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the senate does not have. so is this going to get done today, tomorrow, or certainly before june 5th? >> reporter: were hoping before june 5. senators are trying to haggle if they can do this today or if they can do this tomorrow. there is a real desire here to not have to work the weekend, and its probably a combination of that desire, some jet fumes, the need to get out of town, and then also an agreement on amendments thats likely to get us there. one of the things thats holding thi...

the president out in farm country today pushing the same, tired talking points. blaming pollutant and those greedy corporations. bite and to take responsibility as we learn the surge in prices is stuck at a 40 year high. g.o.p. lawmakers calling out the president for his inaction. >> joe biden will blame anyone but himself for this. hes blamed chicken farmers, everyone else under the sun. >> president biden is flailing around, swinging blindly, hoping something will land. >> the truth ...

You, put you on the spot. your view, is ryan almost certainly out? >> i dont know almost certainly out, but candidly, its not a bad thing for him to contemplate. and i would argue for him to do. theres a bunch of reasons. ill go through them quickly. number one, there may not be a speakership for him to leave, jim. this is a 50/50, 40/60 proposition in the house. you dont to want look like youre running out of town. number two, you have to do the best you can with the circumstances you have. get...

>> and yet, thats the question, right? because it all seems like he is playing these 40/60 politics. meaning 40% of the public is with him. 60% is against him. >> uh-huh. >> which shouldnt work in a majority democracy and yet it is somehow working. >> think about this, chris. his first goal is to try to control the republicans as much as he can. and so what he is doing with that 40%, which still remains a super majority of republicans is to control the party, control his chance going forward, tr...

Ja jared kushner didnt disclose. thats all being looked into. democrats ahead of the fact saying theres collusion. as the some counsel investigates, bob mueller is looking at financial ties. what starts over here in these investigations can go here and here. as this plays out, the president lashing out on twitter, an associated press poll out, has tried to impede or obstruct the rush investigation. yes, 61%. no, 37%. the trump base, no. but again, we dont know what happened. but if six in ten am...

. we are back with "the 11th hour." specifically, a conversation we could have with these two guests for hours at a time. matthew dowd, sam stein remain with us. i want to show you a graphic. this is the last quinnipiac. this is the job approval rating. lets call it, rounding, 40/60. if you are the democrats as some like to call the resistance party read something about bernie sanders today questioning ossoffs membership in the progressive wing of the party. how would you advise the resistance...

He is a fellow that hasnt paid taxes. i dont think is a big deal. as soon as republicans saw an opportunity to do, the obama camp, done with the romney camp, they jumped -- >> andrea: hold on. on the heels of that, i want your reaction. all the things except for dog on the roof were divide. an obama was asked about that last night. take a listen. >> i dont think you or anyone watching me campaign would suggest that in any way we have tried to divide the country. we tried to bring the country tog...

Bin laden. seals and brave soldiers got him. sure he gave the okay. martha: gets credit from both sides. >> thats right. martha: he did the right thing. >> exactly. martha: it was courageous moment. leon panetta said 40/60 that it was going to go right in that room. the odds were against it in his mind. so whats the right note for the president to take? if you were in his shoes, how would you, say, yes, i did what the commander-in-chief must do in a very tough moment and strike the right note th...

Event, the guy who perpetrated the worst american day in history. it comes from both sides. it was a tough decision. president obama did a courageous thing. leon panetta said it was a 40/60 call. it was that tough of a decision. for the president to gloat a little bit and go the next step further and question whether or not mitt romney would have the guts to do the same thing, hes calling out jimmy carter. it gets ugly from here. >> you know what the thing is. now you have john mccain who rightl...

dark about who is bank rolling the candidates, we have answers. you know the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and theyre major players, but get ready for this, infederal election commission tells us out front that this might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump, thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so today we pored through hundreds of pages of super pac tument, and that was only for a few super pacs and t...