sessions of the house and senate came and went within minutes this afternoon. it now appears the government shutdown will stretch into at least next week with no end in sight. let s ask our analyst and experts about this blame game upon both ends of pennsylvania avenue. april ryan, i ll go to you first. you covered a number of these shutdowns. what are the dangers of these shutdowns when both sides are in no mood to compromise. we had jerry connolly on and he may suggest a bill to the president he may want to veto. yeah. we re talking about a long protracted shutdown here. yeah. well, the average shutdown typically lasts three days, but we saw back in 2013 in modern times where the longest shutdown was 13 days. i talked to incoming whip like i said yesterday, james clyburn, who says that the democrats won t let the president stew in his juices. that s, quote, unquote what he said until they get back to work next week, where they are going
about rudy giuliani that strike me as curious, and this is just the latest one, but to jeffrey s point, one of the key factors here, of course, is whether any member of the campaign or roger stone knew where this material came from before they read it in the press. if this information was hacked by russia that would have shown the coordination. that would have shown the coordination, but it also showed that this material was laundered through wikileaks and exposed, laupderred by the russian government through a third party wikileaks and then exposed to the public so i can t really tell you what rudy giuliani is doing. his narrative changes every day. this may just be the latest thing that popped into his head, but one thing i imagine that investigators are looking at is, again, whether there was any advanced knowledge that this material was stolen by russia. putting to the side, sean, whether or not this is a crime as rudy giuliani puts it out there today, there is there are na
democrats this is something we gid not want to happen now. we want to take that oath on january 3rd and restore oversight of the executive branch and repair the damage done to the legislative branch by the republicans for the last eight years. the last thing in the world we wanted at this time was this kind of filing that occurred friday because i think as i said it moves us into that flashing red territory. we would prefer not to be right now. interesting. congressman jerry connolly, thank you very much for being here. and ahead, who could be the next white house chief of staff? we re going to show you the short list. it s a miracle he survived. [ gasps ] i got your back. based on an inspirational true story. they knocked me down, but i ve created a world where i can heal. hey, hey. lookin good. welcome to marwen. i got dreams in my head and they won t go welcome to healing. you need to face those jerks who beat you up. welcome to hope. i have my friends, and they can t take
ballot. i told her sure. i broke the seal in front of her, i filled out two boxes. she said she would fill the rest out, that it wasn t important. i signed it, gave it to her. it was not sealed. she said she would seal it and come back to me and show me that it was sealed. i never got a show back from her. you found out, though, that your absentee ballot was never turned in? yes. the investigator came and showed me that my name was on a list where my absentee ballot did not come up in the system. vice chairman of the house oversight committee and democratic virginia congressman jerry connolly has demanded an emergency hearing to investigator those claims. the charlotte news observer is also calling for a redo of the tainted race. u.s. and japanese authorities are currently searching for five missing marines near japan after a pair of planes with seven marines on board collided during a fuelling training accident about 200 miles off of the coast.
switch gears back again, democrats first order business targeting your tax cuts, not all democrats are on board, congressman jerry connolly airing party uncertainty, quote, do we really wanting to down that road, other party groups saying, quote, this would be a staggeringly bad idea. here to break down why democrats want to raise taxes is peter morici, former chief economist of u.s. international trade commission, thank you so much for joining us as always. we appreciate it. good morning. heather: so good idea, bad idea, why would democrats want to do this? it s a bad idea to raise taxes, donald trump has raised american economic growth to 3% and that s remarkable given the record of barack obama and done it by cutting taxes and deregulation. i guess as democrats have always been are antiprogress and just looking for cash to buy some more votes.