer. they said were leaving and left for the holiday. he does not believe democrats want to make a deal. he says he has a gut feeling chuck schumer wants to move forward, but he believes nancy pelosi is holding the cards and she doesnt want to make a deal because it will impact her chances of becoming speaker of the house. listen to this. >> this ...

Floors of either body. our negotiations are off stage, in fact, many lawmakers arent in washington, they rushed home last night with the understanding they will have 24 hours notice to return to vote on any prospective deal. the fact that there are a few people on capitol hill means they are not close to agreement. there will just be a skeleton crew on hand at the capitol. and the optimistic would be forging a deal today and returning late tomorrow. the senior house member says a more likely vot...

Ive made my position very clear. any measure that funds of the government must include border security. it has to. >> the reason the president was so aggressive in dealing with immigration today, remember, back in march, he vowed he never would sign another one of the stopgap measures to kick the can down the road without new money for the wall. that is why conservatives like rush limbaugh spent the last 24 hours telling the president, dont backpedal, and culture warning that he will lose reelec...

>> let me finish the thought. >> melissa: so you want to live by every single thing that doesnt spend their money or project that you dont get -- >> if the senate says let susan for berry, they cant spend $5 billion between now and february to do anything with the wall so lets not wait until then. lets do something more comprehensive and deal with border security. in a real way. >> melissa: but they never do that, as the problem. i hear you and i agreed to. i think everyone else in america is si...

Feel slats. i made my position very clear. any measure that funds the government must include border security, has to. >> that is why the president was aggressive in dealing with immigration today. in march he vowed he would never sign another of these stopgap measures to keep -- kick the can down the road without new money for the wall which is why conservatives like rush limbaugh spent the last 24 hours telling the president dont back, and colder warning he will lose reelection if he does not ...

Spend on that? on border security. what is effective. >> we have to spend what it takes to secure our border. how much are we gonna spend to secure my home. i will just leave the front door open because i dont have an extra $5. it has to be within reason but we know what the estimates are and we ought to get to it. the point is we dont have any other money for infrastructure and we have infrastructure to be fixed in this country. and we just spent $1.3 trillion. >> congressman i have a little bi...

Shutdown it did not work out too well for the democrats. there fox news poll. 32 percent considered most responsible with the democrats. 24 percent republicans. and the president also getting 13 percent there in the poll. this time it may not be that democrats potentially leading up to a shutdown. >> is definitely my assessment from covering the hill. the only! i was on house republicans to get their vote in line. they have had problems with the past couple continuing resolutions. these are the ...