brought under control. us vice president like has told the israeli knesset the white house plans to move the american embassy to jerusalem by the next year is speech through angry protests from arab israeli lawmakers pence s is the highest ranking u.s. politician to visit the region since president recognized jerusalem as israel s capital last month. and u.s. lawmakers agreed on a temporary spending bill reopening the government after a three day shutdown democrats refused to back a spending bill without protection for so-called dreamers. migrants illegally to the u.s. as children but they backed down after republicans promised to hold an immigration vote in the coming weeks. well here in germany the country s two biggest parties are both gearing up for a fight as they prepare to launch formal coalition talks
if there is no bill before february 28th. when he does bring that up, he is talking about a neutral bill with an open amendment process that is highly unusual for senate. the idea that they re going to come up with something that way in some short period of time before march 5th to get it through is insane. could it happen? i suppose what about the 30 bipartisan senators who got together and are basically guaranteeing this deal? sam, they re saying according to, if you listen to dick durbin. sure. those 30 people from both parties are going to make sure this vote comes about. well, yes. so i m a little bit more bullish than jonathan is on this. that being said, mcconnell did promise jeff flake that there would be an immigration vote in january, we know how that worked out. i mean, seriously? yes. i mean, he was to jeff flake. that s objectively true. i don t know how he is as a human being. but this is the case, which is what democrats are hanging their hat on. first of a
welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian along with yayman mohyeldin along with lewis burgdorf. the government shutdown ended. the political wrangling between lawmakers is only just beginning. casey hunt has more from capitol hill. the federal government is open today after senate democrats decided they could trust mitch mcconnell and they are expecting an immigration vote by february 8th. if they can t strike a deal with the president in the meantime. but it sets up a contentious debate with immigration that could have us back where we started in less than three weeks. the u.s. government is open for bes. senate democrats taking the deal after a three-day shutdown over
at the same time, the war has not ended. the political war between republicans and democrats is expected to continue. democrats see an opening here to really press leader mcconnell to bring up an immigration vote. if he does not, they ll say you pledged that you would move in some way and maybe we could have another shutdown impasse in february. but robert, quickly, is the pledge here, as you understand is from mcconnell, to do the vote before february 8th, or is it just to do the vote at some point that could be after february 8th? there s an understanding that maybe the vote could move sometime before february 8th, but mcconnell continues to insist that the government must remain open if that kind of process is going to begin. so it s really a question of nuance here, but democrats feel a lot of pressure. that s why you see movement today. chris, you set this up at the top. the question for democrats is on this issue of daca, the big sticking point here, are they getting what t
namely each other. they are two young senators. sons of cuban immigrants. will they get in their boxing match while donald trump stands back to watch? we have jeff zeleny with more on that. reporter: john, of all of the things to watch, one of them is ted cruz and marco rubio. going head-to-head on a variety of votes on substantive matters. we are going to hear reassessment of the voting record of the candidates. senator rubio is trying on senator cruz saying he is not tough enough on national security. at the same time, cruz will challenge rubio on the immigration vote. it is the two republican senators that really are the future of the party. that s what marco rubio talked about last night here in las vegas. it is our turn. the time for us to act is now.