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To come here, looking for port of entry and to seek asylum, when you see those shots of tear gas and you see women running with kids with no shoes on, it pulls at the heartstrings, as it should. geraldo rivera yesterday, on "the five," made an impassioned defense on the part of people he calls economic refugees. that they are coming here for a better life, for a job. a speed when he knows, though, that the enumeration of things that qualify for asylum do not include you being poor. >> jessica: h...

Remarkable. >> nancy pelosi intends to be speaker of the house, but on friday, those intentions hit another speed bump when nine democrats from the moderate problem solvers caucus said they cant support her at this time because she has not made changes they say will help break gridlock in congress. if not her, then who? they suffered a major blow this week when their preferred candidate, congressman marsha fudge of ohio cut a deal with a subcommittee. she then threw her support behind pelosi. in...

She is vote-counting. and everybody knows, when she comes to your door and says "how are you when to vote? are you way to vote for me? remember what i did." she is personally going to whip and she does that really well. its hard to run against that. marcia fudge has talked with the support he/she has gone, but can you count the votes? you go get votes and know that youve got them based on those conversations? that takes years to build a pretty made one of the reasons why she and the president co...

The chief attack on them, if not one of the main attacks on them was if you elect this democrat, nancy pelosi would be speaker. a lot of them distanced themselves from her and are they going to be able to perhaps vote yes or vote no in the caucus vote, where she will easily get a majority and maybe vote a different way on the floor? are they going to be able to splooit slice that? jason crowe, abigail spanbanger, theyve made a promise to their districts. >> we want women in charge just not this ...

To be that person. shes not in the race at this moment. theres a lot of steps include going to the caucus vote. she could try to beat her on the floor. i think that would be unlikely. a bunch of us are feet from here. new members keep coming out of office sounding open to supporting pelosi and we wait for this letter. theres rumors that a letter of about 18 members who will not vote for pelosi will come out. it looks like they face planting into rock and theyre not releasing this letter. shes cy...

Ballot, of the vote. there is no evidence that we have all of these illegal votes. what we have instead are votes that are being counted. so in california, for example, you can submit an absentee ballot on election day, mail it in, and three days later it can still be accepted. thats a valid ballot. it just takes time to count those ballots, and when all of those ballots are counted were going to increase from three in california to six, at least six flips in california. >> yeah, the president a...

Trump care and say i did it. he doesnt want to make fundamental changes. theres a huge political equation after what complete failure in doing this to begin with a month ago, is theyre going to watch these elections coming up, specifically georgia, and i dont think theyre going to do anything to their detriment before that election happens because a lot of whats going to happen in post-elections if a democrat wins the republicans know theyre in trouble. if the republican wins that race they can ...

Going to make people vote to do that and then the senate is not going to pass the bill. you do not hang your caucus out to dry if youre a speaker of either party when you know it cant pass the senate. os specially on difficult, objectionable stuff like this. every ad in 2018 about people who voted away with preexisting condition which has a 95% approval rating among the american people. >> the other thing thats fascinating to me, donald trump has done what barack obama was never able to do, whic...

Speaker and leadership want to pass rules changes the freedom caucus doesnt like. what they have as leverage is simply their caucus vote of 40 to say if he passes these rules changes, we arent going to vote for him. they are negotiating and doing fancy footwork now in order to prevent rules changes like vacate the chair motion which was the motion that led to speaker boehners downfall. >> sounds like the type of thing we have heard before. >> posturing? what? >> harumphing. posturing. mary kathe...

To burn down the republican party and establish a white national party in its place. donald trump has been the avatar of that. >> wilson is a never trump guy. is utah a game changer for trump? >> well, a lot of republicans have walked away from trump. our governor has said he would vote for trump but would not go so far to endorse him and now hes withdrawn that endorsement and his governor was never behind trump. we are seeing here in utah that a lot of republicans walking away. our state party ...