a dollar. $1? yeah, $1. you said a dollar. you said a dollar. that s not your question. you said a dollar and i m answering your question. the fact is a wall is an immorality. it s not who we are as a nation. of course, it doesn t matter what the house passed tonight if it s dead on arrival. in the new look republican senate where the gop now has a 53/47 majority, mitch mcconnell controls what is brought to that floor. he says this spending package will not be brought to the floor because the president does not support it. there s no wall money in it. but then there was this tonight. washington post reports mcconnell may have broken have a problem in the ranks. quote, two senate republicans broke with trump and party leaders thursday, saying it was time to end the shutdown, even if democrats would not sign off on the more than $5 billion in border funding trump is demanding.
welcome back. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says it is unlikely the senate will have enough time to vote on a bipartisan criminal justice bill this year. the new york times reports mcconnell told trump that regardless of the support the bill has had in the senate and from the white house, there is likely not enough time to bring the bill up for a vote this year, according to people familiar with the meeting. the majority leader told the president that the bill would most likely need ten days on the senate floor, time that he did not have. trump last week enthusiastically endorsed the proposal and speaker paul ryan pledged to move the bill across the finish line in the how is this term. mcconnell earlier told reporters he would be willing to push the bill forward but cautioned he would need to see how it stacked
longer the head football coach, effective immediately. what do you make of these scenes we re looking at? over the last few days, there was so much passion on both sides of the issue. so many of the students that were there supported joe paterno, really felt like this was a man they had looked up to for so many years, that s why it s so hard for them to take some of this news. even so, in terms of what joe paterno was like, and some of the things he was saying in front of his home. thanking the students for coming out. these types of things, you have to imagine, this is not the type of activity joe paterno would want to see. if you think about the type of man that he is, this is a man that stood for so much. he insisted that his athletes have good grades, he set a high standard, a high bar, so to see students acting in a way that might be rowdy or acting in a way that would some ways disrespect the university, really goes against what in many ways, joe paterno stood for f
saturday s nebraska game. that is part of the controversy. he said he s stepping down but not immediately, not until the end of the season. in a statement today he said paterno, who is the nearest thing to a secular saint in pennsylvania and hero to his players drew their praise today for his decision. i think as long as he s been here, he hasn t really ever made a wrong decision. he knows what he s doing. he s been doing it for so long. if he thinks it s best for the program, chances are it s going to be the best thing for the program. more and more as you ll see, people have doubts about his decision now not to immediately step down. here s former penn state legend matt millen today on espn. to be honest with you, and you can probably hear it, and i apologize to you, i get mad. it s it s pretty disturbing. it makes you sick. to see that this could happen to this level, if, in fact, it has happened, then, you know, there s a part of me that, like i mentioned earlie
victimize children for many, many years. in total, he forces 40 charges tied to sexual assault. curley and schultz are charged with failing to report abuse and graham spanier is under pressure to retire and joe paterno announced that he will retire at the end of the season saying in a statement, this is a tragedy. it s one of the great sorrows of my life with the benefit of hindsight i wish i had done more. jason carroll, cnn, state college, pennsylvania. if you re just joining us, breaking news, joe paterno and graham spanier have both lost their jobs. the university board of trustees made the announcement less than an hour ago. the board of trustees and graham spanier have announced that dr. spanier is no longer president of the university. in addition, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach effecti effective immediately. well, joining us now, cnn s jason carroll and mike galanos. if i can start with you, mike, describe what you re seeing. set the scene. w