life on capitol hill, good evening mike. mike: bret, good evening, lawmakers waiting to hear president trump to sign bipartisan border security package. they are proceeding and expecting to pass both the house and the senate which is drawn bipartisan support. don t judge it for what is not in it. we have other days to pass legislation. the conferees have indicated that pretty much reached an agreement and obviously, working on this and we hope to have the papers done and ready to go by tomorrow. and we hope to pass it by tomorrow night. a new fox poll refill 66% of americans favor a budget deal that includes funding for form of a border barrier and other security measures and humanitarian relief. allies of president trump said he does not need to settle for just $1.375 billion in this border security deal. many here expect the president will likely take executive action right after signing the bill to move money around.
killed the washington post columnist and critic of the saudi government. it they believe that the saudi crown prince himself ordered the murder. both republicans and democrats call for action against the government, but the president has yet to condemn him. life on capitol hill. good afternoon, there is one way for the united states united states to send a very firm message to the saudi royal family saying we should expel the saudi ambassador to the united states, given the crown prince s direct involvement in the kidnapping and murder of jamaal khashoggi, and we should call on our allies to do the same. other senators say that they should play a role. president trump should listen to
clinton, and they have to worry about going too far in agreeing with trump. different forces in the republican party that also include deficit hawks who are not going to go along with the spending. there is just a whole lot of reason 21 days in to see that this is not he has not gotten off to a great start here. he has to try to find a way to reach out and get his approval ratings out. jon: we will note that it is a democrat who hated saying that he has not gotten off to a great start. it is a discussion we will have for the next four years, gentlemen. thank you both. jenna: in the meantime, getting down to business on the president s treasury pick, former goldman sachs banker, lawmakers have agreed to look at the nomination for seven hours holding to a vote on the confirmation. life on capitol hill with more on this. about eight hours from now
fate, seven years to the day after obamacare was signed into law. at this point, conservatives and moderate republicans seem unable to agree on a plan that would win enough support if the vote were held right at this moment. also right now, some of those holdouts, members of the house freedom caucus are meeting with the president at the white hous white house. life on capitol hill is peter doocy, again at the moment, it appears that it can y time. at the moment, the question is what are the conservative members of the house freedom caucus asking president trump and speaker ryan for now because these conservative lawmakers in republicans have already convinced the white house and their leaders to rethink what should be considered essential health benefits because they have long complained about making all customers pay for things like maternity care or birth control, but we are still waiting to see what else is going to take to get them onboard. still, though, republican leaders think