Rep. Tom Emmer on Republican plan to keep government open

>>> LAWMAKERS ARE BACK ON CAPITOL HILL FOLLOWING THE WEEKS LONG SUMMER RECESS TO ADDRESS YET ANOTHER FAST APPROACHING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DEADLINE. FUNDING FOR THE GOVERNMENT RUNS OUT ON OCTOBER 1st. ROUGHLY THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY. HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING A CONTINUING RESOLUTION THAT WOULD KEEP THE GOVERNMENT FUNDED THROUGH MARCH 28th. IT IS COUPLED WITH A HOUSE APPROVED REPUBLICAN BILL THAT WOULD REQUIRE AMERICANS TO PROVIDE PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP IN ORDER TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS. THE WHITE HOUSE HAS STRONGLY CRITICIZED THIS PROPOSAL. HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP IN MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN TOM EMMER JOINS US NOW POINT TOM, IT IS GREAT TO SEE YOU, THANKS FOR BEING HERE POINT SO THERE IS A CONTINUING RESOLUTION TO AVOID A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN PENDING. WILL THAT PASS THIS WEEK IN THE REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES? >> THE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE ARE DEFINITELY GOING TO MOVE A STOPGAP FUNDING BILL. WILL WHIP THE CURRENT FORM OF IT TONIGHT, WHICH IS THE SAVE ACT WHICH REQUIRES ONLY AMERICAN CITIZENS VOTE IN U.S. FEDERAL ELECTIONS. AND THEN >> WILL WE HAVE THE VOTES TO PASS THAT ITERATION OF THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION? >> WE MAY POINT >> YOU MAY NOT? >> WE'LL BE WHIPPING IT TONIGHT. NOT TRYING TO BE EVASIVE. THE GOAL IS TO PASS IT THIS WEEK. AND THEN MOVE ON TO WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET DONE BEFORE POINT >> SO WILL THERE BE A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN? >> NO, I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WILL BE >> HOW DOES THIS GET RESOLVED? >> I THINK REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS GET THIS THING DONE BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH. >> AND THAT THING THAT GETS DONE BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH EXTEND SPENDING AUTHORITY TO THE END OF THE YEAR OR LONGER? >> YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WILLING DANCE PARTNER AND AT LEAST UNDER THE HOUSE PROPOSAL IT WILL HAVE THE SAVE ACT IN IT, IT WILL HAVE A SIX MONTH RESOLUTION. THE SENATE? I DON'T KNOW YET IF THEY ARE INTERESTED IN THAT LONG OF A PERIOD. >> SOUND LIKE THEY ARE NOT. >> WE DO HEAR THAT THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN THE SAVE ACT WHICH IS FRANKLY PRETTY AMAZING THAT WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT 87% OF AMERICANS THINK THAT IT IS NOT A BAD IDEA TO HAVE PEOPLE PROVE THEIR CITIZENSHIP IN ORDER TO REGISTER TO VOTE. IT WILL BE INTERESTING IF THEY SAY THAT IS ACTUALLY A POISON PILL IN THE DEAL, GARRETT, MAJOR, I DO THIS TO YOU ALL THE TIME. TOO MANY HITS TO THE HEAD. BUT LITERALLY IF THAT IS YOUR -- THERE POISON PILL, WHAT DOES THAT TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? >> YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO, CONGRESSMAN, THAT THE STATISTICAL PROBABILITY OR ACTUAL PRESENCE OF UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN U.S. ELECTIONS IS EXTREMELY SMALL. >> LISTEN, WHAT WE HAVE ARE TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE COMING ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN BORDER POINT I DON'T KNOW WHAT STATISTICS YOU CAN LOOK IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR AND SAY THAT ALL APPLIES TO WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW. YOU HAVE HAD A WIDE OPEN BORDER UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION. YOU HAVE HAD MORE THAN 10 MILLION PEOPLE, ILLEGALLY ACROSS THE BORDER AND IT IS NICE OF YOU TO CALL THEM UNDOCUMENTED. THE FACT IS THEY ARE ILLEGALLY IN THIS COUNTRY AND THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH. THEY SHOULD NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN ELECTIONS. MY STATE COME YOU GOT A GOVERNOR WHO VOTED, WHO SIGNED A LAW THAT ALLOWS ILLEGALS TO GET DRIVER'S LICENSES. HOW DO YOU GUARANTEE THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO USE THAT LICENSE AND ATTEMPT TO VOTE? THEY MAY NOT KNOW ANY BETTER? >> BUT THEY DON'T, THE STATISTICS SHOW OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT THEY DON'T AND THEY HAVEN'T. IS THIS A PROBLEM A SOLUTION, RATHER, LOOKING FOR A PROBLEM? >> IS IT REALLY? IF IT'S A REAL THING, IF THEY BELIEVE THAT ONLY AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE VOTING IN U.S. ELECTIONS, MAJOR, THEN THERE SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM WITH THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST CONFIRMING WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING IF YOU BELIEVE THAT. BUT INSTEAD THEY ARE SAYING IT IS A POISON PILL AND THEY ARE SAYING EVEN THOUGH IT IS ALREADY THE CASE THEY ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF IT. DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. >> LAST WEEK FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION BY A WHISKER. CONCEDING SOMETHING HE HAD REFUSED TO CONCEDE FOR ALMOST FOUR YEARS. CAN WE NOW, AS A NATION, PUT TO REST THE LIE ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION THAT IT WAS STOLEN FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP? >> MAJOR, WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES RIGHT NOW THAT MATTER TO PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ABOUT THE INFLATION THAT IS KILLING MIDDLE-CLASS IN THIS COUNTRY, ABOUT THE OPEN BORDERS, SOUTHERN BORDER, THAT IS NOT ONLY CONTRIBUTED TO ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE WHO WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WITH THEIR BACKGROUND IS COMING ACROSS OUR BORDERS BUT FENTANYL OVERDOSES AND ALL THE SMALL TOWNS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT PEACE AND STABILITY AROUND THE GLOBE LOOK LIKE UNDER THE LAST ADMINISTRATION. THAT IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT AND THAT, FRANKLY, IS GOING TO BE THE TOPIC TOMORROW NIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA. >> WHEN I WAS IN MILWAUKEE THERE WAS A DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE I'VE NEVER ENCOUNTERED BEFORE AT A REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, TALKING ABOUT EXPANDING THE MAP, VIRGINIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, MINNESOTA WOULD YOU SAY MINNESOTA IS UP FOR GRABS STILL OR HAS THE ELECTION SHIFTED AWAY AND BETTER FOR TRUMP TO FOCUS ELSEWHERE? >> WHEN IT COMES TO MINNESOTA, LOOK, THE POLICIES OF KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP ARE GOING TO DETERMINE THE PRESIDENCY. DONALD TRUMP HAS ALREADY SHOWN WHAT IN AMERICA FIRST POLICY LOOKS LIKE. I WOULD ARGUE THAT OVER THE LAST THREE AND HALF YEARS KAMALA HARRIS HAS SHOWED US WHAT IN AMERICA LAST STRATEGY LOOKS LIKE. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BY PUTTING TIM WALZ ON THE TICKET, YOU MAY HAVE PUT MINNESOTA IN PLAY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED LAST WEEK, BUT BEFORE TIM WALZ WAS NAMED AS HER RUNNING MATE, KAMALA HARRIS ENJOYED A 10 POINT ADVANTAGE, MUCH DIFFERENT THAN JOE BIDEN AND TRUMP HAD UP. ONCE SHE WAS ANOINTED AND WAS RE-CREATED SHE HAD A 10 POINT LEAD, SHE PUT TIM WALZ ON THE TICKET, SHE LOST FIVE OF THOSE RIGHT AWAY. SO HE IS NOT A VERY POPULAR GUY AT HOME AND -- >> WOULD YOU SUGGEST THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN THAT MINNESOTA IS IN PLAY AND OUGHT TO PUT RESOURCES INTO MINNESOTA? >> I THINK YOU GOT TO BE LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR VOTES, PERIOD. >> ONE ANOTHER THING. FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SAY OVER THE WEEKEND THAT HE WILL WIN WITHOUT A SINGLE VOTE BEING CAST, MAIL OUT BALLOTS HAVEN'T EVEN GONE OUT AND THAT HE WILL PROSECUTE PEOPLE OR WANTS TO PROSECUTE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN POSITION OF ELECTION ADMINISTRATION OR DONORS TO KAMALA HARRIS, WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU? >> I THINK HE IS GOING TO WIN AND I THINK >> THAT IS A THING, NOT A WILL. >> IT IS PRETTY EASY TO LOOK AT WHAT THIS ELECTION IS ALL ABOUT. ON THE ONE SIDE YOU GOT DOUBLE- DIGIT INFLATION LIKE WE HAVEN'T SEEN IN 40 YEARS, PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY THAT OH, INFLATION IS COMING DOWN. MAJOR, PEOPLE IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS AND ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY GO INTO THE GROCERY STORE EVERY WEEK. THEY SEE HOW MUCH THEY ARE PAYING FOR THINGS. ON AVERAGE, $1200 MORE A MONTH THAN THEY WERE PAYING FOR THE SAME BASKET OF GOODS JUST 3 1/2 YEARS AGO. THE GAS TANK, THE CRIME, THE OPEN BORDER. THE INSTABILITY ALL AROUND THE GLOBE WHETHER IT IS UKRAINE OR ISRAEL OR OTHER PLACES, IT IS PRETTY CLEAR THE DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN DONE OVER THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS AND I THINK THE ONLY CANDIDATE WHO WILL BE ON THE STAGE TOMORROW NIGHT THAT HAS SHOWN HOW YOU REBUILD AN ECONOMY, THAT IS SHOWN HOW YOU SEAL THE SOUTHERN BORDER, HAS ACTUALLY SHOWN HOW YOU CAN MAINTAIN PEACE AND STABIL