The last ten minutes or so lets go to the fox news capitol hill senior producer chad pergram with the latest. What are we looking at . I talked to senator jeff flake who indicated they might get to the 60 votes. This is all the math. They need to get this 60 votes. This is vote not to reopen the government. If they get 60 votes the government will reopen. This will be a test vote, signal, indicating later today that the senate will vote on threeweek interim spending bill to open the government through february 8th. It will have to go to the house of representatives, what the house of representatives approved last week is different from this bill. More significant from senator flake is saying, we learned democratic senator from florida bill nelson indicated he is a yes. Let me go through the math here. They need 60 yeas. Senators flake and graham, they are now yeas. There were several republican nos the other night. So that gets you up into the low 50s. Mitch mcconnell had to vote no fo
Government bond is attractive compared to risk in stocks right now. 283 on the tenure. Three, another problem is the internal workings of the market exotic product, robot trading up a pushing stocks to rapgd sell ising . As of now the dow is down 6. 5 so poor this week. With will open higher. Do not know how we will close or where well close. But back drop this morning is another chaotic night in congress. But we now do have a budget for the next two years. Thats not necessarily great news for investors. But bottom line on this republican budget Government Spending goes way up and so does the deficit. Again, were hearing the words, debt bomb. Varney company is about to begin. It changes so rapgdly that were going to show you futures all over again. All right we were up 100 now were up 60 youve got to watch this. Literally moment to moment. Wall street is on course for its worst week in six years. It has been a really qield ride for stocks just this week. These are the swings in the dow
Then, California Democratic congressman John Garamendi weighs in on President Trumps buzdget. And then we will talk to professor catherine moon about the olympics and north korea. Host both the house and the senate will convene at 10 00 today. They will be dealing with the topic of immigration on the house side, Republican Leaders will take the polls of their party to see if a bill sponsored by Bob Goodlatte of virginia could pass, thereby offering the chance to keep the daca program from expiring. The senate is attempting to vote on an immigration bill this week that meets the president priorities, including funding for a border wall. A skinny version of Immigration Reform, which scaled back from the president s preferred immigration principle, is a contender to win 60 votes, but that is not even certain. With the senate actively working on an immigration bill, we want to get your thoughts on how they should proceed. Should they give the president what he wants when it comes to fundin
Ruoff. As always, we take your phone calls. Washington journal is next. Host flags at the Human Capital are at half staff this morning, the day after a First Baptist church in texas became a fight of americas latest. People died when according to authorities, a lone gunman opened fire. You are about the attacker who died yesterday. We spent the first hour of our program on washington journal hearing your reaction to this latest shooting attack in america. Give us a call. Democrats, 202 7488000. Epublicans, 202 7488001 independent callers, 202 7488002. You can also comment on facebook or twitter. Morning to you. Heres the banner headline across the san antonio express. Hime to worship turns to orror. The New York Times armed for war. The New York Times noting that the victims ranged in age from 572 and among the dead were thedren, pregnant women and pastors daughter. The deadliest mass shooting in texas history. Front page of usa today notes that the attacker was found fatally shot a sh
Anytime you have Something Like this, you see the best of america in the response. The overwhelming sense of humanity and a shared sense of grief that occurs. People giving a lot of blood, holding vigils. Then, on the political side, you see the worst of america. Forle using the tragedy political advantage, trying to figure out how they can gain in a political argument based on this horrific event we have had. Now, we have had multiple Mass Shootings since then. That is what is most upsetting, in addition to the facts of the tragedy. That we just cannot get beyond the fact that this is not a political event. This is not something we should be striving for political advantage. Together in a shared sense of grief and act upon whatever the nation determines is the best course of action. Host if you were in congress, what would you like to see happen today . Guest there needs to be real discussion about why his is the only country where these things happen . There is a continuing sense whe