close. what s interesting is the administration has already said that they would not weaponize the shut down as they did during out obama years. brian: shut down the world war ii memorial. steve: big signs closed because of government shut down. they wouldn t do that. brian: i remember they tried to shut down mt. vernon and mt. vernon says excuse me, we re privately funded can you get your barriers out of here. steve: oopsy daisy. what happens going to happen after the house passed that short-term funding bill? a look at the capitol where time is running out to avoid a government shut down at midnight. brian: the house did their job. they passed a stop gap spending bill overnight to keep the lights on through midnight setting up a senate show down. that s happening today. ainsley: garrett tenney is live in washington where all eyes are on the senate now to do something. garrett? good morning, y all. buckle up for a long weekend. because just about with 17 hours to go until a governme
with democrats. house speaker paul ryan saying that rushing a dreamer s deal is not the way to go. he says the country needs a long-term solution. these are talks that are occurring in ernest. we want to fix daca. we want to fix daca in a balanced way so that we don t have the same problem down the road. that s just pure common sense. that means a daca solution that involves security measures that makes sure that we don t have another daca problem down the road. harris: democrats want a deal right now. question is if they don t get it are they willing to seat government shut down on friday? there is no reason that any short-term deal should exclude the dreamers. we have a moral principle at stake with the dreamers. these young people were brought here as infants, as young children. no choice of their own. and we need to keep our promises as a great nation. harris: meanwhile speaker ryan unveiled stop gap spending bill last night
leading democrats to promise to push for solution and stop gap spending bill. but that didn t happen. members of the caucus walking out of the house and senate minority leader chuck schumer to get their message out of outrage. so let s talk it over with congressman gutierrez. congressman, it s a pleasure to have you on. thank you, brooke, for having me on. so you tell me, set the record straight what happened in the meeting. so reading the washington post they describe the meeting as tense. at one point you raised your voice at the senate minority leader. you tell me what happened, sir. look, i guess it s surprising to the american public that elected officials, those they sent to washington d.c. would speak with passion, with energy, and with commitment towards justice. but that s what happened
my republican colleagues reconsider their efforts and think again on how much better of a product we could produce through a bipartisan, open and transparent process. reporter: lawmakers are also working hard today to avert a government shutdown come friday night. and they just delayed a key meeting that was going to be talking about the two week long continuing resolution until one day closer to friday. this meeting is supposed to be tomorrow. lot going on over there. sandra: there s a lot of drama. peter doocy, thank you. that very important deadline coming friday. house republicans are considering a stop gap spending bill to keep the lights on through december 22nd. but conservatives want to extend that deadline until after christmas. our next guest tweeting, when the choice becomes pass the funding bill we give you or stay in washington over christmas, how does that produce a good result? how does that produce honest
how quickly do they get it done, all that? well, the goal house speaker ryan made clear they wanted it to get done soon. that was a big list considering the fact that they have to keep the government open. the government is funded through next friday night and just this morning, we got the text of the stop gap spending bill to keep the government open. we ll see if we can get through that. there are some hurdles dealing with disaster relief that people in california and others want to put on. the first, mccarthy held the house in on monday, they were not expected to be in on monday night. what you have to do, you have to move to go to conference. you have to create a conference committee where you have representatives from both the house and the senate and they take the house bill and senate bill, and they put it in a big congressional cuisinart blender and mix it together and then make sure and go back to the house and senate with what we call a conference report.