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Fund through september 30th. if they could getting a ruculture, interior, h.u.d. and the rest back open. whats the argument for not bringing that bill to the senate? >> because department of homeland security is critical. b i talked to a source who said its not up to snuff and theyre concerned. a lot of people feel it has to include the department of homeland security to move forward. so i think theyre holding on to that and seeing how much they can -- what they can build off that. >> thanks so ...

You see parts of state, parts of transportation, the epa, agriculture, interior, hud, health and human services. why not fund those departments and continue to fight on the wall? >> because what the congress is doing is holding these departments hostage. theyre putting those bills attached to that border wall bill -- >> yes, the republican senate is doing that. the house passed a bill to fund them through september 30th. >> the fact of the matter is this is a national security issue that congres...

The majority in the house but still have a split government is perform some oversight over hud. hud has been kind prafting just on its own, under this administration, and we need to make sure that its performing its functions. there are bipartisan pieces of dealing with this housing crisis we should be working towards. and thats something that i look forward to working with my republican colleagues on. what we know is homelessness ultimately is an issue of income inequality. high rents and low v...

Congressman, tomorrow youre going to pass legislation for eight departments other than the dhs and basically say lets do that and cordon off the dhs question? >> well, right. what is the argument for closing down the departments of state, of agriculture, of interior, of justice, of commerce, of hud and so on? everybody agrees that theyve got nothing to do with this conflict. it all comes down to homeland security. lets pass a special bill dealing with homeland security, and we can take it up aga...

We are giving him a republican path to do that. why would he not do it? >> i asked him directly, i said, mr. president, give me one good reason why you should continue your shutdown of the eight cabinet departments while we are debating our differences on homeland security. he could not give a good answer. >> joining me now, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. sth is that my understanding, congressman, tomorrow youre going to pass legislation for eight departments other than the dhs...

Earlier, the democrats are going to be talked down to who know so much more about immigration than this president and president and his staff. right now, i think nancy pelosi is poised to have the upper hand, because her job is to show the american people how they are being affected, how they are being hurt by this shutdown. you want to have a fight with dhs, lets do it, lets not hold hostage all these other workers, hud, justice, all these other important agencies. so the president has made cle...

>> it was a firm completely unqualified to work on the lights for months and months. i was in the u.s. virgin islands, lets not forget, hit by both storms, walloped double. people were living in structures that had no walls and there had been no action from either ben carson at hud. they hadnt even been contacted. british virgin islands was hurt as well. these two territories which are the responsibility of the united states federal government were basically blamed for their own suffering and sa...

Islands, lets not forget, hit by both storms, walloped double. people were living in structures that had no walls and there had been no action from either ben carson at hud. they hadnt even been contacted. british virgin islands was hurt as well. these two territories which are the responsibility of the united states federal government were basically blamed for their own suffering and said it was their own fault and they need to get it together while they were without lights and water. >> i thin...

Oversight. we are going to get oversight of the executive branch finally from the house of representatives. and whether that is investigation, whether thats hauling flynn and cohen and all these people up to testify, whether its calling in ben carson or hud officials to justify their budgets, we are going to start to see a very invigorated and enlivened house of representatives. the other thing that wasnt mentioned and i think its going to be infuinantly more important given the texas judge deci...

Come from neera or from joy, and i agree with both of them. but the number one word is oversight. we are going to get oversight of the executive branch finally from the house of representatives. and whether that is investigation, whether thats hauling flynn and cohen and all these people up to testify, whether its calling in ben carson or hud officials to justify their budgets, we are going to start to see a very invigorated and enlivened house of representatives. the other thing that wasnt ment...