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Call it stop gap, kirking the can down the road, a punch. whatever you call it, that's what happened in the house. covering the jockeying over the government shutdown on capitol hill, garrett haake joins us on capitol hill. what happened? >> reporter: call it punting on third down. the house voted just now to extend funding for the government through, towards the end of january. january 19th. they pass add package of -- of spending elements here. going to pay for the government. pay for a fisa extension. that foreign intelligence surveillance, they'll keep that operating. passed the c.h.i.p. p...

They were promised that the national defense authorization act would be -- which passed under president trump, would be fully funded in the next bill. they're only going to get about $6 billion in necessary emergency assistance in the stop gap. so they're the part of the doing. it's not really the freedom caucus that's upset but, rather, that amount of pain than stepping on the story of tax relief that we haven't seen for three decades. >> shannon, paul ryan, house speaker ryan, saying that the next mission after tax cuts would be cutting spending on entitlements like medicare. today mitch mcc...

An unknown, who will vote on tax -- >> no. how do you like that? >> thank you for the clearance. >> senator strange is going to be here through the end of the session. >> should roy moore win -- whether or not you will see him on committees, he would be in line to replace senator strange and also formally invite him to participate? >> david, all of those are good questions for tomorrow. and we await the outcome of the alabama senate race. >> mr. leader? >> what can you guarantee will be the stop gap on the funding the government -- >> there is no chance we'll shut the government down. we're in...

What likely happened is that this group agreed not to shut down the government tomorrow. because funding is supposed to run out literally tomorrow night. so the house just voted on a stop gap two-week spending deal, which the senate likely can take up tonight and if that passes, ask yourself, what changes? this fight when it does get to the breaking point will be ugly whether it happens now or in two weeks because both democrats and the president seem confident they have nothing 20 lose politically did the government shuts down. >> are you going have a shutdown, mr. president? >> it could happ...

Lawmakers will reach an agreement to keep the government funded. >> i feel good where we are. it's basic governing, keeping government going while we negotiate the finer details. >> right now lawmakers are debating a spending bill that would push back the deadline for shut down by about two weeks. so that's the process that is underway now. this is a look on the floor. we do know that the president is in the middle of this meeting. remember, when they cancelled one last week, they showed us empty seats in a staged photo opportunity. today the meeting is underway and blake burman has the news f...