structured, there is real drama whether or not the president will be able to do what he s trying to do with an emergency decoloration, here and that means a lot of republican senators are crossing their fingers and worrying about having to take that kind of vote. so we are watching that tonight. again, the house just voted to pass the bill that will keep the government open. what this should do is result in that bill being transmitted to the white house and the president sign it but as always with this president, you don t know what he s going to do until he does it. we ll have more over the course of the hour. it is a live issue this hour and will be live tonight, tomorrow and into the weekend and while we re watching that unfold tonight, there has been a lot of other things that happened today. the new attorney general william bar w barr was confirmed and sworn in in a private ceremony. andrew mccabe for acting director of the fbi started
what we want is for people to be secure. we want people to feel secure. and that, that s hard. and getting there and all it would mean is something that no amount of fencing is ever going to provide. that does it for our special edition of all in america. thanks to the amazing reporters that spent many hours traveling the border to bring these stories tonight. the rachel maddow show starts now. incredible, incredible work tonight my friend. that was an amazing hour. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us. lots to get to and lots going on tonight. the senate has voted earlier today and the house just has voted just started voting tonight on a bill that will keep the federal government from shutting down again tomorrow. as you can see there, this is the vote that has just happened now in the house so the senate passed it earlier. the house has now passed it. and this bill passing the house and the senate provided that the president signs it, this means
that we will not have another federal government shutdown starting tomorrow. because the president did not succeed in using that last long shutdown, nor the threat of another shutdown tomorrow, because that was not a successful tactic for the president to try to force u.s. taxpayers to pay for a wall between the u.s. and mexico, the white house now says that although the president will sign this bill that has just passed the house in the last couple minutes, although they say the president will sign this bill that passed the senate and passed the house to keep the government open, the white house says the president will also in addition to that simultaneously declare an emergency, a national emergency. so he can raid military funds, especially to build a wall on his own despite the wishes of congress. now grain of salt here. the white house says that s what the president is going to do, right? they say that he s going to sign
president himself, when it comes from the white house promoting the president and comes from his reelection campaign will put up pictures of him looking like a super model but it is something different when it s the federal government of the united states of america which doesn t just work for the president personal personally. they work for us and serve a purpose but we ll annually be delivered an official government lie about how tall the president is. annually, they will lie to us and tell us he s a height he is not and this is dumb stuff, right? why do we have to think about this? it is kps betiring to know how contend with being lied to by our own government about things that are so petty you would never think to fact check them. but what s the alternative? i mean, should we just like let
with reality, but it doesn t mean much when it comes from the president himself, when it comes from the white house promoting the president, when comes from, you know, presumably his re-election campaign will put out images of him looking like a supermodel. but it is something different when it s the federal government of the united states of america, which doesn t just work for the president personally. they supposedly work for us and serve a public purpose, but now apparently we will annually be delivered an official u.s. government lie, a meaningless lie about how tall the president is. annually they will lie to us and tell us he is a height that he is not. and this is dumb stuff, right? why do we even have to think about this? it is exacerbating to know how to contend with being lied to on a daily basis by our own government about things that are so petty you would never think to fact check them. but what s the alternative? i mean, do we just, like, let them say whatever they think