House correspondent, Weekend Today cohost Peter Alexander, Garrett Haake on capitol hill, brendan buck, former Senior Adviser to house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and former Maryland Democratic congresswoman Debra Everets and former senator claire mccaskill. Peter first to you. Lets start with the covid Relief Package. The white house releasing a statement after that monday meaning with republicans saying the president is open to reconciliation, but the republicans are in the conversation. So where do we stand . Are democrats on the Progressive Side getting nervous hell compromise too much, or are all saying hell go big even if it means going it alone . Reporter when everybody was said and done last night, it was clear President Biden, this white house wasnt really giving much ground here. They say that the meeting was substantive and productive but at the end of the day he said they had to meet this moment. The decision is whether to go big and go it alone or scale back this
This is al jazeera live from doha also coming up pope francis makes a plea to protect the amazon and its people during his trip to peru. A member of the qatari royal family accuses saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Of manufacturing the gulf crisis to seize dohas well. Im Charlie Rangel in london for the lumia festival which told us it is to transform the city into a no gallery. The u. S. Government is shutting down it comes after a Senate Procedural vote on funding for federal agencies failed it means that only essential offices and services will remain open until theres an agreement to a particle hane joins us and joins us now from washington d. C. Party they certainly took this right down to the wild whats the latest with the vote. I have to say during this is extraordinary i cant remember ever reported on anything like this keep in mind its midnight friday evening here in washington d. C. And lets take a look at the senate floor and what you see here is the vote started about two hours
Since the senate couldnt pass a fourweek resolution to fund the government, they are trying is set for threeweek resolution. Republicans are betting that among the ranks of their democratic colleagues, there is enough support for the six years worth of funding for the chip program. They could get some democratic votes in the house, and the senate if leader pelosi and schumer free them up to go. I spoke to greg walden, the republican from Washington State. He says if the democrats freed up they would vote but their leadership has been constrained. Nancy pelosi meanwhile, has signed off on this threeweek long continuing resolution only if if daca is attached. It is in right now. Paul we will go to the republican leaders. Okay. The shutdown of the government is completely unnecessary. Last night, the Senate Democrats chose not to join us in funding the government in providing support to our military and reauthorizing chip. They made the choice to shut the government down. To deny our troo
Since the senate couldnt pass a fourweek resolution to fund the government, they are trying is set for threeweek resolution. Republicans are betting that among the ranks of their democratic colleagues, there is enough support for the six years worth of funding for the chip program. They could get some democratic votes in the house, and the senate if leader pelosi and schumer free them up to go. I spoke to greg walden, the republican from Washington State. He says if the democrats freed up they would vote but their leadership has been constrained. Nancy pelosi meanwhile, has signed off on this threeweek long continuing resolution only if if daca is attached. It is in right now. Paul we will go to the republican leaders. Okay. The shutdown of the government is completely unnecessary. Last night, the Senate Democrats chose not to join us in funding the government in providing support to our military and reauthorizing chip. They made the choice to shut the government down. To deny our troo
Since the senate couldnt pass a fourweek resolution to fund the government, they are trying is set for threeweek resolution. Republicans are betting that among the ranks of their democratic colleagues, there is enough support for the six years worth of funding for the chip program. They could get some democratic votes in the house, and the senate if leader pelosi and schumer free them up to go. I spoke to greg walden, the republican from Washington State. He says if the democrats freed up they would vote but their leadership has been constrained. Nancy pelosi meanwhile, has signed off on this threeweek long continuing resolution only if if daca is attached. It is in right now. Paul we will go to the republican leaders. Okay. The shutdown of the government is completely unnecessary. Last night, the Senate Democrats chose not to join us in funding the government in providing support to our military and reauthorizing chip. They made the choice to shut the government down. To deny our troo