of doing things, which does not involve every single year passing the budget right before christmas. this is not inspiring confidence in the united states government democrats or republicans. all right. senator and ukraine. mika, one last thing for the senator here. reports more strikes in ukraine today, drone strikes. seemingly iranian-made drones madeed byes russians plunging more of that country into darkness as cold weather sets in. seems to be a deal close to send patriot missile batteries to ukraine. what difference would it make and hour important for conceive to get that equipment? kyiv to get that equipment? looks as if our end-of-year spending deal will include significant new money for ukraine. that s important as well because the house republican majority that s going to be taking over in january has signaled an unwillingness to support ukraine
congressional leaders last night reached a framework, they said, for a bipartisan deal keeping the lights on, if you will. what can you tell us about what was reached, how long it will go and are things you wanted to see in there included? well, i m very glad they ve reached this framework we re going to all be briefed on it today. i ve been hard at work helping to write part of that budget. i m in charge of writing the budget for the department of homeland security and the border and we ve been trying to find a path there that can get both democratic and republican votes in particular trying to find a way to invest in technology and personnel along our border that s going to actually solve the problem rather than just get headlines. listen, we can t do another continuing resolution. this is just an absolutely insane way to run this country. so my hope is that we ll get the budget done next week. we might need a short-term continuing resolution to get there and then hopefully next ye
the same. it s important to remember that today in cities all across this country there are kids who walk to and from school in violent neighborhoods who aren t sure they re going to survive that commute, and so this trauma of gun violence in this country is not just about the mass shootings. it s also about the experience of living in places where gun violence is an every-day phenomenon. when you think why we should feel such a white hot 0 imperative to change laws of this country and make this nation safer it s not just about the number of victims s 100 plus a day. it s about all others who experience that trauma and people in sandy hook performed miracles amidst that trauma. i don t want today to just be about sadness and grief for them. that should be our first but also about admiration and gratitude for the ways in which they have taken that grief and changed our country for the better. speaking of that, talking about those 20 kids, the staff including the principal, came out in
the gunman. tried to protect as many kids as she could and was killed. the teachers who died hudling their students, putting her lives on the line for their kids. just extraordinary courage and they literally gave their lives for their kids. i guess it s hard to take any positive away from this, senator, but what gives you hope ten years on from this terrible, terrible tragedy? well, one of the things that gives me hope is all the ways that those families are changing this country. i was at a school in connecticut a couple months ago that was inspired and named after one of the children who was killed that day. and there are all sorts of work that s being done to try to build social, emotional health all across our nation in memory of those kids, but i also know that the laws of this nation are changing. this summer passed a bipartisan
communities act as we speak saving lives. a briefing two weeks ago from the fbi walking me through cases that law passed this summer prevented mass shootings around this country and people from getting guns. shouldn t have taken ten years for that law to pass we re now on a trajectory to regularly change the laws of this nation to protect our kids and that is only available to us because those families in sandy hook and families, parents, kids, across the country decided after sandy hook to not let the gun lobby control washington. it took way too long to flip the balance of power here but i believe that that moment occurred. that gives me hope i think for the next ten years regularly changing laws of this nation to tighten our firearms laws to make our communities and schools safer. senator murphy, good morning. it s jonathan lemire. certainly our thoughts are with those families today but i also wanted to get you on a couple other topics in the news. first, the government shutdown,