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Some news you might have missed on the holiday weekend. thursday, in a near party line vote, the republican-led house approved an amendment to the national defense authorization bill that prohibits the department of defense from using its funding to address the threats of climate change as laid out in recent scientific reports. prompted to move a pair of democrats that the democratic society is at it again. joining me is rush holt, a plasma face zysk. congressman, great to have you here. >> chri...

Governments as a threat after 9/11 and financial crisis of 2007 worsened. two traumas where the country looked to uncle sam for security. >> theres clear evidence americans in times of crisis want to believe in their government and do tend to have more fatith in their government to do the right thing. >> siting big labor as the nations biggest threat, 5%, record low. that hasnt cracked double digits since 1995. analysts say that reflects the broader decline of organized order in american life in...

Military pensions, that it would pass like a hot knife through butter in the house of representatives when they recon seen. >> reporter: with the senate moving from the budget to the defense authorization bill, the republican leader complain about -- complained about an overall lack of input. >> some of the most important thing we discuss as a body is rushed through without any opportunity for debate or amendment. >> reporter: and a short time ago the defense authorization bill passed a key proc...

Bill. >> you heard senator mccain. there is certain about the military retiree benefits but more immediate concern is the current military that he says is very worried about cuts if this budget doesnt pass. jon: thats the view from a prominent republican. what about the top democrats? what are they saying? >> they say that this is a good compromise, they say its not their ideal deal, if you will, but they are rounding up votes and they are talking about what is necessary in terms of rounding up ...

Employees are prospective for new hires. and so i think that if you think about it, a man or woman right now serving in afghanistan probably on their third tour could be more than that, they could have served in iraq as well, 19 years in and the message we are sending them right now is that you of all people in this agreement will be singled out and you will receive less. i think that is wrong. ive introduced an amendment for another pay-for that i think is much more responsible so well save the...

Creating espionage. >> the state department is quite clear is saying dont go to north north korea. dont go to iran. if do you and these men did, they can pick you up and throw you in prison and obama administration they should have at least got these three guys out with the nuke deal. lets go over to cammeron. congress now goes on a long christmas vacation pretty soon, right? >> they have got lots of stuff to do and not a lot of time to do it. its a big big to do list, bill. >> they have to pass...

The senate has changed. the senate has changed. look whats happened. >> this comes as the senate is trying to finish up the against authorization bill and as lawmakers are trying to hammer out a budget agreement. now there are serious doubts about about what can be accomplished the rest of this conference. >> thanks, mike. with his poll numbers plummeting, president obama is thankful for any distraction from the health care mess. but as mike mentioned, there are potential down sides to the senat...

There. >> so they have -- >> we have reached that point. >> they are there. what, you know, obviously whatever happens in this negotiation, that point will have to be backed away from, and whether they will do that or not, i guess is yet to be seen. >> how far without getting too? >> well, again, nobody knows for sure. i mean experts have told me anywhere from 12 months to 24 months. they told me that 12 months ago and their opinion has not changed today, its still 12 months to 24 months. >> qui...

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Really to show that the u.s. is not going to be sort of strung along for a long time? that these deadlines are hard and fast and they really need to meet them or else were going to have to go to another process? >> i think that is the intent and i think thats because the fear here really is that the russian and syrians strategy is to stall the u.s. frankly, the administration probably wanted to be stalled a little bit because they wouldnt get a syria authorization bill through congress. being st...