democrats pushing forward on loosening environmental regulations, increased vetting of syrian refugees, exporting u.s. crude oil currently which there s a ban on. those issues are still being figured out. this is paul ryan s first large-scale budget negotiation as speaker and his negotiators are still getting to know the democrats negotiators and how they work and what not. one very important part of this bill will be the droguea act, the health care for 9/11 first responders. jon stewart has been all over the talk shows, we here at msnbc have been covering it. it s been told to me that they are very confident it will be in this spending bill, the 9/11 first responders will get a permanent re-authorization of their health care. they re still working out the details, but that s where it is. but i think it s pretty safe to say this will be done by wednesday night. they don t want any shutdown.
challenge for them. i do think there s going to be some partisan difference in our own country about the reaction to this. i think vice president biden and, of course, president obama are very pro-democracy in a sense they like what they re seeing here. i think you re going to see some real skepticism from the republican party about whether we re on the right side of history. and whether we re right in supporting this effort here. there may somebody i told you sos. there may be some who lost egypt kind of finger pointing. so i think that s going to be down the road. right now i think the vice president s right. we all want to help move that military government toward a civilian elected government. let me back up on that this potential partisan divide the previous administration was all about, exporting u.s. democracy. so when you say i told you so or republicans would be against it, why wouldn t they say this is what we were talking about the whole time? right. the freedom agenda w