with all of you here. it is my sincere hope that those in this body will always remember the words of lincoln, who said, we shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. the way forward, he said, is, quote, plain, peaceful, generous , just -- a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud and god will forever bless. i yield the floor. [applause] temporary funding through december 21. they have seven outstanding

bills.ng week. live coverage next here's an update from a capitol reporter. >> sarah ferris is a congressional reporter for politico. she joins us with the latest on talks to fund the government head of the december 21 deadline to prevent a shutdown. and the white ss house in talks at this point? >> the house and senate went won't thursday and they be coming back, at least the house, won't be back until leadership of he the house and senate are still here over the weekend. hey will be trying to figure out what the white house wants. they will then try to put orward a spending package that can pass both chambers an hopefully avoid a shutdown by did friday but lawmakers leave the capital on thursday with basically no idea of what next week will look like and they will be here on christmas. >> so president trump met with past atic leaders this

week at the white house. what are the key differences, wall, of course, but what are the details in terms of wall? they are on the >> so the border wall has been the issue for months and months, of the appropriations in other words on capitol hill have reading the text and looking at the specifics. president trump has been billion for the border wall. that's his number. there is not a specific project wants. that's his number. the house republicans have been number.o give him that the house bill would include $5 illion, but the senate $1.6 tisan bill includes billion for new fencing largely in california in specific areas border. that's something democrats have already agreed to so there is a plan out there right now that $1 upon 6 billion for the wall, that both parties have agreed to.

course, is , of that's a lot less than $5 billion for the white house and that s meeting on tuesday was televised on national television, this extraordinary with nancy pelosi and huck schumer, trump repeatedly told them he would demand $5 billion and he wouldn't accept the $1.6 billion. now, what are you hearing in terms of what his advisers are at this point now that he's dug in this deep to border wall? >> there is not a lot of people in the white house who are shutdown ating for a this point. the republicans will be in the final days of their majority in house. the senate republicans would like to see things done. they don't want to be blamed for so there are advisers in the white house who have begun to pressure trump to to explain to him that it's going to be nearly impossible to get the $5 billion a the wall without causing really dramatic year end shutdown that, again, both really on capitol hill

don't want to be here over the holidays. on friday afternoon the meetings scheduled with his legislative director chief, and they are going to be discussing possible options including an would be a two-week stopgap funding bill, freezing for nt levels of funding two more weeks into january and this would effectively bunt the democrats til house have retaken the majority and that's an idea that some house republicans actually say they okay with doing even if it doesn't deliver the $5 billion for the wall. will help them avoid being blamed for the shutdown. house, a bers of the lot of them have already gone back to their districts. standby to come back to the capitol. the first vote scheduled wednesday night. are we going to see this hit the floor of the house and senate? of the house can pass the spending bill very quickly f they want to, so they could

in theory come back wednesday night. have a text of a bill ready to they could vote on that thursday and the senate could ign it on friday and everybody could be home and with their families. several days ahead of christmas but there also could be drama with president trump changing his mind and that's the we haven't seen ale are out of legislative text or even a discussion of what text is drafted right now because the appropriations committee, staffers have been preparing options. they are not formally preparing them but they have been told to ideas ready in case they do need to go ahead with he two-week continuing resolution or even longer, so basically these committees are preparing options. something o have ready in case the house needs to pass something quickly. they could also come back on looks like there will be a protracted fight and they want to send a message bill if there is a appetite for house republicans to deliver that $5 billion in a separate

bill. not the plan.'s they are not clear they would have the votes to do that given absences in the house recently, but mccarthy did the schedule open putting members on standby in case they additional d some votes next week. >> sarah ferris reporting for her ico, we can find rticles at politico.com and also her tweets at sarah n. ferris. so much. >> thank you. >> when the new congress takes ffice in january, it will have the youngest, most diverse freshman class in recent history. new leaders. live on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2018][captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]