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Choice but to veto it. >> bill clinton figured out a clever jujitsu. to say newt gingrich wants to make your grandmother destitute. >> think about a party whose last stand is to frighten 85-year-olds. and youll understand how totally morally bankrupt the modern democratic party is. >> the speaker of the house has made an unprecedented threat. yesterday mr. gingrich told government security he was willing to let the united states default on its debt. >> the republicans decided to go to the wall a...

Government. >> were prepared to negotiate on the budget issues, but lets not threaten the country with shutdown. >> the president said we really ought to meet at the white house in the oval office. it came down to whether or not we were going to cut medicare deeper. the president said something ill never forget. it may cost me the election, but i cannot do this. >> the washington passport agency is closed for lack of funding. >> due to the shut down of the federal government -- >> social securit...

People say, what have you done for me lately? campaigns are about the future. when you pick some fights? policy fights that people say its worth me going to the polls. >> we remind voters what we have done but then we have to lay groundwork for what we would do and continue to do in the future. you are exactly right. i guess the best example is going back to harry reid in 2014. he decided he wasnt going to vote on anything because he wanted to protect his members. it didnt work out well as a res...

That are 20, 30 years old. classes that have been cancelled, like foreign language and arts classes. and the four-day school week in some of the districts that dealt with the budget issues. what the teachers are hoping to do tomorrow is send a message to the lawmakers here by numbers and by showing up and saying we really need these changes and want to see it happen. right now theyre saying the walk out could last indefinitely. >> thanks for that. dont go anywhere. we are just getting started.

Students or to abandon their schools. they say they are doing it for the students because in addition to the pay racise, they want to see several hundred million dollars invested in the schools here. theyre hoping the walk out will pressure them to the raise taxes in certain areas to accomplish that. they say they have broken desks, chairs, dealing with textbooks that are 20, 30 years old. classes that have been cancelled, like foreign language and arts classes. and the four-day school week in s...

If our economy begins to grow, we can afford these budgets and thats where were heading and were off to a good start this year with the growth in this economy. you know we talk about on your show about were finally seeing wage increases. maria: thats right. >> and we havent seen that in years. if that continues to happen this economy is going to take off and thats where our revenue growth will be so that we can afford defense spending so we can afford infrastructure. maria: its a great point. we...

Been an incredible night in the city of brotherly love. >> it was. i watched the game from bucks county, where i grew up. andrea, youre still a legend there from your coverage of frank rizzo. whenever i bring you up, they say shes a legend, a philly reporter. >> an honorary philadelphian today. its great to be part of the team. thanks so much. thanks to all of you for starting us off. and leanon panetta, former whit house chief of stuff, former budget chair, remembering way back. i can only imag...

Pensions, veterans benefits, and the d.r.e.a.m.ers. and i think that we need an overall solution to our budget issues. it is in the interest of moderates in the red states to have that kind of solution as well. >> i want to talk about the language that is being used surrounding this debate. you had a tweet where you said that trump is making, quote, white nationalists demands. do you think it helps to describe these demands as white nationalist when you are trying to work with republicans? >> we...

Lifting the debt ceiling, the budget issues. before you know it, they have to work on next years budget and they havent finished last year. >> the unfinished business. >> a lot to do in a short period of time. we have some of the more memorable state of the union moments over the years and one of the worlds history yans to talk about what those moments mean and what we can expect tomorrow night. thats next. today, the new new york is sparking innovation. you see it in the southern tier with co...

Hes made promises before, particularly on daca. the vote didnt happen in january at least as he promised to jeff flake. >> so, look, a couple of differences. one is this is a commitment he made in public as opposed to behind closed doors to jeff flake. second, a commitment he made to over 15 republican senators, in addition to the american people. and finally, there are lots more levers in this process. going three weeks on a continuing resolution, still leaves all the budget issues. it leaves a...