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Country illegally. so, everything from drugs and human trafficking, all these things that we say we are against, but the democrats are actually -- if you don't want a wall, how is it that you think you are going to impede? and if nancy pelosi, to listen to her, says it's immoral, does that mean that she wants to take down the existing wall? let's have that fight and have that discussion. griff: keep that government shut down until there is movement on the side. >> there are numbers out there how big the shutdown are are very, very small. 75% of the government is funded through automatic spendi...

To keep the government operating -- obama care still gets funded. that's because -- it has mandatory spending. in other words, automatic spending that even if the government shut down, obama care still by and large gets funded. there is john cornyn, read a few too many articles saying he is afraid of ted cruz going out there and dismandateling every aspect of ted cruz's argument. >> yes. factually he is right. a congressional research service report, requested by another senator, that showed clearly obama care is based on mandatory spending. mandatory spending does not shut down if you lose go...

So, taxes plummeted. two, automatic spending on unemployment insurance and food stamps goes up because more people don't have money -- >> and if you don't have part two that you did, that's when you get the great depression. it it is a stabilizer. >> but the spending that can be controlled -- and by the way, when the recession ends then your unemployment insurance expenditures goes down and your tax revenues go up again. that's why you should have a big deficit during the recession. but the part of spending the congress can control, all the discretionary spending, has been going down, not up. ...

Passed the senate with overwhelming bipartisan support would extend tax cuts for all workers earning less than $400,000 a year, prevent a tax hike on estates valued at less than $5 million and extend unemployment benefits that were set to expire yesterday for some 2 million people. since congress missed the january 1st midnight deadline, technically the country did go over that fiscal cliff. but by passing the compromise deal in the house and senate, congress can try to take credit for retroactive tax cuts. to avoid this fiscal cliff, congress essentially set up new ones. in just two months, t...

Overwhelming bipartisan support, would extend tax cuts for all workers earning less than $400,000 a year, prevent a tax hike on estates valued at less than $5 million and extend unemployment benefits that were set to expire yesterday for some 2 million people. since congress missed the january 1st midnight deadline, technically the country did go over that fiscal cliff. but by passing the compromise deal in the house and senate, congress can try to take credit for retroactive tax cuts. to avoid this fiscal cliff, congress essentially set up new ones. in just two months, they're going to have t...