jack lieu in many ways. yeah. i think first of all far from draining the swamp this is the most washington move you can imagine. big legislative failure, heads will roll. not obviously the president, but we ll make some changes in the staff. bring in the new coach. but one question as you point out is whether this signals that when the president won unexpectedly and we had republican control of the house, the senate and the white house, unexpectedly, they embarked on a very, very aggressive legislative campaign to act with using reconciliation, strict party line efforts. a partisan legislative campaign. health care has wobld it seems to its conclusion. tax reform is next. resumeably if we can get the budget done, also ideally on a partisan basis. is this a signal that the president is seeing the limits of that partisan only strategy and looking for a broader coalition? one thing i felt like that
insurance market. but many people are also waiting for us to do tax reform. there are a lot of things we have to do. repatriate the dollars that are stuck abroad overseas because they would be subject to tudoub taxation in the u.s. we have a lot of things on the agenda and it s up to all of us to make sure it happens. from a political perspective is there a component that plays into that for you personally? your district went for barack obama in 2008, 2012. trump won it by seven points in the past election. if there is no movement on health care, taxes, the budgets. are you worried it will hurt you come reelection time? what i am worried about is that we re not we will not finish the job for the american people, we ll not get these things done. there is a lot of frustration among people. whether on the left or the right, that congress simply can t seem to move when it has to. and so the focus that i have is to get things done for my district but also work hard to get a budget don
for state department, epa and hhs. it lines up with the administration s priority. not surprising there. we watched many times the last few years when president obama s budget went to the hill and got voted down with zero votes or one vote in the senate. it s up to congress now to get the budget done, right? yeah, and it s a matter of moving things around and when you re talking about this level of money and that level of funding for something like the state department to take a third cut, that is a huge, huge deal for rex tillerson and his department. shannon: all right. we know you ll keep us on track every night at 6:00 and keep see you tonight for special report. thanks, bret. bill: neil gorsuch starts his confirmation hearing monday. how s it going to go in utah senator mike lee is on the committee and will be our guest in a matter of moments here
republicans with the very conservative ones. so that s part of what they ll hash out today. not to mention the fact that we don t have a date for their elections yet. we re also learning about some of the other leadership roles, for example this morning, hearing that kathy mcmorris-rogers will not run for majority leader. in terms of the shutdown, they ve got two days to work this out, today and tomorrow. by midnight. the senate is pushing legislation that would hold onto our current budget until december 11th. giving them a few more months to get this done. and it looks like they can push that through and get it done by the midnight deadline. remember planned parenthood was a big focus, a big hang-up in trying to get that budget done, as you said. the leader of planned parenthood is going to be here today to testify and to defend their agen agency against allegations that they sold that fetal tissue illegally. thank you. the race for the white house, gop candidate donald trump is
the economy s unfair. unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly, for instance, support increasing the minimum wage. something that really only democrats are doing in this country. governor, as you know, a lot of democratic elected officials are lining up to endorse hillary clinton already. are you ready to endorse hillary clinton? i m not ready yet. quite frankly, i m tied down in a legislative session. i ve really pushed whatever i m going do until after next wednesday. we re in the final hours and days of a legislative session. i ve got to get a budget done, i ve got to get legislation passed. are there issue in particular that you ll be looking at though, in making that decision? well, again, i ll go back to this. i know all three candidates positions well. i have previously supported hillary clinton. and i ve had a good relationship with her. martin is a personal friend of mine. bernie i ve admired from afar. i think we have three great democratic candidates.