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Endorsing joe biden is kryptonite for either of them. the best thing they can do for each other is not endorse each other. >> thats the political reality check we got this morning. to that point, jonathan, progressives, the original problem seems to be that democrats came in feeling that a 50/50 senate offered them a mandate for major massive legislation. and that has not proven to be numerically possible. but at the end of the day, joe manchin manchin and schumer put forward a bill cut in some ...

Make it easier for our nations veterans to appeal decisions on disability claims. lets bring in the secretary of veterans affairs david shulkin. thank you for joining us this morning. all right. my understanding is that right now it is a five year wait for any veteran who wants to appeal the disability rating theyve been given and there are 407,000 cases awaiting some determination. how in the world will this new bill cut back on some of those numbers? >> its not acceptable and we worked hard to...

America. i believe president obama held a press conference on january 20th and he will parton people. that is the way or system works. its funny that the governor-elect fussed that we tut back his appointments to about where they were in the last democratic governor. he sponsored a bill cut being appointments down to 100. he helped pass it. people have to be held accountable for their actions and hold us accountable. of course there is politics involved, but there is good policies passed this we...

>> the tax man cometh with this one, too. lets say you had your credit card bill cut from $10,000 to $5,000. great news for your debt, right? but youre still going to have to pay taxes on that $5,000 that was forgiven. so keep that mind n mind, jake. >> incredible. alison kosik, thank you so much. its a microscopic monster that kills almost everyone it touches. theres a fear that it can go global. what can be done to stop the terrifying virus and how do you get it in the first place? the burie...

Prisoners debate on obamacare. he brought the senate to a halt for 21 hours to prevent obamacare funding that the spending bill cut. this is distilled to about a minute. >> madam president, i rise today in opposition to obamacare. you go to the 1940s. nazi germany. look, we saw in britain, neville chamberlain who told the british people "accept the nazis. yes, theyll dominate the continent of europe. but thats not our problem." im a big fan of eating white castle burgers. you do not like grown e...

Specifically, these new freshmen who have said we want these spending cuts, we promised the voters spending cuts. and theyre indicating that theyre going to be unbending on it. but i did speak with the house republican leadership aid that leaders have been talking for a week with this freshmen contingent and communicating with them that maybe the best way to go about this and get the cuts they want is to perhaps approve a short-term funding measure that does have some cuts in it. something that ...