we got a surprise this afternoon. or i thought it would be a live at the white house. there s the white house briefing. there s going to be a briefing today scheduled to start in 30 minutes. the first one in more than a month. the sixth briefing of sarah sanders since september. president trump tweeted last week that he told sanders don t even bother with the briefings that much anymore. the white house correspondent s association responded. more ahead. first, the standoff over president trump s border wall continues even now. because the president told the wall street journal the odds of congress coming up with a deal that he can accept are less than 50/50. the parent companies of the journal and fox news share common ownership. president trump signed a bill on friday night you ll remember that reopened the federal agencies until just until february 15. so now hundreds of thousands of federal employees are going back to work after missing two paychecks because of the longest governm
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people were arrested. the yeahs are 56. the nays are 40. the motion to concur is passed. last night the senate passing that $1.1 trillion spending bill. this bill is now headed to the president s desk. aaron mcpike is joining us live in washington. aaron, this bill did not pass all that easily. how did it all go down? well, it did pass with broad bipartisan support, but there was also pretty substantial bipartisan opposition. 21 democrats, 18 republicans, and one independent voted against it, and how they got it done was essentially appeasing ted cruz to some degree. you may remember that mike lee and ted cruz with a pair of junior republican senators who are holding up final passage of the bill on friday night, and they had to go into a long
problem with the tea party republicans in the house. he can t seem to keep them in order and they ve had a lot of difficulty trying to get anything done. now that republicans will be taking control of the senate in january, mitch mcconnell will face much the same thing. ted cruz and mike lee, the two republicans junior senators who held up this bill on friday night, they have shown that they are willing to go to unusual lengths to make their point and that is what mitch mcconnell is certain to face come january. i d also make the point that president obama and the democrats will have problems of their own. elizabeth warren also voted against it because it rolls back regulations on wall street reform and you can be sure she will make those points in the come year as well. all righty, erin mcpike, appreciate it this morning, thank you. we re learning about a frightening incident in the skies. a russian military intelligence plane nearly collided with a commercial