the delay, some of the taxes, more specifically the medical device tax, the cadillac tax. they don t oppose anything in the bill. but they are opposing the bill. they re posing the bill. i literally, moments ago before coming out here, just wanted to see what s happening upstairs. i ve been on the phone like most of my colleagues throughout the night checking in with our sources trying to figure out where we go from here. the president won t make his way down to march a la go, he hopes to get this pushed over the finish line. the president, his chief of staff john kelly continued to make phone calls in the hopes that they can craft a deal to keep the government funded eventually. right now as you point out, it is shutdown time. shannon: thank you, update us as you hear more, kevin. the blame game gints in earnest. fox news political anchor bret
the delay, some of the taxes, more specifically the medical device tax, the cadillac tax. they don t oppose anything in the bill. but they are opposing the bill. they re posing the bill. i literally, moments ago before coming out here, just wanted to see what s happening upstairs. i ve been on the phone like most of my colleagues throughout the night checking in with our sources trying to figure out where we go from here. the president won t make his way down to march a la go, he hopes to get this pushed over the finish line. the president, his chief of staff john kelly continued to make phone calls in the hopes that they can craft a deal to keep the government funded eventually. right now as you point out, it is shutdown time. shannon: thank you, update us as you hear more, kevin. the blame game gints in earnest. fox news political anchor bret
international journalists. russian s foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? reporter: that s a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a hero s welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and friends of president bashar al-assad right now. the russian line has been that the western governments have not been putting enough pressure on the opposition groups to stop violence as well. if you want to know how wide the differentiation is between the two sides in syria, just about 100 miles away the artillery shells continue to rain on the opposition held city of homs where hundreds of civilians are believed to have died in just the past couple of days, kyra. now you re also seeing a growi