now, i want to put a caveat on that because we re going into a month that s going to be very, very bad for the president. you talked about this earlier. an immigration deal to fix dau daca. you have spending caps. they ve talked about boosting spending caps for the entire government. conservatives will not be happy with that. you have obamacare legislation coming across the floor to bolster obamacare, something republicans have promised they wouldn t do. and you also have a government funding bill that comes up in 20-something days where democrats are going to, they say, hold republicans feet to the fire. so these criticisms might turn into opposition later this month. but make no mistake, this is going to be a very difficult month for this president. what was going on at the ceremony we played at the beginning of the segment. we heard oren hatch, paul ryan, all the republicans who stepped up, some who have been critical
welcome back. here are the headlines at the bottom of the hour. president trump golfing in florida despite pledging to get back to work today, before heading out to his golf club, the president also tweeted a call for bipartisanship saying democrats and republican also come together in the new year to work on health care. russian president vladimir putin today nominated for president just hours after calling for an investigation. utah s major newspaper, the salt lake city tribune calling on oren hatch not to run for re-election. and consumers are feeling the holiday spirit, total retail sales added up to a record $598 billion, that s up $33 billion
it s not your problem to worry about. reporter: the children s health insurance program is funded through a mix of state and federal money. but federal funding lapsed in september and congress has yet to agree on a way to pay for it on a long term basis. leaving the program and the reynolds in limbo. it has opened up a pandora s box emotionally to be able to not know what is going to be handing in the next sinkxt 60si a year. reporter: and they are not alone. 9 million nationwide stand to lose coverage if c.h.i.p. funding runs out. i don t know what could be more disgusting than putting a tax cut ahead of the lives of children. why hasn t c.h.i.p. been funded? reporter: am mid mounting pressure, senators like oren hatch say a solution remains a
hit thes at the of the values that. right after that tweet, republican senator oren hatch weighed defending the prime minister on twitter, and to the prime minister s point, the britain first is a radical group. last year joe cox a member of a british parliament and outspoken supporter of parliament was murdered. i spoke with joe cox s husband earlier tonight. here s some of what he said. i think we probably got used to a degree of absurdity of outrageous re-tweets and tweets from the president. but i think this felt like it was a different order. here he was retweeting a felon, somebody that was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment of an organization that is a hate driven organization on the extreme fringes, the far, far right of british politics. this is like the president
is the best president under which he served and people should believe that oren hatch is telling the truth. this is what richard blumenthal said about the moral responsibility the republicans will bear. take a listen. the republican party will bear a moral responsibility and political accountability for their failure to stand up and speak out against this kind of absolutely abhorrent use of the public media, and it is a disgrace. but by and large, jonathan, there s no daylight here. you have jeff flake saying he s going to give some speeches but aside from that there really has not been a ton of movement on that front. unless as time goes on, not more, republicans were much more nervous about trump, much more distance between him and them during the campaign and even at the beginning of the presidency and they just seem to have gotten tighter and tighter and they re more and more intimidated and i think what steve bannon is doing with his outside group targeting members of the se