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oligarch all in an effort to set up a meeting with fake news dossier author christopher steele. first, tonight, very important breaking news openingin monolog. >> sean: we will go slow. we have been reporting on this night after night for over a year and it's turning into a scandal bigger than watergate. here is why this is also alarming. all the s information we have bn telling about so far is only a sample of what's to come. it's the tip of the iceberg. these facts, this evidence, will rock the foundation of washington, d.c. it will make you question how is it possible this could ever happen in the united states of america. it's that serious. and it's why we have been pushing so hard on this program for answers. meanwhile,ee you have the liberl mainstream media, they are supposed toer be all about trut, transparency, they have been missing in action. they have turned their backs, they are ignoring the big a story in their lifetimes, they are their sole focus has been on

delegitimize and destroying president trump at every single turn. that is why they have been peddling hour after hour fake news conspiracy theories about so-called trump-russia collusion. they have nothing to base it on, no evidence whatsoever. here is what they don't want you to know about the key officialss that are involved in this scandal. let's start with player number one, hillary clinton. remember donna brazile in her book, she talked about hillary rigging the primary against bernie sanders. imagine if that was donald trump. then clinton tried to build on that idea. she was t teaming up with the d, they worked through a law firm, they paid over $12 million for that salacious dossier that was filled with russian lies, russian propaganda, why? they wanted to influence the general election through lies. clinton also tried to keep this a secret. she went through a loss are much hired glenn simpson and fusion gps and they paid former british spy russian expert

christopher steele. according to fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, who has into allg a deep dive of this, two crimes may have been committed in this instance. 52 u.s. code 30121, which says it is illegal to make a payment donation or trade anything of value with the foreign national in connection with any kind of election and america. remember, steele is a former british spy. he was only hired by fusion gps wants hillary clinton started picking up the tab for the trump opposition research, not before. gregg jarrett also points out 52 usc 30101, it makes it a crime to file a false or misleading campaign report. watchdog group, the campaign legal center, they've filedhe a complaint with the federal electionth commission accusing e clinton campaign and the dnc of violating campaign finance laws. for failing to disclose payments they made for this dossier. next up, disgraced former fbi director james comey.

he, along with corrupt fbi agent peter strzok and other topil deputies, not rank and file, they put the fix in to save hillary clinton from prosecution when we know she committed multiple felonies as itt relates to the email server scandal. comey and his lackeys ignored incontrovertible evidence about clinton e breaking the law, havg secret top-secret special access programming, classified information stored in a mom-and-pop shop bathroom closet on the server. they alsoo failed to act after clinton's team deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails, then they acid washed, using bleach a bit on the hard drives, any devices, they must of those up with a hammer. turnedile devices they over to the fbi? they were useless. they had no sim cards in them. despite all of this, comey, strzok, and others, they crafted an exoneration statement months before ever interviewing hillary clinton and 17 other key witnesses in the case.

by the way, that's not how law enforcement works.ra and then exoneration statement, one describing clinton's mishandling of classified information, comey changed the words, the legal standard, gross negligence, which is the legal standard, to extreme carelessness. they also alter their section that said it was reasonably likely that hostile foreign actors and h adversaries of the united states had hacked the server and they completely removed information about hillary clinton emailing president obama, which means that obama knew hillary was breaking the law. or should have known. all of us a lot hillary clinton to stay in the presidential race, which obviously they wanted. then she used the russian propaganda dossier to lie to the american people. nobody had verified whatt was in my dossier, not even glenn simpson of fusion gps. again, going back to gregg jarrett, if comeyry exonerated hillary clinton for political purposes, that means he obstructed justice.

he should have been seeking the truth. that is only the start of comey's involvement in this scandal. according to the house until committee and their memo, comey signed off personally on three fisa applications to fire on the trump campaign. his fbi lied to the fisa court about the dossier being bought and paid for by hillary clinton in the dnc. they did have a footnote, it may have some political origins, but they knew hillary in the dnc paid for it. comey's fbi used that yahoo news article written by michael isikoff. they never verify the information, and ordered fusion gps because steele was their only source. from there it only gets worse. according to the grassley-grandmama, the bulk -- let me repeat, the bulk of their applications to the fisa court, the fbi, put before,

consisted -- the bulk of it -- the phony dossier, the hillary clinton 20 dossier. in march of 2017, comey told congress that he didn't bother collaborating or corroborating the dossier because the fbi felt christopher steele was credible. really?se you don'tng have to corroboraten these things? comey also testified under oath that the same dossier that he use to get the fisa warrant was "salacious and unverified. comey also told the president to elect the same thing in january 2016 but it was just a couple of months earlier the dossier was used to get a warrant. that he tell the fisa judge that it's unverified? that he tell the fisa judge any of this information? no, he did not. that is killed by omission. purposely omitting information that likely would have had a big impact on that judge. player number three tonight, former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. the g.o.p. house memo, that details how mccabe testified

without the dossier, the fisa warrant to surveilled, would never have been approved. mccabe is also tied to the clinton email cover up. the recent reports, andrew mccabe was forced to resign overer revelations and is soon o be released doj inspector general report and we are told all of the clinton email investigation. "the wall street journal" -- >> this is a fox news alert. i am marianne rafferty. all eyes on capitol hill this hour where we are past the deadline for another government shutdown. the hope is that it will be brief with the senate now casting a procedural vote. if that vote is successful, we could see a senate vote in my continuing budget and a couple of hours from now. the budget vote is expected to breeze through the senate but could face a tougher challenge once it arrives in the house. conservatives in the house are upset about too much spending and many democrats oppose it because it doesn't address daca.

production for the so-called dreamers. for the latest on the budget battle, what's going on in washington, let's turn to fox news' chad program. what can you tell us right now? is this a full shutdown? >> we are in a full shutdown for all intents and purposes. how we know this is that at midnight when the government expired, we got the letter from mick mulvaney, the former congressman from south carolina who said that government agencies should execute their shutdown plans. we want to get any paperwork from omb until they get a bill o the president's desk. in other words, things are basically shut down and workers are supposed to go in tomorrow and get their marching orders on how to shut down unless something arrives at the president's desk, gets through the senate, then gets through the house and the overnight hours and everything is kosher in the morning. what we are going to see in the next couple of hours as a senate

vote that requires a 60 yeas to cut off debate. remember that senators wanted to execute this at 1:35 eastern time in the afternoon, pass the bill. here's the problem. you need unanimous consent and assented to do most things. what that means is if you get everybody to agree, you can expedite the process. rand paul, the republican senator from kentucky said no. you had 99 other senators saying yes, let's vote on thursday afternoon and get this under the wire, move it through the senate and the house before midnight. rand paul said no. he wanted to have a longer debate. he wanted to have amendments. he said we will drive up all this bending here and we should not be doing that. we should at least have a debate and vote on lifting their spending caps. so he went to the mat, he received some very hardy criticism from john cornyn, the republican rep, also tom tillis, republican senator from north carolina who called the

theater. he apologized to federal workers indicating that they didn't have clarity on whether or not they should be going to work in the morning. he said why are you trying to make a point? rand paul says they want to make a point that we shouldn't be approving the spending without having a full debate. thom tillis shot back, you don't see anger like this in the senate floor, these harsh words exchanged between senators very often. he said wait a minute, history means people that are getting results, not points being made. this will probably move through the senate in the wee hours here. once they get 60 votes, probably 1:30, 1:45 eastern time, rand paul has one or two dilatory tactics up his sleeve. he speak for a short period of time, the mets and it is watch to have a final vote to approve this package. a simple majority and then it moved to the house of representatives. probably in the wee hours, sometime between 5:00 and 7:00

eastern time. the house will get this and the house will attempt to move the bill. it is going to be a little trickier in the house of representatives, here's why. they needed an alloy, an amalgamation of republican and democratic votes. i've been told they need 150. they need about 70 house democrats. keep in mind that you have a lot of conservatives in the house who are against us. they don't like the added spending. you have democrats who are opposed to this including house minority leader and nancy pelosi because it does not address daca. when i talked to members on both sides of the aisle, there's a little bit of skepticism that they can get there. anytime you are relying on votes from the other side of the aisle, it is always tenuous. that is why people think it is going to move through the house in the wee hours of the morning but no one has the same certainty that they have in the senate tonight. >> that is interesting. what is next? we know the majority leader mitch mcconnell has said that

there -- she said that if there is no shutdown today, next week he will bring an immigration bill to the floor but not -- he didn't say what might be in that bill. what are your predictions as far as that goes? >> mitch mcconnell has been intentionally vague about what that piece of legislation might look like. he wants it to be a freewheeling debate and immigration, probably include daca. like most things in the senate, you have to get 60 votes. he's basically saying, all right, we'll have a freewheeling debate, basically put a shell bill up there. you can have things on border security, you can have things on a wall, you can have things on chain migration, you can have things on nuclear families, things on daca. whatever he can get to 60 votes wins. he put this out there after the last government shutdown saying if the government is open next week, he's willing to go that direction. why is the 60 vote threshold important when it comes to this? if you get 60 votes in the senate on the immigration bill, it shows that you're able to pass that piece of legislation and send it to the house of

representatives. that would demonstrate a good vote, a lot of air cover for people in the house of representatives to vote if you get 60 senators supporting it. here's the other thing. sometimes when i submit something to a 60 vote threshold, what that leads to is just a lot of messaging votes. it also leads to a guarantee that nothing will pass because you might be able to get a simple majority, 52, 53, 54, but you can't cross the magical barrier of 60 votes. if you can't do that, nothing is going to pass. if you remember several years ago after the mass shooting in sandy and connecticut, they had a debate on guns, firearms, in april of 2013, about four months after the sandy hook massacre. they cemented everything to a 60 vote threshold. there was a bill by joe manchin, democratic senator from west virginia, pat tilly from pennsylvania. they got more than 50 votes but they needed 60. there was also a plan different

on firearms from ted cruz, republican of texas and chuck grassley of iowa, that got more than 50 votes but they needed 60. they basically made a deal with the devil to say, nothing is going to move on firearms because you need 60 votes. some people wonder if that is the case here, 60 votes being in play on the immigration bill next week. >> so we had discussed -- you talked earlier, the office of budget and management. what role do they play? it's a pretty important role that i think people want to know about. >> omb basically sends the signal as to whether or not the government is open. also, the opm, a lot of alphabet soup here, the office of personnel and management. they basically control the federal workforce. mick mulvaney is basically in charge and if they got signals, which is what they got this afternoon and this evening, that the federal government was not going to be open, it was after them to to indicate to all cabinet agencies that there

isn't a sufficient funding. why is this so important that they take direction from congress? in the constitution, article one, section 90 says no money shall be withdrawn from the treasury without an appropriation from te congress. with that basically says is that you can't do anything in the federal government unless congress has blasted. you have not appropriated that money. 11:59 eastern time tonight, that appropriation expired and that is why omb was compelled to tell its agencies, we don't have direction from capitol hill, you can't do anything. we have to call things off. >> right now we are looking at a lot of activity on the floor. what is being discussed right now? this is a procedural vote to stop talking about it, for lack of a better term. tell us what is going on right now on the floor. >> i can't see the floor for my vantage point but they should still be in this vote here as far as i can tell. it's a slow rolling vote. senators were starting to roll in.

a few senators who i talked to who had just camped out in their office, i talked to johnny isakson, from georgia, who had just been here on capitol hill, patrick leahy, democratic senator from vermont. usually when you have these 1:00 a.m. votes, people start to roll in kind of late. it's a slow developing play as it were. people at home, went out to dinner, visited with their families, maybe they cut some shut eye and they are coming into vote. this was scheduled for 15 minutes but in the senate, it is kind of like soccer. time is kept on the field. they will close the vote when everybody's there. we think this will probably run 30 or 40 minutes, once they get all the senators they are, they will probably get 60 votes and we all know. i am told that the vote count is about 57. it's not going to be official until they gamble it down. they are very close to getting 60 votes and we will know that this will be on the path regardless of what rand paul wants to do in the next couple of hours to gum up the works

because we would inevitably have a final vote to pass this in the senate and move it over to the house of representatives. >> you are saying that rand paul code, once again, slow things down a bit. tell us what he can and can't do at this point. >> he's pretty limited. once you invoke culture, the term, you cut off debate. once you do that, you can't do anything else. by rule, rand paul would be afforded up to 30 hours, but he really only gets one hour, and other words, if you want to the bat and slowed things down's, you probably wouldn't be able to wrap this up until the wee hours of saturday morning. that's not going to happen. rand paul will get an hour for himself if he wants to use it all to exhaust that and make his protest. he can have other senators yield to him, those remaining 29 hours if they really wanted, that's not going to happen. we might have one, may be two. that's it. once the time has expired, they have to have that procedural vote. i am told -- let vote to pass

the bill. i am told now that they have crossed the 60 vote threshold but the vote is still open. it's not final until they close the vote, other senators will still be rolling in here in the wee hours, the next ten or 15 minutes. then they will close the board. then we'll get a sense of what the timetable is for the rest of the night. >> i guess my next question, what happens next after this boat? >> that is where rand paul has that option, he'll probably talk some, we might hear from likely, republican senator from utah, he seemed to side with senator paul on this. i noticed that the house members who feel passionate about this issue in the same way a senator paul, thomas massively also a congressman from the bluegrass state, he was going into the house chamber just before the vote, justin a mosh, conservative libertarian, congressman from michigan, he was in the chamber earlier on, just to watch. you'll probably have this wrapped up in the senate by about 3:00 in the morning. then things go to the house of

representatives. there are a couple of procedural things that have to happen in the house. they have to go to what is called the rules committee. the rules committee is a gateway to the house floor. almost every piece of legislation that goes through the house floor has to have a rule, a rule sets the parameters, how you will consider that piece of legislation. we don't expect that to take very long but they have to process it, literally bring the paperwork over and they will bring it literally right through here, this is statuary hall just across the capitol on the house side of the building. they'll bring it here, bring it to the house, go upstairs to the rules committee, where they will set up the parameters for debate. we don't think they will debate a very long because there will be about five or 6:00 in the morning and then moved to pass it. that might be a slow developing play, as well because members have been told to be on standby between 4:00 and 6:00 in the morning. they probably come on like the senators, actually have gone home to get shut eye.

>> this is going to be -- this is an all-nighter. i'm sure they are not used to doing this, right? >> we've had a lot of those in the past few months. we certainly dealt with this last fall with the tax bill on a couple of occasions, we dealt with that of the government shutdown a couple of weeks ago, the health care bill. not too long ago. this place often operates around the clock. you can have hearings at eight, 9:00 in the morning, votes, good night. we have certainly had our share of that in the past few months. >> all right. chad pergram, thank you so much for all of your insight. if you are just joining us, all eyes are on capitol hill right now, we are already past the deadline for another government shutdown. the hope is this will be brief. so far, senators are still -- they look like they are still busy, still waiting on a procedural vote. stay with us. we are going to a commercial for now but we'll be right back with

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>> i'm marianne rafferty in los angeles. all eyes on capitol hill where we are past the deadline for another government shutdown. the hope is that it will be brief with the senate now having enough votes on a procedural vote to end the debate on the budget bill. we know -- we can expect a senate vote on the continuing budget in just a couple of hours from now. the budget vote is expected to breeze through the senate but it could face a tougher challenge when it reaches the house. conservatives in the house are

upset about too much spending and also a lot of democrats oppose it because it doesn't address daca, protection for the so-called dreamers. for the latest on the budget battle, let's turn to fox news chad pergram, senior producer on capitol hill. chad, they have enough votes to end the debate. what's next? >> is just a matter of time until they close this vote, which should come very soon. the latest vote tally is that we have 72 yeas and 26 nays. >> chad, can you hear me? >> can you hear me? >> i'm sorry. they should be wrapping this procedural vote up momentarily. they are almost on the third, almost everyone have voted, they should have 72 yeas and 26 nays. we know that john mccain, the republican senator from arizona, he's been out all year since late last year, he's not voting. a maximum of 99 senators. once they wrap this up, they will understand the course of the night, whether or not

rand paul will speak a little bit more, we might hear from mitch mcconnell, the majority leader. and then at some point in the next hour or two, maybe three at the very most, they would have a vote to approve this. this is going to be a problem the senate. if you got 72 yeas and about where you needed 60, it's fine. you only need 51 to pass the bill itself. that is not going to be a problem in the senate. the big question market continues to be in the house of representatives, if they can get the vote mixture between republicans and democrats to give the lights on the federal government in the morning at 9:00 when most federal workers will report to the job. >> sean: >> is this a full shut? for anyone wondering what is going on, if you work for the government, what does this all mean? is this an actual shutdown of the government? >> according to the office of management and budget, the omb, yes, it is a shutdown. they sent on a notice at midnight saying the federal

government does not have funding, they have not gotten direction from congress. in reality, there are certainly parts of the federal government which are functioning overnight. not to the degree that you have a 9:00 in the morning. the usual workday in washington, d.c. sometimes he would hear the term of a lapse in appropriation, where the government funding has expired. this is not going to be a shutdown in the truest of senses unless this bill in the house of representatives goes sideways for some reason when they go to vote may be 5:00 or 6:00 eastern time. if that vote goes down, they are in real trouble. so long as everything continues along this path right now, things are fine. this is always kind of how we thought things were going to go. we didn't think there was going to be a problem getting this through the senate. it was just a matter of time. they probably would have advanced to this through the senate starting at about 1:35, 1:45 yesterday eastern time and moved it to the house of representatives in the early evening. they got under the wire.

then rand paul, republican senator from kentucky, this is his prerogative, got up and he was able to basically delay and elongate the process. the senate is a very different institution compared to the house of representatives. the senate is minoru terrien institution, in other words, if the house is run by the majority, the senate is sometimes run by the minority. it is a body of equals and therefore if you have one senator who wants to do something and 99 other people who want to do something else, guess what, a lot of times the one senator wins. this is steeped in the essence of the republic. i am told right now that they have just cleared -- they have just cleared this procedural vote. let's listen to the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. we might get a little more info on the schedule. >> no further debate. is there further debate? the question is on amendment

number 1931. >> i withdraw the amendment. >> the amendment is withdrawn. the question is to confirm the house amendment to the senate amendment. the yeas and nays were previously ordered, the clerk will call the role. speak up mr. alexander. ms. baldwin. mr. bennett. mr. blumenthal. mr. blunt. mr. booker. mr. bozeman. mr. brown.

mr. burr. ms. cantwell. ms. cantwell. mrs. o-uppercase-letter. -- ms. capito. mr. cardin. >> so this is the actual vote to approve the budget deal. thanks on capitol hill, a lot of

times, either work really slowly or really fast. we saw the really slow part from about 1:35, 1:45 in the afternoon, then the senate had some other options where they could have tried this out a little bit longer here. senator rand paul, who put the brakes on the bill earlier in the afternoon and through the evening, has basically relented and so they want very quickly from ending debate on that bill, that procedural vote, to actually voting on the bill itself. this is a straight up or down vote to approve that budget package. the second really important step in resolving this very short, they hoped, government shutdown in the overnight hours here. this will need a simple majority and so if they got, what was it, 72 votes in the procedural vote, it's not going to be a problem to get 51 votes on this. this will pass and then they will move it over to the house of representatives. >> so that was my next question. once it gets to the house, what are the challenges once it gets

there? >> this has been accelerated just a little better. we thought that they might be still added at 2:30, 3:00 in the morning. they will bring into the house of representatives, they have to go to the rules committee, which again sets the stage for putting it on the house floor, the rules committee is a gateway for most pieces of legislation before they get the house floor. then they will have a vote in the house. this timing is working out a little more favorably than we thought a few hours ago. there was a thought that this could drag on deeper through the night. it is a question of clerical issues. they have to figure out how long does it take to get the piece of paper over here, it takes about a minute and a half to walk from one side of the capital to the other but they have to make sure all the letter is are dotted in the ts are crossed. you have to have all the house members, waking people up, getting them modified to vote. it is not going to happen on a time. you don't get 435 people into

the house chamber right away. but people in the house are advised to be on standby between 4:00 to 6:00 in the morning. >> so they are still far from finished, chad, when it comes to this. >> right. here's something else to look at. a couple of things about this bill. let's look at what this piece of legislation does so people understand why there was some consternation. it funds the government through march 23rd. that is not very long. you could potentially have another battle over keeping the government open and just a couple of weeks. a lot of people think there could be an issue over a border wall funding. again, there is no funding for a border wall in this bill. it is an interim spending bill. if they can't get all of the funding bills worked out by late march, they could have another government shutdown. what's also not in this bill is daca. do they come back and have the same problem with house democrats and probably some senate democrats without any resolution to the daca issue?

that is supposedly going to expire on the fifth of march. they have to resolve that. that could be another crisis in march. the senate anticipates doing a debate on immigration, which probably will include daca, next week. the disposition of that in the house of representatives is anybody's guess. here was something else that's important. the main part of this bill is that it lifts spending caps. in 2011, there was a massive fight on capitol hill dealing with raising the debt ceiling. the debt ceiling is the total amount of red ink that the federal government can carry at any one time. the problem there was that you had -- this was coming on the wave of where republicans had just one max control of the house of representatives, it was a repudiation of president obama, a repudiation of obamacare. the tea party was at its zenith at that point. they were against federal spending, the deficit was exploding after wars in iraq and

afghanistan, improving the financial rescue package, and te assistance to help deal with the stimulus package that democrats approved by the federal deficit was going up and republicans, then in control of the house of representatives, said we want to curb federal spending. one of the things that they put in where these sequestration caps. that was part of the exchange, the deal. if we are going to raise the debt limit, we have to have an exchange here and that was imposing these sequestration caps. fast forward seven years ago. you don't hear much about the tea party anymore. what is the exchange this time forces putting the debt ceiling until march 19th, that is the -- i take that back. it suspends the debt ceiling until march of 2019, so two years from now. what is the trade-off? this time, they say, to get the debt ceiling suspended, we have to remove the spending caps. that is almost the reverse of what the situation was in 2011.

that is what rand paul is so exercised about. he is saying, this is the profligate spending in washington, d.c. we are going to add 300-$400 billion for defense and non-defense spending? there is $80 million in spending for emergency disaster relief. puerto rico, florida, texas, wildfires in california, and here we are exploiting the deficit again? that's a real problem. they had to address the debt ceiling issue soon. the congressional budget office indicated that they had to deal with it in early march or the federal government, the treasury come i might not be able to make its obligations. we've been watching these wild gyrations on wall street. if you did not address the debt ceiling before that, that could have been nothing, that could have been child's play, what we saw on wall street with the gymnastic on wall street the last couple of weeks if he did not address the debt ceiling ahead of time. >> have we heard anything from lawmakers like rand paul as far

as an alternative to a large spending bill like this? you don't want to raise the deficit but what choice do they have at this point? >> rand paul made the point, he said -- this was in his debate earlier -- if we were to go through and cut 1%, you might be able to knock that down a little bit. he made a big point about the united states being in wars overseas. the united states has been fighting in afghanistan since after 9/11. we are going on 17 years there right now. he talked about fighting season, there is a season of time where they fight in afghanistan. he said why don't we declare victory and move on? they are never going to resolve that. you want to have a military parade in washington, d.c., something that president trump has been advocating, he says let's welcome the soldiers home from afghanistan. how much blood and treasure has the united states spent there? he talked about them being

called in niger last summer, the average american has no idea how much that costs are what they are doing there. rand paul was a fine point on these operations that are going on overseas and also domestic spending. when you talk to some people who might be opposed to what rand paul is suggesting, they can present a pretty good, compelling arguments as to why we should be fighting in niger, certainly in afghanistan. there is always a point and counterpoint. and that is why the sides don't always agree. that is just rand paul's take on it. >> chad, let's talk about next week. we know that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said that if there was no shutdown today that next week, he would bring an immigration bill to the floor. any idea what would have been in that? in addition to this huge spending bill, there are a lot of lawmakers who have a problem with the fact that there is nothing on daca in this bill.

>> that was part of the deal that senator mcconnell said, if the government is open, they will bring in an immigration package. this will be a pretty freewheeling debate, that is something that senator mcconnell has indicated, he has no predetermined outcome here. think about what could go into an immigration debate frayed things about a border wall, that will be one. thanks about chain migration, dealing with families. border security, whether they have electronic frontier. vehicles, other types of things besides a physical fence that goes along the u.s.-mexico border. obviously democrats and some republicans are going to advocate for daca. that is going to be something that they'll say, can they get an agreement? we have been told that they want to submit everything to a 60 vote threshold. if they can do that, then they can get something through. but we don't know what that is going to look like exactly. i am told that they are going through and tallying the votes in the senate.

again, they a lot usually 15 minutes for these votes but sometimes when it's a last vote of the night for the last vote, here it is, well after 1:00 in the morning, they sometimes a step on it. we might have a result on the senate floor. he soon as to what this bill -- what the vote tally actually was in the senate. >> sean: we >> we had talked about once this bill is passed, and it goes back to the house, predictions on what could happen there? >> they think that this is going to pass. again, there was some skepticism. people were gaming, may be 80, 85% chance of passage, that's pretty good. a lot of times, people express more confidence and say it's 95%. there was one senior republican source i spoke too late yesterday afternoon who indicated to me that it was going to be no problem whatsoever on the republican side of the aisle. he indicated that they should have enough support from

democrats. anytime you are dealing with the other side of the aisle, you don't really know. that is where people are a little bit skeptical. this vote remains open here in the senate. it's not closed. we can say that they have the votes to pass this bill. right now, the vote tally is 69 yeas, 28 knows, 69 yeas, 28 nos. it has more than enough votes to pass. it was a simple majority be needed there. i am told it 70-28. again, john mccain, the republican senator from arizona, has not been voting, he's been out since late last year dealing with his brain cancer treatment. he's not here in washington and hasn't voted yet. they should be close to wrapping this up. senators will be getting out of the building and then they will bring the spells of the house of representatives. i'm told it 71-28. that is 99 senators right there. with mckay not voting, that is

probably going to be the vote tally. this bill will pass in the senate and they will zap it to the house of representatives and the next few hours. >> sean: chad, this is the second time this year that government funding has "collapsed" without a spending bill. is this something we are going to see more of in the future? >> it has become increasingly hard for them to approve spending bills. to do it by the book, there are 12 individual appropriations bills which fund the federal government. the smallest one, legislative branch, that funds congress, this place. the largest one, pentagon. that is almost 52, 53% of what we call discretionary spending. getting all 12 of those bills passed through the house, passed through the senate, getting them down to the white house for the president to sign, that is a tough task. that is why we see them throwing these bills together in these amalgamated packages, omnibus is the term you here on

capitol hill. they've been doing a lot more of that in the past 15-20 years. you rarely see a bill unilaterally going through the house, senate, and the president. this is the second shutdown, as miniature as it may be. i would vote in 1995 in 1996, bill clinton and newt gingrich dealt with three government shutdowns. a big standoff between bill clinton and newt gingrich. newt gingrich was never quite the same politically after that. generally it was thought that president clinton won those battles. they got a big budget agreement, which resulted in a surplus that lasted until we have 9/11 and they had to start running up these deficits. that was a significant moment. it took three government shutdowns from october of 1995 until january of 1996, the longest of those three shutdowns lasted 21, 22 days. those are pretty extensive. we did have a significant shutdown in 2013, led mainly by

ted cruz, the republican senator from texas, over trying to defend obamacare, ted cruz said, let's fund the federal government but if we strip all the money that is allocated for obamacare, obamacare basically doesn't exist, if you don't find something, it is not in operation. that was a problem for democrats. the government shutdown, largely, they blame republicans for 16 days. we've had two shutdowns in as many months here but these have been abbreviated. this one, if things go swimmingly in the house of representatives, will probably turn the lights back on in washington at 9:00 in the morning. the one a couple of weeks ago lasted just over the weekend. those were pretty abbreviated miniature shutdowns. but shutdowns nonetheless. >> chad, for anyone, especially people who work for the federal government, watching this, wondering, am i getting paid, is it over?

explain briefly what it means for people wondering about their paycheck. >> they should get paid because we don't think there is going to be a full lapse. so long as omb has not put something into motion that says, wait a minute, we don't have funds here, that moves through the house of representatives, things should be fine. if you had a longer shutdown, something that stretched out over 16 days, 21, 22 days like the one in late 1995, early 1996, that would be an issue. one of the issues that prompted the federal government to reopen after the big shutdown in 2013 was a high-speed chase on capitol hill that originated at the white house, they shot and killed a motorist who had a baby in the backseat. there were a couple of u.s. capitol police officers who were injured and senators were like, wait a minute, we are coming to work, we have people defending the u.s. capitol, defending the government, the u.s. capitol police, secret service, and they are not getting paid right now.

they have mortgages, student loans, kids at home. they are not getting paid and they are putting their lives on the line and that was one of the key things that reopened the government after that more lengthy shutdown in 2013. because lawmakers here on capitol hill realized that those folks who are willing to come to work even though they weren't getting paid and put their lives literally on the line. >> sean: chad, i have to stop you now. thank you so much for your insight. the senate has enough votes to pass the budget bill. next it will go to the house, later on today. fox news channel will have the very latest on the vote to end the government shutdown. now back to "hannity" already in progress.

>> sean: it's been a rough week for the >> sean: it's been a rough week for they want to wannabe msnbc contributor congressmanis adam schiff. this week audio surfaced of him being spoofed last year by a russian prankster. they claimed to have dirt on president trump. he is so excited. listen to this. >> i he was in moscow in november 2013. he met with a journalist -- >> well, she's poor journalist. anyway, she became famous because of putin is her godfather. >> okay. >> she is also known as a person who provides girls for escort for oligarchs and she met with trump and she brought him one a russian girl, celebrity, also known ase a person with a strane reputation. >> older. how do you spell her name? >> and what's the nature of the

kompromat? >> there are pictures of naked trump. >> putin was made aware? >> yes, of course. >> thank you very much. we will be in to make arrangements to obtain his materials for our committee and for the fbi and i appreciate your reaching out to us. >> sean: we reached out to schiff's office and they have not responded. however his office did tell the atlantic thatec he suspected the call was bogus. didn't sound like it. the emails don't show it. it hasn't been a good week for schiff. he was accused of putting a classified information in a press release and we know for sure he hyped the republican memo. oh, sources and methods, no sources, no methods.ea here with reaction, former secret service agent dan bongino, isn't this kind of what they accused that meeting at trump tower, donald trump jr., theyir were seeking dirt?

that sounds like adam schiff seeking dirt about a naked donald trump. >> sean: a series of emails, follow-ups. >> going on what i read and what i've heard, schiff went to law enforcement, he said it was bogus. to my way of thinking, it is a russian trick by skilled provocateurs doing what is calle kompromat provocative haitian parades. when you read the memo they say -- does house on the corruption scandal to you? >> it is a russian scandal because -- >> sean: a hillary russian scandal. >> there was one of those. there was a russian scandal to impose themselves in the elections. a lot of russiansc scandal's ras not a trump-russia scandal. >> i haven't said that nor have

there been proof of that. we still have an investigation that is ongoing. >> sean:g. we do now hillary paid for russian lies and tried to disseminate it to the american people and they never told that hillary clinton bought and paid for it, dan bongino, and the fisa court wasn't informed. >> this is amazing. i say to the working class democrats out there, i mean this, how do you put up with these frauds and your party in d.c. like adam schiff? he said he thought it was a bogus call.po adam schiff is a bogus politician. this guy has been a fraud from the start. sean, you can always take the democrats t scam because they ae guilty of it. the collusion charge happened between hillary, fusion gps, and the russians. the obstruction charge, hillary destroyed a bunch of blackberries. now they are seeking information, kompromat, and ed henry broke the story about

the democratic senator trying to get information about trump, too, from a guy connected to russia. >> sean: you saw ed henry's report tonight. >> there is a lot of hypocrisy, sean. my attitude is -- >> sean: let me break somes. news. i had nothing to do with the report. nothing. zip. >> so i should tell my sources who said you were all over it -- >> sean: [laughs] nono conversation. i am actually amused that people assume things about me that are not true. it's amusing. >> my feeling is that this matter is a fringe matter. what requires investigation, i think, is the fbi, what they did, the whole issue -- >> sean: this is a few people in the fbi of the highest echelon. >> that's the fbi. >> sean: but i don't want to taint goodd people that protect us and risk their lives. >> the institution is tainted. the president, who is communicating withil hillary, we

tainted. waslear clearly involved in the uranium one -- >> sean: she was protected. >> we got to go to the pond and bought happen there. i'm fair-minded. i wanted investigation of that, i want the russian pollution investigation, without politics, without partisanship. >> sean: we knew she was guilty of crimes, dan bongino, and they allowed it, so she could run. then they never told that the fisa court, she paid for all these lies. >> it's amazing.e we have a witness protection program. hillary was in the justice protection program. she was insulated from justice everywhere she went at every turn. sean, we know conclusively that the information streams in the spy on trumpto came from two people. they came from russian -- -- two groups of people. russians who wanted to interview and our election and hillary's

team, they hijacked the justice system. >> sean: they bought a warrant. are you friends of sid blumenthal? >> no. i know him, i'm happy that he is a professional colleague from the past, sean. the past. h >> sean: hannity hotline next. ♪ my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free.

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