. >> sarah ferris, reporting for politico. we can find her articles at politic.com. tweets @sarah n. ferris. thanks so much. >> thank you. on newsmakers this week is the administrator of fema, brock long. emergency a career in response management at the state, federal level and in the private sector. sworn in in june of 2017 and has had quite a year with category 5 with two hurricanes. one of the biggest wildfire years in history and a category 7 earthquake in alaska. so lots of calls for your folks action.to >> glad to be here this morning. >> let me introduce the two reporters. ron nixon covers homeland times.y for the new york and this is the homeland security and immigration reporter. >> thanks for doing this. the question i'd like to start there's someink common misperceptions about fema's role in emergency management and dealing with natural disasters. could you lay that out? what's fema's role and what's and local first responder's role? break those down for us, please. mission iss incredibly complex. it's a lot more than just the response, which is often cover

. >> sarah ferris reporting for her ico, we can find rticles at politico.com and also her tweets at sarah n. ferris. so much. >> thank you. >> when the new congress takes ffice in january, it will have the youngest, most diverse freshman class in recent history. new leaders. live on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2018][captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] *-*- [applause] >> good morning and welcome. coauthor of the political co-playbook. it's such an honor to be here today for our sixth annual women's leadership summit. know, we started in 2013 first major the surge of women running for office. the n 2018 we've had privilege of not only seeing winning.n but women [applause] >> we had a record number of women who have served in the 116th congress. women are ruling now more than they ever have before. speaking their truths, honing their skills, demanding holding those positions in power accountable. have had a unique opportunity o speak to female leaders from vastly

sarah ferris is a congressional report for politico. she joins us ahead of the december 21 deadline to prevent a shutdown. congress andare the white house in the talks at this point? the house and senate when home on thursday, as a house will not be coming back into wednesday, so the leadership of the house and senate are still here over the weekend. they will be trying to figure out what the white house once. they will try to put forward a spending package that can pass both chambers and hopefully avoid a showdown by next friday, capitalleave the thursday with basically no idea what it looks like and whether they will be here on christmas. >> president trump met with democratic leaders this past weekend the white house. what are the key differences? sarah: basically, the president has been demanding a $5 billion for his wall. the house bill would include $5 billion, but the senate bill includes $1.6 billion. new fencing, for largely in california and specific areas of the order. that is something that democrats have already agreed to.

. >> sarah ferris is a reporter for politico and joins us with the latest talks about funding government in front of the deadline to prevent a shutdown. where are congress and the white house in these talks? >> the house and senate went home on thursday and the house won't be coming back until wednesday.

. >> sarah ferris is a congressional reporter for politico. she joins us with the latest on talks to fund the government head of the december 21 deadline to prevent a shutdown. and the white ss house in talks at this point? >> the house and senate went won't thursday and they be coming back, at least the house, won't be back until leadership of he the house and senate are still here over the weekend. hey will be trying to figure out what the white house wants. they will then try to put orward a spending package that can pass both chambers an hopefully avoid a shutdown by did friday but lawmakers leave the capital on thursday with basically no idea of what next week will look like and they will be here on christmas. >> so president trump met with past atic leaders this week at the white house. what are the key differences, wall, of course, but what are the details in terms of wall? they are on the >> so the border wall has been the issue for months and months, of the appropriations in other words on capitol hill have reading the text and lookin

at sarah n. ferris. thank you so much. sarah: thank you. the possible government shutdown at the end of this week was a topic of conversation on cbs's face the nation. white house advisor stephen miller and amy klobuchar. >> we are about five days from potential government shutdown. republican leadership says there is no plan. what is the president's plan, and will he shut it down to get the $5 billion in border wall funding? >> were going to do what is necessary to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration. this is a very fundamental issue. at stake is the question of whether or not the united states remains a sovereign country, whether we can establish and enforce rules for entrance into the country. the democrat party has a simple choice. they can choose to fight for america's working class, or promote illegal immigration. you cannot do both. >> is their wiggle room? >> i'm not going to negotiate the details with you on air right now. party wants to go down the road of continuing to preserve a

. >> sarah ferris is a reporter for politico and joins us with the latest talks about funding government in front of the deadline to prevent a shutdown. where are congress and the white house in these talks? >> the house and senate went home on thursday and the house won't be coming back until wednesday. there are, the leadership are still here over the weekend. they're going to try to figure out what the white house wants. they will forward a spending package that can pass both chambers and avoid a shutdown. lawmakers did leave the capital on thursday with basically no idea of what next week is going to look like. >> president trump met with democratic leaders this past week at the white house. what are the key differences? the border wall, of course, but what are the details in terms of where they are on the wall? >> the border wall has been the issue for months and months and all of the appropriation nerds on capitol hill have been reading the text and looking into the specifics. basically, president trump has been demanding this $5 billion for the wall. that;s his number. there is no

. >> sarah ferris is a congressional reporter for politico. she joins us with the latest on talks to fund the government ahead of the december 21 deadline to prevent a shutdown. sarah, where are congress and the white house in these talks at this point? >> the house and senate went home on thursday and the house won't be coming back until wednesday. there are -- the leadership of the house and senate are still here over the weekend. they're going to try to figure out what the white house wants. they'll then try to put forward a spending package that can pass both chambers and hopefully avoid a shutdown by next friday. but lawmakers did leave the capital on thursday with basically no idea of what next week is going to look like and whether they're going to be here on christmas. >> president trump met with democratic leaders this past week at the white house. what are their key differences? the border wall, of course, but what are the details in terms of where they are on the wall? >> the border wall has been the issue for months and months and a

. >>> sarah ferris is a congressional reporter for politico and joins us on talks to assign the government out of the december 21 deadline to prevent a touchdown. where are congress and the white house at these talks? >> the house and the senate went home on thursday and they won't be coming back, at least the house and come back until wednesday. the leadership, some of them, are over -- here over the weekend. they will try to figure out what the white house once and put together a spending package that can pass both chambers and avoid a shutdown hopefully by next friday. but lawmakers did leave the capital on thursday with basically no idea of what next week will look like. >> so president trump met with democratic leaders this past week at the white house. what are the key differences? the border wall, of course. but what are the details in terms of where they are on the wall? >> the border wall has been the issue for months and months. all of the appropriations on capitol hill have been reading the text and looking into the specifics. basically, president trump has been demanding the $5

. >> sarah ferris reporting for politico. you can find her articles at politico.com and also her tweets. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> president trump today made an unscheduled visit to arlington national cemetery to meet with volunteers laying wreaths on headstones. we'll watch his visit for a few minutes and then speak to reporters about striking down the affordable care act. [inaudible] president trump: good afternoon, everybody. we do a great job, really great job. reporter: mr. president? -- --esident, have using have you seen --? [inaudible] reporter: mr. president, comment on the court ruling? president trump: there was a big .uling a great ruling for our country. we will be able to get great health care and sit down with the two democrats. we will sit down with the democrats and get right health care for our people. let's say repeal and replace went differently but it was a big, big victory by a highly respected judge. on the assumption that the supreme court upholds, we will get great, great health care for our pe

. >> sarah ferris is a congressional reporter for politico. she joins us with the latest on talks to fund the government ahead of the december 21 deadline to prevent a shutdown. sarah, where are congress and the white house in these talks at this point? >> the house and senate went home on thursday and the house won't be coming back until wednesday. there are -- the leadership of the house and senate are still here over the weekend. they're going to try to figure out what the white house wants. they'll then try to put forward a spending package that can pass both chambers and hopefully avoid a shutdown by next friday. but lawmakers did leave the capital on thursday with