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The steps of the capitol today over and over again. before i answer, i want your permission to pray for your family. may i have your permission? thank you. i feel honored by that. >> i would love that. >> of course, please. >> i feel honored by that. we have been trying for a very long time to get really commonsense gun safety, gun violence prevention legislation, passed. as you ask the question so well. children in a classroom, people in church, young people in a nightclub, many more thousands ...

[cheering and applause] get over here. will present steve with a trophy. i want to thank everybody. this is a special group of folks, tremendous monies donated to charity by the tour every year, did you do this year 270 -- this is much less. [laughter] it sounded better the first time. 170 million, thats a lot of money. thats pretty good, right? again, to both teams, congratulations. two team usa, that was unbelievable playing. you are great champions. thank you very much everybody. [cheering an...

Votes from state that say once you get to 270 they elect directors to vote for the winner of the popular vote. a lot of things to do whip the house and dont need a constitutional convention, for example to have multimember districts ranked choice voting. we have a bill to do just that. these are heavy lifts but can be done without a constitutional convention. >> the argument of our book, a chunk on political reform to make us more democratic and call it a new democracy. you look at the trump ele...

>> se >> sean: my interview with speaker of the house paul ryan. when i was here in february you gave me a 200-day agenda. you said we would repeal and replace. let refugees build the wall. not education right away. the house as accomplished a lot more than the senate. i understand that you can claim success but if mitch mcconnell cant even appoint 2/3 of the presidents appointees nine months in and mitch mcconnell and you have passed 270 some odd bills that he hasnt taken up. >> the point is we...

Speaker of the house paul ryan. when i was here in february you gave me a 200-day agenda. you said we would repeal and replace. let refugees build the wall. not education right away. the house as accomplished a lot more than the senate. i understand that you can claim success but if mitch mcconnell cant even appoint 2/3 of the presidents appointees nine months in and mitch mcconnell and you have passed 270 some odd bills that he hasnt taken up. >> the point is were on schedule in the house. we p...

>> healthcare didnt go down. we have the votes. reconciliation is a disaster. it ends on friday. we dont have enough time. we have one senator a yes vote. great person is he in the hospital. we cant do it by friday. we have the votes. we will do it some time at the beginning of the year but prior to the election in november. pete: do you still have confidence in mitch mcconnell. >> i do. look, i have dealt with mitch for a long time i think he has to get rid of the filibuster rule. its a disa...

I mean, look, i have dealt with mitch for a long time. i think he has to get rid of the filibuster rule. its a disaster for the republican party because it means you need 60 votes on most pieces of legislation and you are not going to get it there are 270 bills right now sitting before the senate. you are not going to get them approved because you are not going to get 8 democrats. they want to keep this horrible filibuster rule, which says, basically, you need 60. so that means you need 8 democr...

>> sean: my interview with speaker of the house paul ryan. when i was here in february you gave me a 200-day agenda. you said we would repeal and replace. let refugees build the wall. not education right away. the house as accomplished a lot more than the senate. i understand that you can claim success but if mitch mcconnell cant even appoint 2/3 of the presidents appointees nine months in and mitch mcconnell and you have passed 270 some odd bills that he hasnt taken up. >> the point is were on ...

To the election in november. >> you still have confidence in mitch mcconnell? >> i do. i have dealt with mitch a long time. i think he has to get rid of the filibuster rule. that is disaster for republican party. that means you need 60 votes on most legislation. you will not get it. there are 270 bills before you get the senate. you will not get them approved. because you need eight democrats. it wants to keep the horrible filibuster read which means you need 60. that means you need 8 democrats ...

Sure we can get out and get a fair assessment of the needs as well as to any quick rescues and provide information for the long-term recovery. >> carl, as a task force leader from california, you go into situations, you understand search and rescue. how big is the challenge on the ground there? >> well, we actually had an advantage, over 270 of our personnel were here post irma. we kept our assets here when maria spun up. we hunkered down with the community here. so we had great ground troops ev...