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the nation's capital and this is america's favorite late news, "fox news @ night". breaking tonight, just a few days before christmas, the senate working late this friday night hoping once again to a bird a shut down. this after the house passed a bill to continue funding the government. let's head straight to the senior congressional correspondent chat program live on the hill -- chad pergram -- >> good evening, kevin. in about series on the senate floor right now and we think sometime within the next hour or a bit more they should vote to sink up with the house of representatives and avert a government shutdown. a bipartisan vote tonight to avert a shut down at midnight, the house approve the bill earlier. 366-34. senate majority leader chuck schumer says the senate will align with the house just before the deadline. >> we got some major things we wanted in the bill, particularly the...the disaster relief which

was bigger, the president asked for 117. we got 100. we kept the government open and we did not get the debt ceiling. i think if you look at the vote in the house, people felt pretty good. >> reporter: this is not a crisis. the package funds the government through mid-march. it helps struggling farmers and it provides $110 billion in disaster aid to those devastated by hurricanes helene and milton. some conservatives object. >> the thing about government staying open is we will pass something called a continued resolution. what does that mean? it means we are resolved to continue. continue as we have for really decades. we will continue to spend money regardless of whether we have it or not. >> reporter: some lawmakers are frustrated. they believe this could have been resolved days ago. that is before the incoming president and elon musk injected themselves into the process.

>> the drama that went on for the last 2 days did not need to happen. we wound up in the same place we were always going to which was with democrats providing the majority of the votes to keep the government open and deliver for the american people. >> reporter: but solving the rubik's cube was messy. the house finally passed a revamped bill with support from democrats and republicans. however all of the nose came from the g.o.p. >> when you make sausage, sometimes it's not pretty. this is making sausage. i always had confidence to get it done. there was always a way to get it done. we just had to get there. >> reporter: now the challenging nature of funding the government signals possible struggles to adopt the trump agenda next year. it's about the math and the house margin will be even tighter. >> kevin: it is always about the math. chad pergram on the hill, thank you. let's get some insight into this down to the wire process from republican senator from

north dakota, john hoeven. thank you for spending time with us. i think i speak for a lot of americans, i'm curious how we arrived at this late hour finally pushing this boulder over the finish line. >> kevin, merry christmas, to all of your viewers. the important thing is we will get it done. we need to get back to regular order and that will be something that we work to do next year with president trump and a republican majority. if we get back to regular order we not only can avoid this kind of thing but we can do a much better job of appropriating and finding ways to reduce the debt and the deficit and that's exactly what we plan to do. >> kevin: 100 billion in disaster relief. i know there was -- a number of members that were concerned about the number. where did you fall on that amount and why are we coming up with that kind of figure? >> it's very important we do that disaster assistants. you saw what happened with the hurricanes and the other whether we had. i worked hard on the piece for

farmers and ranchers. that's important. but it's also good that we cut this thing back. president trump talked about 1500 pages of what's going on, there was a lot of stuff in there to i did not think should be in there. we cut it back to a 100 page bill. we got the government funded through to march 14th when we will have a republican majority and we made sure that we did the disaster assistance for the folks that need it. >> kevin: let me ask about that very quickly. people are wondering can we do more of this, this idea of let's shrink it. 1500 pages, here you go, you've got 24 hours to read it, vote on it, and i'm just wondering if we can't do more of this slimmed-down piece by piece negotiation on the hill to push things over that need to be funded and other things when -- we can get out of the way. >> we can and we should. we cut this down from about 1500 pages to 100 pages.

we can do more and that's why i emphasize regular order. another thing you will see us to his go into what's called budget reconciliation where we pass a budget. that's going to enable us to make these changes, to implement the reforms that d.o.g.e. and others will come forward with and really find ways to make government operate not only more efficiently but get back to regular order and find the kind of savings you are talking about in terms of, you know, reducing the size and scope of these bills but not having just one big bill at the end of the year but individual appropriations bills. that's the right way to do it. >> kevin: let me ask you, for your constituents, they will look at this and say okay, we salute you for getting this done. should they be pleased tonight with how we got here and i think i heard and may have been carlos gimenez who said sometimes making the sausages and very pretty but that's what it takes to get the job done. >> what they should be pleased about is the people who spoke that can they've elected

president trump and a republican majority to get our country back on track and that means regular order, finding savings, making sure we extend the tax cuts, securing the border, supporting our military. those fundamentals that make our country strong. i think that is what we should be focused on, that is what we need to accomplish, that is what people voted for in this last election and that is the plan president trump put on the table. >> kevin: let's get back to that energy independence. i know that's a big issue for your state. >> right on. >> kevin: i know that's obviously something that is huge. we certainly hope that for the country as well. senator, thank you for your time tonight. we certainly appreciate it. >> thank you kevin and merry christmas. >> kevin: merry christmas, my friend. amid the chaos on capitol hill this week, the president-elect and his team are insisting that this spending battle is not a trump 47 problem, it is a biden administration problem. correspondent alexandria hoff has more on that tonight.

>> reporter: good to be with you. the president-elect made it clear he wanted a deal that included getting rid of or extending the debt ceiling. that did not happen tonight. sources confirm to fox news that trump isn't exactly pleased but republican senator says tonight that he would not call 47 upset. >> president trump is a business guy and he understands negotiations. he also saw elon musk come out because he's a business guy and understands negotiations. you start with 100%. i always tell people i want 100 part -- 110% and i'm willing to negotiate to 70 and i walk away at 69. that's probably what this is. >> what president biden has felt throughout the process is less known. according to the white house his silence was strategic. >> this is a strategy that we have done many times before. not the first time. >> joe biden is still the president. where is he? has anybody heard from him? >> reporter: exactly a month out from the baton being past, a

source in the trump inaugural committee tells fox business that it has so far received $200 million in pledged donations, that shatters the previous record set in 2017. to compare, president biden's inauguration committee raised around $62 million. president-elect trump luck sing his muscle on the world stage as well, stating today that he's directed e.u. countries to make up their deficits to the u.s. by large-scale purchases of american oil and gas. according to the "financial times", trump's team has committed to continuing support through military aid for ukraine with the demand that nato members increase their defense spending to 5%. >> kevin: alex, thank you for staying up late. i've seen you work early, i've seen you work late, you are a real trooper and we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. >> thank you kevin. i like although shifts. >> kevin: let's get some insight into all of this political turmoil tonight from a member of the harris national finance committee, lindy li, and

former senior council at the epa, attorney samantha dravis, and attorney and rnc surrogate mehek cooke. so great to have you all with us. i want to begin by playing a bit of a montage that we've all been hearing, asking where is waldo or in this case where is joe biden. listen to that and i will get your reaction on the other side. >> why hasn't president biden said anything in the public about this? why haven't we seen or heard. >> this is a strategy that we have done many times before. not the first time. >> in this moment, is the president leading? >> the president is the president and he is leading and to be very clear, as it relates to this. >> kevin: the president is leading as it relates to this. all right, lindy, that's a tough call. you are a democrat and yet i'm sure that there are a number of democrats around the country that are saying, you know, as long as he is not forceful in leading, he's not leading. what say you?

>> kevin, let's be honest with what's happening here. the president has not been cognitively fit to assume the duties of the oval office for a number of years and it breaks my heart to say it. i know president biden and i love the man. but he is in no shape or form able to carry out the duties that the commander in chief requires and it's devastating. we saw that confirmed by "the wall street journal" expose yesterday. many exposes in "the new york times", in "the washington post" over and over again, how his inner circle is actively covering for him and stepping up to the plate because he simply cannot. i hosted him on may first here in d.c. and i remember one of my family members saying after interacting with president biden, they said we are [bleep] >> kevin: those are strong words but i think they echo the sentiment of a lot of people and washington. >> biden's absence is nothing new and lindy's right. we did not need another

"wall street journal" article to know that biden is cognitively impaired, he's been out to lunch and in the meantime congress has broken. they did not do a single other appropriations bills this year and passing bills and regular order. i think that there is a real leadership crisis and that has damaged the democrats credibility and that is in large part why the lost the election. >> kevin: mehek i know you would probably echo the sentiments but let me ask you about something i saw in the journal. this is from kimberly, the headline is an interesting one and says biden on savory judicial legacy and reads in part, but it isn't the numbers where the faces that will define the biden years, his most lasting mark on the judiciary will be the contempt he exhibited towards judicial branch and his active role in undermining public faith in it. i just saw a poll that was somewhere around 19% the public's faith in the legal system. devastating. your thoughts on what he really had to say. >> i 100% agree. biden a boeser rated the rule of

law when he used it and weaponized it against president trump. nobody trusts the public system today, nobody trust the department of justice and nobody trusts what biden did to our legal law and order. we need to get back to the rule of law and the only way to do that is to tear it down and then build it up and that's exactly what president trump is doing when he looks at people like kash patel to come into the fbi, when he looks at the doj with pam bondi and making sure that we have a secure nomination in our attorney general for our future. the only way to show leadership and to show strength is to show that no matter who was in office, democrat or republican, we are going to respect law and order and that's where president trump is today. most americans want peace and prosperity but the number 1 way to achieve it is through law and order and i have to disagree. biden is not going away silently, there's no strategy in this, he broke up with america on x and then he's been handing out pardons like to.

it is despicable. he does not stand up when americans need him the most and he still has 30 days in office. this is despicable, unnecessary and this is why he's getting fired. >> kevin: it's interesting. 30 days. that's a long time to not be engaged. i want to move onto this and get everybody to weigh in. 15 seconds each. this is from the daily mail, a piece from emily goodwin. the headline reads in part, how vengeful jill biden is urging depressed joe to burn the whole thing down in their final days. jill views of democrats on capitol hill and the wider party, the obama's, staff inside and outside, the media and all of washington, tc was such misguided resentment that i cannot imagine she isn't encouraging joe to burn the whole thing down despite his better judgement. that according to an insider. lindy, 15 seconds each roughly, your thoughts on what emily had to say. >> she's totally right. we can see that happened when joe came out and cited insider

trading. it took in 50 years to get to that point but he did that because he still has a bone to pick with nancy pelosi. he's very angry that he got summarily pushed aside and he's finally saying that no one in congress should be able to trade on the inside information and you know who's notorious for that, nancy pelosi. >> kevin: absolutely. 15 seconds, some at that. >> for the democrats biden has burned everything down. he burned it down when he refused to step aside and he's getting his vengeance now because the democrats were in complete disarray and his legacy is going to be all the things we just discussed, eroding the rule of law, weaponize inc. the department of justice, leaving americans with a massive inflation crisis and leaving his own party in a complete crisis as well. >> kevin: wide open border as well. mehek, 15 seconds. >> as joe biden is tearing everything down, you know who is building it up is president trump. he's not in the white house today and he's presidential. on day one we are going to have peace, prosperity and security so it does not matter what biden is doing now but he's not going

to go away silently so we have to fight every single day until we secure the white house. >> kevin: hard to argue with the fact that president-elect trump seems very presidential already. lindy, samantha, mehek, thank you, we appreciate it. you now have elon musk controlling the dominant organ of the republican media industrial complex. there's nothing close. he single-handedly with his tweets and his followers killed that bill. there's no doubt about that. >> he often times relies on random anonymous accounts, these websites, you know, these users on x who are trying to present themselves as the new cnn, the new "new york times" but have no research behind them, no back in, no institutional knowledge. i understand that for elon musk that's appealing and exciting on his platform but he ends up misleading a lot of people. >> kevin: ends up misleading a lot of people. very interesting words there. let's bring in the spectators,

washington editor amber duke and political reporter tiana lowe doescher. i have to say, this is a fun subject for me because i love how washington gets all vaxxed by these problems and then they act as if they did not see them coming from a mile away. let me share this, tiana, of former cnn pundit talking about biden coverage and his role in it. listen to this and i will get your reaction on the other side. >> the white house and the people around joe biden were absolutely adamant that suggesting anything, asking the question about whether he was in some physical, mental or both took line was offensive. i did not really push on it if i'm being honest. >> kevin: you know, i respect him for saying he did not push but i think everybody knew or certainly it seems like everybody in this town new. >> it's incredibly cute for him to be saying this now that he's

unemployed. we all have eyes in years and we were all told do not believe what you -- what your lying eyes and ears show you. we all saw it. it was evident from, you know, you could forgive it during peak covid, the dude was almost 80 years old, he could not be around the normal hordes of crowds. but it then became immediately evident within 2021 after the vaccines were out that he was not the old joe, he was not the one that was going to the hill, whipping votes, he could not do any of it. >> kevin: how did this happen? how did we get to a place, amber, where there was this tacit agreement within our own government no less to basically run cover for someone who it seems like back again listening to our eyes and years, was not really up to the job? >> we have an entrenched bureaucracy that runs 90% of percent of the government with or without the executive. that's what "the wall street journal" article laid bare, that this -- there was an insular group of advisors and cabinet officials

who made decisions on behalf of biden and basically had him rubber-stamp with his, you know, half dead hand whatever they wanted to push through. this was a continuation of the obama administration, a lot of these people worked for that president, and they did whatever obama told him to do. joe biden was the final signature. >> kevin: this was also interesting, is from the new republic. this is a monday headline. the real reason why americans approve of trump's disastrous transition. he writes in part, making matters worse is that we seem to have good reason to worry that some outlets now want to make peace with trumpism. for some more proof the right wing media has won. this informing is the new informing. it is spreading to more and more mainstream outlets. i watched an interview with him.

he's obviously a zealot on the left side and that's fine, you do you. but i'm curious why you think he believes people again cannot see with their own eyes and make their own judgement. they are smart enough to figure out if somebody is doing well or not. >> it's shocking never realized that they no longer have this monopolistic power over -- you don't have three television networks where if someone deviates from the norm you can just call them crazy. but also, power loves a vacuum. joe biden has not been president for the last six months. where is he? he hasn't been here for the drones, he hasn't been here for the last phase of the ukraine war, for the israeli war, he hasn't been present. kamala harris disappeared after the election so of course donald trump is the one representing the united states and notre dame, joe biden could have been there but he chose not to be. the mainstream media cannot reckon with that. >> kevin: you are too young to know about 83 network world. what are your thoughts on that?

>> i think she's right. it's funny for them to constantly notice that their power, that their monopoly on information is slipping, but they reach all the wrong conclusions about it. it's not that we are in trouble for lying to the american people for the past ten, 20 years, it's the right wing media just luring people in with this information. they cannot see that it's actually that independent and right wing media that are unveiling their lies, their misinformation and actually telling the american people the truth. the american people have an appetite for real information because they are tired of being fed lies from these huge networks with tons of money who are in the tank for the democratic party. >> kevin: this is what frustrates him i believe. they don't understand that the jig is up. we all know, we all see. you have the internet, you have independent voices, you have voices even that you can hear on a network like this one people have more opportunity to make their own judgement and they are

not swayed by the big three anymore. amber and tiana, thank you for spending time with me on a friday night. coming up, an update on our top story where things stand on capitol hill at this hour as a last-ditch effort to avoid probably a very brief government shutdown is looking successful at this hour. even if it runs, you know, let's just say a few minutes over, we are going to have the latest on that. and also coming up, conservative states fighting to put god back in schools. we are talking about bible lessons and having the ten commandments on display. it is during a real debate about the separation between church and state. that and much more as we continue here on "fox news at night". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. with skyrizi, feel symptom relief at 4 weeks. many people were in remission at 12 weeks, at 1 year, and even at 2 years. don't use if allergic. serious allergic reactions, increased infections, or lower ability to fight them may occur. before treatment, get checked for infections and tb. tell your doctor about any flu-like symptoms or vaccines. liver problems leading to hospitalization

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at night". kevin corke in for trace gallagher. back to the top story and the news that is breaking at this hour, the senate ready to vote very soon to avoid a possible government shutdown. after the house passed a funding bill earlier in the day. back over to our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram. working really late for us tonight and every time i look up i see the light is on over there at the capital so that means chad, you are working with good reason. >> if the light is on atop the capital dome that means he read the house or senate are in session and if they are in session i am usually in session. i have some good news and some bad news here. the good news is theirs not going to be a crisis over a government shutdown. the bad news is i think it's going to be very dicey to actually get this done before the midnight deadline and this is why. they have a series of about 3-4 more votes. there's a little debate going on on the floor right now with ted cruz, the republican senator from texas, but they have about

three or four votes in the queue before they actually get to the actual vote. to line up with the house of representatives and avoid a government shutdown. when i look at this, knowing the timing, it's almost 11:30 at night, they are not going to get through all of that by midnight. we will have a technical government shutdown but that really does not mean much because there's not a dispute, they had the votes, they require 60 votes to pass this when they eventually get to it. but i think probably the timing is more like maybe 12, for those 12:15, 12:30, a little later, but there won't be a major government shutdown and technically there's a shutdown unless the president has signed it into law but the fact that the house and senate have aligned and so long as the office of personnel management has not sent a notice out everybody saying the government has shut down, things are fine. this is going to be resolved sometime in the next hour or so. maybe a technical government shutdown but everybody will get to go home for the holidays. >> kevin: let me ask about

that. i'm going to guess, correct me if i'm wrong, they would not, even if this drags on. >> there were some things that were going on with the federal government, talking to federal agencies on their time sheets to list for low for next week. even list christmas day as furlough and then there were questions about whether they get the holiday back because that's a federal holiday. there was a lot of that going on. and here's the other thing too. the next federal pay period, the next set of checks would not even go until the new year so there was not going to be even an impact on federal workers unless this drag on and on of getting their paychecks on time. but this is just the house and senate taking a long time to get these things done. there's a reason why they pegged the deadline right before christmas. they were supposed to have this done by september 30th so here they are.

they will get it done tonight. probably a little bit after midnight but no crisis. >> kevin: real quick, one more thing, i'm curious about the head count. every time something like this happens, and it's late, it's last minute, it's right up against the clock, you have members who are coming back, members who have gone home. how are we looking in terms of head count? is that an issue? >> it's not going to be an issue in terms of having enough people or anything like that. they don't need a quorum in a sense like that. but there's probably a few absences. there were in the house of representatives, about 30 absences there tonight. you had some members who either lost or had retired and if you could not come back at all to vote. some were saying hey, we are not going to show up. i was told several years ago, i said that we were in a similar situation around christmas, and i said are we going to get this done? they said yes this will be decided by the most powerful people in washington. i said who's that and they said

the spouses of the members. [laughs] >> reporter: basically telling the members you have to pass the bill so you can get home to trim the tree. >> kevin: true words were never spoken. chad pergram, always a pleasure, thank you, we will touch base later on. we want to bring in the author of rights and freedoms in peril, judicial watch president tom fitton. i love watching chad to do what he does. you and i have seen this merry-go-round before. >> you can set your clock. thanksgiving, budget shutdown politics, christmas, and then we go into january. this is a planned crisis to guarantee that spending continues as it has been previously. the biden regime will get funded essentially even into the trump administer agent for a month or two as a result. this is why conservatives are disappointed in the process because we don't get the cots, we don't get the policy wins. so chuck schumer gets the

deadline and the right isn't able to leverage it into policy. it's unfortunate. >> kevin: also the left is so disciplined. they stick together. the right almost never does and this is what happens as a result of a lot of hard work. the democrats did not get everything they wanted, certainly nothing like the 1500 page monstrosity. let me ask about the incoming president. his team filing a brief over the biden border wall, a crazy story. let me share part of it. this brief according to the headline filed in the southern district of texas argues that trump has made clear in his support for building a system of border barriers at the southwestern border and that building the border wall is the clear and emphatic policy of the incoming trump administration. i am aghast that one administration would decide to sell material that could obviously buy used by the incoming, and for pennies on the

dollar. why are they doing this? >> it's petty and juvenile. how else can you explain it? it shows contempt for the concerns the american people have about the border. when you look at the legal pleadings, there's a serious issue about whether what they are doing is even legal or not. and this is just the biden administration. remember at the end of the clinton years, they were taking off the keys from keyboards. this is the equivalent but it's much more serious because now if some of this stuff is sold, it's hard to get back and it cost taxpayers more money to replace. >> kevin: let me ask quick about the fani willis case down in georgia. she's been removed. what say you, where are we, why did that happen and what happens next? >> the appellate court overruled the lower court by saying you just can't pretend this issue is okay because nathan wade is barred from the case. she still has this appearance of

a conflict, the appearance of impropriety that makes it impossible for her to continue in her office. so that case really is effectively dead unless it's resurrected by another prosecutor. the state could squelch it at this point. on top of that, we've got our own with occasion over her communications with the january 6 committee and the biden justice department. she was found in default in that case. said she did not have documents, now she says she does. she doesn't want to turn them over to us so that case is going to continue. she's in a corner in terms of a, her case is dead and there's going to be accountability for what she did at least through our case. >> kevin: i think this is only the beginning of what could possibly happen to her, her career, and this particular case i think is out the window, there's no way. i don't care, you want no part of this. good to see you my friend,

merry christmas,. a wave of new laws and mandates regarding religious content in schools across the country is testing the bounds of an stirring debate about the separation between church and state. our chief religion correspondent has that story. >> last month texas lawmakers approved a new curriculum allowing elementary schools to incorporate bible teaching into reading and language arts. it comes a year after the lone star state voted to require the ten commandments be displayed and all public schools. now 18 states are backing louisiana in it's appeal of a ruling that struck down a law requiring public schools to posted the ten commandments. meanwhile oklahoma superintended of schools allocated $3 million to purchase bibles for classrooms. a group of teachers and parents have filed a lawsuit to block the move. >> it's very clear that the radical left has driven the bible out of the classroom which leads to a lack of understanding of american history. >> reporter: but the head of americans united for separation

of church and state says one religious view cannot be favored over another in public schools. >> the point here is that there's an effort right now to infuse one form of christianity into our public schools and i think everyone, including christians, should be really concerned about that. >> reporter: but the founder of the nonprofit group says parents, notches lawmakers, want some kind of moral teaching brought back into the classroom. >> it's a response to seeing how anxiety is at all-time highs, depression all-time high, suicide all-time high. believe the pendulum is shifting back for parents to say our kids need this in their lives. >> reporter: the controversy continues with unintended consequences. in one texas school district, the bible had to be removed from school libraries because the superintendent cited a recent state law that prohibited explicit books, saying the holy bible is unsuitable because of it's sexually explicit material.

>> kevin: incredible story. thank you. breaking tonight, tensions flaring between two mayors and the great state of colorado over the migrant situation there. the mayor of aurora blaming the mayor of denver for dumping migrants into his city without telling him first. there's after several members of the venezuelan gang tren de aragua were detained in aurora this week after a violent home invasion at an apartment complex there. we've got breaking details coming up next. and we will head back to capitol hill for the very latest on the senate funding vote. don't go away, this is "fox news at night". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪th at convers oh, no, not about that. about what comes next in life. for her. i may not be in perfect health, but i want to stay in my home, where my family visits often and where my memories are. i can do it with help from a prep cook, wardrobe assistant and stylist, someone to help me live right at home.

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probably about 30 or 40 minutes away from the senate actually getting to that vote to align with the house to avoid a government shutdown and that means they will probably blow the midnight deadline but there will be a crisis with a government shutdown. there's a song by tom petty, the waiting is the hardest part, and that's what we are doing right now. we are waiting. they will in fact pass this bill, they need 60 votes, but there will not be a government shutdown in the formal sense. this will get done here probably well before 1:00 eastern time. >> kevin: either that or we could have gone with a little anticipation. [laughs] >> kevin: good commercial jingle music from the past. thank you. chad pergram on the hill, a stone throw be on that camera there. an upgrade on the migrant situation in aurora, colorado after police there detained several members of tren de aragua. it's a gang from venezuela and that actually happened earlier this week. it was following a violent home invasion at an apartment complex

in aurora. apparently some back-and-forth has happened between the mayors of aurora and denver and we want to get an update on that from our correspondent out in the los angeles bureau, christina coleman. >> reporter: hello kevin, aurora police now say the tren de aragua gang members who allegedly kidnapped and tortured two people during the home invasion have been forcing the victims to pay them hundreds of dollars. >> the suspects were basically extorting or taxing these individuals and i'm sure they have been doing it to more individuals that live in and around the apartment complex. they are basically extorting them every two weeks or $500 a month. they would go, knock on the door, said we want $500. they would pay it on top of paying their rent. >> reporter: the home invasion happened to the very same apartment complex where the gang members were caught on camera walking around boldly with guns and seen beating in a door. eight of the 16 home invasion suspects in i.c.e. custody are

facing charges. the remainder are under investigation and three suspects are still at large. republican aurora mayor mike coffman is blaming the migrant crisis in part on denver mayors. after saying he would temporarily house those from denver, he then said no at which point the mayor says the denver mayor worked with ngos to house migrants in aurora behind his back. >> he won't tell me how many people he sent over, he won't tell me what benefits he gave them, what promises he made. so we are going through open records request to get that information right now. >> reporter: we reached out to the office of denver's mayor for a responses evening and we are waiting to hear back. >> kevin: christina, stay on that for us, it's an important one. christina coleman, thank you so much. now to seattle where residents are absolutely,

positively fed up with homelessness and drug use on their streets. in fact one business owner says he's constantly fending off drug addicts who disrespect the neighborhood where his so long is set to open next month and he now plans to sue the city. let's bring in that salon owner, zazel wu. i just want to get your reaction first. thank you for spending time with us here tonight, we certainly appreciate it and i understand seattle used to be such a great town. it still is a great city but it has it's issues right now. i want to share a headline and get your reaction to this. this is a headline that says 50 northeast seattle businesses ask the mayor to address violent crime, reading in part, please deploy additional police resources and otherwise restore public safety to our part of town. please do more to end the reported gang and gun violence from our neighborhoods. please help our community. that is straightforward. what say you?

>> i'm not sure exactly what you are looking for but what i can tell you is that any large city is going to have a certain amount of crime, that's just a part of the city. but for this particular area close to the downtown area, the international district, little saigon, it's just become overwhelming. it's like it should not be there. it hasn't been there before but because of the fentanyl epidemic and the availability of methamphetamine, the people that are using these drugs have this false sense of, you know, nonaccountability. so they just think they can go over here and, you know, have recreational drugs, to it out in the open and they are taking advantage of the fact that the

seattle police department is understaffed and slightly underfunded. and the seattle police brothers and sisters in blue work very hard to try to secure the safety for everybody in seattle and these people, they come to the area because they know that they can freely participate in criminality. >> kevin: and that is always the challenge. i apologize, we have some breaking news on the hill so i will have to cut this short but i did want to hear your perspective because i think you are right, i think the city needs to do a much better job to protect the citizens and a small business owners like yourself. but also make an understanding for the people who see it from the outside of seattle that this is something that can be remedied if there is a commitment from leadership across the city and the state. zazel wu, we appreciate your time on a friday night, best of luck to you and yours. >> thank you very much.

>> kevin: thank you. congressional lawmakers are so close, ever so close to averting a government shutdown tonight. we will stay with it until the senate takes care of their part of the business and check back in with the senior congressional correspondent chad pergram, coming your way, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (♪) (♪) (♪) (♪) experience the magic of the season at santa's wonderland with a free photo with santa— a holiday tradition to treasure forever. bass pro shops and cabelas— your adventure starts here. (tony hawk) skating for over 45 years has taken a toll on my body. i take qunol turmeric because it helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. why qunol? it has superior absorption compared to regular turmeric. qunol. the brand i trust.

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>> kevin: the senate is ready to vote soon to avoid a government shutdown after the house passed a funding bill earlier today. back over to chad pergram on capitol hill. chad, what can you tell us? >> reporter: they are inching closer to getting to this roll call vote but they had this vote that they are right now and then probably the actual vote to fund the government and avoid the government shutdown. they are probably about two votes away and that means they will technically bleed past the deadline but they are going to fund this. the government will be funded by 12:30 even though they did not meet the mark. the senate majority leader indicated they would get this done before midnight but that is not the case. >> kevin: will not be the case. 15 seconds left in the show, may be about 15 minutes or so before they hit the floor for that final vote. chad, thank you. we thank you for watching america's late news, "fox news @ night". back at midnight everybody. 12

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