Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im with Courtney Reagan and jon fortt at post nine we want to get you to latest or the latest on our Government Shutdown we have more information on what the next hour could bring. Its going to be a busy one republicans and the senate are meeting behind closed doors and that follows a meeting on the democratic side that took place last hour. Theyre holding the cards close to their vest ahead of that key 12 00 vote theyre going to be taking up a bill short term bill to funneled the government they failed on friday except for two key differences. Its a week shorter, only goes to february 8th instead of the 16th it carries a pledge from the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to bring a bipartisan immigration deal to the floor for a vote if one is inked that is a significant difference that has taken place over the last few days. Senator susan collins, the republican from maine, told reporters earlier this morning though that she had concer
Three men and a woman believed to be members of the puerto rican nationalist gang in november 1950 its up to the assassination of president truman opened fire from the visitors gallery of the house of representatives. Five congressmen were hit. Clifford davis of tennessee, Kenneth Roberts of alabama on it george allen of maryland, Robert Bentley at michigan who was seriously injured. The gun wielders of the able to station of having perpetrated a criminal outrage almost unique in americas history. It was one of the most violent acts that happened in there were debates right after that that you cannot let this happen again. We need to wall off the visitors gallery with bulletproof glass so this could never happen again. The more the members talked about that and thought about it, they said it was a bad idea. This is the peoples house, and the people cannot be walled off from what is going on there. The Capital Building is a symbol. That makes it a target. Dimension the british building
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Which is a country that is working currently. And so, one of the major issues for about the process has been the cndfde ruling party created the wing for its Political Party to sort of act as sort of its a very militarized wing of the Political Party and they act as goons essentially. Based on they strongarmed people into behaving in a way that the party wants them to behave. They dressed as policemen and basically initiate violent confrontation with the protesters in an effort to have everything spiral out of control. So that is somewhat of an extreme example although with a lot of the rebel movements that are very active in eastern congo and in the Great Lakes Region there are other forms that are equally extreme. Where i think that becomes attractive to the youth to join is again we are talking about those that dont have much in the way of opportunities otherwise and we are also talking about political systems in which resources are very concentrated in the political system thats no
Pursue areas of agreement, shared goals, shared purposes. Policies decisions will fall out of that. Senator, this bipartisan meeting looks great, but it was just over two weeks ago that the president tweeted if Senate Republicans dont get rid of the filibuster rule and go to 51 majority, few bills will be passed so is this a reset are we to expect not just bipartisan conversations but a bipartisan approach to crafting legislation, or is this just a conversation it will take two to tango again, i give the president credit my approach has always been to try to find bipartisan support did that with joe donnelly so its the starting point now, are we going to get eight democrats to sign on to a major piece of legislation that might be a stretch but it doesnt hurt to begin the conversation whether its health care reform, tax reform, infrastructure, talking to our colleagues trying to find those areas of agreement if we make a really good argument, if we find those areas of agreement, we migh