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Factor. they have to be careful not to turn into the sort of dumbed down version of peter marie c. you don't want to be out there gauging the markets, you aren't running -- stick to your netting, talk to your policy, talk about things that you are doing, talk about what the president was doing today. talk about these are real people really benefit from our policies. >> shannon: how much does the seed this function, uncertainty about all of these funding clips and how things are going to be resolved, budget caps, how much does that factor into how the market gets a little bit jittery? >> when b...

President will sign into law and now these discussions will get under way in earnest and i think right now with the deadline approaching it will bring a new, as i said, intensity to these discussions, and these ney goschitigosch yagzs and it will lead to a result. it's one of many issues in addition to others, budget caps and other things that we have to get done here in the next few weeks and so this is -- this is a process, and i don't think we can probably ordain at the beginning of the process what it might look like at the end. >> is this the first order of business now that congress -- a...

Situation overall with our military and the need for defense spending and funding? >> well, if we don't remove the continuing resolution and then also remove the budget caps, where we are, we're funding a military that has five out of 58 brigades ready for combat. 50% of all the airplanes are not flying because they lack the spare parts. we're the smallest military in 75 years. we need to grow it. we haven't put one dime into the trump rebuilding of the military policy decision, not a single time has gone into that because the congress hasn't appropriated the monies yet and it has to lift the ...

Levels, democrats are talking about, how close are republicans to getting a deal on plussing up military, plus the domestic programs? >> well, the budget caps are obviously a very important. our military families told us over and over again that readiness is being affected. and there is one thing that the military hates worse than a continuing resolution, and that is a government shutdown. so the most important thing is that we get government to reopen and continue the negotiations on the budget caps, which will give the military and some of our domestic programs like opioid funding the money ...

Are going on. i believe as laid out by leader mcconnell if there is not a global agreement on issues ranging from defense spending, domestic spending, budget caps, the health care issues that are still out there, the immigration issues, then the immigration bill if there is not an agreement, the immigration bill would be brought as a separate piece of legislation or there would be a vehicle for that and that would occur february 8th. >> the 60 vote threshold, 60 vote threshold. democrats have the ability or opportunity to make sure there is a process heard, that's what they're going to use in ...