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Trace im Trace Gallagher in for Shepard Smith. Dozens of country at the u. N. Defied President Trump and didnt vote for jerusalem as the capitol of israel and move the u. S. Embassy there. The president threatened to cut off monies that went against washington. This morning, plenty did. The final tally, 1289 with dozens countries not voting either way. Well take you to the u. N. In just a moment. The president going after democrats accused him of wanting the government to shut down. That will happen if lawmakers cannot reach a deal. The president tweets, House Democrats want a shut down for the holidays in order to distract from the popular justpassed tax cuts. House republicans dont let this happen. Pass the continuing resolution today and keep our government open. The top democrat in the House Minority leader, nancy pelosi, says if the government shuts down, republicans are the only ones to blame. News break the reports control the congress, control the house and the senate and they have the signature in the white house. They have the votes to keep government open. They have the votes to keep government open. They dont need us to keep government open. We have never been about shutting government down. Trace were waiting to see when President Trump will sign the gop tax plan in to law. The chief White House Correspondent john roberts is live at the white house. John . Good afternoon. Lets point out, the president left the white house a short time ago. I can show you the video of that. Getting on the helicopter, marine one. Theres the president walking out from the oval office and across the south lawn driveway. Hes heading to walter reed medical center. Hes there now. The president said hes going to visit some of the bravest people in the world and go wish them a merry christmas. The president didnt say much on the way out other than the fact that he was going to go to walter reed. When we comes back, well give it another try and get him to weighin at least on the tax reform. Getting this continuing resolution to Fund Government is very important to the president because he would really like to sign that tax reform bill tomorrow. Initially we thought it wouldnt happen until january. Then next week. Now they seem to be speeding through the review process. The bill may be available to be signed tomorrow. But theres a catch. You can see, the president needs to have what are called paygo waivers in a continuing resolution in order to sign the bill tomorrow. Under paygo, any increase in the deficit caused by spending or tax cuts has to be paid for by cuts to entitlement programs like medicare, farm subsidies, other things like that. If the president does not get the waivers, he cannot sign the bill in 2017 because those cuts would kick in almost immediately in 2018. If he waits until january, the cuts do not kick until until 2019. So theyre just anxiously awaiting what is going on in congress right now, trace, to see if they can get a continuing resolution through and get one through including paygo waivers. Trace . Trace yeah, john. We saw President Trumps tweet blaming the democrats for a possible shut down. What else are we hearing from the white house . The white house doesnt seen any reason why there should be a government shut down. This is simply a continuing resolution. Albeit for four weeks instead of the two weeks that weve been seeing the continuing resolutions run for. It would Fund Government through january 19. Again, the one that came out of the rules committee in the house would include the paygo waivers. The white house knows theres big budget battles ahead. Mitch mcconnell has committed to taking up the deferred action for childhood arrivals issue, the socalled dreamers in january. That is something that jeff flake really wanted to see. So the white house doesnt understand why democrats would stand in the way. A bit of a theory running around here that the president has said he wanted to get tax reform done before the end of the year. If the democrats balk on these paygo waivers, that would mean the president cant make that deadline and they can say you didnt sign it by the end of the year. You had to wait until january. Lets hope nobody is that petty, trace. Trace yeah, we talked earlier about the fact that there was a hit today to the president as well as Benjamin Netanyahu. How is the president responding after dozens of countries voted against the president s decision to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel . Well have to apologize right now. We lost about half of our lights out here on the north lawn. You put the statistics up. It was 128 countries voting for that resolution. Nine voted against it, including the United States, israel and guatemala and others. No country of significance voted against the resolution. The United States has said, were going to withhold aid to any country that votes against this. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about that here on the white house driveway earlier today. Heres what she said. Will the u. S. Cut aid money to u. N. Countries that voted against the president s Jerusalem Decision . I dont have an announcement on that right now but its something that were watching. Is it appropriate that the president keep making the threats to cut aid . Its important for the president to focus on America First and the safety and security of our country. The president was asked about that in the cabinet room. He said let them vote against us. Well save a lot of money. Another school of thought here. The white house knows theres a lot of nations around the world that feel they have to say what they have to say and say it now and do what they have to do in the United Nations. Privately theyre saying Different Things to the white house and the white house also believes when they finally release their peace plan for israel and the palestinians sometime next year, they think that people around the world will be saying something different. Trace . Trace looked like a big cloud came over you when the lights went out on you. Gave your eyes a break. Weve been out there many times. Its like if we can turn them off for a few seconds. John roberts reporting live. Good to see you. Thank you. Trace more than 120 countries signed on to blast the president s decision recognizing jerusalem as israels capitol. The resolution declares the decision null and void. Before that vote, nikki haley said that even if the the assembly voted against the move, the u. S. Would stick to their decision. She also said she would remember this countries voted against hit. Well remember it when were called upon to make the Worlds Largest contribution to the United Nations. And we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us as they so often do to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit. Of course, the win is a vote for the palestinians. Palestine said thank you despite all the pressure exerted on them. So it seems at least some nations may have caved to teen trumps pressure. Rick leventhal is live at the United Nations. Rick . Trace, a little bit more on that. Nine countries voted to support the u. S. And israel. 21 didnt show up. A total of 65 countries which in essence sided with the u. S. And israel on this. Were told that is a record for support for israel here at the United Nations. As youve pointed out, many more nations did not support the u. S. And israel here today even with the threat of lost financial support. The nations voting in opposition to moving israels capitol to jerusalem received more than 21 billion in aid from the u. S. Last year, including yemen and turkey, which introduced the resolution. Those two countries collected between them close to 750 million. Nearly every arab and muslim nation did support for the resolution, that includes the palestinian territories. I called upon you on behalf of the people to vote in favor of the resolution in order to make heard the voice of a firm right that cannot be denied and in order to take a fair position in history as to recognize principles of International Law and your own resolutions and in order to combat attempts at fraud and to reject the blackmail and intimidation. One of the common arguments among the arab states, the palestinians have a right to jerusalem and that this might hurt the peace process, trace. And what happens next, rick, in all of this . Well, the embassy will still move according to President Trump and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who called the resolution preposterous. He said jerusalem is israels capitol, always was, always will be and nikki haley backed that up today. America will put our embassy in jerusalem. That is what the American People want us to do. And it is the right thing to do. No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that. And now we wait to see if the president follows through on his threat to cut funding to nations that didnt support the president and moving the capitol to jerusalem. That includes yemen. We heard from a state Department Spokesman earlier today, trace, that said theyre paying close attention to the vote, but he noted there was a humanitarian crisis in yemen and no decisions have been made yet. Trace rick, live at the United Nations. Thank you. While the United Nations is batting the ball back to President Trump, so the question is does he followthrough with his threat to pull funding to nations that countries that did not back him on this decision on jerusalem. And what that might look like. Thats coming up on Shepard Smith reporting. I am totally blind. And non24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. Talk to your doctor, and call 8442142424. Jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. All because of a burst water pipe in their house that ruined the Hardwood Floors in their kitchen. Luckily the Geico Insurance agency had helped them with Homeowners Insurance and the inside of their house was repaired and floors replaced. Jack and jill no longer have to fetch water. They now fetch sugarfree vanilla lattes with almond milk. Call geico and see how affordable Homeowners Insurance can be. Trace now more on the u. N. Vote on President Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel. The president threatened to cut aid to the countries that voted against the u. S. And 128 of them did just that. Lets bring in Josh Letterman from the associated press. Josh, clearly no matter how you twist this around and spin it, its a hit to President Trump and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya netanyahu, correct . It is, but less of a hit that it could have been. The United States and nikki haleys office said the numbers could have been worse. If you combine the countries that voted with us or object stained, theres about 65 of them. But bad but not as bad as it could have been. Trace thats the Glass Half Full portion. They were expected 150 votes. So 193 members. Yeah, you can spin that to say this could have been worse against the u. S. I want this up on the screen. This is the top ten countries. Eight of the top ten countries that we give the most aid to all voted against the United States on this. You can see theres israel voted with us on afghanistan, egypt, jordan, pakistan and kenya. Does it interest you that the countries that get the most aid, that had the most on the line decided to side with the u. N. On this . Well, on the one hand, there was no realistic chance that some of those countries like egypt and jordan were going to vote with the u. S. On this. They because of their own domestic politics couldnt do anything but reject the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem. But youre right, that they defied what seems like a clear threat to cut off the critical source of funding for those nations. In way they called the president s bluff. Were seeing in the hours after this vote the Trump Administration start to back away from that. Just a few minutes ago at the state department, the spokesman said theres been no time decision. And haleys office says this will be one factor but not the only factor. Trace you know what i found more interesting, josh . You look at the run down here. You have india, russia and china voting against this. Israel in recent months has kind of touted them as allies. They said no, were not going to go along with moving the israeli with moving the capitol to jerusalem. Thats right. One of the reasons youre seeing close u. S. Allies on the opposite side of the u. S. Is it actually was the u. S. That changed position on this, not all of the other countries. Under previous administrations, the u. S. Believed jerusalem was a status issue that needed to be negotiated between the parties and didnt take a position on the issue. That changed under trump. So the other countries are staying consistent as far as their view how the capitol issue needs to be addressed. As a result with this vote, they found themselves on the opposing end of donald trump. Trace quickly, the president s threat to pull money away from those countries, you think it happens . I think probably not. There could be some symbolic, were going to cut a small amount to show were not happy with this. The fact of the matter is, we give this money to these countries for strategic reasons for us. Egypt is fighting a major insurgency in the sinai peninsula. Its very important for our own security and other interests that we have these relationships with those countries. For that reason, i anticipate that aid will continue. Trace but the president is very high on loyalty. Josh lederman, associated press. Thank you. Thanks. Trace looks like a late night on capitol hill as lawmakers try to avoid a government shut down. They have until tomorrow night to get a spending bill signed. Well explain what needs to happen coming up. Im mark and i quit smoking with chantix. I tried, um, cold turkey. I tried the patches. I was tired and i was fed up. 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Trace lawmakers are working on a plan to keep the government running past tomorrow and our senior producer for capitol hill, chad pergram, says they could be in for a long night. Lets go live to peter doocy. What are the big sticking points right now with this, peter . The biggest one might be that the package reauthorizes fisa, a way that the Law Enforcement can spy on people. Senator rand paul already threatening a filibuster is there is any serious discussion about a longterm extension of that provision. Less controversial that were seeing, funding for the Childrens Health Insurance Program and a little bit more money for the military. My understanding is the how will pass or likely to pass, certainly going to vote on, a measure that will keep the government funding and extend spending for a number of weeks. Has a bump on the defense side, which we badly need for Missile Defense and repairing damaged ships. Its actually urgent. The senate is able to make changes for the house if the house can send something over. As of right now, the senate is not expected to make those changes. Trace . Trace and the democrats, peter . What do they say . Theyve been talking about daca, trace. It sounds like theyre planning to use the fight over the dream act and the legal status of people brought to this country illegally as children as leverage over republicans the next time that they need to talk about the budget, which is just a few days before the state of the union in january. This is an issue we have a moral imperative to solve here in congress. So democrats want to make sure that we have equal bargaining. Were not going to allow things like Disaster Relief go forward without discussing some of the other issues we care about that i mentioned.