reporter: just to give you a sense of what s actually happening right now, you basically have three stages of where things are moving or not moving at all. you have speaker ryan s office where white house officials including legislative affairs director mark short have been shutting in and out. members of conference have been going in and out of meetings. a couple hundred feet away from that you have a senate floor. that s a place where you have relatively little action and that s a surprise. we expected numerous votes. senator mitch mcconnell stated that he wanted to in a way punish democrats for not agreeing to this bill. it s very clear at this moment they still don t have the votes to move forward on that short-term funding proposal. move about 20 feet away from the senate floor where senator chuck schumer is still holed up. i m told that schumer and his team are continuing conversations with the white house at this hour trying to build on that 90-minute meeting
the president certainly doesn t want a shut down and if one happens, i think you only have one place to look and that s to the democrats who are holding our military and our national security hostage by trying to push through other policies that has nothing to do with the budget. that s a decision you re going to have to ask the democrats what s more important, national security or political agendas? steve: okay. so it s all about political agendas. will the government shut down at midnight tomorrow night? let s ask somebody who has been around capitol hill, newt gingrich, former speaker of the house, fox news contributor joins us now. newt, what do you think the republicans are reportedly really close to having the votes they need in the house but the senate is a whole other deal. what is going to happen at midnight tomorrow? my guess is the government is going to stay open. speaker ryan has put together a very clever package, which includes
negotiations. ainsley: all right, mr. speaker, in layman s terms for the folks at home get very confused about this because it can get very confusing. if the republicans want to kick the can down the road and use the continuing resolution so they can work on this in a few weeks in four weeks in february it has to go through the house first, is that right using speaker ryan s plan and then it goes to the senate? my understanding is it starts in the house. as all spending bills do. goes to the senate. and the frankly it s to the republican advantage because if they can get the right bill through the house, it actually increases the pressure on democrats up for re-election to vote for the bill and, again, there is a huge mistake here that the democrats are v. made. they ought to offer to fund the defense department for the whole year. get it off the table. because if they see defense department in this continuing resolution every couple weeks the question is going to be with north korea
investigation go on forever. that is obvious whether it concluded next month, next year, or in three years, she will say it is too soon. the investigation will conclude when the committee has reached a conclusion. so when is enough enough? well i think i totally disagree with speaker ryan s spokesperson. leader pelosi is a former member of the intelligence community. she, excuse me, intelligence committee. i m on a intelligence subcommittee on homeland security. and i m on the crime and terrorism subcommittee. we know when these investigations begin. we know that there is a beginning, a middle, and an end. we are not in any way, wishing to push an investigation beyond its life. beyond its final report. and so what speaker ryan should be responding is thank you,
trump is going to benefit from this. paul ryan, lot of members of congress will benefit from this. people who aren t are people like us. randy bryce, wisconsin iron worker running for speaker ryan s seat next year. he and other democrats working out. penning them as more concerned with the ultra rich. cornel, start with you on polling here. this has not polled well. to say the least. worst of any tax cut ever. and in line with that, interesting from cross tabs at nbc today, 28% of rural americans and 29% of whites