this is one thing that did not get accomplished last year. i know there was a lot of pressure to get it done sooner rather than later. chair new appropriations saying this about the effort coming up next week, saying that this legislation is a first step

to helping our fellow americans get back on their feet, i pleased used, it includes important funding, especially for disaster made frequent by climate change. what are the source of things it will fund? ms. wire: -- best sorts of things it will fund will include medications, same thing with disaster relief when it comes to , fires, more preparation for those things. >> your related story at "l.a. .times.com" says that the president is up to something? ms. wire: these are projects that were funded by congress last year. the money has already been appropriated but has not been spent yet. there has been money for floodplain relief allocated.

the white house is looking for places in the government were a confined unspent money like this that can be used to fund the president's wall of the border. is declaring ae national emergency and potentially trying to end the government shutdown. year, a a normal non-shutdown year, what happens to these unused funds? ms. wire: they would be contracted out or remitted back to the government to be appropriated again. host: there is pushback from a ,an governor ricardo rossello the puerto rican governor, he said no justification should be considered to reclassify the money that citizens will use to rebuild their communities. and conversation should be about how to get more resources to build those areas faster. what are you hearing about the reported plan from the president? ms. wire: people are very much against this. some of the projects being targeted in california are

really necessary. a lot of the floodplain from california comes from the sierra nevada, central or southern california. that is where a majority of californians get your water from. there is also the constant risk .f catastrophic flood the sacramento area is the second most likely city in the country to be flooded. host: the has also been some tamping down of the reports of that plan. mark meadows, former chair of the house freedom caucus democrats continued to refuse to negotiate in good faith or appropriate in a money for border barriers. if they don't compromise, the president should disperse the forfeiture money or other discretionary fees, if not, he should not declare -- if not, he should declare in national. it is time. is that the general sentiment

from the republican side? ms. wire: the idea of asset forfeiture, that seems to be away from both sides to essentially get a win and the government shutdown -- the idea of using disaster funding, whether it he to make repairs for the disaster, after a disaster, or prepare for a disaster, doesn't seem to popular the house. host: democratic leaders spent the past few days passing appropriations bills for the remainder of fiscal year 2019. is there any indication of a compromised insight, that the senate will take up those measures that have passed? ms. wire: it doesn't seem likely. we are not hearing about negotiations happening behind-the-scenes. as soon as majority -- majority leader mitch mcconnell has said he will not bring a vote of the senate unless the president signals that he will sign it.

. host: that is a high threshold to cross at this point cerro wire covers congress for the l.a. times. you can follow her reporting at twitter as well. thank you so much for joining us. sarah: thank you so much for having me. >> tonight on the communicators. >> we are talking about fiber optic technology, it is not new. the idea is a very thin strand of glass allows, as far as we can tell, unlimited amounts of information to be pumped through it by lasers. it is used around the world to communications. more and more countries are ensuring that everyone of their citizens has access to a fiber optic connection. >> author and harvard law professor susan crawford discusses her book "fiber: the coming tech revolution and why america might miss it."

there will be no wire better than fiber that will emerge over the next few decades. right now, we are leaving behind , a lot of the country, when it comes to great communications capacity. as a nation, we are falling behind to be the places were new ideas come from. >> watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. the government shutdown is now in a day 24, the longest in u.s. history. watch of the house lives when it gobbles in at noon eastern. the senate will be live at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span two. look at artificial intelligence and its impact on daily life posted by the -- hosted byst "the washington post pure could among those speaking