of weeks without trying to get too in the weeds and give us an opportunity to negotiate a budget agreement. a cap agreement. since it has been in place, sequestered and rehits january 21st. they will negotiate with the democrats and i guess made up a lot of real estate at some point. hopefully we can get that done. unfortunately in d.c. everything goes to a deadline. that s how democracy works, i guess. the $80 billion in disaster aid scheduled to go to texas and puerto rico in maybe in the caribbean islands be included in this short-term deal. also with california with the fires and it will be a stand alone package. our hope is to get democrats on board that may be opposed to continuing resolutions. from my understanding. we will do maybe that comes up second. we will vote for the mone-month
president? as the gentleman knows, you don t control the senate when you have 51 or 52 members. that is why when you don t have a cap agreement that you need all 4 leaders to go to the white house. when two won t show up, the best thing to do is don t show up, don t complain i don t have an agreement. neil: they re not talking about tax cuts. they re talking about a temporary spending measure to get through them through the hump that will be a deadline around the 22nd of this month. so close to christmas time, the lights could be going out. not just on your christmas tree. emily is here with us, and judy kurtz. how likely is that? in one word, ain t going to happen. not going to happen though. what is happening here, especially among democrats and republicans, is a bit of protest politics. they re playing the premature blame game mere. the government shut down would be swiss idle for
marian brown, is that her name? i heard what she said this morning on nbc. no one should have to go through something like that let alone here in congress. i think he should resign immediately. i ve just been briefed on the allegations and i think he should. your second question on tax reform. i m not a guy in the guarantee business. i can only control this side of the capitol. i m confident we can get this done this year. [inaudible question] it would be nice if they show to meetings and participate in the negotiations necessary to not just keep the government open but get a cap agreement. i don t know why they decided
necessary to not just keep the government open but to get a cap agreement. i don t know why they decided not to show up for these negotiations. when you negotiate legislation, congress passes a bill, the president signs it, and that s why congress and the president s negotiate legislation. i did it when bush was president. i did when obama was president. donald trump is our president. people should show up for negotiations. so i m getting there. so when they go when they decide not to participate in the negotiations they re hardly in a good place to make a demand i would say. we re going to, obviously, have to have a short-term cr. the duration of the cr we re in talks with our own members and having a conference with our members that go through all of that. stay tuned on that. i would also like to point out the fact that the house has passed all the appropriation bills. the house passed all 12 appropriation bills in september. so we here in the house, i think for the first time sinc
are very different. but both do involve credible u.s. threats of sanctions or force to push those nations towards u.s. objectives. in iran, the obama administration has achieved a short-term breakthrough where most modern administrations have failed. the new six-month nuclear freeze in exchange is a key diplomatic step, although a long term deal requires more work. secretary kerry also warned members of congress to back off the sanctions program while the six-month period plays out. for more on the diplomacy and the road ahead, we welcome dennis ross, former special assistant to president obama until 2011 and former diplomat for presidents clinton and george bush senior. thank you for joining us. my pleasure. so ambassador, you have described this as times as a cap for cap agreement with iran. walk us through what the administration is doing here, and what, if anything, we learned from today s hearing. well i think the key thing the administration is trying to