talking about what anybody else thinks, i will just talk about me. i have concerns about the labor market, but i do feel like the last three or four months, we have kind of stabilized at something like full employment. i do find that encouraging. layoffs, there's still not a lot of evidence of increase in layoffs. >> charles: the problem is going to be rehiring. >> great to see you again. >> charles: will put word he here. neil cavuto, this is his chair he's a great friend, great mentor, i don't think many people realize how great of a human being he is and i wish him well in his journey, i think and for -- thank you for everything he did, i love you and good luck with everything. ♪ ♪

>> hello, everyone i'm shannon bream along with katie pavlik, just guitar love, charlie hurts and tyrus. this is the five. ♪ ♪ we begin with a fox news alert, we are awaiting the house to vote on a brand-new spending bill, this one boulevard a government shut down for much more on that, but first of that horrific story out of germany where officials say at least two people are dead, 60 others injured after a car plowed into a crowded christmas market in what authorities believe was an intentional attack. police have arrested a suspect said to be a doctor from saudi arabia. let's go with the correspondent alex hogan for more on this. >> as you mentioned it two people are confirmed dead and one of them is a small child after a car rammed into a crowd at a christmas market in

germany. we know from police as many as 68 people are injured. 15 of them are seriously wounded to. people spending their friday night walking around the festive market for the weekend before christmas. one person is in custody, german officials say the driver is a doctor from saudi arabia. germany's state premier says the perpetrator acted alone. police tonight have cornered off the vehicle over concerns there could be explosives inside that car. the town in question is the city of magdeburg, two hours from berlin. late last month germanys interior minister advised people to be vigilant of these christmas markets because some of the eight years ago exactly, a man drove a truck into a christmas market in berlin killing as many as 12 people and wounding more than 50. another person died from their injuries in that attack five years later. the tunisian driver was shot by italian police days later after a cross-country manhunt. more details emerging tonight as

police remain on the scene in the city of magdeburg as this crisis sends shock waves across the country. german chancellor olaf scholz will visit this town tomorrow. >> thank you for giving us updated. onto our top story, it was the shut down vote before christmas, the house is reportedly set to vote at any moment we will take you there live when that happens. this is the brand-new spending cr bill, 118 pages. it's the latest twist in the battle that has been roiling capitol hill. speaker mike johnson scrambling all day to cut a spending bill that would avert that shut down after a slimmed-down version use last night to. now house wasting no time laying of the blame at the foot of republicans. speaker republicans blew up this deal, they did and they need to fix this, period. they need to stop playing politics with the government

shutdown and they are doing the bidding of their billionaire friends. this is a mess they created and they need to fix this. there's still time, we believe there is still time for that to not happen, for republicans to do the right thing. to hold up their part of the deal and move forward with the bipartisan agreement. >> some democrats seem to be enjoying the shutdown drama trying to spit stir the pot between trump and elon musk, marking the president-elect by acting with the world's richest man now he is the real president-elect. >> elon musk will not be our presumptive new president. >> yesterday a multibillionaire with apparently no working knowledge of government or of appropriations, a self appointed president of the united states. >> donald trump looks tiny right now, looks small compared to elon musk. >> a billionaire who is not even

elected is acting like a shadow president. >> i'm shocked by the speed with which donald trump has ceded control to elon musk. this is a crisis in my mind for donald trump. >> elon musk has donald trump in a vice. it is very clear that he is now calling the shots. trump may be his vice president, i guess vice presidents don't do much so that makes sense. he might be the chief of staff. >> they know, they are trying to get under president-elect trump's skin, like the lawn is even more powerful than you now, how do you think that's going to work? >> they are also going to try to shape the narrative that the government shuts down as a republicans fault, then they can say they have a new majority. they still can't govern, that's what you will hear of the government shuts down. i will just say if the government shuts down tonight, it is not the end of the world. the essential services of the

government to still go out, social security checks still go out, government employees will not get paychecks but they will get back pay eventually when the government does reopen. the sky is falling arguments that come with us hostage taking of the funding they refused to deal with throughout the rest of the year's what the end it's a crisis so they jam all this pork into these big bills that can get through and then all of a sudden because it's christmas end of the government shuts down people will suffer they say, they try to get it over the finish line at the very last minute without actually reading what's in it. you've seen this week elon musk, the vivek ramaswamy, a number of house republicans did read what was in it and they were not happy pushing it through the last second. now we are having this big tomato capitol hill a couple of hours to go. there's been a number of failures as a result of the bill over the past 24 hours. the government shutting down is not the end of the world of things will be okay including norad continuing santas a trip around the world on

christmas eve. >> no one is going to take that away from us. we have covered many of these fiscal cliff potential shutdown, it's a shutdown that's not a shutdown, president-elect trump was pushing for a raise or a lift ability for the debt ceiling which is spending more money. at the same time you've got this argument, doge is about cutting all the government spending and the funding, how do you make both of those arguments at the same time? we need to spend more money because we are going to spend less money. >> it's a groundhog day, we have this argument every time the debt ceiling thing comes up. strategically speaking i understand why trump wanted to do that. in whatever it is, two weeks republicans will have control of two chambers of congress and then in a month, the white house. the only remaining thing become the best weapon democrats have at that point is the debt ceiling. he was trying to get rid of all

the bad things now so they would have a stronger hand then. i understand that. i agree with katie. i'm always in the pro-government shutdown caucus. i'm fully in favor of government shutdowns i think they're fantastic. i think it's a great first step. if her republicans think they are going to get done with the need to get done without some really ugly stuff happening, they are sorely mistaken. you are going to have us either now or at some point in this fight to get done what they need to get done and what photos have asked donald trump to get done, i think it's really funny watching all of this, democrats are great at playing mental games. that's all they do is play mental games. the big difference i think now is -- the media always blames republicans every single time, republicans never pay a price in an election, i think they actually get something done as a

result of this, not only will they not be a bad price, they might be rewarded tremendously by voters. >> let's talk someone who doesn't work inside the beltway. you are working everywhere all the time. >> first of all, the democrats -- patient blame all democrats for the people making the statements, this is the cheating wife with the husband following her -- what right do you have to follow me? the whole idea that american people are tired of ridiculous spending at elon pointed out everything that needs to be in there. this bill was so long, it was so ridiculous, some of the things that were in there was book stuff, dei stuff, all the stuff of the american people have rejected. i always forget her name with the purple hair -- she was the leading voice to push for and make sure we had crash test dummy females so we could get gender equality in crash test

dummies. there dummies, it doesn't ma matter. this is the type of stuff the american people are sick of. if you had to cut it down and instead of looking like we are overspending, delong thinks he's president now because he's doing his job! the job was to watch out for this, eliminate this, spending bills should be specific to what they are spending. the american people are tired of being fleeced. of course they stopped at, and of the best thing you can do is say he secret president, you're no different from that wife who was saying "why are you following me, wire with my business, while you're checking my phone? you cheated on you got caught and that's exactly what this bill was. >> she's talking live on tv the entire time you said all that. >> you make quite a pair side-by-side to. >> in a horror movie?

>> she's a nice lady. >> crash test dummy -- >> -- >> sometimes get-togethers in washington, d.c., are bedfellows and we can arrange something -- >> i'm in a relationship. >> this is obviously a different way of handling washington, because president trump came in 2016 is what he didn't know that he knows now and he's bringing reinforcements with him. our fox news voter analysis showed us on election night, 83% of people so they wanted complete upheaval or substantial change. they are ready to change the way d.c. usually does this kind of stuff. >> i find people say stuff like that then when it actually happens there not that interested. when you say no big deal, they will get their pay but it will be back pay when people have to go out and buy presents to supplement santa who will be

doing his job, they are not going to be happy about that. donald trump did pay a price for the shutdown, 2018-2019 shutdown, he lost in 2020. >> not because of that. >> it was part of the sheen of the trump administration which is trying to bring back that i alone can fix it, i am the best manager there is. i will run this like a corporation, all the trains will run on time, you have a government shutdown namibia will have it again. we have heard since the election that republicans do it better, right? the american people came out and said we trust republicans with this, we trust donald trump with this comic ease an efficiency machine. he's going all over the world meeting with other world leaders before he has taken office. he wants to go to the reopening of notre dame, he wants to meet with the zelenskyy, you can't jt decide i'm out when i want to.

maybe there's some chickens on treadmills are not aware of but there also cuts the things like nutritional assistance that kids need, there are cuts to essential entitlement programs, people's health insurance. i've heard a lot and we talked about yesterday about the pediatric cancer funding their cow there was a community note about how there was a stand-alone bill that chuck schumer did not get down to the floor, that's a problem. it should have but he definitely knew it was coming up in this cr and this is a last minute that it could be funded in that program is not just 190 million -- >> you use that as a human shield to get all the other -- >> where is the biden administration on this? >> wise stuff like that in a cr? >> are you willing to then say -- this part of it i should add is not just about funding the the programs it's making sure kids on medicaid can go across state lines to get their treatment -- if you are willing

to stay forget about it -- will mike let them expire? >> what we know about it and they haven't started voting yet is it continues all current funding levels. >> if it passes. that is not a unified republic and party. >> this is a different deal and we will let everybody know exactly what happens when it does because we expect the votes to come on a spending bill any minute now we will take you there life. coming up, has president joe biden quiet quit for the presidency? there is laughter on the panel. key allies in the media are starting to notice his absence now especially after that explosive report on what they call his cognitive decline. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> fox news alert, the house is expected to vote at any minute now on their brand-new spending bill, we'll be monitoring that and bring it to you live. in the meantime it looks like joe biden will be leaving office in 31 days the same way he came in -- diminished and disgraced. the commander in chief going awol during the shutdown drum on capitol hill but his own party doesn't seem to mind, congressional democrats are reportedly largely fine with his absence with little clamor for him to return and no one looking to joe for answers. that hurts a little bit. even karine jean-pierre is having a hard time trying to defend her milk carton boss. >> why hasn't president biden

said anything in the public about this come out of the american people deserve to know why millions of american workers are entering this holiday season without a paycheck? >> the american people need another republican's are getting in the way. the president knows how to deal with congress. he's been around for some time as you well know. >> shouldn't americans here from the president of the united states just hours from the shutdown? >> what americans need to know is you have republicans in congress, in the house who have gotten away, stopped a bipartisan agreement. >> with his legacy in tatters, his part to my party and civil war and approval sinking, he has no regrets. >> any other regrets, anything you wish you would've done differently? >> i guess if i thought a lot about there would be something specific, but not generically.

i set out to do two things. restore america's leadership in the world, i think we've done that. two, generate opportunity for ordinary people. >> is it appropriate to quiet quit the presidency of the united states and could joe biden do something about his legacy which is not good at this point by getting involved in this fight? >> i always here for my esteemed colleagues why won't he just go away? now you have gotten your wish, a christmas miracle. president-elect trump in charge early. i think if there are levers he can pull in folks he has influence with he should do that with your calling from delaware or from d.c. i want to say about the i wouldn't change anything question because it is reminiscent of what, what was getting on the campaign trail. everybody needs an answer for that, when you fill out a job

interview and they say what's one thing you wish you could do better or what are your strengths and your weaknesses? my weaknesses i work too hard or whatever -- no one likes that, it's not a realistic and not human. i want to plug a really interesting interview that jonathan martin did that's in political magazine right now, mentioned yesterday there was a big panel with the joe biden campaign people in the trump campaign people and there are so many interesting insights into how they ran trump's campaign, what the impact of kamala getting in was, what stuck out to me was trump's favorability went up after the butler assassination attempt and it never came back down and they saw tend to make 12% of the electorate as persuadable which is so much higher than we usually think about and that's because they knew this working class especially voters of color

phenomenon was happening. it was illuminating to me. >> as the doge boys are going through these new crs and trying to find the things that should not be funded, a lot of them are result of joe biden's work as president and he's nowhere to be found, defending what congress did for him. >> it's is jarring to the point where we see him pop up, cameras are chasing him he's traveling and we have a chance to get to him, he still president. for a number of reasons he has quietly been in the background because president trump has assumed so much of that mantle with world leaders and other people coming to him and acting as if he is the current president. the day i was shocked in the briefing, our jackie heinrich did not get called on because i'm quite sure she would've asked, not one reporter asked about that massive report,

nearly 50 sources "wall street journal" page after page after page of him not meeting with his cabinet secretaries, people not being able to get in touch with him, no access, him being given preplanned questions. not one question about that in the briefing today. >> that's not shocking, they are complicit. i think it's shameful, what is joe doing? doing the best he can with what he has left. interviewing him as criminal, it's even more criminal to interview him to go down memory lane. it's not a joke, this man, whatever he was, used to be, father time is doing what father time does, he can barely walk, he's not -- we know now that the staffers are making decisions, his legacy is that they knew he was unfit, we were talking during the break -- once they knew if they cared about the country they should have put kamala in two years ago. good, bad, or indifferent she has her faculties together. asking him to talk to congress' criminal. he cannot do it anymore, the reason why there's no fighting and arguing about president trump interviewing and doing these things because he can't make that argument.

anyone else who comes out and says that, they have to admit they have been making the decisions for him the whole time. we need to stop blaming joe biden and looking at who has been running the show. is not fair. as a comedian, i don't make fun of joe biden anymore. because you're making fun of somebody who can't defend themselves. >> it's very gracious of you. it is outrageous nobody asked about it but then to tyrus' point, if you have two eyeballs in your head and ears you know this is all true but of course they can't ask about it when they were helping the white house cover it up. >> it is important to remember when you look at that interview he just gave that if the media got their way, that guy would be talking in that interview would be president right now, would have gotten reelected to. if democrats who fought for whatever it was seven months of the year gotten their way, they rigged the primary, he would be

the next president. he would be the leader of the free world going forward for the next four years. >> they would, with his skin. >> you're right, none of these people -- you can't let these people off the hook, they were the ones that propped him up and as for whether he should be helping or hurting the process on capitol hill, who knows. i can tell you this, no democrat member of congress wants him involved in anything. they want nothing to do with them, because he has managed to break records and unify the country by racking up a 66% disapproval rating, which is a record in the history of pole and popularity of president. >> his presidency ended after that debate in june. the house is set to vote at any moment on the brand-new spending bill, we will bring that to you live but coming up the far left aclu who once helped defend

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♪ ♪ >> the vote to avoid the government shutdown at any moment, we will it to you when it happens but let's get to this first. the far left aclu is at it again, the group that founded -- was founded on protecting the civil liberties of americans now wants to help protect illegal aliens from deportation, the group's executive director revealing their game plan for sanctuary cities who wish to defy trump's mash deportation plans. >> we have this plan around a firewall for freedom. the idea that these local

officials can really play an important role in stopping the worst of the abuses. they should make sure our prisons and our jails are off limits, they should begin to think about what actions they can take to pardon immigrants who have a criminal record because they drove on a suspended license. like to come out of harm's way. we have to swarm our allies in some places, even in red states you have blue mayors. there's a whole game plan for this. >> how is that not a perversion of democracy, given the results of the last election? >> first, they want to keep these illegal criminal aliens in prison, so they are turning those into shelters and now. before they were letting them out of prison or local jail and not charging them with their crimes. they are specifically calling on cities and states to pardon illegal aliens with criminal convictions, including

child molesters, murderers, accused -- while climbing to stand up for the rule of law in america and the idea that you're just going to pardon all of these criminals for these crimes so they don't get deported so you can keep them not in jail but also release them into your communities they can go commit more crimes against innocent people, that's what the aclu is doing, it's quite on par with the biden administration's policy for four years. >> katie brings up an excellent point as our resident legal expert, how was this not a kin to human smuggling or human trafficking or harboring illegals? >> i thought it was stunning they said to make sure our prisons and jails are off-limits. i think everybody agrees the people you would want to first in line to go if they are here illegal are people who committed crimes, that's why they are sitting in jails and prisons.

that was a little bit odd to. you have these cities like los angeles, chicago, philadelphia where you have mayors and leaders saying we will block any deportation attempt, we won't work with any federal -- we will protect these people but you have citizens now standing up and going to the city council meetings and saying what about me? i live here, take care of me, don't be spending resources protect the people who illegally. it's a very interesting turn of events. i would note, november the lowest border numbers of president biden's presidency because people know it will change under a trump presidency, they know that's coming. >> jessica, the aclu does a lot of crazy things but there are things like principled things that i like. the first name of them is american. you would think maybe there would be more concerned about the american people. this is not the fight the democrats want to have going forward to. >> this always feels to me like a fissure between the activist class and the rank and file.

>> you mean with the democrats. >> this also happens on the republican side too will you get someone who sounds off on something and you are like i know a lot of republicans and none of them are into this. i think it is extremely unhelpful, i think it's bordering on deranged. i don't know if you would meet a normal person on the street who would say if we had a chance to send the guy who killed laken riley out earlier that we wouldn't have done that. or kate steinle who passed away before her in san francisco, someone who was deported six times or something like that, kept getting back in here. the example of driving on a suspended license, fine. i understand that is a minor infraction but there are child molesters on this list, absolutely not. these are moments of cooperation i think with the incoming administration that will really benefit democrats, because there

is a tussle internally now, where do we resist and where do we cooperate? criminals, you cooperate on criminals who don't have a right to be here. then you can push back on other things. >> the stupidest strong with this one. >> we have to do a quick pause, we have an alert for you, the house is voting on this bill to avoid the government to shut down it's finally underway, let's go to capitol hill, can you explain exactly what they are and are not voting on in this package? >> this is a combination bill, they wove three bills into one, the most important part of this in the immediate term is funding the government in averting the government shutdown tonight at 11:59:00 p.m. this would renew all government funding at present levels until march 14th. even if they pass this in the house of representatives, this would still have to go to the senate. there is an emergency farm aid package in this, extension of

the farm bill for one year and also $110 billion in money for disaster relief. hurricanes in north carolina and florida that's a major part of this package we are told a few minutes ago and the house democratic caucus, that hakeem jeffries the democratic leaders signaled there was enough in this bill to get his vote or get the votes to he thought of some democrats. i'm going to point out something that's good to be very dicey and very important. they are treating this bill is what they a suspension periods you need to go thirds to pass the bill and i keep being asked this afternoon, what's the magic number? it depends how many people vote for the bill and how many total numbers are voting in the chamber, that's how you arrive at the two-thirds threshold. i can't give you a number, they would have 290. there are some absences today, you've had people who have gone home for the holidays.

people who checked out because they are retired or they lost the races, that number is down and 270 even 260 depending on attendance. the other thing that's important in this is whether or not republicans carry most of the freight in this. house speaker mike johnson has been at a serious fire about the handling of this interim spending bill over the past few weeks and if you have more democrats support this bill then republicans, that is part and parcel of what has happened on every single major fiscal vote this congress where democrats have swooped in on other government funding bills, lifting the debt ceiling and they have saved the day even the republicans are in the majority. we also wonder because of the barnacles that have attached themselves to house speaker mike johnson in this process, with that impact him as he goes for speaker on january 3rd?

it's going to be a narrow majority when they come back to session in january. that's going to be a tough vote, he can only lose one vote and retain the speakership, he seemed to give himself a little bit crossways with president-elect trump, certainly with elon musk, that's another issue and we have to watch to see how that emerges over the coming weeks. go to point to the floor right now, look at the clock. you only have less than 100 numbers voting right now. if this were to be the vote, this would pass. that's two-thirds based on how many people are voting but there's a lot more people who will roll in. this came together quickly and just because that time rolls down on the screen, i always say this is like a soccer, the time is kept on the field. we don't know how much injury at broken, extra time they will have. if they started a few minutes ago, they will probably wrap this up maybe a little bit after

6:00, it usually takes 25 to 30 minutes to vote in the house of representatives. we might know before then whether they have the votes to either pass this or defeat this and even if they do pass it, then they still have to get this through the senate and sync up later tonight. >> all of us are going to have questions here but let me ask really quickly reduce the democrats coming in favor of that and we hear there will be more of those. we see were public in votes against, there were some people said no matter what they weren't going to vote for this, they thought even continuing funding of the current level was something they would not sup support. as we get closer to figuring out if this gets to two-thirds it doesn't include the debt ceiling change president trump wanted. you give us a little bit of analysis but what is your best guess on what happens to mike johnson will not vote rolls around january 3rd if this is the package that keeps the government open? >> it's hard to believe he would

not be the speaker of the house because he looked down the roster and say who else? the one thing people were starting to think and this might be the reality is it takes more than one vote for speaker and we had for the first time in a hundred years, more than one vote to go years ago for kevin mccarthy. 15 rounds in five days. a lot of people are starting to think they need more than one roll call vote to get the speaker. there might be a protest or if they get to a stasis which was what happened last time, that could be a problem getting the congress started to because they can't swear in the new members yet, that's an issue as well and it may be delaying the beginning of the trump agenda, you can't start the house. you cannot do anything i will underscore that again -- anything until you get a speaker of the house and that includes if this does take a couple of days certifying the electoral college on january 6th. >> given the absurdity of the

size of the bill originally, i don't see how mike johnson can continue on. it was everything against with the american people voted for, the reason why we had such a huge show up for republicans to see a 1500 page thing with all kinds of woke stuff, do you think mike johnson can walk away from this? i think there's no way he can fix this especially given all the blowback we are seeing, are there optimists on the floor, is a republican party feeling good about this bill? >> they are feeling okay about this bill mainly because they get the disaster aid in the farm aid in there but you are right, there's a damage inflicted with mike johnson, i asked him tuesday, he said he was going to try to get away from the christmas tree omnibus, what they say around capital healed at this time of year as they put together a christmas tree and it has legislative ornaments on it -- guess what, you have a 1500 page bill with 1500 ornaments on it. health care, provisions for the bridge in baltimore.

the land the site in washington, d.c., for rfk stadium, ticket pricing issues -- it went on and on. sometimes you put those things into the bill to make them sweeteners and what those turned out to be was sour. it's not just the size of the bill, mike johnson put up with this svelte bill last night, 116 pages in the bill that was on the floor is 118 pages and that didn't get a simple majority. that only got to 170 votes in the house of representatives. size is not always matter and house of representatives. what does matter, if members are comfortable with voting for something because it has the provisions they want and that's what's so complicated but that rubik's cube. in just the right mixture of provisions in the bill. >> assuming for arguments sake this bill goes and the way it looks like it's going right now and democrats help get this

across the line under suspension of rules, what is your speculation about what happens to it when it goes to the se senate? >> we think it would probably get through the senate although we don't know if it would get done before the midnight deadline, sometimes they take a little more time in the senate. i talked to one senior republican senator earlier this afternoon who thought because of some of the farm provisions you might have some people try to throw up a couple roadblocks to get some floor time to speak out against it. a lot of people don't want to see a government shutdown even if they oppose this bill and the most powerful thing in the u.s. capital and have looked for this for years, somewhere in this building is an air duct and this time of year right before the holidays it cranks out btu after btu of jet fumes because members are trying to get home for the holidays. even if they oppose the bill, some people might say i will both know, i need to get out of here. that happens often.

>> when you can smell them from your position on the hill, if this were to pass and get to the senate, what can americans look for? >> you're probably not on the other topics for a couple of reasons, number one trend as i said this is the barnacle that might help weight down mike johnson, people continue to talk about this. if they fund the government now they will have to from the government again in march. you have a more narrow majority in the house of representatives thing, what is past is prologue to. this predicts and portends some of the rough votes we could see in the house and senate next year. you have a unified government, house, senate, and white house, the more narrow majority in the house and it's going to be even tougher to govern. they want to talk about tax cuts, talk about border and

every one of these issues is going to come down to a boat like this. people are going to say i'm for it but it doesn't have that provision in it for me. suddenly you have 435 joe manchins in the senate, in the house of representatives i should say. people saying i could be the decider because you need my vote and i'm good to use that as leverage to extract that provision out of this bill and that's why it might be a challenge to get some of these things done. >> we don't want you to go anywhere. i have a super quick question for you because we heard the ethics report on matt gaetz is going to be released when the house is done with its voting. does that mean tonight we get that? >> we were told that, that's something i confirmed on tuesday that would come out. they voted to release at ethics report, they said after they finish up. it's a friday night anyway, it wasn't friday night before christmas usually things like that could bury to the news cycle as i predicted maybe they

would put that out on the afternoon of december 24th, they did say they would release at that minute as soon as the boat is closed. but they did say informally that once they had taken the final vote of this congress that's when that report would come out. >> don't go far. we want to get reaction here. >> i will build in my question. i don't have to watch netflix tonight because i will just read the ethics report which will be saucier than the new lindsay lohan christmas movie which was very good -- don't spoil it. perhaps a silly question. thomas massie why not typically on the same side as was lobbying speaker johnson and the copresident to have the bill as individual bills on a per topic.

that seemed to make a lot of sense to me and i think hakeem jeffries as well said we can get on board with that and i'm not saying it has to be each individual thing but farm aid, disaster relief, health care issues. nutritional assistance, whatever writ large, i would've asked -- why is that not how this is done? >> i think they had to -- in general. >> none of it is how any of it is supposed to be done, the appropriations bill that were supposed to be passed. >> everything is terrible all the time. >> none of this is going by regular order. >> regular order has been 15 years. >> since chad was quoting shakespeare we will keep it there, this is monstrous. >> let's check in with one of the copresidents, elon musk. he said the speaker did a good job given the circumstances.

and one from a it bill that weighed pounds, the ball should not be an democrats court. he is weighing in, i want to talk about the speaker johnson and his chances because i kind of disagree with you. this has been damaging -- >> just reading that bill -- >> the election has to be certified on january 6th, that's in two weeks. this will be sitting through the christmas holiday through new year's. there is no way donald trump is going to allow the certification of his election to be postponed because the house republicans want to get in a fight for a week or more about who the next speaker is going to be. they aren't going to take the political capital in time to do that. >> who's next? because of the way this worked out it's very possible get democrat votes. democrats have come to support him before when he needed it. they feel like you somebody they can work with but to the fact that elon musk is tweeting that

he did the best he could with the circumstances, time is of the essence now. when it comes to inauguration and focusing on getting his nominees confirmed in the senate and making sure the election results are certified in the house on january 6th, the kamala harris shows up and does her job in the senate, they are and how to take time to go to this fight and they are seeing that we saw -- >> to the point that chad made which i think it's important that democrats are also well aware of the fact that johnson may have a one seat majority come the next administration. we might be able to get a lot more out of the next spending bill from negotiations, now when he has a huge majority of four or five. >> which raises another question about this bill. if you look at this right now all of the defections are on the republican side and hakeem jeffries is figuring --

it looks like his math is right on this. it looks like it's going to be an overwhelming majority of republicans at all democrats. is it merely the fact they took the debt ceiling out of it? that would be an admission they are displaying a tactical game with the debt ceiling by not including its now since i think they would all agree you're going to have to raise it at some point between now -- >> republicans campaign on being deficit hawks and then trump gets in and then it's -- >> democrats don't. >> that's the thing. >> i think it's frustrating once again, because we want to get president trump in, we again have to swim in the swamp a little longer.

it's ridiculous. >> we are looking at the current vote it's got to be by two-thirds of all those who votes. 252 to march 26, it looks like if that holds steady, let's go to jackie heinrich, she's in the white house and play this reaction from there. >> if he is weighing in it's not happening publicly, he's well out of public view. the white house seems to be betting if there is any government shutdown, that is going to have plenty of blame to go around when you've got trump and elon musk scuttling the bipartisan plan and that was their strategy for keeping joe biden out of public discussion. what we don't know is if there was any sort of tip from the white house are sent democrats to the house on how they want their members to be voting. when you saw that notice come

down from house leadership, democratic leadership to their members that would be between five and 5:30. there was no steer on which we devote for it. that could signal there was division in their ranks. they don't want to jam the senate democrats with a bill that has been changed but there might be recognition there would be plenty of blame to go around if they tanked what is in the end a stripped-down cr, there was a win for democrats and their ability to strip out trump's ask to get the debt limit as part of this. it looks like the president is hanging back right now. who was talking to democratic leadership in the house in the senate? we don't know but we do know from the briefing this afternoon was joe biden hand reached hakeem jeffries or chuck schumer until noon today and there was this hand-wringing from rank-and-file democrats about what are we supposed to do? a vacuum of instruction, they wanted the public perception to be that trump and elon musk --

going to be a bipartisan bill. a few hours out from the government shutdown, the public will digest that certainly and look at everyone and say your all to blame. >> you've been on this for days. we now want to go to capitol hill because the house putting on this bill to avoid the government shut down you've got some news, you are doing the math we are not willing to do live. >> i talked about the two-thirds threshold. this vote is still open right now but it's not going to fail. they have more than 300 votes on the scoreboard right now, all of the naes have come from the republican side of. this is going to pass, it appears it has the votes to pass but they don't finalize it into the hit the gavel to close the votes. that will happen in the next five to mecca 10 minutes. this is the first step in this toward avoiding a government

shutdown tonight to. the question then becomes how quickly can the senate process this? do they need some time, do they have the votes? if they really want to stretch this out and they don't think this is the mood of the senate based on what i said earlier about the jet fumes in the air ducts in the capital, they will probably move some time later tonight. they might even get this in under the wire at midnight. right now we would suspect there would not be a government shutdown because the house has to pass this and is in the process of passing this was such an overwhelming super majority. the threshold of all 435 members if they were passing it it would be to 90, they are right now at 315. that tells you this has a lot more support than was needed to. that was a good play called by both the republicans in the democrats in the way they cobbled together this particular bill. >> chad program, we do expect >> shannon: chad per gram thank you very much. we are getting reaction from the

white house. it takes a lot of sentences to slam the republicans and talk about how they got us to this clip and then it goes on to say this is from the press secretary it doesn't include everything we sought the disaster relief and other things eliminates pathway to tax cuts for billionaires. tyrus. we are not hearing from the president but hearing from the white house and they are saying he supports this move forward this package. >> tyrus: we didn't hear from the president? >> shannon: i'm surprised. >> tyrus: not surprised at all. how effective doge is going to be. just them tweeting about overspending and stuff caught everybody in a panic. of this ys fell in library and kept the debt ceiling out. you will have to spend money it make all the corrections from of overspending. that part the american people get norm narrative slang

co-president sleepy joe, wherever he is at, i promise not to joke about him anymore. president trump and his team able continue to influence through social media to get this through. so now it's up to the senate to get it wassed and then we can get things moving on. again, this is what the american people are sick of. this type of stuff and the fact that we have to swim in the swamp a little longer to get our president in. i don't think mike johnson did a great job. given the reason why we all have to say are supposed to say he did a good job. i don't work for the government. i think what he did was an abomination. >> vote count 31 republicans who voted against this, they are the ones on your team. they are the running this is the same as usual. not voting for this. chip roy back and forth with donald trump and elon musk. progress made on future cuts to the debt ceiling. still voting know $110 billion unpaid for handouts and i don't have the list of the republicans

who voted against. this have to get democrats to help them. we are not doing business as usual but this is something that they had to come together and pass if they wanted to get it across the finish line and over to the senate before midnight. >> shannon: really difficult to cut. everything is a program that somebody cares about. you are going to have a constituency. >> jessica: paid for and they are hearing from constituents and lobbyists about constantly. it will be interesting to to see the difference in influence president-elect trump once he becomes president elon musk and the doge caucus. there are democrats part of the doge caucus. when we get to march and they want to put through a long-term spending bill instead of just this four months. but, i appreciate a little shout-out for hakeem jeffries. we will see over time if he

lives up to nancy pelosi's legacy. he keeps very good control of the dr democratic caucus and thy fall. we are going to go no on this. we want these changes we are going to go yes on this. everybody lines up with him. that makes me happy. it's going to be a difficult few years with opportunities to get stuff done with such a slim majority on the republican side. >> shannon: charlie, now we get to do this again in march. >> charlie: exactly. >> shannon: sorry, everybody. >> this is not the worst it's going to be. i do think it's interesting and posh things to take a step back and recognize that the only principled fight going on anywhere on spending is within the republican caucus. in the house and in the senate, but it's within the republican caucus. and the democrats are playing as they always do. they are very good at it and i don't necessarily blame them for doing it but it's all political and they are playing political games and mind games and a smash and grab pork fest only thing

that lines them up to go along with these things. the only interesting argument, principled fight going on is the republicans. >> tyrus: previous administration didn't remember anything and didn't hold anybody accountable. i have every confidence in the world president trump won't forget all this and hold them accountable. this administration fired nobody. they will be firing. there will be people get up out of their seats so, i am looking forward to it. >> shannon: looking at vote now and as chad pergram told us members again 360 in favor and 34 against. well passed two thirds they need to get things moving. it now heads to the senate. of course we will talk about all of this on "fox news sunday" this weekend and see if the government is indeed funded by then and i anchor. >> jessica: shannon happy birthday. >> shannon: thank you, 29 again. >> tyrus: for the fifth time. >> rich: good evening, welcome to washington i'm rich edson in for bret b