check out the bottom of the screen. you will see the various impacts of the shutdown and how it has hurt the military and the white house has discretion in terms of spending. joining me with reaction are former obama campaign press secretary ben la bolt and press secretary for president george bush, ari fleischer. military chaplains can t say mass, cannot offer services to people serving. world war ii memorial shut down, normandy, shut down, vietnam memorial shut down, death benefits shut down. even tv, football and sfwaebl games shut down but the president oos golf course is open. why wouldn t they support just funding the v.a. and these things in the beginning? the president supports funding the whole government. there is a solution which is if speaker boehner called a vote it would pass. the government would re-open . the fact is he s refused to do
we ll pay our bills. the united states has paid its bills. this says we think we ought to be doing something to reduce the debt which is now going to be over $17 trillion soon. the president seems to have no interest though the debt doubled on his watch. yeah. we just discussed in the last segment talking about the the president has discretion. it s only 17%. a partial government shutdown. 83% is being funded. when you see the way military chaplains have been treat ed and they can t service our vets and the world war ii and vietnam memorials and normandy and the death benefits and v.a. and satellite feeds, all of this, do you think the president purposely is doing this to make his point about the government shutdown? he has the discretion not to do that, does he not?
check out the bottom of the screen. you will see the various impacts of the shutdown and how it has hurt the military and the white house has discretion in terms of spending. joining me with reaction are former obama campaign press secretary ben la bolt and press secretary for president george bush, ari fleischer. military chaplains can t say mass, cannot offer services to people serving. world war ii memorial shut down, normandy, shut down, vietnam memorial shut down, death benefits shut down. even tv, football and sfwaebl games shut down but the president oos golf course is open. why wouldn t they support just funding the v.a. and these things in the beginning? the president supports funding the whole government. there is a solution which is if speaker boehner called a vote it would pass. the government would re-open . the fact is he s refused to do it time and again.
gateway pundits. brian: heather nauert has more. in terms of immigration and a big showdown to put pressure on legislators, not a big turnout yesterday. this relates to what we re talking about and that is a partial government shutdown. no sunday mass and that is what will happen on military bases all around the world if the senate doesn t vote on a bill allowing military chaplains back on bases. the government has contracts with dozens of nonactive duty priests and because of that shutdown, hundreds of them are unable to hold services for 275,000 catholic members of the military all across the globe. on sunday the house passed a bill allowing them to return to work, but so far the senate refused to bring that measure to a vote. we ll keep watching that one for you. in the meantime, an undercover detective is now under arrest for his involvement in the attack of a driver in front of his wife and his toddler daughter. 32-year-old man is a ten-year
it s a constitutional right, they say, but it s threatening to arrest military chaplains who want to practice their religion. you are not going to believe this story. we have it coming up next.