Congress Down News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Happening at the senate. what's your reaction to the special counsel, to bob mueller being appointed as special counsel on this very specific case? >> i respect the decision. he's a good choice in terms of respect among members of both parties. he's a seasoned former fbi director. i don't know what caused the appointment. i haven't seen any evidence of a crime yet. bottom line is i respect the decision. this pretty much shuts congress down. now i think the public will be one of the biggest losers of this decision. i don't see how we have public hearings now that we have a special counsel. >> j...

The funding for planned parenthood or we'll shut the congress down, would you give in, would you surrender? >> we'd be talking. just like as he said, the president was willing to talk to iraq without pre-conditions. willing to talk to iran without pre-conditions. but he won't talk with a republican without pre-conditions? this is a red line president who decides that he's not negotiating ever. that's his strength. because what we need to have, because if all of this -- what we need to have, it's not about me or charlie or about the president of the united states. do you know who it's about? it...

Politics, our people were played last night as a pawn, and that's why people hate washington, d.c. that's why they hate this politics. last night it was my party responsible. both parties can take plenty of responsibility over time, but last night, my party was responsible for this. >> and -- >> 66 days. >> -- like i said before, you have peter king, frank lobiondo, who is a lowkey guy. they're outraged because they have seen the suffering in their state. >> we'll have peter coming up. >> saw the suffering in their state. again, if the speaker would take him to the side and said listen, not go...

Go to the vince lombardi rest area. anyway, the republicans did find a way. i mean, do the keystone pipeline and they're going to do the payroll tax cut. you can't say they've always been recalcitrant. they say okay. you want us to do something that politically we don't want to do because we don't think it works economically? all right. we'll swallow that, mr. president. but you need to do the keystone pipeline which you don't want to do philosophically because we believe it'll create jobs. that's the boulevard. so you can't say in every instance republicans are recalcitrant. i've been very cr...

Patrol. >> i have discussed it with anybody who will listen. i have several people from congress down, state and federal representatives down and have offered to cut them down myself just to get them out of the way. they have been a thorn in our side and they have been used widely by the drug trafficking organization or the human trafficking people to come across there. it creates challenges for us and the only thing that have visible there that protects the united states is a couple of cameras the border patrol set up. >> shannon: sheriff, i understand the structures have been there so long i...