Hello, America. It's Peter Schweitzer and that's Eric Eggers and we are filling in for Sean Hannity today. We are very glad that you've joined us here. We've got a action-packed show. Eric, a lot of things going on in the news. A lot of things going on in the news. A lot of things going on in the country. It's the last Friday before Christmas. People are running around town doing some last-minute shopping, maybe returning some gifts right before the holidays begin. And Congress is busy as well.

We've got breaking news literally 10 minutes ago. We've been assured by embattled House Speaker,

Johnson, that there will not be a government shutdown. Peter Schweitzer, your reaction.

Yeah, yeah, no, very, very interesting.

Let's listen to this audio clip right here. I got to wrap up in a few moments upstairs, but I expect

that we will be proceeding forward. We will not have a government shutdown and we will meet

our obligations for our farmers who need aid for the disaster victims all over the country and

for making sure that military and essential services

and everyone who relies upon the federal government for a paycheck is paid over the holidays.

I'll give you the more details here in just a few moments.

So they apparently have a solution.

We will see, you mentioned earlier that a lot of people running around doing a lot of last minute shopping.

They're probably doing some shopping in Congress as well.

So it's going to be interesting to see what this final bill looks like.

Well, it looks like, you know, according to the reporting, again, just released right now from CBS News that this deal will not include many presents for many members of Congress.

And we have important things to

talk about as it relates to what exactly it means at this moment in history for the country,

that we now know what previous efforts, Thursday's bill, contains so many different provisions

that I think were correctly rejected. They're saying this bill now is expected to include

three major parts, a clean,

short-term extension of government funding, billions of dollars in disaster relief, and billions

in aid to farmers, and that's it. So it will not include the suspension of the debt limit,

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