This compromise bill. So as you mention the politics are fascinating. You have the president and Vice President calling rank and file democrats asking them to vote in favor of the package. You had nancy pelosi and Elizabeth Warren on the other side saying stand up and fight. Bottom line it got through. There were conservative defections because some of them wanted to vote to fight the immigration executive order. It now appears that that will happen in february when funding for Homeland Security is due to expire, sean. Mike, thank you. Joining us mow from the white house is foxs own ed henry. I guess weve got a new world order in washington tonight, ed. We do. And why would john boehner not wait for the new congressional majority and just do a shortterm cr . Well, thats a good question. And i think John Boehners going to be facing that come january. Everyones going to run out of town now if in fact this gets through the senate. Thats still a hurdle that has to be met. Youve got democra
republicans pushed to defund obamacare. ted cruz angered many of his own colleagues. there were testy meetings. he was essentially an outcast. mitch mcconnell was not happy with him. and the government shut down because clearly senate democrats were not going to go along with a budget agreement that defunded obamacare. the dynamics were a little different but if there s any comparison to be made here it would be in this particular case democrats obviously do not control the senate. they were making certain demands about what is included in a measure, refused to provide the votes for a shutdown. so i think if you want to make a comparison, you can compare senate democrats to ted cruz. i would argue it s a little different politically, the scenario, because, in part, democrats were united until today when ted cruz went through this in 2013. i was here for every day of it. the republicans were unhappy with how he was acting. senator cruz was the last one standing against president trump
favorites. they could have defunded obamacare and offered an alternative. they could have taken the president on with his un-constitutional, unlawful action. and shown they re tough. has the party been desperate to push something through if they re going to gain power? they re afraid of the shut down and gave into appropriators that crafted these bills and wanted to be done with it. they could have had a vote you re getting senate democrats on record, for pushing back against the president s amnesty. now, you ve created this huge skepticism. i expect it s john boehner trying to sabotage the republican party and boehner now, i think he s a wolf in
moment in history. it s amazing how democrats are praising elizabeth warren in the senate. listen. go elizabeth. she called people that wanted to shut down the government. let me go back to the tweet. because this is how he summed it up. it funds obamacare. and is filled with political favorites. they could have defunded obamacare and offered an alternative. they could have taken the president on with his un-constitutional, unlawful action. and shown they re tough. has the party been desperate to push something through if
she s exactly right. this would be an open and shut case. she stands with the framers. what is boehner s answer? what are the republicans going to do? they re going to wait for the next election? that doesn t fix it. well, they had their chance. they could have defunded obamacare. that is their constitutional power. they didn t use it. i agree with you. i don t think standing will exist for them when they go to the courts. mark, good to see you. coming up, you ll meet the democratic lawmaker calling the crisis at our southern border president obama s katrina moment. guess what? the white house not too happy about it. find out why. that and much more as we continue from dallas, texas, tonight. (vo) ours is a world of passengers. come on let s go! (vo) the red-eyes. (daughter) i m really tired. (dad) i feel bad for you. (vo) the transfers. well, that s kid number three.