Treated for Prostate Cancer happening around christmas and new years time. The decision to keep the president and others in that period in the dark for days. Secretary austin spent several days in Intensive Care and transferred authority to his deputy but didnt tell her why and didnt inform the white house immediately. This is the first time he will answer lawmakers questions in public and keep an eye on that coming up right now. He has picked a beautiful spot. Disrespect to brownsville residents he has chosen to waste his trip looking at absolutely nothing. This trip is just so pointless. Bill we spoke to a bounceville resident earlier today as President Biden gets ready to leave the white house making a rare visit to the southern border. His second as president. The same day as former President Trump will be there as well. Brandnew hour begins now. Dana has the week off. She is back on monday. Im bill hemmer. Welcome to thursday. Hello, gillian. Gillian im gillian turner. Its quite a
As a utility. bill: a continuing resolution to take us through february. is this how you resolve a shutdown? it will keep the discussion going and the government open. the president has made it clear this morning on twitter he will find other ways to get the wall built and funded. the republican congress never learned how to do appropriations. i became a political reporter in 2000. they would pass out of subcommittees appropriationss bill and the full committee and house and senate would pass it and have a compromise. that doesn t happen anymore. the government shut downs happen because they pass continuing resolution after each other. when the democrats take over the house, will things go back to normal? this a an easy way they aren t doing their job. julie: they ve got until february, right? so january democrats take over. that means that democrats in control for one month before this. what compromise is nancy pelosi going to lead on this?
You have a party in the house and senate both republicans who say we want to solve this. there has to be a way we can get to that issue. if that s where they want to go they need to look at the military fam laoels in the face and say we ll mess with funding for a little while. they look at the folks around the country and say we aren t putting your interests at stake. when we have given them something that they have voted on, they want and democrats voted on last night i m amazed now this is the stand that they have chosen to take. if this is what they want it s the schumer shutdown and we ll see what happens from there. jon: democrats are convinced republicans will get the blame because your party controls all three branches of government. how do you answer that? just like was just said at the previous press conference. the answer to that. the senate until they change the 60-vote rule for appropriationss bill democrats have to come on board. our leadership has given them a bill th
Washington a short term temporary match continuing resolution, cr. i suspect instead of seeing a government shutdown you ll see a one or two week punt to continue to wrestle with this. let me make a broader point. the failure of our institutions particularly as a result of the filibuster. do we need it? no. it s time to abolish the filibuster on appropriations. there has been a trend in recent years lurching to one crisis of another and the disaster relief aid, shutdown of the government. they get rolled into one bill because the senate no longer passes individuals appropriation bills the way they did when i was there. it has caused because of the filibuster. you need 60 votes. there is the fundamental issue. abolish it on appropriationss and let majority rule prevail. bill: now to homeland security.