Bit of, shall we say, uncertainness about the whole thing. But the white house does continue to drive a continuing resolution to keep the government open. They hope that this will be until february 16th. Legislative Affairs Director mark short of the white house drive way just a short time ago saying he is confidence that he can get the vote in the house. The senate, though, is another question. They need ten democrats to pass the bill in the senate because senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina looks like hes going to vote against it. A democrat activist group is keeping track of democrats who are voting against this bill. Theyre taking names and short put the odds of it passing in the senate at 50 50. What the white house is throwing its support behind, six years of funding for the state Childrens Health insurance program, delays in obamacare taxes on health insurer, medical devices and cadillac plans and keep the government open through february 16th. The president didnt quite seem to be on message this morning when he tweeted, quote, chip should be part of a longterm solution, not a 30day or shortterm extension. That said, the White House Press office scrambling to come up with a clarification. The Principle Deputy press secretary saying the president supports the continuing resolution introduced in the house. Congress needs to do its job and provide full fund of our troops and military with a twoyear budget caps deal. However, as that deal is negotiated, the president wants to assure our military an National Security are funded. He will not let it be held hostage by democrats. But that whole statement, dana, begs the question that if they can even get an agreement on a measure to fund the government for less than a month, how are they ever going to come to an agreement on something that will fund the government for two years . Dana well, this morning when the president first tweeted that, i was asked if i wanted to put it in the show. I said no. By 2 p. M. Theyll fix it. The president heading to pennsylvania today . Reporter he is. Hes going out there for what is a tax reform event, trying to sell tax reform across the country, but underlying that whole thing is a political event for the republican candidate in the special election on march 13th in the 18th Congressional District, which is just sort of on the western side and south of pittsburgh f pittsburgh. For a republican Kirstjen Nielsen to win should be a no brainer. The seat was held from congressman murphy from 2003 until he left the house late last year. President trump won that district by 20 points. Mitt romney won it by 17 points. The only poll that i have seen, which was a poll shows sicone up 12 points over his competitor, but its said to be much closer than that. The president tweeting, quote, well be going to pennsylvania today in order to give my total support to rick sicome running for congress in a special election march 13th. Rick is a great guy. We need more republicans to con our already successful agenda. Because of recent losses in alabama and the 10th Congressional District just a couple days ago in wisconsin, it was a district leaning republic onfor the democrat blew the republican away by 11 points. If they lose this one, dana, i dont want to be a republican candidate in november. No question about that. Dana all right. John robert, thank you. Theres a bipartisan meeting under way right now to hammer out a fix for the dreamers. Key leaders from the house and senate are talking and democrats threaten a Government Shutdown without a daca deal. The house expecting to vote this evening on a shortterm spending bill. Peter doocy is live on capitol hill. So who is in this meeting, peter . Reporter dana, theyre in the House MajorityLeaders Office about 200, 250 feet behind where we are standing. So the house pmajority leader i there, hes got john coryn there as well. Democrats there. House minority whip and the Senate Minority whip dick durbin. They have been daring democrats to vote against this month long spending bill because they put six years of money to pay for the Childrens Health program in it. Their argument is a vote against this bill is a vote against chip. But the House Minority leader, nancy pelosi, is still telling her people to vote no. This is like giving you a bowl of doggy doo, put a cherry on top and call it an sundae. Reporter the democrats are all expected to vote no because their demand for a daca fix was not met. Dana so if this bill does pass the house tphrbg spite of how she feels about it, how hard is it going to be to pass in the senate . Reporter dana, it sounds like the senate thinks they need five more days to round up enough votes because now republican senator jerry moran is pitching a fiveday long continuing resolution to fund the government, and it is gaining a little bit of traction so far. Jim morans proposal, i liked it, too. Do a short term deal, five days with the understanding that gets us time to have a break through on immigration, on defense spending, on chip, on disaster. And end this madness. Reporter many lawmakers have been complaining that a onemonth long funding bill was too short because it did not do enough to help the pentagon stay as ready as they possibly could be, or as ready as they could be with a longer term deal. It is not sure how much traction a less than one week long bill would get, but that is what theyre talking about on the senate side. The house is gonna vote first today, and if all democrats stick to their guns and vote no, then paul ryan the speaker of the house, can only afford to have 23 of his members vote no and have the cr still advance. Dana i hope you brought your sleeping bag and toothbrush because you might be there overnight. Reporter i hope not. Dana all right. Thank you so much. Joining me for more on this is mike allen, cofounder of axis. I think i have read every single day. Thank you for being here, mike. Thank you so much. One year of smart recipes, we thought by now we would be 50 people. Were 95 people and growing. Dana you do something in the morning and in the afternoon. In the olden days, reporters used to just file once a day and that was it. How much would Something Like todays scramble in the morning change what you were going to do in the afternoon . Well, dana, thats a great question. Today, your fox viewers have seen this play out in realtime all day. Multiple moving stories, just a morning paper wouldnt capture the drama of whats going on. You just had your great coverage of what the latest axios intelligence indicates is a coming shutdown. House republicans seem confidence theyre gonna get the votes peter doocy said they need. In the senate, it looks like democrats think its cost free enough to allow the shutdown. It looks like it may happen there. Separately, you this fascinating story that was touched off on fox last night with the white house chief of staff, general john kelly, giving comments to bret baier that were different than the president s about immigration. Of course, the president slapping back on twitter today. Tough day for the chief in the west wing. Both those going on. Dana, youve been there. You know even if you waited for the evening news, youd be missing it. Dana were taking a live look at President Trump arriving on air force one in pittsburgh. Tell me a little more about that meeting. Because i actually think that, perhaps it wasnt artful, but in my mind, what general kelly said was very similar to things that President Trump has been indicating in the past six weeks, as hes talked about the wall and understanding that some of it is going to have to include technology, where you cant actually have a physical barrier. What was so wrong with what general kelly said . Well, dana, thats very astute. Youre right about your reading between the line. For some time, the white house has been making it clear that when they talk about a wall, theyre not talking about something that goes through wire or something that goes through totally uninhabited, inaccessible areas. Where the testiness, the au kwarness was touched off was the way that general kelly phrased it, and the way the New York Times wrote it up. President , in addition to watching fox news, reads the front page of the New York Times where that story was, which made it sound like general kelly was not only saying the president has moved and, dana, you know that president s dont like to change their minds, even when they have. And second, general kelly seemed to be taking credit, along with experts for enlightening this president. You know President Trump. If theres anything he doesnt like, its being told that hes being enlightened by expert. It was the framing of it more than the substance that no doubt got him stewing, got caught in his craw and resulted in that tweet this morning which looked like a brush back pick to his chief of staff regardless of whether the chief was even trying to do work for him. Dip took it as the chief was trying to help advance the ball into the strategic move. Tuesday in that meeting everyone talked about that was so wonderful, he said ill take the heat. You know youre gonna get heat. Even if you get funding for the military an chip, this all comes down to something thats happened in 2007 and 2015, its that the congress cannot come to an agreement on what to do on immigration. That is why we are back in this position again. Its not just the chip money or the military funding. It is actually about immigration. Can they actually get it done this year . Well, the president in the end, when he says the wall is a wall today, what, dana, i know you agree with this. What they need is something they can call a wall, that plausibly a wall, that in 2020 he said i delivered. Thats the real thing here. Dana all right. Mike allen, were sitting here watching the president just arriving in pittsburgh. Thank you for taking us down the tarmac. We appreciate it, mike allen. Thank you. Air force one, as i just said, arriving in pittsburgh, where President Trump will deliver remarks on tax cuts and economy. 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Dana President Trump landing just moments ago, walking down air force one steps. Hes in pittsburgh on a trip men to highlight the effect on tax cuts on the economy. Pat toomey, senator for pennsylvania. Have you already seen results from tax reform in pennsylvania . Yeah, we sure have, dana. You know, i fully expected, and i said at the time, that if we lower the cost of investing in business by lowering taxes on capital expenditures, that business would invest more and we would see, over time, higher compensation for workers. The only thing i was wrong about was, i didnt realize it would happen immediately. But well over 2 million workers including many, many tens of thousands of pennsylvania pennsylvanians have already gotten a pay raise, a bonus, increasing contribution of their Pension Plans because the business sees the greater Free Cash Flow that they have and they need to invest in their work force to retain and to attract good workers. So its already happening. Dana the Obama Administration sort of regrets after passing obamacare, that they didnt get out on the road and continue to sell it. Thats one of the reasons it remained so unpopular while he was president. Do the republicans understand the need to get out there and talk about that . And is that why President Trump is there today . If you look at these two marist poll, the two aspects of it, still only 36 of people polled here favor the bill and only 39 think that tax reform will help them financially. Is there a way for you to help sell this so that they will understand people will understand and maybe change their mind about the bill . First of all, the problem with obamacare is it was bad policy. Dana thats why i said it was only one aspect. Youre right. Some of my democratic colleagues and some in the media have done a good job of completely mischaracterizing the tax reform. In fact, theres a lot of americans that think theyre going to get a tax increase when, in fact, theyre getting a tax cut. One thing thats gonna help us is with holdings are going to change by the end of february. People are going to see the pay check that they bring home has gone up. Theres nothing more powerful than what you see with your own eyes. I think your. Is right. We should continue to go out, make the case. I wish i could be with him, but im stuck here in washington, as you know. But we should be making the case and reminding people of the benefits that are occurring. Dana at the beginning of the show, john roberts from the white house is reporting about the president s trip and the president s tweet this morning in support of mr. Saccome. Hes running in the special house election to replace tim murphy. Polls have him up 12 points. Apparently there are republicans who are nervous about that race. Do they have a right to be nervous . So im very confident that rick is gonna win that race. Hes a good candidate. Hes been elected before. Hes doing a good job. But, look, we shouldnt take anything for granted. The fact is, in special elections four house seats across the country, Democratic Candidates have overperformed what you might typically expect for those districts. So we dont want to get caught asleep at the switch. Rick is a good candidate. Hes working hard. There are Additional Resources being brought in to help him, and im confidence hes going to win this race. Dana last question to you. Whats happening . Are we gonna shut it down or not shut down the government . And will you vote for the cr if its a shortterm one . So i believe the house is likely to pass a shortterm continuing funding measure. I will support it if it gets over here. The question is, you know in the senate, we need 60 votes. Will the Democrats Join us in keeping the government open and getting six years reauthorization of the Childrens Health insurance, or will they shut it down over the fact that we have not yet resolved immigration . Dana how will the republicans put the pressure all back on the democrats so that theyre the ones having to grapple with it . If a republican controlled house passes theirs, passes it in their body and then the vast majority of republicans support it here, but the democrats dont give us the votes to get to 60, then its pretty clear, democrats took it down. Dana interesting. Pennsylvania senator pat toomey, thank you. Thanks for having me, dana. Dana an accused serial killer now behind bars. Ahead, how Police Tracked him down. Plus, what do recent special elections tell us about the midterm elections and the possibility of democrats taking control of the house in 2018 . We will speak with republican congressman Steve Stivers of ohio. Thats coming up next. 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