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that enough would vote yes, but are they sure? >> house democrats are going to make sure that the country does not default. period. full stop. >> this caucus will remain unified with the president and most importantly with the american people in this fight. >> house democrats stand poised to help, stand poised to be the adults in the room, and we will ensure that we put this crisis behind us. >> we have two house lawmakers starting us off today. a republican in mccarthys inner circle a...

release of a second round of hostages is now back on this hour. an hour and a half ago, we didnt know if it was. this, after the previously said the release would be delayed over accusations that israel broke parts of the agreement. now, what were also watching this hour are these two pieces of video. live streams, one from the rafah border crossing, if the deal is back on, then, we do expect that there will be hostages released, coming through the rafah border crossing. that is one pa...

So they could extort benefits that they would never be able to get through regular order. what it says to me is that we need to move as quickly as possible to eliminate the debt ceiling as a bargaining point. we are one of only two countries in the world. denmark being the other one that has a debt ceiling like this that can be used as a hostage taking exercise, so its reinforced for me the importance that we eliminate this as a hostage taking point as soon as possible. >> how do you want to eli...

Million, you look at the mens world cup, which is slated for around the $400 million mark. that kind of speaks volumes, i think. >> i wonder if there is anything to a potential argument of making that the case. if theres that push, then why not retroactively. this already is astounding. half of the tournaments played and half they have won as champions, times four. so i think there will be another argument of why wait. what more does there need to be proven. >> it is a really, really strong barg...

No doubt. >> mieke, thats the assumption of previous presidents going back to bill clinton and certainly w. the assumption that the north koreans are rational in terms of cost benefit. that if their nuclear program was costing them to be isolated from the world, to be impoverished forever, they would choose against it. but they havent been that way. they havent been logical that way. just like lbj thought he could buy the north vietnamese with a big economic -- like the tva, the tennessee valley...

Mentioned that denuclearization is a possibility provided theres cooperation from the u.s. and south korea. and thats a very important concession, john, because pyongya pyongyangs position in the past has been that removing its nuclear weapons, getting rid of that arsenal is a red line. its taboo, non-negotiable. here he is floating this possibility. then we had an extension of an invitation to xi jinping to visit north korea in the future which we hear the chinese leader has accepted. what does...

Ainsley: i cant believe the democrats didnt stand when he said this is why we stand for the national anthem. he told the little boy preston sitting next to the first lady and preston put 40,000 american flags on graves because his grandfather was a world war ii vet. went to visit his grave stone and said we need to do better. this looks terrible. and he personally put carnations and flags on those graves. and the president mentioned that and said thats why we stand for the national anthem and th...

That you guys do get a month. explain to me why this gets easier in a month? well be that much closer to the daca deal totally expiring. -- >> you are asking my -- asking my question. >> i know. explain to me how -- you have debt ceiling that you are going to need to raise again in march. so now you are -- now you have government funding running and daca all of it running together and that is supposed to be easier than the chaos you are dealing with now. >> and you have one more thing. you no lo...

Today there was also an opportunity to secretary of state rex tillerson so meet with his south korean counterpart here and that conversation focused on the growing threat posed by north korea. they advanced the advancement of the nuclear program that country has demonstrated with two launches just last month. they also talked about how to proceed from here and it isnt just sanctions alone. they talked about keeping a door open for dialogue with the regime. that is something we have recently hear...

Going to have a lot clearer sailing than it did with the obama administration. this is really, i think, bad news and very unpredictable bad news for russia. more bad news. "the washington post" report that michael flynn may be vulnerable to blackmail by russia. this is one of the main reasons why his position became untenable. how is the blackmail allegation going to play out in moscow. it casts more shade on russian dealings. >> it does. what would they black mail him on? you can blackmail him ...