Wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. I think theyll end up being happy to do so. The wall just got 10 feet higher. We love it. We are going to build the wall. It will be a real wall. A real wall. Who is going to pay for the wall . Mexico. Who . Mexico. The back and forth between boss and top kick on the president S Immigration position has not help Congressional Republicans get any closer to a deal that would solve the daca problem and keep the government opened. If no deal is reached there will be a shutdown of the government tomorrow at midnight. Casey hunt on capitol hill gives us the update. I did talk about baby food because this Chief Of Staff talks about the president as this Cartoon Character that has to be made into a person by
language about haiti and africa. So what you have now is a Democratic Party thats bg been given a rational for this potential shutdown, the brew ha over the last week has energized their base and made it easier for democrats to say we cant work with this
appropriations bills, which are outstanding and a separate interim bill to fund the government. the department of homeland security through february 8. now, democrats will try to put some pressure on senate republicans and say wait a minute. those are the same bills that you moved across the senate floor or in committee. we passed them here in the house. we don t we continue to fight about the department of homeland security and deal with it in february. let s reopen that part of the government. i m told by senior republicans that s a terrible built of strategy because then they lose all leverage. nobody thought anything would be resolved today, this is the first time that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, we re hearing from the president before christmas. we have not seen paul ryan lately, we haven t seen kevin mccarthy. ryan won t be in congress tomorrow at noon. he s basically washed his hands and absolved himself from this
this had to do with sutherland springs, the fact that the killer there was discharged with the military, had a history of domest acic abuse. would you support those efforts? did you vote author that legislati legislation when it came up in the house? the problem is, the house of representatives, speaker ryan won t let us even have a debate on this issue, let alone a vote on any of the gun measures. and, by the way, i ll believe the white house when i see it. because they said the same thing about banning bump stocks after the las vegas shooting. that has gone nowhere so far. you would be willing to work with them, if they came back and said, look, bump stocks, we ll give it to you, background checks as far as john cornyn would go, trying to close the loopholes, we ll give it to you. it may not be everything you want but it is something. is that a starting point? absolutely. i would start with adding bump stocks, background checks, those are low hanging fruit, i think we can get t
it s a fair question, i think the democrats are looking for republicans to follow through on the issue. i ve got to ask you this question, why on earth won t speaker ryan won t commit to at least bringing a bill to the floor? not to pass a bill, just to bring an immigration bill to the floor of the house with an open, fair and transparent process? i don t understand why he simply won t agree. and i ll flip it back. nancy pelosi talks eight hours talking aggressively and passionately about this issue and chuck schumer as far as the shutdown at some point. and again, raking home this issue as a top priority issue for the democratic party issue. when it hits the fan, david, 73 in the house voting in favor of this, it almost looked like they were talking out of two sides of their mouth in terms of the voting and rhetoric, what say you? governing is hard choices and in this instance, what nancy pelosi and her caucus had to decide was whether or not they would vote to stabilize the gov
bannon refused to answer questions about his time at the white house or the transition. the republican, mike conoway, won t say if he will back the request for a subpoena. this as white house officials expect the president to authorize the release of the committee s ten-page democratic rebuttal memo by friday unless there is a grave threat to national security. the memo is expected to directly undercut allegations of fbi and justice department abuses leveled in the gop memo trump cleared for release last friday. i m not going to make speculations at this point. we re still going through the process that we went through with the republican memo. we re going to continue to do that. once that s completed, we ll having further to add. at this point we don t. reporter: white house chief of staff john kelly tells reporters that white house attorneys and department of justice officials are reviewing the memo, and he expects recommendations regarding its release or any necessary redactions