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Prevent a a conference to the house on different bills. and that would be that would be a cause of the shutdown of the department. >> and if this were to fail, they would have no choice but to take up the senate bill. but instead, they want to go to conference. this is really really amateur hour to the inth degree. >> and the senior editor for fortune magazine. and rene is a senior editor on national review. the senate passes a bill to fund dhs all the way to september. and boehner i am reading a note. boehner is having trouble for getting votes for a stop gap, three- week measure. is it again...

Gunshot victims in all. then again, the elderly woman i mentioned that was found dead presumably of natural causes and the gunman then turned the gun on himself, a 36-year-old male. >> incredibly heart breaking details there, pat. thank you for the latest on that breaking news. also developing now, congressional showdown over funding. department of homeland security appears ready to go down to the wire with the clock ticking toward a midnight deadline to avoid a partial shutdown of the department of homeland security. the focus is now on a bandaid measure offered by house republican leaders....

It could in theory boost a conservative alternative to a republican who has emerged as the establishment favorite. but one risk is that the deep red complexion of the southern states' primary electorates would empower a candidate who can't win in a general election battle grund like ohio and colorado. all right. this is the south saying, we want our turn. we're afraid that an establishment candidate could gain steam. south wants to be the stop gap. what do you think? >> we're talking about jeb bush when we say establishment candidate. the south wants to put someone off like a ted cruz. i love ...

>> can they do this? >> the most liberal say they will avoid and shutdown and we are hours away. the government runs out of money at midnight tonight. so if they can't come to an agreement on what they hope, at least the negotiate ors hope, which is a big bipartisan bill through next year they will do a stop-gap to make sure it doesn't shut down. but what is going on here tonight is really bizarre. we saw the white house chief of staff come in to have an hour-long meeting with fellow democrats, trying to convince them -- we're not talking about republicans, but fellow democrats to go along wit...

Told, but they all know, it could lead to another government shutdown. that really appears to be off the table even from some of the most conservative members of the house republican caucus, carol, who we talked to in these hallways. just real briefly, what their plan seems to be is to fund entire government for a year except for the department of homeland security and just have kind of a stopgap for a few months on that to give them time to figure out if they can do anything with regard to funding to beat back the president's immigration executive order. but the bottom line is that most repub...