provoke a constitutional crisis. in the united states of america, no one, no one is above the law. not even the president. congress must make clear to the president that firing the special counsel or interfering with his investigation by issuing pardons of essential witnesses is unacceptable and would have immediate and significant consequences. i hope my concerns are unfounded. in many ways, i hoped i would never have to make this kind of speech. but there are troubling signs. it is critical that all of us, as elected officials and as citizens speak up against these threats now, before it s too late. reporter: now, just a few days ago, wolf, i asked warner s counterpart on the senate intelligence committee, the republican chairman, richard
coming in. thanks for having me. is there going to be a short-term spending bill passed so the government doesn t shut down? wolf, i don t think anybody s advocating for a shutdown right now. i think congress will do the right thing and we ll get a short-term continuing resolution to get us into january. i think you ll see a large vehicle coming together in january that has the spending bill and some of those other priorities that phil was mentioning a minute ago, that the leader mcconnell has, but also some of the democrats have. but none of those provisions that he s talking about, the children s health insurance program, continuing some of the intelligence, surveillance programs, some of these other things that some wanted to attach to this temporary spending bill, it s going to be clean, there s not going to be anything there? i think there ll be short-term patches in each of those programs, wolf, that basically provide a 30-day patch, and a longer extension that comes in
believe, is going to be pushed until next year for congress to deal with. they re kicking the can down the road. and so senator alexander and senator collins released a statement saying, we have received assurances from republican leaders, including mcconnell, including speaker paul ryan that they are going to come back to this. that they are still going to support this compromise. so they believe that it s just a matter of time. phil mudd, i want your thoughts on what s happening up at the united nations tomorrow. the u.n. general assembly is going to have a big meeting and there s a resolution to condemn the united states for the president s decision to recognize jerusalem as israel s capital, to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv. listen to how the president react in advance of that for all of these nations that take our money then vote against us at the security county u sell, vote against us potentially at the assembly, they take hundreds of millions of dollars
to the commitment to jeff flake and make sure that those 700,000 or 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers will be allowed to have legal status here in the united states? wolf, as you as some has been reported, general kelly and i have been sitting down with many of the senators working on this on a bipartisan basis to talk about a path forward. we have been entering into those negotiations and are anxious to complete them. but it will happen? is that what you re saying? wolf, we are doing everything we can to make it happen. i cannot grruarantee to you wha congress will do when. i work hard at that and i m working hard to get it done. you re the director of the legislative affairs. you know that the president, when the majority leader in the senate, they make commitments that aren t necessarily fulfilled, that will raise questions down the road to other republican senators. can they really trust the word of the republican leadership? i don t see any reason not to trust the word of the lead
saying, we made a promise to susan collins, we will deliver. wolf, we have been and we will continue to do that. jeff flake, the republican senator from arizona, he says he supported the tax bill because he got a promise that the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers, the children who were brought here illegally by their parents and have grown up here in the united states, the daca provision, as it s called, that they will be allowed 700,000, 800,000 to stay. is the president committed to jeff flake to make sure that the d.r.e.a.m.ers will be allowed to remain in the united states? we are committed to getting resolution on the daca situation. but i also hope that jeff flake voted for the bill, in part, because he s always been somebody from limited government and lower taxes. i think he liked actually the bill, too, but, yes, the president has always been consistent, ever since he sent to congress his decision back in october to say, this program also is unconstitutional. i can t keep it up. i