we ve known that for years. i don t want any of his money. our father taut us to stand on our own two feet and i m proud of that. it s not about the money. we love our father and he s been ripped from us. his wife jean hasn t commented on the claims but casey s long-time agent don pitts says the veteran deejay is still of sound mind. hers what he tells cnn in a statement. he has parkinson s. has it very bad. it took his speech. and for smn who made millions of dollars using his voit, for him to lose that gift, that beautiful instrument, it must be frustrating. but he s handling it very well. his mind is very sharp. his brain works well. so a really sad story, fred, particularly hearing that this man whose voice so many of us grew up with is no longer able to speak. he was a huge influence in my career and i think we can all hope that the family will be able to work this out peacefully. fred? all right, thanks so much, a.j. casey kasem s younger
now, democrats would say we do support those things. we just want to fund the government all at once. we want the house and republicans, the house of representatives to pass to bring to the floor of the house this spending bill that would reopen the doors of the government with no strings attached. listen to minority leader nancy pelosi and what she had to say after the vote today. right now enough republicans have publicly stated their support for a bill that could pass and be on the president s desk today. we re asking the speaker in our letter to bring up the vote to the floor for those republicans and more to show that there is a bipartisan what majority to end republican government shutdown. so there you heard her call this the republican government shutdown. that s part of the messaging battle that both sides are playing here. but i should mention that this is no change, no difference from what we ve been hearing for the last several days. the house democrats toda
0 we know it s something the president has said he supports. but really it s the only small positive development we ve seen in the last couple of days in terms of something getting lots of bipartisan support. i ll show you what house majority leader eric cantor said after this vote. he is urging if there s a support by democrats why isn t there support from the other smaller spending bills. house republicans have passed in the last week. let s listen to what he had to say. what about the vets? do the democrats not feel it s important to make sure the pain is eased on them? what about the sick children that need access to clinical trials, is it not as important to ease the pain of the shutdown for them? or is it just the federal employees that the democratic minority thinks is important? and so leader cantor is talking about smaller funding bills to fund the veterans administration, national parks, and for instance the national institutes of health so that people can have access to