they must have made up. all is good between these two. the panel, shane harris is a national security correspondent for the post and daniel hisay and brad todd a republican strategist and ad maker. shane let s start with the basic news. i ll get to kelly in a minute. it is weird that the president s not in washington when this is happening. maybe he likes that. it looks like a mess of congress. but the president sort of created more it was already a chaotic process and he added more to it. republicans might be glad he s not in washington today too. he s done enough for this morning. this happened a few recently with the surveillance bill where the president came out and tweeted a position that was opposed to the one that the white house stated before. this is a pattern now it seems where he s coming out and expressing a view that is totally blowing up the strategy the republicans had in mind and just ensuing more chaos into the mix. he was bad enough and you could see from your
idea that money is extremely important and believe me, i will push the x factor being the outside groups trying to fund trying to persuade voters to go a certain way, but in the same respect we re seeing this groundswell of grassroots support on both sides right now that is overcoming money and i think a lot of incumbents are looking at themselves and saying, people don t like washington, donald trump continues to reel against washington. when he reels against washington he s reeling against me. i need it to be repeated again. here we go. this is what s happened. the bill passed. they passed a controversial surveillance bill that reauthorized fisa section 702. you saw the vote gavelled to a close and being announced there in the house. let s listen. the question is will the house sus spend the rules and pass the bill? members record their vote by electronic device. this is a five minute vote.
president some of the paths this could take. it s possible mueller could agree to written questions and answers from the president. if he did want to compel the president to a sit down interview, it s possible if the president didn t want to do it, that he would need to subpoena him and that could unleash a whole other sort of legal process. so the president might now be aware he does have options and so we don t we will have to see what mueller wants from the president. keeping his options open. shawn, rebecca, asha, thank you so much to all of you. and you ve probably picked this up, it s a pretty hectic day in washington and on capitol hill. the nailbiting vote on a controversial surveillance bill is set to go down any moment as we watch the live pictures of the house floor, an amendment being voted on. we will bring the vote on the bill to you as soon as it happens. plus, house speaker paul ryan is going to speak soon to reporters. you can see they re getting ready on capitol
eve? unclear, i don t know if they know what they are going to do. they told their members they d get 48 hours notice, 48 hours notice now would put us somewhere between friday and saturday, going right into new year s eve. there s nothing to bring them back for. that s the problem, that s the problem. they said the senate is going to act first. the senate is not acting right now. they are doing a supplemental spending bill for hurricane sandy, they are upsiding the surveillance bill, they are not doing anything on the fiscal cliff. is it helpful to have john boehner have his members back in d.c. running their mouths and offering opinions to all us reporters, i think the answer is no. no inclination the $250,000 or below can pass through the senate right now, kay bailey hutchison said she wouldn t support that type of bill. what s harry reid left to do right now? i m not sure $250,000 could get through the house or senate at this point. republicans are signaling, as kay bailey