they can start writing the trillion dollar omnibus bill that will fund the government. what is important to remember is that the bill that was just past is not a full year spending bill. this is the budget deal that has been needed to get past so they can start to write the full year spending bill. there is a lot important legislative policy items in this bill. that is why rand paul did take a stand. he did not want to forget that there is a massive debt ceiling increase. we do not know how much exactly that will ultimately cost. there is a host of programs that will be authorized, including children's health insurance program, community health centers. there's a whole range of tax extenders both on the medicare and energy side. these are multibillion-dollar packages that were not able to get through on the floor as stand-alone. there was an $89 billion disaster package, the largest stand-alone bill for disaster aid that congress has ever passed. this is the biggest fiscal package since at least 2009 and republicans did not even vote for this under obama. now we have a

will they be able to come together quickly and passed this omnibus bill? >> i think they will wait until the last minute. it takes a while to write these bills. you have had appropriations committees in charge of 12 separate bills. they have not been able to make much progress without knowing how much congress can spend this year. this is an abnormal year. the house passed its own bill on the floor at a number they essentially decided. this was not something confirmed into law. the numbers we now see, 300 billion above the sequester. now appropriate or get to work and say we have this much more money. they say it's easier to add money then subtract money. they think it will be a faster process that it may have otherwise been if they had had to deal with sequester cuts. they are going to need this full six-week period to get to work on the large spending bills, about $1 trillion omnibus. >> the president's budget is expected. what will it look like? >> it comes out monday. there are no plans to delay this. it will be coming out on monday. it will be a massi

host: will the president sign any sort of omnibus bill that gets passed before march 23? guest: he has indicated that he would could . a lot can happen in the next six weeks. we did not see much about the border wall or border security and the latest budget deal or short-term spending bill. immigration will be taking hold on capitol hill next week. leader mcconnell set that debate up in the wee hours of friday. we will see all of next week consumed on the immigration debate. we could see president trump bringing up the border bill shortly after that. host: 67 republicans in the house voted no. 16 republicans in the senate voted no last night. who are those no votes and are they likely to vote no again on the trillion dollar omnibus bill? guest: a lot of the republicans who voted against this don't vote for the omnibus bill anyway. and the senate, we had a large amount of so-called budget hawks. members who have been trying to get mandatory spending under control for some time now. in the house, you have some of the conservatives you would expect to oppose this. the house

here we are with another c.r., c.r., c.r., omnibus. that's why something we put in here that i feel passionate about is having a budget process reform dialogue. we had a one-sided dialogue in the house with republicans. we need to get the senate involved in a conversation so we can actually have an budget and appropriations process that works. the house passed all of its appropriation bills this year before the deadline in september. we are doing our work here but the senate has a different system. and as much as we are frustrated by that system, it isn't working and we have a joint select committee between republicans and democrats and senators and house members to figure out how to fix this budget process so it works much more smoothly in the future. reporter: the tax cuts are starting to kick in now and this bill will put the deficit over a trillion dollars this year and probably next year. these are supposed to be good times. are the times going to be that good to close that deficit? the speaker: by the way, economic growth is one

still some hurdles, don't get me wrng, that we would have to go through here, some lots of words like omnibus andmore continuing resolutions but the upshot would be to avoid a shutdown this week and potentially extend those spending levels for up to two years which could save us at least until september from this governing by crisis lurching from one continuing resolution to the next. so, the challenge might be in the house of representatives they're going to need support from democrats to get this done. nancy pelosi is going to have to help. and that of course, conservative republicans know and they've been a little bit worried about this deal potentially blowing up obviously these budget caps that were designed to enforce their priorities. mark meadows seemed to acknowledge when he was on "morning joe" they may have lost this round. take a look -- >> we've had some very, very contentious conversations in the last 24 hours because honestly it puts us at odds with some in our own party, not just democrats. today is not going to necessarily be a good news day for those that are deficit and fis

what they have to do now, is 2018, what washington refers to as an omnibus.ll the spending bills in one bill. they will try to pass that by march 23 for the continuing resolution -- before the continuing resolution runs out. they have agreed to spending levels for 2019. "the new york times" has this chart put together for where the 2 sides agreed to on defense and nondefense spending. democrats want more domestic spending and the military funding increased, higher than it has been under these continued resolutions. republicans wanted the military spending up as well. it would contribute to rising deficits and debt. according to preliminary analysis, the debt has surpassed $1 trillion by 2019, not seen since the recession. barbara in pennsylvania, democrat, hi. caller: hello. host: you are on the air. caller: three points. rand paul was on the spot. if they appoint people to check where the money is going out that we don't need, looking for things that don't count, we can get all that money back and pay off the debt. should becomee citizens. the puerto ricans

this cap steel, providing for the omnibus deal, not a cr, which we seem to do aud naseum. >> and we arering that the mueller team is likely to meet with steve bannon next week. bannon was expected to show up, he was subpoenaed to show up or his subpoena was agreed to to get him to show up before the senate intelligence committee. and that is still being negotiated with white house objections. should the focus now be on him going in front of -- bannon going in front of mueller and dealing with that? which is less partisan, obviously? >> yeah, i guess my argument to this, andrea, is this. i don't know what the status of the bannon situation is. he may or may not appear in front of the committee today, but we are talking about the tax reform and jobs. and as we are talking about the memos, this is self-inflicted. this is not something the president did, this came out of the house where we created this whole issue, distracting from the message that our leadership is telling us to focus on, which is the economy, jobs, tax reform and talk about memos again. and we're caught up under all the m

impeached in the house on certain counts of prior conduct, seven counts while on the bench and one omnibus count and the senate 150 years ago convicted this judge on all of the counts while on the bench, and the omnibus, but acquitted on the prior counts and on first blush it looked like you could not be impeached by prior conduct. and i asked the staff to look at what the senate spoke about the verdicts and what they had to say. >> majority of those who spoke and not all did, but a majority who spoke said they believed you could be impeached on prior conduct, but the quality of the proof on the prior acts was insufficient. so, they voted to acquit not because they didn't think it was constitutional, but because they thought the proof inadequate. the long and short of it is,the senate eight to ten years ago convicted this judge on the prior and post counts as well as for lying during his-- and the other thing that's quite apparent, there's a legal standard of what meets a high crime and misdemeanor, whether the elements of the potential offense do you even need an offense, but then there's

-- or is it an omnibus type of approach? >> what the president is hoping to do under the infrastructure law is allow it to be targeted to help veterans. the bill is an idea, not a reality. if we can do that through, we'll be open to lots of discussion. >> outstanding. i wanted to talk to you about the efforts to eradicate hep c and the population you are referring to. it's a fairly audacious undertaking yet you seem confidence -- confident that you are close to doing so. can you talk about the methodology? specifically what drugs or drug companies are you working with? >> first of all, what we have done is we are proactively reaching out. the drugs now have a 90% cure rate. we have team of pharmacists that we have trained. that are reaching out to veterans, calling the men, explaining what the options are. and overseeing the compliance program. these are not one time drugs, you have to use them over the course of a couple months. i think that's what's different. i have run hospitals and some of your states -- hospitals in so

people back home don't understand what crs are and omnibus. i'm going to create a dictionary one day for all thing a nice ia never heard of before. reconciliation, i never knew what reconciliation was. vote-o-rama. these are silly manifestations of a crowd in washington that created this that just doesn't work. >> in rhode island, if i had to compare concerns i hear about medicaid, medicare, social security, against concerns i have hear about the debt or the deficit, it's probably 90-1. it just is not a big public concern. if you confront people with it, they'll say, oh, yeah, that seems like a lot. part of the problem i think is that for a lot of folks, the debt and deficit discussion, particularly since it seems to be turned on and off depending on whether the democrat's in h the white house or not, has an overlay of this isn't for real to it, it has an overlay of, oh, this is just politics, oh, every time they say deficit it's because they want to come after my social security, oh, every time they say deficit, it's because they want to come

program in the omnibus bill. what it will do is provide in-depth assessment of physical facilities, using things like crime prevention through environmental design, looking at those things and also training students, teachers, police officers, what are the telltale signs of these individuals who commit mass murder, what can we look for? third is the setup, and anonymous tip line for students and teachers to bring that information to the knowledge of law enforcement. in my own mind as a sheriff, i served with sheriff israel in broward county. i was sheriff up in do fall. i wonder how much his agency provided information from these tips that the fbi were aware of. and the january 5th information. neil: apparently fell into vapor at the fbi, we are still waiting for this press conference that might or might not bob mueller the investigator. this indictment against 13 russian nationals and russian entities for their involvement in the 2016 election. what do you make of that? >> robert mueller is doing his job, specia

after 180 crs in the last 44 years, we end up in an omnibus. that is not acceptable. >> the thing about the two of you, give us an insider sense of what it is like to be on the budget committee because the way i picture a budget is with my nonprofit where i didn't deliver to my board a budget ahead of time, i wouldn't have a job. >> we did a budget and 15 that lasted four months and do a reconciliation and then used reconciliation twice or three time since then so who are we kidding here, the budget process is not producing a product. >> are you kidding yourselves? you go to meetings and pretend you're making a budget you are going to stick to or do you not have meetings? >> you get 5 minutes, we had a witness, i knew what the answers were going to be. we got those in question so i made a comment, got through and 15 minutes later sen. whitehouse gave his comments. he should have given mine. we do the same thing. it creates a lot of the partisanship i believe, looking at this from the outside, we start in january, supposed to have a budget by ap

budget of 2017 which we passed and in this budget of 2018 where we will be debating was called an omnibus, the details of the budget agreement we came to make sure there are severe cuts to the number of employees in epa, obviously and imagine i would disagree with this. i don't think they're doing the country a service by eliminating to many of these regulations. >> thank you. should individuals who enlist in the military be guaranteed a certain path to citizenship? >> the broad issue of immigration reform, one of the moments i was proudest of in the senate was when john mccain, great man and we pray for his health and i led the so-called gang of eight, four democrats, four republicans, pretty broad range of views in terms of ideology and we put together a comprehensive immigration reform and that was a very, very fine bill that did most of the things you hear 80% of the people talking about. we want a path to citizenship for our people. we want secure borders. we want to admit some of the people from abroad who come here and study in science, we want to let them they here because they ca

have endeavored in the budget of 2017 which past and in this budget of 2018 will be debating the omnibus which is the details we came to to make sure there aren't cost to the number of employers obviously mitch and i would disagree with this but i don't think pruitt is doing the country a disservice by eliminating too many or many of these regulations. >> thank you. should individuals who enlist in the military be guaranteed a certain accelerated pass to citizenship? >> well, the broad issue of immigration reform in one of the moments i was promised of in the senate was when john mccain who is a great man we pay for his health and i led the so-called gang of eight, four democrats and four republicans, broad range abuse and ideology at my put together a comprehensive immigration reform and that was a very, very fine bill that did most of the things you hear 80% of the people talking about. we wanted to path to citizenship for our people and we wanted secure borders and we want to admit some of the people from abroad come here and study in science and want to let them stay here because the

now that we got the budget done last week and we're starting to draft the omnibus or the appropriationsl to fund the department of homeland security and things like that, these are votes that should be taken side by side -- >> really quickly. sorry to interrupt. is it okay with you this lack of commitment to have a bill come to the house floor? >> well, i've been told, and the speaker has made it clear, that he wants to have a vote on immigration. and what that vote is going to be -- >> you hit the's guaranteed? >> it's hard for me to say whether something is guaranteed or not. i would have liked to have seen a vote months ago because the longer we don't do something, the more uncertainty that, you know, 1.2 million young men and women have to deal with. >> you are a current member of the house intelligence committee, so i have to ask you about the president's decision not to declassify the democrat's memo. president trump said he's heeding the advice of the fbi and doj by not releasing the memo. but he didn't do the same with the republican memo. is it a double standard? >> i don't thi

hearing from my sources is that one potential possibility is that at the ends of march, there's a big omnibushey could put 7.6 billion or a little more in border wall funding along with an extension for three years of protection for dreamers. and i've talked to even some democratic members and they say they would get behind that. they would swallow their pride and vote for that border wall funding in exchange for, you know, giving protection to these dreamers and having them to reassure that they won't get deported anytime soon. >> so yesterday we saw president trump say away from backing any specific gun control proposals. why haven't we seen a full endorsement of the president of any specific gun control measures, whether it be age restrictions or background checks or what have you? >> i think president trump doesn't want to let down his base. he even said yesterday, we shouldn't get too afraid of the nra. we have to fight them once in a while. but it doesn't seem like he's actually doing that in this case. he's worried that his base would be mad at him if he, you know, supported some commo

they have to do what's called here in washington and omnibus spending biel -- deal where they tie appropriations into one big hill and that is looking -- slated to come to the floor next month and this could be something that is attached to it. ron in texas, you are a parent. good morning to you, ron. caller: good morning. my name is ron, i live in texas. you are talking about the shooting. a look backward that our history of america. we all make decisions, you included, based on information given us what kind of information are we given? we have two forces in this world, one is satan, which causes hate and the other is christ, which is love. which one are we given every day, every day on television? get your bible down, get your family together, find out what god wants us to do. instead, we are spewed hate all the time and we wonder why our society is going crazy like it is. it is terrible. if the people on television, congressmen, senators, anyone in front of the cameras would tell the american people, you want to solve your problems? startur bibles and studying your bible, start going to chur

at this point there's republicans and people in capitol hill who are trying to look at the omnibus comingate march which would miss that march 5th deadline but that isn't really a real deadline. they're trying to put an extension to daca. one of the senators i was talking to is three years or more. it's the next election cycle. maybe it's a way of getting around president trump. it's not clear. you can't really get around is just an indication that there is panic around this. they don't want it to go away but they don't have a way of doing this in a comprehensive independent way. >> it's classic moves by congress unable to act unless there's real pressure so we'll see what happens with that. >>> up next, a taste of tomorrow's headlines today including house speaker ryan's popul popularity contest and how it's splitting the house into factions. he gets to be the fun one? ♪ who's the fun one now? made with real cream. reddi-wip. instant greatification. made with real cream. it's ok that everyone ignores it's fine. drive. because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident

any correlation between the shutdown in a state and the money goes back to the state, or is it an omnibus type approach? >> right now under current law the money goes back to the u.s. treasury. >> perfect. >> so what the president is hoping to do under the infrastructure law is to allow it to be targeted to help veterans. and if we can get that through, as you know, the infrastructure bill is an idea, not a reality. but if we can get that through, i think then we'd be open to lots of discussions about how we can use that money locally. >> outstanding. i wanted to talk to you about the efforts to eradicate hepatitis c in the population you're referring to. it's a fairly audacious junt undertake and you seem confident you're close to doing to. can you talk to us about that? was it done initially as a pilot? what drugs or drug companies are you working with? i'd be curious as to how you've undertaken that. >> first, what we've done is -- and we're doing this all in suicide. we're proactively reaching out. we're not waiting for people to come to us and say we heard you have a new drug that ca

so that we will have a process that leads to a budget and stops this continuing resolution and omnibus and not doing what we were sent here to do. that is to control our spending and be responsible to the american people. trish: representative, you pushed for this. you have taken this own as your mantle. what do you hear from colleagues there? what is the response? reality, you guys got to keep getting elected. it is not easy. if you say i will take something away from constituents, that doesn't go over well. you've got to face reality being there to get anything done. so what do they tell you? >> yeah, so two things i want to say. when we did the sequester a number of years ago, i was new here to congress when that happened, the sequester really hit the military. we know over the years this has been very detrimental to them. we're not seeing we're ready. readiness for the troops is not there, training and equipment. we can't expect our men ranked women to go off to war without giving them providing things that will keep them safe and get them back home. that is number one. number two,

this is a big omnibus federal legislation that governs everything from programs to student loans to sexual harassment policy to work-study and everything in between. it is a good time to be talking about the higher education act. congress only does this about once every 10 years. it has been 10 years since the last time. a lot is at stake both from a financial standpoint and a regulatory standpoint. i am going to talk about a couple things. one is information and data and the other is new models to help students get better jobs. the -- younow, establish these universities, you pay for them and the federal government comes in after you loans soand provides students can go to college. at the graduate level, a lot of the research money comes from the federal level. both the state and federal government have a common interest and that is information. what are we getting as taxpayers for all that money? students graduating and getting jobs. getting jobs? can they pay their loans back? this is surprisingly hard information to come by, sometimes. the reason is we have a national market for higher

it is rare that you find a piece of writing that discusses the omnibus trade and competitiveness act of the clinton impeachment and i rub it off in more in this book. in bill's open that there are two kinds of people. he said ira is one model and i am of the other. remarks today did what i'd like to do is spend time reflecting thoughts of my own about what i see as the primary driver and toward the end of turn to key areas that i think we need to focus on going if the senate will go going forward. ira, if you in the senate rests within senate leadership. does up where he says the senate's inability to overcome parties is that leaders make about how to run the senate and use senate that have contributed in which we find ourselves but i wanted about the environment those leaders found themselves in. for small. on which i refocuses the eloquently the press spends time discussing the degree to which we seen the disappearance of moderate republicans and of's demise much harder to achieve. one data point to illustrate this if we turn to go find this workforce measure measuring ideology the

but congress is going to have to be back on march 23rd to approve what we call an omnibus funding billtually does cut the checks. so we'll see that come march 23rd. >> we know, molly, that democrats wanted assurances on daca here, nancy pelosi looking to paul ryan for assurances that they're going to debate daca. what more are we hearing on that. what assurances do we have that this will be dealt with before the deadline. >> it doesn't -- he didn't say what kind of bill that would entail. and, in fact, the bill that the house conservatives and republicans are push thing is one offered by gop judiciaries. very much in line with what the president is thinking. something that the democrats are not a fan of at all. and so with the house rules and debate which is one thing that nancy pelosi was looking for to get rid of that and let anybody who has immigration in the daca recipient bill have a voice on the floor, that won't happen moving forward. so the house will take up a daca measure, but it would be one that the president would sign. as paul ryan said on thursday, he doesn't want to bri

perspective, the federal higher education act. 0 so this is the big omnibus federal legislation thatoverns everything from pel grants to excuse loans to sexual harassment and work study and everything in between. it's good time to talk about the higher education act. congress basically only does this about once every ten years, it's been ten years since the last time. the last time was ten years before that. a lot is at stake, both from a financial standpoint and a regulatory standpoint. i'll talk about a couple of things. one is information and data and the other is new models to help students get better jobs. as we all know, the states are the foundation of the american higher education system. you establish these universities, you pay for them, then the federal government comes in after you're done, provide pelfronts and loans loao low-income students can go to college, and the graduate level research funding comes from the federal level and loan money is federal loan money as well. so, both the state and federal government have a common interest, and that's information. what are

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

we have another cr, cr omnibus. that's why something we put in here i feel very passionate about is having a budget process reform dialogue. we have had a one-sided dialogue in the house among house republicans. i've been working on this my adult life. we need to get the senate involved in a conversation so we can actually have a budget process that works. the house passed all of its appropriation bills this year before the deadline in september. we're doing our work here. the senate has a different system and as much as we are frustrated by that system, it isn't working and that's why we have a joint select committee between republicans and democrats, senators and house members to figure out how we fix this budget process so it works more smoothly in the future. >> speaker, the tax cuts starting to kick in now and this bill will put the deficit over a trillion dollars this year and probably over a trillion dollars next year. these are supposed to be good times. are the times going to be that good to close that defi

they have to write what's known up here as an omnibus. spend this money line by line. that's going to take at least that amount of time simply to write, to put the pens to paper and write that bill. >> i need to bring my panel in. my dear friend megan murphy, former editor of bloomberg business week. nan heyworth from the great stakes of new york. what is your takeaway how this budget got done? is it a positive sign they passed something? >> obviously it helps. it's interesting and informative that neither side wanted to pursue a shutdown. so obviously, you know, the democratic leadership did not think that holding everything up on daca was a good idea this time around. and the republicans for their part did not want to see a shutdown either. rand paul makes an excellent fiscal point. he is absolutely right. i agree with him. this is yet another instance of our pushing debt on to future generations in ways that could be very, very troubling indeed but economic growth, which we are seeing now, we hope will make up for much of the projected deficits we see now. >> yes, w

here we are, with another cr, cr, cr omnibus.t's why something we put in here that i feel very passionate about is having a budget process reform dialogue. we have had a one sided dialogue in the house among house republicans. i've been working on this pretty much my whole adult life. we need to get the senate involves in a conversation so we can have a budget process that is -- that works. the house passed all of its appropriation bills this year, before the deadline in september. so we're doing our work here. the senate has a different system. and as much as we are frustrated by that system, it isn't working and that is why we have a joint select committee between republicans and democrats, senators and house members, to figure out how we fix this budget process so that it works more smoothly in the future. >> mr. speaker, the tax cuts are starting to kick in now. and this bill will put the deficit over a trillion dollars this year. and probably over a trillion dollars next year. these are supposed to be good times. are the tim

that is the first thing, passed a bill like this and there's no reason it couldn't be done in the omnibus coming up in a few weeks. second, we need reliable measures in place when something goes wrong, and that is my third point. each state administers its own elections. it is a strength to have multiple states using multiple systems because it is harder to hack in to them. however it also makes it so you might have one that is weak and doesn't have enough to protect it. we saw this in 2016. they attempted to bridge the system of many states bu that we are only successful in one. many do not have reliable auditing procedures in place. as you know, you are not able to check when something goes wrong. i think there's less than a dozen states were something like that that don't have the backup paper ballots. but that is something we have to fix. .. third dramatic dramatic moment were free at the picture of the woman who was in an ad with a text and the text was saying you could vote for hillary clinton by simply taxing this number and you didn't have to go to the polls. that's criminal. thos

keeping in mind they still have to approve an omnibus spending package by march 23rd, which is what you are talking about to fully fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year. the interim spending bill would just be part of that actual bill. >> and we had heard from speaker ryan and others that even if they reached agreement on these spending caps, it would still take the prop yarts on capitol hill. we have this much money more military, what are we going to spend it on to put it in those types of layman's terms. >> harris: we get it reports from the pentagon they want to focus on russia and china and cyber warfare all that sort of thing. they need to have and our military is smaller than it has been in several decades. they want to be able to pump some oxygen into the room for military planning. they needed to get a schedule that was longer than few days at a time. last word from you, mike. >> yeah, defense secretary jim mattis was up here on the hill yesterday speaking to the house armed services committee. he said with the short-term continuing resolutions and sequestration

not only does that not sway many people in the legislature but it added something in the april omnibus said that it's against the law for us to look at the administrative costs. so we actually added back the $9 billion but there is a long list as we try to re- prioritized and the additional money is made available. budgets deal with trillions of pages of and i forgot the numbers after numbers but the truth the a director knows these numbers have real meaning and there's an article from the fact 2017. without going into all of what the article says if you basically confirms that when you throw many millions of people off of the health insurance they have, thousands of them will die. this budget calls once again for the affordable care act and some will lose their health insurance and with study after study shows is when you throw 32 million people off of their health insurance, tens of thousands of them will die. actor divvied codirecto -- dires 32 million people off of the centuries they have resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands. do you really think this is something that we sh

it is rare that you find a piece of writing that discusses everything from the omnibus u.s. trade and competitiveness of 1988 to the impeachment. ira manages to pull that off and more in this book. so in bill's opening remarks, he said there are two kinds of people who study the senate. he said ira is of one model, and i am of the other. i think that's going to come across in my remarks today. what i would like to do is spend some time reflecting on a few pieces of ira's argument, use them as jumping off point for additional thoughts of my own about what i see as the primary drivers of the contemporary senate's dysfunction, and then towards the end, i'll turn to key areas i think we node to focus on if the senate is going to go in a different direction going forward. so for ira, as you heard, much of the blame for what's happened in the senate rests at the feet of senate leadership. there's a point he says the senate's inability to overcome partisanship is first and foremost a profound failure of senate leaders. there are certain choices leaders make about how to run the sen

there's no reason it could not be done in the omnibus that's coming up in the next few weeks. we need reliable backup measures in place when something goes wrong. each state administers its own elections. our decentralized election p process is a strength and weakness. it is harder to hack into them, however it also makes it so you might have one that is weak because it does not have enough money to protect it. we saw this in 2016, russian hackers attempted to breach the systems of many states but were only successful in one. there are also a weakness in different state has procedures for voting and many do not have reliable post election auditing procedures in place. as you know this means you're are not able to check when something goes wrong. i think there's less than a dozen states or something like that that don't have the backup paper ballots. we have to make sure our elections are free from foreign influence campaigns. russia did not just try to hack into our election system, they also launched an extended information war designed to divide our country and destroy ameri

we are right now with uncertainty and about funding the government and unsecertain e ti with the omnibus and uncertainty about all of these thing, and sooner is better obviously. we have a lot of things that we need to work on, and we need to get this done, and a lot of other issues that folks wants to get to, and daylight is a awasting. >> chairman, you want to do a number of things before that can happen, but do you have a a time line as to when things are going to start to happen? assurances of what will get done this year or next year? >> since the passage of the bill, we have all recognize ed that it is preliminary to any level of activity out there, and the folks over at interior have put together their teams, and they are working on things. but, before we can ask them for the time line here, they need to map it out. so we will have a further opportunity for that, but other than that schedule, there is nothing other than what we have put in the law, and this is the time frame of the sales, but most don't fully appreciate the extent of the preliminary work that the department has to

and in december of 2007 when we passed a massive omnibus bill at that time, i noted, and i'll quote from my journal, the democrats singled out the funding for the iraq war which required a separate vote. the tally board on the house chamber wall explaining the vote said the following: agreeing to the house amendment to the senate amendment to the house amendment. i said at that time, well, that clears it up. but that's the point. liberal democrats could vote against the war funding and for more domestic funding. conservative republicans could do the opposite. enough moderates in the middle would vote for both pieces of legislation to ensure that each passed separately. i continued. then we could, all of us, republicans and democrats, beat our collective chests and go home for christmas. bipartisanship at its best. i wrote further in my journal at that time, all these shenanigans led one republican colleague to lean over to me on the house floor and muse, you know, jeff, sometimes the toughest thing about being a member of congress is remembering everything you're supposed to be outraged

as well, so all signs point to them to be able to come to a final agreement on what is called the omnibusudget for the rest of the year and they can therefore and these continual temporary spending measures we have been running under since the start of the fiscal year. thank you so much on the latest budget negotiations. still ahead, steve when stepping will be live from l.a. for more on that story. up next, steve goldman with his views of where the money is going in all told times. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> this is daybreak: asia. >> wall street stocks finishing lower capping the route that began on friday, rising treasury yields renewing concerns of rescue or assets -- riskier assets. in these risklue assets, are you end the by the debt campaign, steve? >> i definitely am. there are risks ahead, and there has been a low and years of central banks keeping rates low for years, and this causes risk assets to rally, and now we have to be worried about central rate hikes, and it is not as easy a game as it was in the past. if you look at the long-term fundamentals, there are still significant