good evening again. 9:00 p.m. here in new york. still eastern standard chaos time in washington. still waiting for the house of representatives to pass a bill, almost any bill at this point. so the department of homeland security doesn't run out of money. house speaker john boehner failed to persuade enough for three weeks, almost all democrats voted against it. just a few minutes ago, passed a 7-day funding bill. we wait to see if the house can agree to that. bottom line, whatever you think of this bill, whatever you think of the issue, wherever you stand

politically, it's hard to see what happened tonight and what's still going on right now as anything but a mess. dhs runs out of money at midnight and remember, isis is on the move. dana bash covering this at capitol hill. what's the latest? >> reporter: we expect the house to take up the one-week spending bill for the department of homeland security in about the next hour. part of reason the three-week extension failed is because democrats for the most part voted against it because they said we're not going to do short-term. we want to fund the department for the entire year. well, we expect democrats to come out shortly for a press conference and say, this time for just a week, they'll go for it. they'll allow it. in fact, the democratic leader, nancy pelosi, sent a dear colleague letter effectively unleashing her rank and file saying they could vote for it. that means it's much more likely

to see that this actually will pass and that we will avoid that shutdown that we've been looking for, the timing that we've been looking for at midnight tonight, probably won't happen. but again, as we've been saying, i don't want to be in the prediction business given what has happened over the past few hours. >> that would be a key development in this saga to be sure, dana. and you have information, i understand, just in, a key development in the future of speaker boehner's leadership. >> reporter: perhaps, but i think it's more of when it comes to understanding and explaining why we are where we are and why this speaker has refused to put on the house floor that clean bill funding the department through the end of the year. i've spoken to a couple of senior republican sources in the house, people who are close to john boehner, like john boehner and they say they have become increasingly worried that if he did that, if he defied conservatives, that he could be

in a position where there would be what's effectively a coup. they would try to challenge him formally, challenge his speakership and if that's not successful, at least embarrass him. we should also point out that at this point it doesn't seem like there's anybody who could ever become the votes to become speaker. the whole house has to do that. and they're angry for not pushing forward enough to confront the president's policies, especially on immigration. they don't have an alternative to pass it either. they're kind of thinking it's fair to say they're not living in reality politically of how things get done up here which is probably why we are where we are. that is the situation. there absolutely is concern from the people around him that some of the conservatives who have been in transit have been even more so than in the past and perhaps they're just trying to not take yes for an answer to

set the stage to really challenge him. >> that is a problem for republicans. of course the next three hours, getting something through. dana bash, thank you for keeping us up to the minute on what's going on behind the closed door there. to the white house and what president obama has been doing tonight as all of this has been unfolding or unraveling as the case may be. michelle kosinski is there for us. what are you hearing from the white house? >> reporter: john, while this is going on, for the most part the white house has been quietme. so has the president. he did not mention this gdebacl. we know when the president got back from his appearance from the department of justice, he convened a meeting with the secretary of department of homeland security with the director of the office and management and budget. looking at sort of a way forward in this state of affairs as it is now. he also made two phone calls to the democratic leadership in

both the house and the senate. only to democratic leadership though. i mean, the question has come up repeatedly in the past few days, what is the president going to do about this? some persuasion on the hill? is he going to sit down or at least call speaker boehner or in the senate, mitch mcconnell? what is he going to do exactly and the white house said if he could speak down with boehner but that hasn't happened and that's where it stands right now, john. >> no phone call to speaker boehner, as we know as this is deveping minute by minute over the course of the night. michelle, we knew the president would have signed a three-week measure that would have went down in flames. do you have a sense he would sign this one-week extension if it passes over the next hour or so? >> reporter: dit's interesting o think about. the white house made it clear they're willing to compromise, keep the department of homeland security running. they want to do that. that's the point here but say they compromise up to a point.

we keep asking the white house, over the past few days, if there's going to be a short-term measure, would the president veto that like he would have vetoed a bill that included defunding his executive action on immigration and they didn't want to go there. they didn't want to say if that happens but the hope was it would be a long-term bill. they already have said the president would sign the three-week measure. now that it's down to a week, it's kind of an interesting concept to imagine, you know, that's taking it too far. one week is ridiculous. i'm not going to do this. but that's not going to happen. the white house said they want to keep things running. it's a shame it's come to this, it's going to be a continued battle. but the white house has already expressed they're ready to see this through even though it's going to be a very short term, john. >> busy few hours, seeing what gets passed. i should tell you, we're waiting to hear from house minority leader nancy pelosi. dana bash reporting moments ago.

she thinks the democrats will go along with the notion to extend funding for just one more week. let's talk about what this means. i'm joined now by anchor of "the situation room," our own wolf blitzer along with gloria borger, analyst. wolf, we may get a week long extension here, still though, hard to see this as anything but a disaster for speaker boehner. >> i think what the democrats will say, go along with the week long extension, as dana reported, it's passed the senate by a voice vote. if all the democrats or at least most of them are on board in the house and a whole bunch of republicans are on board in the house of representatives, they'll get that week extension, the president will sign it into law before midnight tonight. i suspect at some point we'll hear from nancy pelosi that will probably indicate a readiness to go along with this. i don't think she would do that if the president weren't ready to sign it, eventually in the next few hours.

i wouldn't be surprised to hear from the president assuming this gets going. that i got to keep the department of homeland security funded. the stakes are too enormous, especially the time of terror threats out there for the u.s., the department of homeland security to be without enough money to deal with all of these. it's hugely embarrassing. i suspect they'll work out a short-term compromise. the key question over the next we week, will the house of representatives be willing to do with the senate, pass legislation that funds the department of homeland security for the rest of this fiscal year, through the end of september until the new fiscal year begins october 1st? if they get that commitment -- here's nancy pelosi. let's take a listen. >> i have this note because this evening, i sent a dear colleague to our house, democratic members thanking them for their cooperation on their vote

earlier today. the note said it was a strong statement that the department of homeland security must be fully funded. we are asking our members, it says, to help again advance passage of the senate bill long-term funding of department of homeland security by voting for a seven-day patch that will be on suspension in the house tonight. that is coming over from the senate. it's already passed the senate. i say to them, further, your vote tonight will assure that we will vote for full funding of the homeland security next week. thank you for your leadership. i'm very proud of our members, the unity that we had. it showed the commitment to full funding. we certainly want to protect the american people every minute of every day, 24/7. that includes today and we believe that within the next seven days, hopefully five, that we will have a bill that takes us to the end of the year, end of the fiscal year.

questio questions. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi saying she has written a letter to her members in the house of representatives telling them that they should vote for a seven-day, what she calls patch for funding homeland security for the next seven days so congress can figure out a way to vote on homeland security for the rest of the fiscal year. gloria borger, wolf blitzer with me now to talk about this. gloria and dana bash with us from capitol hill, i should say, gloria, help me understand this. did the democrats just help play john boehner here, they voted no on three weeks but now saying they'll vote yes on seven days. >> i think what the democrats did was deliver a very strong signal, you can argue politically whether it was the right thing or the wrong thing to do because i think in the end, congress looks bad, but what they did was they said to republicans, you know what,

folks? you run the house. we are not going to bail you out anymore. we want to fully fund the department of homeland security. we want to deal with immigration separately. you should do it that way. and if you can't get a majority to do that, that's your own problem. and they, as we call in washington, whipped this which means they were counting votes on this. they were arguing to all of their members they ought to be united and you saw nancy pelosi say she saluted her colleague's leadership and i think they proved her point and now they need to move on. >> you know, dana bash, one of the things when you have a smaller caucus. control of the members in your own party but still i have to think if you're john boehner right now, it's a very uncomfortable position to be in. when you need nancy pelosi, the

leader of the other party, to get anything passed. >> that's right, especially when you have like what john boehner has. why the republican leaders might be worried is because the democrats are under the impression that in order to get their votes tonight, to keep this department running, in exchange they will get that clean vote, the vote on the clean bill to keep the department running through the end of the fiscal year, that democrats have been demanding. the republicans, so far, have told us they made no such promise but the democrats believe that they have that promise. we'll see what happens next week. but if that happens, if the house speaker does bring up that clean bill, as i reported earlier in the hour, there is concern that there will be a very real challenge to his

speakership. not necessarily concern from boehner himself, but people i've talked to who are close with him, who are his allies, who really like him. they are concerned that this whole situation today of 50 plus republicans voting against him was to set the stage for what's effectively a coup. >> it's going to be an interesting next few hours here as we watch this vote unfold and interesting week. dana bash, wolf blitzer, gloria borger. we need to take a break. more at what's stake. the real stuff. we talk about homeland security, not just the political fighting. [cat meows] ♪meow, meow, meow, meow... it's more than just a meal, it's meow mix mealtime. with great taste and 100% complete nutrition, it's the only one cats ask for by name. ♪ how did i set a new personal record today? i started with a test run.

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breaking news tonight. democrats just moments ago apparently offered the republican party the gop a way out of the trouble that's been happening on capitol hill. minority leader nancy pelosi asked her members to support a 7-day funding bill for the department of homeland security. that vote could come very shortly, but as we've been seeing again and again, anything can happen. so first, the practical implications of a shutdown if it happens in less than three

hours. we're joined by tom foerman. you've been digging in. what could this hypothetical shutdown look like at midnight? >> it would appear to have a massive impact and think about that word, appear. what we're talking about here is a gigantic department. the department of homeland security budget of almost $65 billion for fiscal year 2016, workforce of more than 240,000 people. the biggest cabinet post out there, 16 different departments underneath it. what do they do? if you look at the board, they're in charge of immigration, border patrol, citizenship services. and involved in the tsa at the airport. all people checking for security. customs. also involved in things like fema, disaster response. anytime something terrible happens, this falls under the department of homeland security and secret service, federal law enforcement training, cyber security and a whole lot more. so all of these things look

very, very big out there, john. one of the tricks of all of this has been almost all of this is essential. both sides have said that from the beginning. while they say it's a threat to this department, they've all allowed from the beginning almost none of this would change in terms of what the public sees, john. >> but come monday, will there be things happening now that will not be happening, some things being not done? >> yes. there would be, but by and large, there would be things that very few people in the public would see. paychecks would stop to many, many department of homeland security workers. now, it doesn't mean they won't get paid in the long run. they probably will based on past patterns but they would have a real impact right up front. training of many programs would be stopped for a time being. local grant programs or police departments, things like that would stop. e-verify system to let employers know who can be hired but you don't see this as a member of

the public. the main number up there, of the roughly 240,000 or more based on this department, about 200,000 of them would stay on the job even with pay interruption. >> 200,000 people not getting paid to keep america safe. tom for man, thank you very much. back with us now, wolf blitzer and gloria borger. i want to bring up something important. more than 50 republicans voted against this measure to extend funding for homeland security for three weeks. these are republicans, by the way, who presumably have the support of their constituents, by and large probably do not want them to vote in favor of funding homeland security under these conditions. they're against president obama's executive actions on immigration. doesn't seem likely to change their opposition to those measures over the next week. >> right. these are people who as a matter of principle don't want to fund the department of homeland security even if it gives the

president the opportunity to fund executives orders they consider to be unconstitutional, illegal, allowing some of the undocumented immigrants in the united states to stay here to get some sort of legal status. that is on hold now, ironically, right now on hold because a federal judge in texas said it was illegal for the president to go forward with those executive orders. the administration, the justice department, is appealing that. they've asked the federal judge in texas to issue a stay. he's unlikely to do so. he's a conservative federal judge, the fifth circuit court of appeals in new orleans, pretty conservative. they're unlikely to go ahead with the president either. this could take months and months if it goes up to the supreme court. for practical purposes, what the president wanted to do for the undock undocumented immigrants, for these 50 or so republicans who voted against the three-week extension today, this is a matter of principle and they're reluctant to go with it. i suspect most of them vote against the one-week extension

at the same time. >> they feel strongly about this to be sure. gloria, we're now two months, not even two months into this new congress. what have we learned that will tell us about what's going to happen for the next year and ten months? what have we learned about speaker boehner's leadership and what have we learned about the democrats playing this game with sharp elbows? >> i remember when mitch mcconnell became leader and he is a tactician in the senate and he's somebody who's looking towards his legacy and has finally gotten the job he always wanted, and he talked about being able to get things done, making the congress functional again. well, he kind of held up his end of the bargain. took four or five votes to get there but said i'll separate these two or three things, it will be logical, make sense, maybe somebody will be angry but i think we don't want to be embarrassed with any kind of word of a shutdown.

what we learned is that he and john boehner are leading very, very different types of caucuses. they don't talk a lot. they haven't talked for a couple weeks before this occurred. and that john boehner cannot deliver. and the reason he can't deliver is that his conservative flank doesn't trust him, doesn't like him, and i was interested in hearing dana talk about the question of a challenge to his leadership because if in an hour or so when this vote occurs or 15 or 20 minutes, whenever it is, if john boehner cannot make this happen, then i think questions will be raised about his leadership. you know, my only problem is, you know, if you strike at the king, you've got to kill him. i don't know who would replace john boehner in that republican caucus right now which is so disparate. but we've learned overall it's just as dysfunctional as it always was. >> gloria borger, wolf blitzer,

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our breaking news. we just learned the house of representatives due back in session any minute now at about 9:30 p.m. they could start voting by 9:45 p.m. on a measure to fund homeland security for one more week. seven days. there's been an impasse in congress over the last day, that's putting it politely.

there's been a mess in congress over funding homeland security. they failed to pass a measure to fund it for three weeks. now a seven-day extension to work something out on a more permanent basis. we will keep you updated over the next 50 minutes to see if that passes. other breaking news. russian opposition leader boris nemtsov, one of president putin's most vocal critics shot down in moscow, gunned down on a bridge within sight of the kremlin. associates are calling it a political murder. russian president said president putin has condemned the killing. he launched an investigation. as frederik pleitgen reported, a manhunt is under way in moscow. authorities said to be looking for a white car. in a statement, president obama praised nemtsov as a tireless and courageous advocate for his country. in an interview last year, cnn's anthony bourdain spoke frankly with nemtsov about the dangers that anyone who criticizes putin faces. >> you were supposed to be

dining at another restaurant but when they heard you were inviting me, you were uninvited. >> this is a country of corruption. if you have business, you are in an unsafe situation. everybody can destroy your business. that's right. this is a system. >> meet boris nemtsov, deputy prime minister under putin. >> unfortunately, exists in power what i say in russia of 19th century, not of 21st. >> this is a case of a known enemy of putin with radioactive colonial. are you concerned? >> me? about myself? >> yeah. you are a pain in the ass. >> i was born here 54 years ago. this is my country. russian people are in a bit of trouble. russian court downtown work.

russian education decline every year. and i believe that russia has a chance to be free. has a chance. it is difficult, but we must do. >> you heard it right there. boris nemtsov had no illusions about his own safety. he was 55 years old. joining me now, former world chess champion, gary gastprove, now chairman of the international council of human rights foundation. thank you so much for being with us. you have lost a friend of some 20 years. >> and a colleague and one of the most critics of putin's regime. brave man full of life who has been blasting putin's regime for corruption, for violation of human rights, democratic institutions up to the last hour of his life. it was recorded 40 minutes before he was shot dead, few hundred yards from kremlin. >> who do you think killed him? >> it remains to be seen.

i have great doubts it will be found. we'll have pictures of police bringing in machines and using powerful hoses to wash away the murder spot. so if you are seriously trying to investigate it, you don't do that, of course. i doubt that it was a direct order from putin. but it was this toxic atmosphere of hatred that has been promulgated by russian television, 24/7. russian mass media has been spreading hatred. people like boris nemtsov had been called enemies of the state, national traitors. nothing but hatred in russian mass media controlled by kremlin and i think some of putin's cronies thought they could move further by eliminating one of the enemies of putin because murder, death, destruction, they are just regular guests of russian television. when you hear it for 30 minutes,

you can get sick because they are preaching death to everybody in the country. >> the russian leader said he launched an investigation. do you trust the investigation into this murder from the government of vladimir putin? >> i trust this investigation. they'll find someone to blame for this crime, but again, what they did in the first minutes after this crime tells us that there was no interest to find those who did it and the fact they did it in front of kremlin i think just tells us that it's impunit impunity. so they believe that the country belongs to them because you could see out of putin's power base has shifted and now relies on the most brutal, cruel aggressive elements of russian society. >> you heard boris nemtsov, your friend, talk about the risks that he was taking as an opposition figure in that country, in that clip we just played. you haven't been back in russia

for what, two years? are you afraid? >> look, i left it because i was called to testify or to be a witness in one of the numerous political cases and i spoke to boris. i spoke to a prominent opposition leader. what could have happened and they told me, look, you entered the building of russian investigative media as the witness and you leave it as a suspect. so i stayed away and it's quite tragic to remember, it was boris about the future. you could hear him being quite optimistic and i said it would be inevitable because this kind of tragedy was unavoidable in my view. >> you told him he would be killed. >> it's the outcome. i kept telling him, no way would be transformed through the ballots, through the elections and he said maybe, but we have to try. he was one of the very few that russia could find a safe path to

the democracy. we could somehow rebuild our country without revolutions and turmoil and he paid for it with his life for beliefs. >> garry, thank you for coming in. so sorry for your loss. we expect house members to begin voting on a seven-day extension for funding for the department of homeland security that will be happening within the next few minutes. thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, "what else can you do for me?" i'll just take a water... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions.

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all right. let me try to give you a sense of what's going on right now in the house of representatives, if that's even possible after the day we've had. they are now voting on the house floor. you're looking at live pictures right now on a measure that would fund the department of homeland security for 7 more days. 7 days of funding so they can then work out a more long-term solution to this problem. house minority leader nancy pelosi said she's asked democrats to vote for this measure. presumably, they think they have enough votes to get this through. the particular way they're doing this requires a two-thirds vote to pass. voting has just begun. might take another 15 minutes or so. you can see the clock ticking down there on the screen. it says 13 minutes left but sometimes they extend that. the vote going on right now. we're watching it very, very closely. in the meantime, we're learning

more tonight about who may have influenced four young canadians to leave home and possibly join isis. we learned that they are missing last night and their families have been frantic. cnn's paula newton has been on this. what do they say? >> reporter: it's a shocking story when you listen to these kids talk about, you know, a girl who was incredibly bright, was a tutor in the school, well liked, very social. the entire school learned through social media she was missing and now, as you say are incredibly shocked. what's interesting, everyone wants to know, john, how did this happen? how were they radicalized? at this point, a split between two different institutions. it doesn't seem like the high school she was at had any influence but people raise questions about a community college here and a controversial preacher on campus.

he today denied radicalizing people but many here asking the same questions they're asking in the united states and europe. how are these people being lured any isis, john? >> any sense of where these teens are exactly right now? >> reporter: you know, john, that's the tough part. the trail has gone cold. by the time these families call authorities, it's unfortunately too late. they believe they've gone to turkey. they've lost the trail there. they're going through social media histories, anybody they've spoken to. but again, they don't have much of a trail to go on and at this point, they are working with officials on the ground in turkey. we've heard this story so many times before. of course, these families, desperate to reach out to them any way they can. it's something authorities here are keeping an eye on. they say, john, quite bluntly that this is a growing problem and they know more young people at risk. >> a fear here in the united states.

paula newton, thank you so much. no small irony, that fear exists here in the united states as on capitol hill. they are debating whether to fund homeland security for an extended period of time. you're looking at live pictures right now of the house floor. this is breaking news. there is a vote going on right now to fund the department of homeland security for just seven more days. it's been a tough day all day long for house speaker john boehner. a measure to fund it for three weeks went down. will this new measure for seven days pass? we'll be right back. choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number. don't miss the final days of the ultimate sleep number event. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. you like the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! now we can all choose amazing sleep, only at a sleep number store. right now save 50% on the ultimate limited edition bed. hurry, ends sunday! know better sleep, with sleep number.

welcome back. you are looking at live pictures right now. floor of the house of representatives voting. under way right now on the bill that would department the homeland security for just seven days. a 7 day funding measure so that theoretically then congress could work out a more long-term funding plan to keep the department of homeland security open, perhaps for a longer period than just 7 days. the vote now, it needs two-thirds, this particular measure, to pass. it looks about 8 minutes left in the vote. we'll keep you posted as we learn the outcome. in the meantime, something

you'll only see on cnn. fareed zakaria, host of "gps" sat down with jordan's king abdullah. in exclusive interview that airs on sunday, fareed asked about the war at home over the words that the president uses and doesn't use when talking about isis. >> president obama has got into a little trouble or at least received some criticism because he said he doesn't want to call groups like isis islamic extremists because he doesn't want them to have the mantle of legitimacy by acknowledging they're islamic. do you think he's right? >> i think he is right. this is something that has to be understood on a much larger platform because they're looking for legitimacy that they don't have inside of islam. we're lost in this debate. are you moderate or extremist? what these people want is to be called extremist.

they take that as a badge of honor. to label islam under the term of extremist and moderates is actually completely wrong. so i think by making this comparison that they're extremist muslims is actually working actually what these people want. no, we're muslims. i don't know what these people are, but they definitely do not have any relationship to our faith. >> again, the interview airs on "gps" sunday morning. fareed zakaria joins us tonight. so, fareed, king abdullah has a lot of friends in the united states on both sides of the aisle. when king abdullah said i support the president's language here, do you think that has any sway here in the united states? >> well, i would hope it would make people realize what the president was trying to do. it's not as though barack obama doesn't know that this problem we're describing is emanating out of the islamic world. the interview he did with me, he said, look, let's not kid ourselves. this is a problem coming out of

muslim communities, but i don't want to give them the legitimacy they're seeking and that's essentially what the king told me. he said, look, let's not confer on them the legitimacy they so desperately seek and don't have in his view from within the world of islam. so i think that, what i hope people understand is that, we're not trying to be college professors here. this is not accurately describing something. it's a political strategy designed to say we're not giving you the satisfaction of calling you islamic, giving you that mantle of legitimacy and when you hear an important voice from the arab world say that, i hope in america say, oh, that's what this debate is about. >> a politicalization, king abdullah. he's got a war raging in his border, not far from him. a pilot who was slaughtered, brutally murdered by isis. did you sense any annoyance or

frustration there's an argument here in the united states over language where he's dealing with bloodshed just miles away? >> he definitely was much morea? >> well, he is much more focused on the fight, the actual fight on the ground than this issue of the terminology, so he does think of the ideological issue, and the struggle is important, but, yes, john, when he would talk, he'd get very quickly into very detailed discussions of the military strategy in iraq, in syria, and remember, he is a military guy, and he was trained at the british military academy. he understands the battlefield very well, and he understands what the military power can do. ap by the way, he is optimistic, and he felt that isis was not invincible, and he the felt that already you would see the tide turn, and he said to me, at one point, i can't remember if it was on camera or off, but he said, you know, things are, the tide is turning, and this is, they are not doing as well as people think they are.

>> and i want to play you a clip here, because at one point he characterized the struggle in a way that surprised me a little bit. let's listen. >> how should the west handle this? should the response to isis be essentially a muslim resons? an arab response? or to the west be in the lead? >> it has to be unified. i mean, i have said it to leaders both in the islamic, and the arab world, and to the world in general, this is a third-world war by other means, and this is going to bring muslims, and christians and other religions together in the generational fight that all of us have to be this together. >> he called it a third world war, and those are fairly stark world war terms, and isn't this is going to be couched in a stark realization? >> well, i think that what he meant by that is that it is a

war that has now involved every major power in the region. saudi arabia is involved and turkey is involved and seyria ad iraq were involve and jordan is involve and egypt is involved, but i am not sure that what he meant by, you know, of the cataclysmic clash of the civilizations, but it is now a local conflict, and now it involves the outside powers and of course, the united states, and many that sense, he haugt that the stakes were high, but i don't know that he saw it as a islam versus the west issue, but he thought that it is no longer a lowle cal conflict, and with we are all involved and we have the make sure that we are all involved. >> fascinating interview, fareed zakari zakaria. the capitol hill, will they get over the final hump of

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a braeaking news, voting on the house floor to fund the department of homestand security for seven more days, and i'm joined again by dana bash, and gloria borger and wolf blitzer. dana, the vote there and it appears to have the vote to pass and then some. ne nearly 340 votes now for the

measure. >> yes, i think that we are safe as safe can be without hearing the gavel come down to formally end the vote. what the democrats are hoping is that john boehner will just let the seven days go, and have that vote to actually fund the homeland security department for the full year. not just hoping, but actually our understanding is that they feel that they have a commitment from john boehner. john boehner and the office is saying that did not simply happen. the reason i am mentioning it is important, because there are people who are close to john boehner and the allies who are very concerned that some of the conservatives will wage what is effectively a coupe. will either try to embarrass him in a por mall wformal way to re from the speakership, and so concerned that as of now, and as we speak they are worried that if the conservatives are hearing that john boehner cut a deal

with the democrats over their objectives they could do it as soon as tonight. so it is a realtime issue go g ing on with john boehner and his fellow conservatives and questions about whether or not he can do his job. >> all right. the headline, we should remind you is that this means that the homeland security will be funded tomorrow when you wake up, because the president will be signing the measure when it is gavelled in, and the funding for seven more days. wolf blitzer, as i am looki ingt this the right now, it is not picking up with any republican vot votes, it is democratic help here, and john boehner has his work cut out. >> yes, there are seven reps who opposed it the first time, they still do, because it is a matter of principle because of the no funding for immigration, and we will be back a week are from today ready for the will have

happens. >> well, we will need another vote, and we will have to wait to see if it comes that way. and gloria borger, it is a day that nobody wanted to see it happen that way. >> well, they are all happy it is ending one way or another. and look, john boehner has to take the knives out of the back, and figure out where the votes are, because, if there are folks who are suspicious of him as dana points out, then he has to figure out what deal he can cut with the democrats to fund the department of home laland secur that doesn't create a coupe within his own ranks, because there are lots of folks who are primed and ready, i think, to try to the take the speakership away from john boehner, and he is not going to be going easily. >> and a problem even with the homeland security funded. and thank you, dana bash and gloria borger and wolf blitzer. as we leave you, it is going to

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