let s now bring in cnn s phil mattingly following everything there live. phil, what s the latest? reporter: yeah, the senate is wrapping up. something we thought was going to happen hours ago, actually yesterday at this point. by a vote, george, of 71-28. the $300 billion budget deal, a bipartisan agreement, is now passed at least one chamber. as you noted, it has to go over to the house. it s going to take a couple of hours to get that process through. but the u.s. senate on a bipartisan basis passing an enormously consequential budget deal. one that would end the shutdown should the house follow suit, obviously a shutdown that s been going on for nearly two hours. perhaps more importantly in the longer term, take a series of potential self-imposed crises off the table as it comes to fiscal and spending issues and perhaps even more importantly, it would tee up that immigration debate that democrats have been want dog desperately over the course of the last couple of months related t
after that high close for the s&p. dow jones and nasdaq yesterday. seen stock markets around the world follow suit. shanghai, tokyo, hong kong and here in london. the markets already up a quarter of a percent. one of the market drivers. job numbers in the u.s. coming out later this morning. expecting 180,000. that s again 228,000 last month. the unemployment rate still sticking around 4.1% expected. retail had a good holiday season. they have bad news on the horizontal here with sears announcing it s closing more stores. how many is the company shutting and what is the impact going to have. say they re going to be closing around 100 around march of april this year. 64 might be kmart. this is a part of that trend line we continue to see. moving away from bricks and mortar. looking to sell some of these unprofitable stores as soon as next week. they re going to proceed with
really hard to sort of go a different route with it when pence, you know, starts off by saying it s the greatest privilege of my life. everybody else has to kind of follow suit. but, you know, this is one of the reasons that people who know mike pence, his loyalty to trump, his willingness to defer to trump at all costs is one of the reasons why he remains in the room, one of the reasons why they actually are pretty close, and despite many, many difficult moments in this administration, mike pence has always been pretty consistent in saying the things that he said today and pretty much every other day of the week. you know, don, because i have no life, i actually watched the whole thing. you cannot believe how long it goes on. i mean, that s the thing, we just showed bits and pieces here. but this festival of praise, it just goes on and on. it s much more bizarre when you see it all together. so much so you sort of don t
and that s one of the reasons he has the job that he has. one of the funny things i thought about that whole moment earlier today was that mike pence actually kicked off that whole tableful of celebration of trump, so anybody who came after mike pence, it would have been really hard to sort of go a different route with it when pence, you know, starts off by saying it s the greatest privilege of my life. everybody else has to kind of follow suit. but, you know, this is one of the reasons that people who know mike pence, his loyalty to trump, his willingness to defer to trump at all costs is one of the reasons why he remains in the room, one of the reasons why they actually are pretty close, and despite many, many difficult moments in this administration, mike pence has always been pretty consistent in saying the things that he said today and pretty much every other day of the week. you know, don, because i have no life, i actually watched the whole thing. you cannot believe how long i
earlier i spoke to adam kinzingser who supports the decision. you re one of few republican congressmen in the house who s publicly supporting the special counsel. do you think more republicans are going to tfollow suit, if s, is that trouble for president trump? well, i think it s the right thing to do. i called for this yesterday morning. i said, look, this has gotten too partisan, basically any new piece of information people now put through their partisan stripes instead of what really happened. i think you re going to see more people follow in terms of saying, hey, this is the right thing to do, let s move forward. i don t know if it s going to be trouble for the president at all. i think we need all the facts out there. either the facts are going to say when it s all said and done, there was nothing here, or there may be something there and if there is, we deserve to know about it, but my main concern right now, anderson, is not so much 2018, 2020, it s the institution of govern