December 22nd but these lawmakers need to stop kicking the can down the road. They need to get to work. They need to stop playing partisan politics. And they need to do what is best for all of us, the american people. In a moment well go to blake burman at the white house. He was listening to Sarah Huckabee sanders and the press conference where a lot of things came up including al franken. We have lanhee chen and former Deputy Assistant to president george w. Bush, brad blakeman. Good to see you twice. You know, we, i want to start on al franken, right . Because it looks like al franken, he is now out. The democrats pushed him out, brad blakeman. And they pushed him out, im wondering if because it was politically exfedayeen for them . In other words, i hate to be a cynic on this stuff. They had plenty of opportunities in the past to call out men that have done inappropriate things. Bill clinton of course comes to mind but they never took that opportunity. Now they had al franken, that i just wonder if they want to sort of make an example of, then they can say to the republicans look what we did with al franken, will you do the same thing with roy moore . There is no doubt built. This is a political play on the part of democrats to line up to get al franken out before next tuesdays contentious election in alabama. And if roy moore to be the victor in that race, i think they will have a lot of fodder in order to go after moore and the republicans should that happen. So this was a political setup. It was politically expedient. They were running against the clock to do it. Al franken never got his due process that he had claimed that he was entitled to. He was rode off out of town. Trish now he is or the democrats i should say will go on the attack whether it be moore, whether donald trump. Theyre trying to say we cleaned our house. Now it is time to clean yours. Doesnt matter if they clean the house because they will get another democrat in the seat, brad. Thats right. Nothing changes as far as numbers are concerned but for republicans it might if moore would lose. We have thin majority. If we win we lose. If we lose we lose. Trish coming back. We have a lot of on budget showdown and well go to brad blakeman, well resume to lanhee, forgive me brad. Well go to blake burman. Reporter trish, i get an email every month or so for brad blakeman. Youre not first to make that mistake. Big day here at washington, over here at the white house across the has at least for some republicans they are making the argument they want a clean cr. Essentially saying that they want a funding bill to get through the next couple weeks. What weve heard here throughout the white house across washington, that is likeliest scenario. Remember, that they need to come up with some sort of an agreement by the end of tomorrow night. Chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan are coming here to the white house in a couple hours to try to hash all of this out. On the senate floor schumer tried to make the case that if this ends up becoming a government shutdown, that it would fall on the president s plate. Listen here. If a shutdown happens, as the president seemed to be rooting for in his tweet earlier this year, it will fall on his shoulders. His Party Controls the senate, the house and the presidency. Reporter as i mentioned here at the white house they say they want a clean cr. That is what Sarah Sanders said in the White House Press briefing moments ago, but i asked her how schumers comments arent political realities here in washington that republicans for the moment control this city . She said they expect some democratic buyin. They may control washington but this still takes some democrats to be engaged in the process and we hope, frankly that democrats will play by the schumer rule and not hold this bill hostage by playing partisan politics. They will come to the table, help fund our defense department, help fund our military, help fund veterans affairs. Reporter trish, here is where we are right now, no deal on a government funding bill. The big four will be at the white house in the oval office sitting down with the president next hour 1 2 or so a deal has to be struck by midnight tomorrow night. Though the thinking is, there will be a twoweek shortterm fix. Longterm the bigger battle all of this, the president wants funding for a border wall. Democrats want a fix as it relates to daca and dreamers. Trish . Trish thank you so much. Blake, burman. Reporter you got it. Trish i dont know if i can have you twice on the same segment like that. Lanhee chen and brad blakeman. Do you think it will come to that . I dont think so, trish, first of all, i totally agree with you. I dont know why it is we get into this business of having to fund the government two weeks at a time. Were the largest most powerful country in the world. We seem to have difficult time doing basic functions, funding government to make sure people stay hope and military is able to do things it needs to do that is ridiculous. Put that aside for the moment. I think votes are there. Republicans had a disagreement in their conference in the house whether they want to do a twoweek cr or three or fourweek cr i think they do the twoweek cr. Get to end of december, punt it to january and address more difficult questions in january. This is no way to do things. I hope next year they return to something regular. Trish the day before christmas anywhere on this. Well have congressman ron desantis join news a short moment. He has a lot to say at member of the Freedom Caucus. No one there can seem to do any math. We somehow continue to always spend more than we take in. At some point, you know, i dont know, brad, maybe Bernie Sanders will be in charge and all the taxes go to 95 , but we can not continue on a track where were spending more than we make. Anybody in america can tell you that. And yet, here we are . No doubt about it. It is one of the, most huge, ponzi schemes ever been created. Always kicking the can down the road, going crisis to crisis. When we finely sit down it becomes a battle of extortion and who fetes oneup on the other friday. I believe with my good friend there will be a shortterm agreement. That is really a shame. We should be think long term. Not every two or three weeks or months. Neil trish this is what government does, right . Sure. Trish unfortunately. I think about it in terms of what we also focus on here and that is Public Companies that are so concerned with their quarterly earnings. I wonder, lanhee, is politicians are a little like these ceos . Politicians are looking ahead to the next election. They dont want to disappoint anyone, want to keep everybody happy. Much like a ceo wants to keep all his or her shareholders happy. Do whatever is needed, a dividend play, a stock buyback. Allowing technology to be taken by china, as long as they have access to chinese sales in the interim, it doesnt matter. Kicking the can down the road constantly. To me, i want to hear your thoughts. Can we ever get away from that . What would it take to get away from that, at least in washington . I sure hope so. I think it will take some real leadership t will take people to step up, look we have to address longerterm drivers. One area we have to do work is entitlement spending. No one wants to talk about it. Trish here, here. Republicans tried to do it with medicare reform as part of the obamacare repeal. We have to do something about out of control programs, social security, basic on medicare. People doing better should pay a little more for medicare, should get a little less social security. I dont think that is very controversial point of view. Do a little bit more of that that is what is needed, that longterm thinking. You know why im not, trish, there is election coming up next year. As soon as election is people go into political what is best for us right now and not the future. Trish People Like Us think the United States of america is becoming ungovernable. This is why donald trump won. He is seen not having allegiances to things he shouldnt have allegiances to. Telling it like it is we need more than that right now. We need politicians to confront reality. Lanhee, brad, thank you so much. Weve got breaking news right now on al franken, minnesota senator al franken, finally resigning from his post amid whole slew of sexual allegations. Listen to this here. Today i am announcing in the coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Trish this comes amid mounting pressure from his constituents, including female Democratic Senators who urged him to throw in the towel. Adam . Reporter he said as you pointed out though, in the coming weeks, so senator franken, not resigned yet, could still be here for some of these votes which are coming up, but listen to what he said, you talked about earlier. That perhaps democrats would use his resignation as fodder against republicans . Listen to what senator franken said as he was resigning on the floor of the senate. I was shocked, i was upset, but in responding to their claims i also wanted to be respectful of that broader conversation, because all Women Deserve to be heard and their experiences taken seriously. Some of the allegations against me are simply not true. Others i remember very differently. Reporter im sorry we played the wrong sound bite for you, in the sound bite senator franken actually attacked. I am leaving when there is man who bragged on tape about history of Sexual Assault and sits in oval office and man preyed on young girls in his campaign with full support of his party. You can see where this is all lining up. Back to you. Thank you, adam shapiro. We have Ford Oconnell and former d. C. , dnc chair, scott bolden. Good afternoon. Trish good afternoon. I will start first with you, scott. Wow. Trish what took so long . Yeah, really. What took so long in regard to what . Trish to actual see him resign . This stuff came out weeks ago. Weve been looking at that picture putting his hands up against a womans chest while she is sleeping. For a while. That is what it appeared to be. Certainly wasnt a sitting senator when that took place. Im not sure what took so long in a sense. Trish does that matter . You think it actually matters . He game a senator and he is a senate, that photo exist. Bad behavior is bad behavior he didnt bring ill repute to the senate when those actions were taking place. Trish i dont know, woman after woman come out, he doesnt sound like a very standup guy. Listen, he resigned and he was, he agreed to have the Ethics Committee take a look at it. My goodness, when you talk about time, we could talk about why there have been so many delays in lot of political forums, but fact the matter the democrats are purging these bad actors. I must tell you the republicans are protecting their bad actors in donald trump moore and farenthold. Stay tuned because theyre certainly going to get their time in the spotlight because they have credibility on purging this bad behavior, republicans and democrats are going to have to do away with all the bad actors. Trish, let me say this democrats forcing out al franken was hardly profile in political courage. It was easy call. They lose nothing politically. They appoint a democrat to that seat this is nothing more than a political stunt designed to make the gop look bad should roy moore win the election next week. Hold on. And obviously they want to keep the heat on donald trump. They want to reset and try to take the moral high ground and reinvoke the same old playbook they run over and over. That is that republicans have a war on women. We know what is going on. Old as time. I agree with every word you said. You know what . That is a good thing. So how do you reconcile that with supporting moore, farenthold and donald trump. Whoa. You cant have it both way. You cant have it both way. Trish in fairness to ford, this is what he said you guys are trying to do. At top of the show i hate to be a cynic you had plenty of opportunities with other bad actors, bill clinton included never took opportunities to call them out. Well trish if anything, feminism and its term has been taken hold of by hollywood and the left, and if you arent a democrat, if you dont fit their profile, youre not a feminist. So i question it because stubbornness. Were all for bill clinton and not about protecting this young girl who, i dont care what you say, he took advantage of her. So another time, another place. Talk about the go. Op. Trish you have this opportunity. I agree with everything my colleague said about the democrats. I agree. Now lets talk about the gop. We will talk about the gop. Trish hang tight. Talk about it right now. Take about it right now. Trish i have the floor here. Bottom line democrats only care about this because theyre in the in power. We know sexual harrassment not just on capitol hill and hollywood, rom in work places across america. Here is what i do know, look i wish roy moore had stepped aside but bottom line i have to hold the seat because of the slim majorities and 73 years since world war ii. Only seven years republicans controlled congress and the white house. And given what democrats are welfare reform, what you brought up earlier, trish, where they are are on illegal immigration and jobs creation, guess by why roy moore winning that seat hopefully expelling him were putting country before country. Wow. Let me say this, on national tv my colleague just argued that he would rather have, this president and others would rather have an individual who has been accused by six or nine women of preying on young girls and sexually abusing at least one, he would rather have that in the senate that is not what i said. That is not what i said. You just twisted my words. I want to ajudicate the situation. Hopefully expel him. Trish that is not what he said. He wants to hopefully expel him. He wants to preserve the policy having the ability to have a republican in that seat. You would rather preserve the policy. Trish that is what the talking point is going to be. Im a cynic. At this point i know what you guys are doing. I just look at it, say i remember, i remember when bill clinton stood and looked at all of us, myself included in that tv and said i did not have sexual relations with that woman. He was impeached for that. Trish he was lying. And you know what . The democrats didnt care. He is still up on a pedestal while her life is ruined. If you really care about women, you would have taken a stand then. But it wasnt politically expedient to do so. For some reason, in this environment, and i get it but i just wish it always has been this way. Now youre doing something, scott. I am still agreeing with you all. I agree with both of all. Now lets talk about the gop. You have a president has been accused by 19 women of sexually abusing them who on tape admitted he abuses women and is supporting roy moore. Well take roy moore if he wins and hang it around the republicans trish [all talking at once] trish let me jump in. Ford this is the reality. Not just scott out there saying that, every Single Member of the Democratic Party look, we got rid of al franken. We cleaned our house. Why havent you cleaned yours. Exactly. Trish that is what theyre going to say. How do you wait a minute. My response is following. Guess what, too little too late. Youre only doing this because youre out of power. You never cared about bill clinton. With respect to donald trump, the voters knew he wasnt an angel. That makes it okay . Where is your ethics . Where is your decency gop. Trish more somber moment the president is now honoring pearl harbor veterans. This is pearl harbor Remembrance Day. Listen in. The president of the United States. Midway, the solomon islands, thank you jack, for being here. Appreciate it. Very brave guy. Lawrence carried ammunition to the gunners and thinking about the lessons of pearl harbor, larry said hopes we can build up the military again. We are building up military beyond you ever thought. It got depleted. You know what happened over the last quite long period of time. Not with us. Our budget will be higher than ever before. Building up it again. Well do it in your honor, okay . Were building it up, the best equipment in the world. We make it. And were supplying it in very big numbers. Thanks. Thanks. And we are, were doing a job. Robert fernandez, robert. Yes. Nice seeing you robert. Served on the uss curtis that delivered return fire against the enemy. He really gave it to them pretty good. They were very successful at the return fire. Good job. You look like youre about 50 years old. You must have been very young. You look great. What is the age . 93 now. 93 . 94 you look great. George blake stood watch on hawaiian shores ready to repulse a feared invasion. George, george, thank you, george. Good. That was pretty, pretty wild scene. You will never forget that . I have never forgotten it. You havent and you fought hard. Alexander enlisted in the army when he was only 17. Alex served throughout the war. If you tried to call him a hero, he would tell you he was just a regular grunt in the service, that is what he told us. I dont think so. Thank you. Thank you. [inaudible] i know it is. Youre not a regular anything. Youre a hero. Youre a hero. All of you are heroes. Thank you. In the weeks and months that took place after the surprise attack, and that was a vicious surprise attack, millions of american patriots like these men answered the same call and went to war. They fought, they bled, they sacrificed and they triumphed. Many died to defend america against our enemies, and to defeat the enemies of all humanity. The legacy of that legendary american generation is carved deep into the stone monuments of history, across the battlefields, oceans and harrowing skies of europe, and the pacific, throughout the war. One great battle cry could be heard by american friends and foes alike. Remember pearl harbor. Have you heard that before, a couple times . Remember pearl heart. Remember pearl harbor as we go to meet the foe, just remember pearl harbor as we did the alamo. We shall always remember, how they died for liberty, just remember, pearl harbor, and go on to victory [applause] what can i say . He is a very shy person too. [laughter]. And a great football player. Today our entire nation pauses to remember pearl harbor. And the brave warriors who on that day stood tall and fought for america. As i sign the proclamation, making this National Pearl harbor Remembrance Day, i ask that god continue to bless and watch ov