Well, it has been a busy week across Washington, and it's also a critical one on Capitol Hill.

After weeks of internal clashes, House Republicans are trying and struggling to move forward on four major pieces of legislation.

Those include extending U.S. surveillance authorities, ending the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, and advancing key farm policy, all while managing

deep divisions within their own conference. Our congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin

joins us now to help us make sense of all of this. So Lisa, let's start with this DHS shutdown,

which has been going on for a record two months. What's the latest? It does not look like that

shutdown will end this week.

And let me talk about why.

Well, first of all, I want to remind viewers that the Senate has already passed twice.

Bills that would fund most of DHS, they would carve out ICE and border patrol for a separate,

more complicated process.

So the Senate has taken that action.

It was passed in a bipartisan manner by Democrats

and senators and Republicans together. But Speaker Mike Johnson and his House Republicans

have now made it clear that they will not accept that bill. They're going to write their own

way to fund the DHS issue. And they have a problem because the Senate bill would technically zero out DHS funding for

this year. However, I want to remind our viewers that last year, DHS got a special appropriation

when one big, beautiful bill, tens of billions of dollars that would fund it for years. So the idea of

zeroing out this year's money really may not affect it too much.

So where does all that leave us?

The House and Senate fighting each other and something that could end up taking days, if not weeks.

But, reminder, there are tens of thousands of employees, including TSA employees,

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