the core question is should they or should they not be on a special pathway to citizenship. i think there s ways to get to citizenship if they earn it and do it the other others had to do it who didn t come illegally. this say fox news alert. i m robert grabe. a shutdown of the government is underway. the senate derail republican bill set to go through february 16. the partisan standoff was over immigration and spending. five republicans senators vote the democrats. it s the fourth shutdown in the past quarter century. it will only partially stop government operations. they said they will not negotiate until the shutdown ends. sarah huckabee sanders said quote, we will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants
to younger people and less generous to older people. there would be a cap so that really high income people wouldn t be able to get access to it at all, but really the question here is what are republicans trying to do with this bill, and i m not sure they know, except to say we have a bill that has repealed and replaced obamacare, because it s really not clear who the constituency is for this legislation, and the fact that so many major conservative groups have already come out in opposition. heritage action, freedom works, americans for prosperity, this bill was supposed to unite the right which was really fractured about health care, going into this process. and they have united the right in opposition to the bill. one of the chief complaints, peter, as you know to obamacare, it was rammed down our throats so fast. no one had time to read it. it was 1200 pages, we couldn t get our heads around it. no cbo scoring, no public hearings, markup on the bill set for tomorrow.
this brought up right now. we can take the trade bill up after this. but with the clock ticking and with this bill set to expire the patriot act set to expire at the end of the month and both houses set to adjourn at the end of this week, i think this needs to come up right now. senator you talk about americans not wanting the government to collect all kiepds of kinds of data, especially phone data. there seems to be a divide on this issue in your party in particular. chris christie said on monday you can t enjoy your civil liberties if you re in a coffin. what do you say to that line of criticism? look, none of us wants to be in that position. but it is a false choice, it is an absolute false choice to say that you either have to reauthorize, to extend the patriot act authority as is without modification, without protections for the american people, or we re all going to die. that is a disingenuous comment, and i think he should retract that statement. but we have carefully bala
make the holidays pop! good morning. i m t.j. holmes. i m reena nin good morning to you all. i m t.j. holmes. i m reena ninan. here are some of the top headlines we re following on world news now. former vice president dick cheney is highly critical of the senate report on the cia torture. cheney said the cia s approach to interrogating terror suspects was necessary after the 9/11 attacks, and he would make the same decision again. full details in just a minute. congressional republicans and democrats are creating a massive spending bill set to be voted on in the house today. their complaints range from the measure s weakening of campaign finance reform laws to challenging president obama s immigration policy. and the nfl openers unanimously approved the new personal conduct policy for players. those charged with a violent crime will be put on paid leave pending an independent investigation. it remains to be seen if the players union challenges the new policy.
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