them. eric: a lot of republicans are delighted to have the tax reform. to have it sent to president trump by christmas. that will get in the way of a lot of needed spending bills. we have a spending deadline coming up. we talked about this earlier. every couple of weeks the sky is falling. the government is going to shut down. neither party is motivated to block a spending bill. republicans are in charge and they want to get it across the finish line. we ll see another short-term bill before january when they come back in congress and take up something that will get us to the through the rest of the fiscal year. this is something that repeats itself as you say year after year but neither party is sure who will get blamed don t think democrats are going to shut down the government on december 31. think they will come up with an agreement with republicans of this parity between defense between defense and domestic spending and they will get it done and then they will be back in january
advances. it is all across the country in various socioeconomic strata. some of these cases are truly outrageous. we will follow up on that. this is the provision of the federal law that allows us to surveil foreigners overseas believed to be involved in terrorism. the department of justice is okay if this debate goes into the spring. is that true? we knew this authority would be authorize said this year. it expires december 31. now if congress has not reauthorized about pwr that, we will have to immediately start winding that down. we have to find out the communications of terrorists outside the united states. we re talking isis fighters in iraq and on from there. we need to know their communications, their networks, sources of of financing, what they re planning. the best way to do that is with this particular tool. we have been doing
paul ryan knows if he didn t get anything through on december 31, on january 1, he will cease to exist and he didn t want thoesn to happen. what is this going to do against he average americans? they don t fight against taxes like they do against health care. you feel do or die. and taxes seem more abstract. but let s be really clear. this bill is not just a reshaping of the tax code, it also has a significant impact on health care and on access to education. these are all the things the american people aren t getting told about this bill and how wide ranging it is. and as stefr phanie says, the problem is not about the stock market or economic growth. it is about wage growth and driving up wages for middle class workers. this bill does nothing in its appearance to drive productivity up and wage growth up and that is the biggest challenge facing american families. and aarp says it hurts seniors. we re out of time. have a great weekend. thank you so much. we ll head back to capitol
services. the fbi database had one entry from the pentagon for a domestic violence conviction as of december 31 according to u.s. officials and had none from other federal agencies. secretary of defense jim mattis has ordered the inspector general to define what the problem is, but i think they did so in 1997. now congress is getting involved and senator john cornyn of texas is crafting legislation to require the pentagon to swiftly report criminal history to the fbi database. the shooter had seven incidents of domestic violence in texas between 2011 and 2012. five were withdrawn as part of a plea agreement with the air force, shep. shepard: jennifer, you have more info about high widespread this problem is throughout the military? in fact, that 1997 pentagon inspector general report found widespread lapses among all of the military services. we now know in more than 80% of
getting it done by the end of the year. the president would accept going into next year. you have paul ryan, the speaker of the house saying he wants it done by the end of the year and would keep congress through christmas to get it done. mitch mcconnell said it would get done this congress, which would get us through january of 2019. so i asked the president saying are you okay if the timetable slips beyond the end of the year to which the president answered that he s not going to talk about that. he wants it done this year. the senate majority leader said the goal is to get it done by the end of the year. so raises the possibility it could slip. but right now everybody from the president on down wants to be on the same page in terms of getting it done before december 31 of this year. now then, one of the crucial points that there will be in this is a vote on thursday. that is when they set the agenda