i would like to repeat what chuck schumer said about the process. mark my words you cannot do speed dating process for a cabinet for the president of united states without ending up embarrassed and with things discovered only through a deep investigation by the federal bureau of investigation. june with the ordinary processes been in the past with previous presidents? they would float the names to the fbi, of possible people for the cabinet for a cursory investigation to see if there's anything they missed in the initial look. >> the judiciary committee with the fbi room and make sure people serving the country in the highest position of real background and provide services to the country that is not too much to ask i can tell you privy many republican senators spoke to me and to fbi check in the moment say it publicly the reasons. in the process served well under previous administrations and they have to be honored. >> no not my first time and thank you so much and thank you to this incredible team and a chalk and corey and i we are both running fo

that's what hakeem jefferies and chuck schumer agreed to. and that bipartisan compromise is exactly what elon musk submarined because he did not want his own conflicts of interest to be affected, his own interests in the government with his own government contracts, and i got to tell you lawrence, it's scary that you have the world's wealthiest man who supported donald trump with nearly $300 million, is rumored to be ready to give donald trump a financial windfall by using his x company to purchase truth social, having so much influence, this is an unelected oligarch who appears to be running our government. >> so just to clarify, this is kind of a breaking news item, for me, anyway, i don't think it's been out there, that it's your understanding that the republicans put the congressional pay raise into this bill. >> yes, my understanding is that the republicans are the ones who want to pay themselves more. now, there's a good argument to be made for this, which is that there should be -- there could be a raise for members of congress becaus

two, the united states senate is controlled by democrats and democratic majority leader chuck schumer. anyone who understands that knows why the budget extension bill y negotiated by the republican speaker of the republican house includes compromises with democrats and chuck schumer. elon musk objected to those compromises in the bill, saying that any republican who votes for it should be voted out of office, that's how he began his day. and only hours after that, after elon musk led the way, only then did donald trump catch up with his apparent boss, elon musk, and join in objecting to the bill. republican speaker mike johnson was with donald trump and elon musk while he was negotiating the bill, he was with them constantly while he was negotiating that bill. mike johnson has stayed as close to them as possible to try to make sure that what m happened today would not happen, but you cannot stop chaos in the republican party. and would not have happened if donald trump were a rational person, but he is not, and so donald trump decided at the very last minute, after weeks of negotiatio

his staff made deals with chuck schumer, tried to jam us before christmas, a christmas present for chucknd he did it get. speaker johnson doesn't talk to his republicans most of the time. it's almost disrespectful where members the last second have a 1500 page bill and they expect them all to vote. maria: meanwhile, fox sources revealing that trump's team was actually in secret talks with senate majority leader chuck schumer for weeks in order to get the debt limit included in the bill. speaker johnson negotiated a separate spending deal with schumer regardless, we're told. lawmakers racing for plan c ahead of the shutdown deadline of midnight tonight. joining me now is new york congresswoman claudia tenney. congresswoman, good to see you. what can you tell us this morning. >> great to see you. look, i think speaker johnson has developed hide like an elephant to deal with all these people that are sabotages everything. i have 180-degree opinion than victoria sparks does. i respect all my colleagues. i don't like to disparage anyone. this is almost an impossible job. we do not control the

even though trump was talking to chuck schumer about this putting the debt ceiling issue on there.ahead of the shutdown deadline at midnight tonight indiana congresswoman victoria sparkz the commissioner of the u.s. commission on security and cooperation in europe, a member of the house judiciary and republican study committee's. it's good to see you. i want to talk to about a number of things including the fact that you said you will not caucus with the house republicans anymore. the ever problems of the republican leadership, you voted no on the spending bill, tell us why. >> is another example of the failure of leadership was speaker johnson, the circus has continued the act is not over but will wait should the american people know it will be over but unfortunately speaker johnson drove president trump into the circus he completely mishandled it he did not work with republicans, his staff chuck schumer tried to jam it in before christmas a bunch of christmas presents for chuck schumer and they continue to do it again. this is unfortunate the way that they are but this is an exam

i would like to repeat what chuck schumer said about the process. mark my words, you can't do a speed will have dating process forr the cabinet of the united states without ending up embarrassing and with things discovered only through a deep investigation by theov federal bureau of investigation. do you flow what the ordinary process lad been in the past with previous presidents, they would float the names of the fbi of possible people for the cabinet for cursory investigation to see if there's anything they missed in the initial look and then at that came up thumbs up, they would announce it publicly and deep, dark fbi investigation would ensue. the senate judiciary committee. they won't say it obviously for political reasons. the process previous generations has to be honored. >> senator klobuchar. >> not, my first time. one of four leadership leaders. >> thank you so much, chuck. to dick, corey and i were both running for president at one point. i will never do that to chuck on your leadership team. so i want to first of all, talk about what i h

der chuck schumer on the senate taking up a government funding bill. [indiscernible] senator schumer: ok. good evening, everybody. thank you for coming. so proud and glad to be joined by many of my judiciary committee colleagues, led by chair durbin. i know a lot is happening in the capital today and tonight, but we want to mark a historic moment here in the senate. today, we confirm the 235th judge more than any majority has confirmed in decades. this is historic and will have huge and positive implications for the american people for generations to come. now with the nation's newest 235th judge, we confirmed more judges under president biden than any administration in this century, more judges than any administration going back decades. one out of every 4 active judges on the bench has been appointed by this majority. one out of every world for. we have some of the most qualified and historic nominees ever confirmed in a 4-year span. one out of every four judges on the bench. i want to thank all the senators who work hard for these nominees. it was no

i also want to thank chuck schumer because getting through committee only gets you have to weigh. need to get the floor trying to get the votes, and nothing is more precious to a majority leader than floor time, so, chuck, dedicating the floor time to this project has really been significant. the last thing that i want to say is that this is a very significant achievement, and it is very good news because it means that in court after court after court coming and seeking justice, will get a fair and honest judge to hear that her case, but that does not mean that we can relax our vigilance. because if you have a billionaire-picked maga district judge in a republican billionaire-controlled circuit feeding to a captured supreme court that all needed junk shopping to run that maga pipeline, even the judicial conference has pushed back against the judge shopping into these maga pipelines, so we need to keep a careful eye e on the maga pipeline because that is where the special interests will go to get the decisions they know these judges will give them, and with that, let me turn it over

chuck schumer walked away from the table. so is chuck schumer that did this, not president trump. and unfortunately we have we have individuals now that's not listening to president trump by saying we've got to get rid of the debt limit now because they're going to use it against him for him to actually hit the agenda that the american people gave us november 5th. >> well, i don't want to say keystone cops, because that kind of like the keystone cops. i don't like what i'm seeing now. okay? i don't either. trump is trump is the most popular republican in the world, okay? in washington, in the world. and he should have real influence in how this goes. and you're right. i'm very sad about it. as much as i agree with the principle of what everyone is trying to do here. senator, thank you very much. all right. the white house's cover up, biden cover up is worse than anyone imagined. the details will shock you. yeah, they even shocked me. it's coming up. beep, beep. >> they're back. >> what do you think we were doing out here? >> goofing off. murray, chase. jeff and i returned for an a

>> good question, fox sources revealings trump's team was in secret talks with chuck schumer for weeksin order to get debt limit included speaker youngs negotiated separate deal with many schumer still, joining me bill hagerty member senate banking affairs foreign relationss proposes rules committee senator, great to see you where are we on all of this? >> we're waiting to see tremendous amount of motion in the house waiting here in senate certainly, chuck schumer controls senate better are the republicans in house a great deal of noise i understood j.d. vance,neath with freedom caucus as we speak, i hope those conversations are going well at a moment waiting to see. maria: well, i mean trump posted on truth social last night, the united states will cut hundreds of billions of dollars in spending next year through reconciliation. house freedom caucus chairman harris and florida senator rick scott send a letter to mike johnson incoming senate majority leader john thune intensifying two-step reconciliations process with more than 20 lawmakers would focus on border policy first, right aft

let's have the debate now, and we should patreained spending bill that does not giv chuck schumer and the democrats everything they would like. republicans would like to support farmers and set our y up for success at 2025. th way to do that is with the temporary funding bill without democrat giveaways. combined with an increase in the debt ceiling, anything else is a betrayal of our country. susan, tennessee, democrat. caller: a lot of people said what i wanted to say, actually. i don't know if anybody remembers trump shut the government down for the longest in history last time, and i swear, i heard them say they wanted to give themselves a raise. is that real? host: yes. as part of the deal that has died, that was a cost-of-living increase for lawmakers. th

i mean, it had chuck schumer i have been fighting chuck schumer on this censorship enterprise.obal engagement center that's funded in here. we thought we had killed it. chuck schumer got it back in here. this is essentially. >> laura: that's why he is smiling tonight. funded to censor conservatives. we should not be doing any of this stuff. we need real reform president trump is going it usher it in. this thing is a disaster. my hope is for the house start from square one and actually have fiscal responsibility. >> laura: a clean bill could be about 30 pages, maybe it. could be pretty easy. >> you don't need democrats for it. >> you don't need democrats. >> we don't need democrats. congress isn't used to doing this but we should be. again, we have been advocating for there so-to-be single subject spending bills. i was one of the 20 to help reset the house rules because of the reasoning. the fact is you have a lot of people. some members are getting threatened with committee assignment ifs they don't vote a kind of way that can't be tolerated especially now. >> can i make one po

as alumni of chuck schumer, chuck schumer, as he will be the minority leader still in a leadership rolesaid he's looking to become the resistance 2.0, using judicial appointments to stand in the way of the trump agenda. how do you see this unfolding? >> this is an example of a politician -- chuck schumer -- who knows how to wield power and has the caucus united behind h him. the judicial system, republicans have appointed a lot of justices. i don't know how successful that's going to be, but in this game, the leaders really need to have their caucuses behind them as they do battle. i think that's happening in the senate for republicans and democrats -- the house for democrats, but not the house for republicans. that's a divided house right now. you have a weak speaker, weaker than any i've ever seen at this point. it's not mike johnson's fault. brad hand. >> we have a fight coming. >> i think what we've got is the reality that conservatives put republicans in office in the house, senate, and white house, and this is a huge opportunity to lead and get to the business of the american peop

i'm happy to yield the podium now to leader chuck schumer. >> thank you speaker. happy holiday to one and all. i may have told the story at lastyear but i like it. we all put on our yarmulke so this is my yarmulke story pre-1990 was a congressman i was redistricted into queens. i was in a jewish neighborhood of queens getting to meet the voters a lady came over to me and said you were congressman schumer i sit yes i dread the queens tribune you are my congressman and i said yes i am part she said i would like to pay you a compliment. i've never met you in person but i watched c-span religiously. you are the only one and you have more courage than any four to 35 members of congress. some are no good but a lot are very good people what makes you say, of all the 435 have the most courage? she said well, you are the only one when you rise to your feet to speak with the courage to where a yarmulke. it's not a yarmulke. that's my yarmulke story. i could go on and on until jewish stories until the end of hanukkah two weeks from now for butit's great to be here. i want to

that is what chuck schumer has said publicly and people said he wants to do.sident trump is right but the question is how do we get there? the first bill negotiated was a nonstarter and once the people saw everything ends 1,550 pages. we moved the needle forward to a better billing you asked why did i oppose the bill last night? 38 opposed it because it came with two year extension of debt ceiling which would be $5 trillion lift and the credit card without structural spinning reforms. so our position is, mr. president we want to deliver for you on a debt ceiling increase to get it out of the way and chuck schumer can't abuse it, but we need spending restraints. what we have been doing for 48 hours is meeting with the vice president and meeting with a lot of folks incoming administration. i think we have the outlines of something that would work, that we are discussing as we speak. i think we can get something on that can make everybody happy and we are working hard to do it. >> john: talk about the outlines and a second that this debt ceiling and voting agains

chuck schumer has control of the gavel there. arthel: correct. but, i mean, isn't -- we have to to go now, but isn't that name of the game, compromise? republicans have to work with well democrats, democrats have to to work with republicans to get legislation done on behalf of the people. >> well, and and that's what we hope to. we hope hope to to put forward ideas that the can get across the party spectrums. hopefully, the partisanship goes away when we're doing the right thing for the american people which is lowering the debt limit and the levels of taxation, bringing our costs and interest rates down. those are things we're working towards doing. hose are the proposals that are going to come forward in the new year and, hopefully, we have a lot more mag ninety in the years ahead across washington and people will be working together more. arthel: lowering the debt limit or the amount of spending, i should say, without cutting too many programs that many americans depend on. >> we need to, we need if to put common sense forward. there's a lot o

you interviewed chuck schumer about how he is preparing for a second trump administration. they see the judiciary as the strongest check against him. joe biden has confirmed or appointed more judges than anybody in recent memory. so certainly leaving his imprint and his legacy on the judiciary as well. what is chuck schumer worried about the most, how confident is he that his judiciary or the judiciary that will be in place once biden leaves office will be able to be a bull work to trump's second term? >> the thing he is worried the most about with what donald trump is going to do, he listed basically everything. he listed everything that you could possibly think of that democrats would want to defend and protect. he is worried about any rollbacks to the legislation that they pass over the last four years. really in the first two years. and he really does believe that the judiciary, they kind of help to mold and create. he talked about a fourth of the judges on the bench will be joe biden judges which is quite a few people. that will be the tip of the spear of the resistanc

so it's chuck schumer that did this. not president trump.nfortunately we have -- we have individuals now that is not listening to president trump by saying we got to get rid of the debt limit now because they are going to use it against him for him to actually hit the agenda that american people gave us november 5th. >> well, i don't want to say keystone cops because that kind of like the keystone cops. i don't like what i'm seeing now. >> i don't either. >> laura: trump is the most popular republican in the world. okay? in washington and world. and he should have real influence in how this goes. and. >> you are right. >> i'm very sad about it. as much as i agree with the principle of what everyone is trying to do here. senator, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> laura: the white house's cover-up. biden cover-up is worse than anyone imagined. the details will shock you, yeah. they even shocked me. it's coming up. ♪ red history, shared values, and a shared vision for what we can achieve together. stable and secure, when the world around us

w it was impossible for donald trump and elon musk to make a deal without negotiating with chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate, and president biden. there is no deal in washington now. without president biden's signature. something elon musk apparently doesn't know. but still, donald trump said, quote, speaker mike johnson and the house have come to a very good deal for the american people. that's what he said earlier today. republican speaker of the house mike johnson obviously rolesed that both elon musk and donald trump are legislatively insane. decided to let the insane and impossible musk-trump bill come to a vote in the house tonight. >> this is washington. this is how the -- lawmaking is done. it's a long process. sometimes it takes a while to reach consensus. but we're going to do the right thing here tonight. >> no, no, no. that o,was not how lawmaking wa done. mike johnson knew when he was saying that that the legislatively insane musk-trump bill was going to fail spectacularly. when the house voted a few minutes later. after a relentless 24 hours of pressure fro

he has to, had to navigate, try to get through chuck schumer and joe biden. that this next year, while it's going to be very difficult, i think he at least has one year of experience under his belt and, look, if donald trump is going to support mike johnson, then he is going to be the speaker. i think that he has -- this last week the promising change that turned is when he started engaging members, bringing us into the fold, bringing us into some of the discussions and negotiations. look, you've got to get early buy-in from the people who were elected, not pass bills that are a basically written by your staff. mike: congressman eric burleson from missouri, thank you for waiting around to chat. have a wonderful day, sir. >> merry christmas. mike: merry christmas. and we'll be right back. ♪ for more than a decade farxiga has been trusted again and again, and again. ♪far-xi-ga♪ ♪far-xi-ga♪ ask your doctor about farxiga. big news for mahomes! i'm switching to iphone 16 pro at t-mobile! it's built for apple intelligence. that's like peanut butter on jelly... on g

now, on the surface, joe manchin and chuck schumer appear to have little in common.rooklyn, where you can walk past 400 people before breakfast. joe's family on his father's side traces the lineage to italy. much of my family comes from galicia in modern day ukraine. while joe got a scholarship to play football at west virginia university, he was going to be a great star until he was injured, i was cut from the college basketball team on day one. coach asked could i dribble. i said it's not my strong suit, sir. he said go home. beneath the surface, however, joe and i have unexpected common links. we both have grandparents whose lives were shaped in dramatic ways by union life. my grandfather helped his employees form a union in utica. while his grandfather sadly was fired for trying to organize a union in farmington. both were small business owners. joe's dad took over a family grocery store where joe worked much of his early years. while my dad ran an exterminating business. both families found home in communities where everyone knew your name and hard times forced

it's desirable not in economic terms but political terms and could conceivably giver senator chuck schumer added power through the certification of the presidential election on januarp to the inauguration on january 20. schumer democrats are diabolical and entity don't know what happens if you leave them in charge even for a couple more weeks. it would allegedly cut $2.5 trillion in federal spending over the course of reconciliation bills yet to be determined next year. this exercise of extending funding and unpredictable, and i believe it's a leagued indicator of the potential problems the gop may encounter next year if they continue to casually believe that they can pass numerous reconciliation bills in 2025. resent polling and that polling shows nearly half of all voters think we're in a recession. more than four fifths worry about inflation and 35% of voters say it's most important for tram top secure the boarder and right behind 26% say continuing growth by making trump tax cuts permanent. trump tax cut 2.0 wildly popular. ending taxes on times for service workers and 64% favor ending

i called chuck schumer who i knew, hillary clinton who i knew. uck was the first one to respond to my call. i said i need liability legislation. can you help me? he said larry, you are entitled to it, i have known you for years, you are a good guy, i will get this for you. i said i appreciate it. next thing i know hillary clinton calls back, i told her the conversation i just had with chuck. she said larry, if he tells you he is to get it for you, he will get it. but if you need my help in any way, call, because i am therefore you. the two of them were terrific. so the first move was to find a group of political advisors who can represent our interests and pave the way for meetings with meters of the house, the senate, and the white house. host: lobbyists. larry: lobbyists. and so everybody we went to already had contacts that were representing people, therefore it was a conflict of interest for them. we finly found oneroup, quinn and gillespie. jack quinn, who was former counsel for bill clinton when he was president, and ed gillespie. host: form

chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and kamala harris are terrified of. you. joe biden well, no, he's actually not terrified. you know where he is. but he is wondering what time the people's court is on tv. if you look at what happened in november, the results of the election, the election were clear and, unequivocal. seven battleground states across. we won all. seven. and i've got to say, donald trump is truly extraordinary leader. has there ever been anyone in american history who, after being shot in the head, stands up, responds, fight, fight, fight. the american people have given us the white house, they've given us the they've given us the senate. now it's time for us to deliver. we have worked to do to deliver on our promises. so a year from now, two years from now, four years from now, the american can say they did exactly what they said they would do. number one, starting on 20th, we will secure the border. catch and release ends on. january 20th. if you are an illegal alien, if you're a murderer, if you're a rapist, if you're a child molester, if yo

he gave his farewell address to the senate earlier today and certainly chuck schumer. and then we will get to that actual roll call vote. and actually, the reason i think this might go just a little bit faster right now, kevin, than i thought a few minutes ago, as i look off to the side here at the at the floor is that they get everybody on the floor. once you get everybody onto the floor, they can vote a little bit more quickly. it's 100 senators. they vote vocally. there's no electronic card. they either put their thumb up or down, or you hear them call the name and somebody hollers from the back of the chamber if they're a yea or nay. so it's a little more organic the way they do that in the senate compared to the house of representatives. and sometimes it takes longer, even though there's fewer members, simply because it takes a long time to get everybody, all 100 people in the room at the same time. kevin. >> great stuff there. chad. thank you. we'll touch base with you again, and i'm hopeful that maybe we can get this wrapped up here sooner than later. and of cou

we have two chuck schumer's chuck schumer's deal to the white house was in on it.t's the white house's deal, too. there's an obligation to both parties to keep the government open. and last i checked, two of the three negotiating parties here were controlled by democrats. so they've got to come to the table and make this deal more palatable for republicans and so that we can pass it through the house. that's just how congress works. and it's sexy to talk about the tweets or the posts or whatever you want to call it. but in the end, chuck schumer and joe biden have to step up here and make a deal with mike johnson that can pass. >> look, in the immortal words of spinal tap, what's wrong with being sexy? but bakari, to you here, do you think democrats should do anything at this point? politically speaking that listen, americans are getting a good reminder right now that republicans can't govern. >> i mean, whether or not you're talking about repeal and replace obamacare, whether or not you're talking about the four years of the donald trump presidency that we're just

in february, chuck schumer was lying to the american people saying he has not lost a step in years. they did not state after the debate either when it was clear to everyone, only after the election when he could no longer affect the ability to claim power, that you start to get some of the real story the american people can see from the beginning. i have to remind all of our viewers, joe biden is still president tonight. we have another month of joe biden, he may be forgotten but he is not gone. this tied into this debate we see over government funding right now, donald trump is the president-elect. people are still going to him trying to get guidance, trying to put together a compromise bill to fund our government, not to joe biden the actual president, wears joe biden? trying to get his party, which controls the senate for another two weeks to pass legislation to fund our government. you have seen this for four years, joe biden has been an absent president in american people suffering for. >> without a doubt, you brought up the spending bill so i want to pull this out from one of

everything that he wanted and ended it this year as kevin is suggesting then chuck schumer would getn in new spending and president trump does not want that in an ideal world we get a final negotiation and we would be in agreement and we would spend less money, you don't have that with a democrat run senate and joe biden the white house it's all about changes next year when president trump comes in and we get a republican senate. were having talks on a regular basis with president trump is well aware of the dynamic and ultimately what speaker johnson negotiates will be done in conjunction with president trump and we will be walking and chewing gum at the same time. in january unlike 2017 this time around we are in sync with president trump on the agenda starting day one in january we're going to be working on border security, on energy security getting a good budget resolution, moving quickly were having discussions and will tax be in that package, that's an ongoing negotiation but ultimately we will do tax and energy important security and rules and regulation all in the first 100 d

i have been fighting chuck schumer on enterprise.obal in the engagement center, chuck schumer got up at> me and here. >> laura: that is why he is smiling. >> planted to censor conservatives and we should not be doing any of this stuff. president trump, this is ahe disaster so my hope is in and theyactu start from square one actually have physical responsibility. >> laura: ca cleaou bn bill coe be about 30 pages maybe? it could be pretty easy. you don't need democrats. >> we don't need democrats and congress isn't used to doingng this but we should be. s we have been advocating no single subject spending bills a you know, lord to reset the house rules because of this is reason. at the fact is you have a lot of people andme m we know some mems are gettinsig threatened with community assignments if they don't vote a certain type of way and that cannot be tolerated, especially nowt?. >> and i make a point? we have a process on the floor to debate things. c >> laura: there is never a debate. >> chuck schumer spent zero time on the senate

new york senator chuck schumer is urging federal authorities to deploy special detection equipment that uses radio waves to spot the size and speed of drones. and stewart international airport about an hour outside new york city, temporarily closed its runways after several reported drone sightings in the area. this after men in boston were facing charges after police say they flew a drone dangerously close to logan airport. federal officials say there is no evidence of a threat from the drones but a growing course of lawmakers are calling on the government to do more. jay o'brien leads us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, federal authorities now deploying additional resources to solve a high flying mystery after a rash of reported drone sightings across the northeast. the fbi tonight saying they're processing roughly 5,000 drone related tips but less than 100 have generated credible leads. >> some of those drone sightings are in fact drones. some are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. but there's no question that drones are being sighted. >> reporter: tonight. two

senate majority leader chuck schumer and several other senators also offered their tributes for the outgoingawmaker. senator is stepping down from his position at the end of the congressional term. >> today one of the most beloved

and there is always a chance chuck schumer puts together his observe clean funding billing to try roll the senate republicans. senate works slow and could still see a mini shutdown. we have no idea what is going to happen the next few hours here. >> brian: aishah, in your estimates, when that vote went to the floor, was there a sense -- >> -- no. >> surprised by the outcome or knew it was dead. >> people knew it wasn't going to pass when leader jeffries came out and said democrats would not be voting for it. we knew there would be people like chip roy, thomas massi and some others that weren't going to vote for it. you know the house republicans have a slim majority. what we did not expect, no one saw coming, i'm not sure if speaker johnson even knew that it was going to be such a high amount of house republicans. once it started shooting up toward the 20 and 30 nos that's when you knew this was not good. >> steve: aishah, the 38 republicans who voted no. they had a good reason. they went to congress to try to control spending. and what they said squishy bill didn't have a lifting of t

listen to what chuck schumer said this morning, forecasting the democratic position as to where they stand in these negotiations. >> if republicans do not work with democrats in a bipartisan way very soon, the government will shut down at midnight. it is time to go back to the original agreement we had just a few days ago. it is time the house votes on our bipartisan cr. if the house but the original agreement on the floor today, it would pass and we could put the threat of a shutdown behind us. >> that demonstrates the chasm between republicans and democrats with democrats suggesting they would go back to the original deal, that is a nonstarter with republicans and donald trump, and elon musk, who is a part of these negotiations. it is not clear what the pathway forward is. to be abundantly clear to our viewers at home, the republicans cannot do this without democrats and democrats cannot do this without republicans. if the government avoids a shutdown today is because they came together and came up with a solution that both of them can agree upon. >> ryan nobles, let's see if that

i told chuck schumer, you have already told me your game plan if you get majority leader and you have 51 democrat, you will get rid of it. because i am not going to be there and what kyrsten sinema is not going to be there. we voted against it and saved it. now i think you are happy because republicans have total control. so you like it now. but if you get control, you do it again. i am hoping they can basically solidify that or harden it, if you will, and protect it more. host: a couple of themes. in the speech you talked about your book. what is the name of your book? sen. manchin: "almost heaven." host: that is logical for west virginia. the vote, there was almost a character in your life story, you referenced it. sen. manchin: everybody has been there. i tried to get almost every senator. host: but what role has played in your success? sen. manchin: when i said, we are going to have some ribs tonight and spaghetti tonight and we're going to have hotdogs or whatever, we will take a little cruise, you guys will be around on friday? we will take a little cruise, and we would get demo

also a special call to leader chuck schumer who has given and throughout these 14 months offered his -- his wisdom and his trust, his friendship, and i am deeply, deeply grateful. mr. president, what i know is that i stand on the floor of this senate -- of the senate as a 14-month senator, but my road to justice and the pursuit of justice has been much longer than 14 months. i know that i only stand here because of the men and women, the working families of sciu and our labor movement. and i couldn't end this term without thanking them for sharing me and inviting me into their stories of courage and hope for what is possible in our great country, and i want them to know that i carry their stories with me. i carry their families with me in my head and in my heart here in the senate and where ever it is that i go. mr. president, in my final few minutes, i want to end my time in the senate the way that i began it on this floor i gave my first speech talking with and about america's now generation. our young leaders, future members of congress, carpenters, plumbers, firefighters, nurses,

that was followed by senate democrats weekly news conference with majority leader chuck schumer. he was joined by the two newly sworn in democratic senators adam schiff of california and andy kim of new jersey. >> move forward with an agenda hope give the country back comes economy and each tell you, that we have a schedule which i think you've seen sprinting aggressive in terms of days we will be here but his hands moving forward with an agenda that will help get the country back on track when it comes to the economy, when it comes to energy, national security, when it comeses to the border. you expect us to be moving forcefully and aggressively forward with an agenda that addresses those concerns. concerns on which the american people voted in this last election. i can tell you, we have a schedule, it is a pretty aggressive schedule for the number of days that we will be here. it stands inee stark contrast to the way the democrats have run the senate for the last couple of years. if you look at where we are today, so much unfinished business. the national defense authorization

in february, four months before joe biden's calamitous debate performance, chuck schumer was lying tothe american people, saying he hasn't lost a step in years. they didn't say it after the debate, either, when it was clear to everyone it was only after the election when it could no longer affect their ability to cling to power, that you start to get some of the real story the american people could see from the beginning. and, kayleigh, i have to remind all of our viewers, joe biden is still president, still president. tonight we've got another month of joe biden. he may be forgotten, but he's not gone. and that's tied in to this debate we see over government funding right now. donald trump is the president elect, but people are still going to him trying to get guidance, trying to put together a compromise bill to fund our government, not to joe biden, the actual president. where's joe biden been all week long trying to get his party, which controls the senate for another two weeks, to pass legislation to fund our government? you've seen this for four years. joe biden has been an abse

chuck schumer is telling "politico" he is ready to fight. he says this.w exactly what trump will do, but i can tell you this, the judiciary will be one of our strongest, if not our strongest barrier against what he does. can chuck schumer in the minority, democrats, anybody, stand up and really affect stopping what is coming? >> i think they will try. but i don't think they will have much success and why it was so important that the house remain in republican control and the senate now be flipped to republican control. there is a large majority in the senate which will hinder schumer's ability to block anything from trump. they may get up on television and use the legacy media as their mouthpiece to espouse the law. >> he hasn't even set foot into the oval office yes and talking about blocking him as if he is the enemy of the people. >> i'm not worried about schumer and trump. they were laughing and have a great relationship. president trump is so wise to negotiate strongly with schumer and put him in his place like he did with nancy pelosi. >> griff: you

i know some of our friends in the press question why you bring those bills to the four if you chuck schumer and the democrat run senate won't even take the bill up? president biden issues a a veo threat on bills to lower energy costs or to secure america's border. why waste the time bringing it? we said it's not a waste of time because number one shows the american people how to fix these problems but it lays out the roadmap so if we do get the house, senate and white house in january which we now have come this made it from the american people, that we will have already started the process to show the country how we can get it done so that we can start moving in january to address these problems and, in fact, we didn't wait until the election to start addressing these problems. we have for months and months and over a year and half really put that were in so we will be ready to go to work day one in january for the american people to address these problems that has been plaguing them that were created by joe biden and kamala harris that will be fixed when donald trump becomes president wit

i want to thank my great friend, senator chuck schumer and his extraordinary team, extraordinary team. chuck loves the united states senate, and he loves our country with every bone in his body. and i'm so appreciative of his leadership and tireless work and friendship. what i announced my retirement nearly two years ago, i thought i was ready to -- i said i was ready to pass the torch to a new generation of leaders and i couldn't be prouder to pass the torch to michigan's new senator-elect elissa slotkin. i snow she will have the -- i know she will have the heart and the talent for this job, and will do great things for our state and our country. i thought long and hard about how to express my gratitude to the smartest, hardworking staff that i could ever have imagined. truly my success comes from their amazing efforts. over 500 bright, talented professional staff have worked for me over the past 50 years. that's unbelievable. many of them for decades and that doesn't include countless volunteers and interns. i want you to know -- interns are everywhere. the staff are everywhere. i w