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Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow along with Phil Mattingly live outside of the capitol in washington, d. C. , this morning. It is wednesday, october 4th, and there is no Speaker Of The House. We are going to discuss the politics of how this happened and where we go from here. Certainly were going to talk about the process of What Happens Next, but we are really focusing on the implications. The peoples house is paralyzed. It cannot do its job for you, the American People, after Kevin Mcca...

A look at the days top news and headlines. Mean . I will boil it down to immunity is cooperation like. This is how immunity comes around. Feds want to talk to a witness. That witness then takes the fifth amendment, which means they have some potential criminal exposure of some nature or other. Then it is back in the feds court. What the fed can do is apply to get a program through immunity, and that is a lengthy process, prosecutors are not very generous with immunity, you have to ask, is this a...

School, and speaking there. the reason i enjoy it is because i get traction from the attempt by the students to say here is this a dumb southern hick, hes a conservative, hes a christian, we will eat him alive. i just enjoy the heck out of being there and answering their questions with questions and finding out they are not quite as smart as they always think they are. but how do they know that if they dont ever have a point of view that doesnt agree with theirs? >> laura: speaking of cowards, i...

I get traction from the attempt by the students to say here is this a dumb southern hick, hes a conservative, hes a christian, we will eat him alive. i just enjoy the heck out of being there and answering their questions with questions and finding out they are not quite as smart as they always think they are. but how do they know that if they dont ever have a point of view that doesnt agree with theirs? >> laura: speaking of cowards, i want to get to this anonymous column in "the new york times....

In one universe. but when the president is on national tv discussing the department of justice. the attorney general feels that the integrity and the effectiveness of the department that he oversees and the people that serve under him is being questioned, as a leader he is going to speak out. thats exactly what he did. >> ed: does the president have a fair point? when he tells him to let ehrhardt and others, look, i am under fire. i am under investigation. and i look at the other side, and he sa...

And they were housed in a big, you know, john stossel did this special on it? they were housed in a building for years at a time collecting a check? im wondering if lois lerner will work for years at a time collecting a check but no longer allowed to do her job but unable to fair her because of union rules. >> weve come a long way from rogue agents in cincinnati, havent we? >> you saw the other thing that has come out. a career employio has said it was a political official, a political pointee o...