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Help us understand this to the extent it is something that the house speaker is worried about, the progressives in the party should be worried about. >> oh, boy. okay. so in the broadest sense, this has been brewing for a while. pelosi in these interviews shes done in press conferences has been making the offhanded comments that the squad has made within the democratic party more generally. and i think over the last couple of weeks, two of the things weve seen in particular come to a head. the f...

Thought it was dumb but acquiesced. it is actually just racist. this comes one day after the police department released their case files on jussie smollett. one revelation was assistant state attorney told detectives on february 28th the, quote, the case would be settled of jussie smollett paying the city of chicago $10,000 in restitution and community service. that is what would happen a month later but police still insisted they were blindsided. we are learning a cook county judge will rule ju...

They could do what congress always does and put it off until the last-minute. thats not a joke. thats what they do. >> 11:00. >> 11:00 on the 14th the deadline being february the 15th for them to come sort of deal on border security. it is not likely to include much money, if any, for a wall. nancy pelosi pretty much made that clear after she was taking her victory lap after the president appeared in the rose garden and acquiesced shall we say to the congresss demand today they are sifting throu...

>> john, you first. president trump says the temporary agreement is in quote no way a concession but he made this deal, or agreed, acquiesced, however you want to put it, to no wall funding. so how is this not the president, you know, caving? >> well, i wouldnt necessarily say it is a concession but certainly round one does go to pelosi and the democrats here. but what is going to be fascinating -- >> why does he need to say that? this is no concession. >> the president always wants to project s...

And this two days after a bipartisan, you know, panel came up with and agreed on mcconnells plan to keep government open until february 8th, but then the president changed his mind, acquiesced to pressure from conservative lawmakers and commentators, and schumer said if you want to keep the government open, youve got to abandon this whole wall concept. >> right, so its okay for chuck schumer to put an absolute line in the sand, but its not okay for the president to try to actually fulfill a camp...

>> it was. >> okay. and it appeared president trump had sort of acquiesced what was going to happen, in order to avoid a government shut down, he even tweeted i will get by border wall funding somewhere, and mitch mcconnell had worked hard to put together this resolution, and then something happened and everything blew up and now the government may shut down at midnight tonight. what happened after 9:00 a.m. yesterday morning? >> well, what happened was actually just more fallout from what had h...

What actually happened inside the consulate in an stem bowl. >> the problem is, you think about what happened with russian spies being killed in london, you think back to some of the other stories with ricin, these are the behaviors that we would expect from governments around the world. saudi arabia is trying to prove that its not like that. we get endless video of all of these things happening, and yet, how will he come this is a big black mark against that idea. that seems to me to be the mos...

Punishing the saudis. whats your rear action? >> well, they may be hedging their bets. clearly the circumstantial evidence that not only did the saudis willfully and in a premeditated way murder jamal khashoggi, but in mbss mind, the notion that this operation would have been carried out, so risky, so politically explosive and fraught with implications without not just the foreknowledge but the validation of the crown prince strains credulity to the breaking point. secretary mnuchin not going wa...

Point if she is going to testify.number two i think it was thomas jeffersonthat set the rules , originally, the house of the senate. they foreshadowed the end of that people wanted to negotiate their way through what they do to congress but that is why before they do this they set up the rules. so there is not a negotiation. im kind of offended that some things that can renegotiate the rules. >> the committee says we way to testify monday at 10:00 p.m. or 10 am. >> exactly! it is a yes or no que...

Importance and he asked acquiesced to not being allowed to have a grand jury, he could have gone to congress. he should have done a lot of things. you have to buck that had water sometimes and he didnt do that. and i think it frankly showed a lack of courage. >> why do you think they didnt want a grand jury? >> they didnt want to find out what happened. its very simple. if you bring people in for the grand jury, you can get grand jury subpoenas, you can compel testimony, you can compel immunity,...