Headquarters. Hi, eric. Fox news has learned the first procedural vote on the spending bill will come at 1 00 a. M. Sunday morning with a final passage of the legislation expected monday. Lets go to chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel live on the hill with the very latest. Hey, mike. Hi, arthel. Were in a bit of a Holding Pattern on this 1 trillionplus. At this point senator majority leader harry reid is going through the procedures if you will to try to bring up some nominees, such as the president s Surgeon General pick. And also took this swipe at some of his colleagues. We worked for a long time yesterday, into the late hours of the night, trying to secure an agreement to vote on a longterm government funding bill. I was last talking to the chairman of the Appropriations Committee around 11 00 last night. Regrettably small group of Senate Republicans has determined its in their political interest to hold this legislation hostage. Lets take a live look at the senate floor
Public hearing. Any investigation of this kind will start with private interviews to determine the value of what a witness has to provide for the committee. One thing that were really conscious of, we werent given a free pass to do a witch hunt. We were asked to do a real investigation. Well see high profile people and we will see analysts from the intelligence community. Or we may see a 28yearold that happens to answer the phone at the white house on the wrong day when an ambassador called him and when they went around and said who talked to the ambassador, they raised their hand. Mark and i dont want that person to have to get a lawyer to be interviewed. Wed like to bring them up and unders played, if any, without any liability that extends to them. So were really conscious of trying to assess each individual person for what the need is, but we dont rule anything out for anybody relative to how public the information might be. Have you spoken to flynn . Im not going to tell you one w
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