making sure we have more immigration judges and ensuring we re addressing the root causes through support to the state department and the usa i.d. i m glad this final bill is getting ready to be voted on and probably in an overwhelming fashion. we re glad 800,000 federal employees will continue to get their paychecks. they and their families deserve it. thanks so much, congressman hurd, for joining us. always a pleasure. let s bring in our political and legal experts to discuss the breaking news. it looked like it was touch and go. it was not sure. that s why white house aides were saying it was likely that he would sign the bill. this morning, they were not sure. they felt the president was leaning towards not signing. a lot had to do the president s xhu comments but he was calling republican allies and saying, i m not sure if i m going to sign this bill. there was intense lobbying on
what is good for the recent problem is an example of that lack of trust. we should be talking we had a number of u.s. military killed last night from an isis attack. we have this impact that this shutdown is having on our economy. we only have 60 pers percent of people in dhs dealing with that with the threats happening all the time. these are the things we should be focusing on. i thank you very much, congressman hurd. always a pleasure. the new york times said trump called them up and wanted to protect vladimir putin from election meddling. did anyone tell the vice president before he said this this snorng. caliphate has crumbled and
funding of a wall. i said in negotiations after we reopen the government, we can talk about potentially having some kind of physical barriers. i think that s always been on the table. a year ago there was a piece of legislation introduced by my colleagues aguilar and congressman hurd, and it was funding smart border security including technology, including personnel, and in places where it makes sense, physical barriers. then in exchange we re getting additional resources to process claims to deal with the route issues happening in central america and to get passes for daca. i can tell you that will not happen without reopening the government. so lindsey graham suggested reopening the government for a
thing. i don t think that the way that president trump is saying it is relating well. but i think that his message that he wants to get across is good. just not the way that he is sending it. reporter: it might be an old political cliche. every vote counts. s that truly truer in no other district in texas. the district is truly one of the only swing districts in this state. the last two elections were decided by 2500 and 3,000 votes. will hurd won both of those elections. it cams down to a handful of votes across the district. that s why every little thing here especially this the last few days this campaign matters so much. people say that for a lot of race. for will hurd it does seem to be true. president obama endorsed ortiz-jones who was in that fees. and also right now, the former president is on the trail again,
the texas/mexico border and stretches from san antonio to the edge of el paso. it is about the size of georgia with less than a million people. for weeks an endless cycle of campaign ads have jammed the air waves from the incumbent republican congressman, will hurd, and gina ortiz joenz, the democratic challenger. a new york times poll shows hurd with a comfortable lead but in the last few weeks of the campaign the national republican congressional committee suddenly dropped $600,000 into the race and president trump didn t doing hurd any favors in this majority speck district by scribing the migrant caravan as invaders and threatening to do away with birth right citizenship. i would find a rock and hide under there. reporter: pancho is from eagle pass. we talked about the race if his porch, overlooking the rio grandee into mexico. he considers will hurd a friend