the north lawn. from congress the house of representatives did pass four bills that we ve discussed yesterday, to reopen individual parts of the government. the house sent the bills to the senate which is controlled by republicans. and the leader there, mitch mcconnell, blocked votes on them. republican states pointless to vote on bills that the president has said he will not sign. team fox coverage continues, mike emanuel, our guy on capitol hill. blocking those individual spending bills from getting to the senate floor hit a nerve with maryland democrat senator ben carden. quite frankly, i don t understand the majority leader s position as to why he would deny a vote on reopening government that passed this body man unanimously in the past. after the white house issued a veto threat on those individual spending bills, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he had no interest in so-called show boats. it s been perfectly clear the only way to produce this result
in the shutdown, the government takes pride in it and says months or years. that s not the action of a responsible president. of the united states. shepard: right now, hundreds of thousands of americans are working even though they may not get paychecks tomorrow. others are taking forced furloughs. you can see, some are protesting in washington, and elsewhere today. but this showdown affects more than government workers. trash is piling up in national parks. security lines are getting longer at airports. and food safety inspections are, reportedly, falling behind. all because parts of the government remain closed due to the battle over the border wall. we have team fox coverage this afternoon, mike emanuel reporting live from capitol hill. first, john roberts live from the white house. shep, good afternoon. you mention the rio grande valley sector, busy for illegal border crossings but not an area of the country where the president is considering building that steel barrier. the
goes on, it will affect more and more americans. mortgage applications delayed. national parks and museums closed. and 800,000 federal employees will miss their first paychecks on friday. making life increasingly difficult if no deal is reached in the next 48 hours. of course, that affects their spouses and their children as well. and the businesses where they would shop. not to mention the credit card and utility companies, mortgage holders, land lords who will expect their money whether workers get a check or not. how long this shutdown is politically tenable for president trump who said he would be proud to own the shutdown. that s one thing. reality for workers who won t get paid, that s quite another. we have team fox coverage, mike emanuel reporting from capitol hill, first john roberts from the white house. shep, good afternoon. in his oval office address the president said this could all be over in a matter of 45 minutes if the democrats would only sit down and negotiate with
here s what dhs said in a statement released late yesterday. overall we stop on average 10 individuals on the terror watch list every day from traveling to or entering the united states. and more than 3,700 in fiscal year 2017. here s a key point. most of these individuals are trying to enter the u.s. by air, not the southern border, but we must also be focused on stopping those who try to get in by land. the problem with all of this is that as you saw from senator robert menendez of nmg, democrats are going to give the message to the american people that the president is going to lie to you about what s happening on the southern border. any misinformation that the white house puts there on purpose or by accident is going to undercut anything that the president says tonight. shepard: john roberts live from the white house. the question, is there some sort of compromise possible, can the congress come up with something that the president will sign and fully reopen the government? te
they ll support other forms of border security. with that, we have team fox coverage, mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill, first john roberts reporting live on the north lawn. shep, good afternoon. one thing for certain, tonight s address by the president nor the joint democratic response is going to solve the problem of the government shutdown or what to do about border security, it will be an exercise in staking out competing positions. the. insisting the building some sort of barricade along the southern border, whether it s made out of concrete or as the president now says a steel slat fence is a major matter of security, that i.c.e. and the u.s. military need it to help them do their jobs to curb the know of illegal immigrants, criminals, and drugs across our southern border. the vice president mike pence making that case. the american people deserve to know that the situation on our southern border has become,