sinicism. they say they want to help but in reality they re not doing everything. maria: they want everything in there while they have one little opening. the only counter i d make to that is the country is frustrated by the inability of congress to function. maria: for sure. i don t care what the old rules may have been. it used to be a two-thirds vote and filibuster was there to basically block civil rights legislation and now the american public if you elected republican congress you expect them to do something if democrats get elected then they get to do something and now nobody can do anything. maria: but look back at other government shutdowns and tell us the implications. the last one was 13 days. well i think it basically makes the american public think their government can t function if you can t pass a budget which is the fundamental tourist not the hardship alone on the people it s just the disarray that the country sees every single day and they lose confidence in our
immigration system doesn t do that, so it should be packaged together in sort of really substantive policy and i actually think those whose in the house here are very close to having that bill together. maria: we ll be watching the development sir thanks very much really laid it out so well and we appreciate your time. thank you. maria: congressman there, when all is said and done, the panel is up next mary kisiel and ed rollins is up next as we look ahead on sunday morning futures we re back in a minute. it s easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better.
now we re down to where republicans have a bill that no, the democrats don t oppose anything in the bill at least a majority of democrats don t and they ve decided to use that as the effort to get an unrelated piece of legislation and not just get a debate on it but they want it on a must pass bill. that s not the way to ledge us late. first of all you don t get everything you want on a bill that everybody else has to vote for and it s a position i don t think that the democrats can sustain it very much longer. maria: so are they just doing this to make a big stink one year after the president, the first year in office on the day to create some chaos so that we re not talking about what you ve already done and the progress you ve already had and this white house has had but more about the chaos going on and the government shutdown? do they just not want to see government open right now? you know, i really can t figure out what their motivation might be. i suppose that could be it but
appropriations committee. senator good to have you on the program thanks so much for joining us. maria nice to be with you. maria: can you tell us where we stand? well i really can t. actually, i think that senator schumer has managed to take a issue that republicans have never handled very well in the past and own it. this is the schumer shutdown. this is, there s no reason for this to have occurred and one of the lessons is we need to get back to where we openly debate these appropriations bills and get them to the president s desk one or two at a time rather than every year have this issue that frankly empowers the minority leader in ways that shouldn t happen. he made a decision here that he was going to have a shutdown over an issue that is clearly solvable that has nothing to do with appropriations and frankly they own it. maria: yeah, well i think you make a really good point. living by continuing resolutions is obviously not sustainable and
american should want to be talking about, opportunity. maria: now the american people really need to understand what s happening with the military right now. i mean speaking with generals earlier, they re saying look this is very much still obama s military. i mean when you consider the fact that we re four months into the fiscal year 18, the government is still living on a continuing resolution. military is 50% of its aircraft down for maintenance because of a lack of spare parts. pilots flying less than half of the flying hours required to maintain proficiency, mishaps are speaking, five of the army s 58 brigades are ready for combat five out of 58 and the military cannot grow as it remains the smallest in 75 years. can you tell us what that means about the practical state of our military today and how you re going to get out of these continuing resolutions and increase and let these budgets that are in place? well, i m on the senate intelligence committee where we look at our thre