This is Peter Schweitzer. I'm here with Eric Eggers. We are filling in for Sean on the Sean Hannity Radio show. He's getting some well-deserved rest. And we are tracking events on Capitol Hill, where it is Christmas chaos in the Capitol. They are apparently right now getting ready to vote. They may already have started to vote on the third version of this bill.

The first two, of course, were shot down. This is Plan C. And Eric, this third version apparently

is going to provide government funding through March. It's going to provide disaster relief

and farm assistance. It is not going to get rid of the debt ceiling issue, which was the problem with the previous bill.

So we're going to track that.

And in a couple of minutes, we're going to have on Senator Rand Paul, who is in the middle of all of that chaos and craziness.

You talked about Christmas chaos in the Capitol, which I just want to point out, you know, you're a bestselling author and you and I host a podcast together called The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

So you do have some broadcast experience.

But to drop the triple alliterative on national radio for an author, it's impressive.

And I just want to acknowledge that in front of everybody.

But it is actually quite chaotic.

You know, you're the one that pointed out.

We're actually in a weird spot where last

night with the vote you had elizabeth warren agreeing with donald trump yeah you had 38 members

of the house disagree and that's one of the reasons why we're having a new vote one of the members

of congress that disagreed nancy mace we spoke to last hour and she said that one of the problems

that they have is that they are

actively lied to. Those are her words about what the U.S. Senate can and cannot do in terms of

the House. Can they take up these single subject bills? Yeah. She says we are told that they cannot

do that. So one thing we will ask Rand Paul about is, hey, are you prepared to take more than one vote to keep

the government open if it means that, you know, we don't have to pass a bill that increases spending,

no matter how many pages, whether it's a 1547 or 116 Nancy Mason's point, was the pages went down,

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