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there and even though he missed he had this huge grin. it's all act your attitude. >> attitude can manifest a lot of things. >> they both have good attitudes. >> we'll see what they manifest for tonight. jeff, thank you so much. as always, we love having you here. "cnn this morning" continues right now. ♪ treasury secretary janet yellen warning washington it has just 31 days to pay america's bills or risk catastrophe. >> this bill has to be between biden and mccarthy. >> it's political arson. >> it's time for republicans and democrats to sit in the room and act like adults and ...

Another temporary short-term funding deal. how difficult is that for folks at the pentagon to be planning militarily? >> well, it's an absolute recipe for disaster. you can't run the defense department that way. you can't do multiyear contracts. have you no new starts whatsoever. every year we lose billions of dollars as a result of it. and, here's the thing that they have got to do. while the congress has authorized and president trump has signed into law now an authorization bill of $700 billion for defense, that only authorizes the appropriators to decide how much of that they are going to ...

Desire to increase our defenses. >> absolutely. good news this week. the president signed into law the fy 18 act that brings us closer to a $700 billion, approximately $100 over the budget. the problem is not the budget caps are still there and the appropriators have to pass legislation and they have to remove those budget caps or -- we fund $549 billion and that means no, i say no, military plus of. that has to be done in the next couple of weeks. they need democratic support to do it. i think they'll likely get it because they'll probably work some deal with the democrats to give them some i...

Going on here to obtain those in the first place. steve: it looked like somebody dropped a dime on what was going on, and he had to look into it, and that's how we got where we're at today. ainsley: thanks, michelle. >> you bet. you too. >> send it over to jillian with the day's headlines. >> that's right. good wednesday morning to you guys. let's begin with this. president trump signing a 700 billion-dollar defense policy bill to thwart our nation's heroes. >> with the signing of this defense bill, we accelerate the process of fully restoring america's military might. we need our military. it...

Birds. other trend had big retailers closing for thanksgiving. i like this one. allowing workers with their families. in store spending is still out pacing online shopping with americans projected to pay $549 billion in person and 129 online during the holiday season. put me down for the online shopping category. joining me now is our consumer saving expert at nerve wallet. kourtney, that's the best strategy for approaching holiday shopping that black friday is not actually black friday and all these discounts. i feel like i got all my e-mails about the discount two days ago. >> yes, it seems ...