Good day, im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. Congress is trying to crawl its way out of chaos, but a feeling of inevitability has taken hold on capitol hill as the Clock Barrels toward a Government Shutdown. Both chambers are trying to reach shortterm spending agreements, but will they find the votes . Millions of federal employees and contractors are bracing for impact if a showdown does happen, but how significant a toll could it take on our armed services, both at home and abroad. And tributes for a trailblazer, lawmakers emotional remembrances of california senator Dianne Feinstein who passed away at the age of 90. Very sad. May she rest in peace. Voting the last day. We will take a look back at the life and legacy of the democrat who served longer than any other woman in senate history, and with big shoes left to fill, what happens now to feinsteins seat . A complicated calculation over who could be her successor. But we begin with the 2024 campaign, alr
action to move federal money around in order to build more wall. we have got a lot of funds for a lot of other things. with a wall they want to be stingy. we have options that most people don t really understand. options that some are urging him to act on. i hope he uses his emergency power to take care of our border because it s the right thing to do. other republicans expressing frustration that the recent shutdown didn t let them produce a more comprehensive deal. it didn t help us. the deal we ended up with now was worse than we had before the shutdown. with congress needing to act by friday the president signaling that he wants to avoid another politically damaging shutdown. the shutdown would be a terrible thing. i think a point was made with the last shutdown. people realized how bad the border is, how unsafe the border
he needs congressional permission. there is a component involving immigration and customs enforcement with senior aides saying there s no internal enforcement cap. 5,000 detention beds above the record level. funding and flexibility to maintain detention population and respond to apprehension surges. providing flexibility to reach the president s requested level of 52,000 beds. schumer notes it s a compromise. please, mr. president, no one got everything they wanted in this bill but sign it and don t cause a shutdown. many lawmakers have heard the pitch to support it. like the president, they would like to read it to see exactly what s in it. bret: in other news, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announced it s going to force a vote on the green new deal resolution proposed by a bunch of progressive democrats on the house side. also a senator on the senate side. he s going to put it on the senate floor.
not quite right it seems to me. he did try to say in the middle of the shutdown that it was the democrats faults. i understand the teaching moment aspect of it but the simple fact as the border wall remains an unpopular issue with the majority of the american people. i think the majority of the american people are largely wrong on that. i think you can do all sorts of things on the border. i think the trump administration s you have gotten its $5 million. the shutdown didn t lead to any great change in public opinion and it didn t get him more money for the wall. if he signs this, he gets latin i don t think he can spend that as a political win. except keeping the issue alive is generally good for trump but it s good for his opponents. bret: don t you think that in the election, there s going to be pillars that he runs on. immigration, late-term abortion, fighting socialism. if he gets hit, a good economy by the time you get 2020. a little bit of a preview
jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review. mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. josh kraushaar, politics editor at national journal. jonah, thoughts. by any normal beltway standards it s not a great triumph for donald trump. it s less money than he was going to get if he didn t shutdown the government the first time. i think he has probably no choice in deciding it because either you get a shutdown if you try to go the continuing resolution amount, it s even less money. i think he signs it and then i would suspect either he declares an emergency or starts moving money around and creates a new fight. if he declares emergency, the courts most of it but he gets to say that i tried. that would be a political one for him but it s not a great deal. i think it s a genuine compromise bill. each side gets a little bit of what they want. the problem is it s a compromise