democrats in the house passed a one week funding extension for the department of homeland security, the president signed the bill just minutes before the midnight deadline but last might s political theater means the clock start ticking again for a partial shut down of dhs and the bill does nothing to solve the debate over president obama s execution on immigration. peter do you sayy joins us to sort out what is an increasingly confusing situation. the shut down and think crisis that may have come with it has within avoided for one week. all the democrats and republicans could agree on was the seven days of funding for the agency. the rest is caught up in a fight about cutting out money that goes toward enforcing president obama s executive actions on immigration and there are influential republicans in the senate happy that this fight will continue. here is why. all over the country republican senate and house candidates told the people if you give us a republican
steve: it was pricele til about a minute ago. day two of the fort hood shooting trial gets underway in a couple hours. yesterday it took a surreal turn when major nidal hasan grilled witnesses, including his former boss in the military. peter do you sayy is live in wash doocy is live in washington. major nidal hasan now looks older and more frail than in recent photos we ve seen. his beard is bushy and gray, but that isn t stopping him from representing himself in court where he used an opening statement to say the evidence will show he is the shooter. he also spoke about his motives, saying that, quote, we the mew jew ha dean are perfect muslims trying to establish the perfect religion in the land of the supreme god. yesterday was the first day many of his victims had seen him since his lethal shooting spree inside the fort hood medical processing facility on november 5, 2009. and since hasan is representing