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>> is this for job creation or a tax that will crippal the economy? >> our shows all day were still doing significant coverage of this bill as it was working its way through the house. >> every time we put our pump to our gas tank we are helping the tyrants in iran and saudi arabia to export their terrorism. why do we keep doing it? >> this says to china from the u.s. congress. thats what is inside is u.s. jobs. >> there was a lot of drama and arm twisting. >> in the words of another californiae...

And trade. the whole idea is instead of just banning it outright, youre deinsent vising. >> is this for economic growth and job creation in the future or a tax that will cripple the economy? >> our shows all day were still doing significant coverage of this bill as it was working its way through the house. >> every time we put our pump to our gas tank, we are helping the tyrants in iran, and the tyrants in saudi arabia to export their terrorism. why do we keep doing it? >> if you look at this bo...

That was a republican cause. because they said, look, we have all this oil weve derived from fracking. we want to export some of it and get some more money back here to the united states. thats been repealed. democrats were able to hoped the line. they got a lot of wind and solar tax credits they had wanted to make permanent. they also got a lot of the tax credits forward in the 2009 stimulus to be made permanent. overall though, jose, in terms of where this bill will go, it is up for a vote on ...

Rig the game and stop donald trump. but thats not the only scenario. its possible that you could just have a situation where cruz wins iowa, trump wins new hampshire, rubio wins south carolina and you go on and on like that. and nobody is able to get -- i think its 1,144 delegates you need to become the nominee. we could just have a scenario where you get to the republican national convention and nobody has the delegates. and then it could descend into chaos. i would really worry about the possi...

Reporter: it does. erdogan in turkey, what his thinking was, where that falls in going after isis as opposed to the kurds which are a threat to him. there are a lot of players. meanwhile putin just got back from a meeting with the iranians in tehran. iran wants to keep assad in power in syria. the u.s. is hoping that because of the situation on the ground in syria with russia perhaps they will split with iran and say assad should not be in power, then they start this political transition. but th...

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So, the republican candidate should be a shoo-in with that math, right? not so fast says the 40 or so members of the freedom caucus. this is where they get to flex their muscle because without them, the republican cant win an outright majority with only gop support. so, it could take a compromise. havent seen a lot of that in washington lately. arm twisting or a bit of both to seal the deal. lets bring in indiana congressman a member of the house freedom caucus. congressman, appreciate you being...

Writing op eds in the "wall street journal," i think all of that contributes to a number of democrats thinking, maybe this is not where we want to go. and i think the persuasive powers of the president, one-on-one. this was not an lbj arm twisting. this was the president of the united states and the secretary of state very koeg endly making sober minded arguments about why there isnt a good choice here. the other side, the opponents never answered the question adequately. what happens if the u.s...

Conversations in persuasiveness or lack of persuasiveness notwithstanding. i dont quite see that. i do believe the president, it is not lbj arm twisting. ive watched him in small meekts on this issue. ive watched him speaking to a larger group of senators. and ive seen he is persuasive. democrats, and i think most of the public, i wont talk about republican members of the house and senate, but democrats in the house and senate and most of the public, respect barack obamas political acumen. they ...

State. theyre not that far from a nuclear women now. this pulls back in a way that works for safety for a much better middle east and keeps the nuclear weapons out of the hands of the iranians. >> you mentioned something interesting. you said this was an lbj arm twisting. in the past two months, the president has had two big heavily contested battles. one on tpp and one on the iran deal. you were on different sides of those two. but youve, the president has this reputation of being stand-offish ...