he was saying in recent days he wants her replaced. we don t know when that will happen, but one interesting thing as this is a potential domino-like effect, john kelly is her biggest defender here at the white house. she was his deputy, his protege. the question is, will john kelly stay if she goes? there is new reason to think he will not. conversations here at least at the white house that he also may potentially leave at some point. we should offer a lot of words of caution. john kelly and the rumors of his departure have been reported repeatedly. this is something that would be a different moment. we know the white house is eying other potential replacements for him. we know this is the president s decision. he will make these decisions on his own time here. john, there will be new people in some of these posts when the new year begins. john? live at the white house with fresh want are reporting.
the republican party. the world turned upside down. democrats have the house and the margin looks better than they once expected in the senate. there will be a question about whether the liberal democratic senators think let s hold out. that s also another dynamic there. the house has a version of this bill that only does prison reform and does not reduce mandatory minimums. the only reason it doesn t go that far, this is weak on crime and we are not going to pass this. there is bipartisan oversight in the house and it s clear if it moves to the senate. they are not here very much. they are only here about half the week. they have to pass the government spending bill. they have the working dates and the legislative. the president said during the campaign when he bit his own tongue and accepted the last
pelosi has close to a 40-seat pick up is being questioned about whether she should stay as a leader? in the wake of her victory and chuck schumer had losses, nobody is questioning whether he should stay? it s noteworthy. there is definitely a gender issue. her allies are already making that. she had been attacked throughout the country and all this money dumped on her. look what happened. it didn t work. there is no reason to remove her. we are all doing things to determine whether or not the people who voted no. we and 23 members both current and incoming said they vote no on her before. the question is, will they do it when it comes time for the actual vote in january. that s a big open question. a lot of them will not vote for her. pelosi, the way she started getting at this is she is
maybe it s a sign they re guilty. he s promised he would, but he s not. you re hearing the trump team was surprised to hear about recent requests from mueller pertaining to roger stone. i m amazed he would be surprised since there have been so many questions about stone s knowledge in advance. what are you hearing? well, right. i think the surprise is that this, here we are, 18 months into this investigation, you would have thought that mueller would have asked for this a long, long time ago. given, jim, you know this, that there s been so much focus on roger stone and whether or not he s going to be indicted, whether or not there s charges that will be brought in anything related to roger stone. that s been big, big question looming over this investigation. frankly, the big open question to answer whether or not there was collusion at all in the 2016 campaign. so because this request just came in, probably about three or four weeks ago, to the trump team, i think a lot of people wer
now if you look at the latest cnn poll, ted cruz is a ahead by a healthy margin 52 to 45 and o rourke was closing in more than that a couple months ago. the question is whether or not ted cruz is pulling ahead and can t be domestic o rourke can t catch him or not and o rourke is trying to bank on the fact that he has this national notoriety, that he has this unbelievably huge war chest, wolf, $38 million just in the last quarter, that s record setting plus-plus so it s an open question whether or not there are enough potential beto o rourke voters even to spend that money on. he is banking on his outreach to millennials, to independents and to perhaps a broing hispanic community although it s a big open question whether many of