stop gap funding bill through to keep the government afloat as house republicans sort out their differences. schumer, democrat of new york, yesterday blasted the far-right republican s actions during a speech he delivered on the senate floor. there were those on the hard-right over in the house who think they can bully their colleagues and the house and the country into a shutdown. amazingly this band of hard-right extremists actually say a shutdown would be a good thing. this shows you that the hard-right is not serious about governing. the only tactic in their playbook is to try and bully the rest of congress and the country to bend to their extremist views. so it takes compromise to get anything done in these conditions in a divided government. the top-line agreement we reached last week had borne that out. joining us now congressional reporter for politico, ursula.
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just displayed. gop senators have unveiled a sanctions bill. have you assessed whether or not this administration wants to see movement on and something that you would support given that the bipartisan talk stalled? not yet. just came out. again, our view remains that a bipartisan effort would be the best effort moving forward. as i conveyed to jackie a few minutes ago, our view continues to be that the crippling sanctions package that we designed is meant to be a deterrent. jen, the senate is working on this stop gap funding bill. the deadline is friday what is the level of confidence that the president will sign that extension by friday and separately because the administration has been talking to the two republican senators that raised concerns, senator lee and senator blackburn. we re engaged with democrats and republicans and we re hopeful that we will be able to
appointee ajit pai s fantasy football league. mike? mike: hillary vaughn live on the hill. hillary, many thanks. breaking tonight, now that the house has passed a stop gap funding bill to keep the government open, it appears there is movement on the senate side of the capitol. congressional correspondent chad pergram joins us again. good evening, chad. good evening, michael. we have an update here the senate majority leader chuck schumer says it looks likely that the senate will vote later tonight to sink up with the house of representatives to try to avoid a government shut down. ted cruz republican in texas indicated it was likely that they might have a vote tonight on their vaccine amendment epeel. that s the one thing that was holding this up. they were threatening to shut down the government over that but they seem to have worked that out. chuck schumer did not commit, necessarily, to having a vote on that tonight. probably will vote on the c.r., mike? mike: thanks. up next,