a visitor center in san francisco. defense appropriation bill. can you justify i would love can you justify the united states spending as much as the rest of the world? can you justify that? can you justify responsible spending with defense saying spending millions on a visitor center is $4.45 million? what was it supposed to do? go to artillery and in the budget like iraq war budget. let me move on. what will be the compromise on the tax cuts? there shouldn t be a compromise. they should be permanent and they re necessary for the economy. sean: we don t have a new congress in session. how do they play the hand? they don t allow anything
democrats need now is to show the insiders game of politics and how they completely ignore what the peel of america would like to have. which is vote on the defense appropriation bill. leave these other things separate. vote on them if you like but don t attach to the appropriations bill. it is as if nancy pelosi, harry reid and barack obama cannot help them services. they are so addicted to the insider s game they are oblivious to the red hot anger people are feeling the kind of anger that sent a lot of incumbents home and will send some more. greta: the american people just want decisions and promises kept. when they see washington gaming it, no matter what the topic is, i think it fuels the outrage among other people. it is they feel so gamed. they truly do. many of them don t have jobs. those who have jobs have watched their 401 become a 201. they are frustrated with the fact now they are going to work not until 60 two, 62,
maybe shed some light on it, california congressman, immigration reform caucus chair, brian bilbrey and from illinois, task force chairman guitterez. are you surprised harry reid put this in now? harry is a family friend but this is a political maneuver. it s the wrong message at the wrong time and to be talking about rewarding somebody who came here illegally just after 72 i wimmigrants were slaughter in mexico is the kind of insensitivity. you don t want to send a mixed message that you re going to reward those who come here illegally and ignore those who wait patiently for years. if you re here by 16, you d be eligible for a fast track to citizenship if you join the military or college. is this appropriate? yeah, i think the defense appropriation bill is an appropriate venue. i mean, it is germane. we are talking about the
well. we ll see if cooler heads prevail. if passed the reality is we could be setting in for a long shut down if they don t change course. all right. standby. i want to get to phil. we see votes going on on the floor. what s happening now? this is the pain that was promised by republicans if democrats ended up blocking this bill. what s happening now you saw a couple procedural votes. senate majority leader trying to set up the vote for that amendment. that would reduce the funding bill time line. by a week. to try to use that to bring democrats on board. you ll start seeing motions to move onto a clean extension of the children health insurance program. or a defense appropriation bill. vote after vote after vote that will make the democrats you have been talking about all night. the ten democrats that are up for reelection in 2018 from states that then candidate trump
bill: impact segment tonight, for years i have been saying it was absolutely insane for the obama administration or anybody else to want to try terrorists detained at guantanamo bay in civilian court it was a waste of time andcolosal waste of money. finally today the obama administration gave it up. today, i am referring the cases of khalid shakd mohammed. bin al shibh. and must taf have a al save saw buy to the department of defense to proceed in military commissions. bill: joining us now from washington mary katharine ham and st. louis juan williams. pretty embarrassing for holder, right? . no i don t think so. i think what holder said is true. that in january when the congress approved the defense appropriation bill. $725 billion, bill, they put in rules that said that the