The house of representatives, plans to vote on the senate bill later tonight. Joining me here is bill burton who worked in the white house for a good many years and was also in the obama campaign. What is your reaction to the fact we are now ending on a wimper stage . Well, it is great for the country that were finally ending the shutdown, that we wont default on our debt, but i will say that i have some concerns as a democrat that this is not all good for the Democratic Party. I think there is some reasons for us to be cautious about what happens next here. And this is counterconventional wisdom, i think that boehner may be stronger, because if he has support of his conference that he didnt have before well, right now you see the senate is going through a roll call vote. This is the second vote they have taken, the first, a procedural vote, you have to clear cloture, it happened just before you joined us on air. And now there is an actual vote on the resolution that is being offer off
Thank you. Thank you. This is certainly fair to say that members of the senate share their concern about regional stability. We want to do everything we can to support you. One of the formulations committee had a meeting. One of the issues that was talked about was the concern about the spread of polio outbreak. An ambassador spoke about the effort to immunize children. And wonder if anyone could speak about whether the outbreak is under control whether there is more that needs to be done to address it. It is not under control. The situation in serious is out of control. Eradicated. We are now in a situation where. And medical conditions that can transcend the borders. This is another reason why we have to put so many resources into the medical assistant in. Medical system. People are common across from syria to jordan to seek assistance. Have not been working for six months or 12 months. Jordan is seeing an increase and 20 . Northern areas by jordan does not have enough support and mo
Cspan. Ok. Com first, jeremy herb with the hill was quoted joining us on the phone. What did they get out of this . What did the two sides agree to . Some 63 billion dollars in sequester savings over the next two years. Have for defense and half for discretionary. The numbers right in between where the house and the senate each wanted. They picked a number right between the two. When it comes to sequester, the automatic spending cuts that were agreed to under the budget control act of 2011, how do they deal with it . 63 billion is restored. What does that mean . There are still some sequestration that happens. How much and when . Back somey will give of the sequester cuts, but still not all the way there. The pentagon, for instance, they will reduce sequester by 22 billion next year. That would have meant that the budget level that they are at this year would have been cut by an additional 22 billion. Is still 30 billion lower than the budget proposed by the pentagon and by the house a
One small step for bipartisanship, is there more to come in washington . Congress is back to work this week. Top priority, a deal to block those automatic spending cuts and tax increases now set for january 1st, and some smart money is starting to bet that the president and congress will find a way to avoid that fiscal cliff. Stocks up this week in anticipation of a deal with the dow clocking five straight of gains. And black friday Consumer Spending was down as well. Now lets bring in t number one senator dick durbin and Top Republican Lindsey Graham. Senator, welcome in. Senator, let me begin with you. You see those markets going up in anticipation of a deal, are they right to be optimistic . They should be optimistic because we can solve this problem. Unfortunately, for the last ten days with the house and Congress Gone for the thanksgiving recess, much progress hasnt been made, but tomorrow theres no excuse. Were back in down. George, were back to basic. The house of representative
Cruz. The entire senate summoned to a hi highly publicized meeting. President trump even made a brief appearance. The message according to people inside the meeting was sobering. North korea is the most dangerous spot on the planet right now. It remains very, very dangerous and unfortunately, there are a lot of outcomes in north korea where if military conflicts occurs, there could be a very, very significant loss of life. What the briefing lacked apparently was just revelations on President Trumps military plan, specific military plands to deal with kim jong un. No new information on that despite asking the entire senate to come to the house white house. A caravan of seven buses transporting the United States senate for a twomile move from the capital to the white house. This senator left the briefing and is my guest. I want to begin with jeff sciutto. We have to have this meeting, you have to come right here to the white house. But there are Big Questions ability the 079ics. Roimt an