homeland security funding, found out that didn t work. and much that has been done has been done through the justice department. and then on the human trafficking issue, there s this item that was in this piece of legislation, been in there for months democrats didn t notice it until a few days ago, that says that funs raised in this can t be spent on abortion. there are a lot of provisioning in federal law preventing funds have being spent on abortion. this is an extension of that debate. it s not a new issue. what was surprising was that democrats were willing to sign on to a bill that had this provision in it. apparently the reason democrats were until this week willing to sign on to it is they hadn t noticed that provision was in the bill. and kiki it is true there is a policy disagreement there on abortion. they re trying to link it to loretta lynch. it s not even linking.
says that funs raised in this can t be spent on abortion. there are a lot of provisioning in federal law preventing funds have being spent on abortion. this is an extension of that debate. it s not a new issue. what was surprising was that democrats were willing to sign on to a bill that had this provision in it. apparently the reason democrats were until this week willing to sign on to it is they hadn t noticed that provision was in the bill. and kiki, it is true there is a policy disagreement there on abortion. they re trying to link it to loretta lynch. it s not even linking. republican leaders, their positions aren t popular across the country. so rather than have an honest debate about an issue on its own merits, they don t go there, they try to slip it in and hide it in other things. it s like putting the peas in the mashed potatoes. and nobody wants that.
conclusion with this mystery, where did it go, but we talk about where it would go if it were to land on land in one of these theories. the urgency is easy to get to, or what else may have been planned for this plane if indeed it landed somewhere? if it landed safely on land somewhere, there are just a certain number of airstrips or air important, we now know it would be empty. i think there s more than one track of where it may be and one is provisioning. one is if you re going to land it and use it again, there are sing things six things that need
white house, can president obama sign anything into law that reopens the government and raises the nation s debt ceiling that has some kind of provisioning in there that tinkers or toys with obama care? it may not be critical to that will law and the way it operates and the way it covers millions of americans and requires people to buy insurance and those major pillars of the law, but you know, can the additional requirements to prove that you re eligible for those subsidiy ies and obama care, ca that fly? it s not critical to the heart of the law. that sort of thing could fly with this president. that is one of the major questions to jay carney if and when that briefing starts, wolf. we ll see how long it s delayed if it s delayed. we ll have live coverage here on cnn. jim, thanks very much. we re waiting for jay carney. we ll get reaction from the white house. you re looking at live pictures from the briefing room in the west wing. once he starts answering reporters questions, we
some folks telling us they have been getting ready for this one all weekend, like this guy. provisioning for any possible emergency flossie during her brief stay in the islands. hopefully we ll be just fine. always better to be safe than sorry. today we bought bottled water, extra charcoal. brand new cooler and backup batteries and a brand new lantern. bill: let s hope so. maria molina is live in the fox news extreme weather center, flossie, what is going on with flossie? hi, bill. good morning everyone. we re tracking tropical storm flossie. right now maximum sustained winds at 50 miles an hour. you can see stronger gusts up to 60 miles an hour. we re expecting landfall across the big island across hawaii as we head later on this afternoon also into tonight. we ll see very heavy rainfall out here and potential for flash flooding and also mudslide. keep in mind across the big island we have very tall