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The president keeps saying he is basically for all intents and purposes killed obamacare. not true. but the individual mandate has gone away. so what now? >> the repeal is a big victory for republicans who obviously have failed on on maybe the biggest campaign promise they ever offered. and i think republicans are going to try to do more on that. maybe they can come to the table and get something done. whether he believes that, who knows. we may see legislation to stabilize the affordable care a...

Delegates. a huge landslide in new jersey, a blue state, and they won a senate race in alabama! now, i know there were allegations of child molestation, probably not the best issue there, but if you just explain it like that, its like when scott brown won the senate seat in massachusetts. all the democrats owe it to one office, no big deal. but then we rolled into the biggest landslide in the midterm. >> do you any that a democratic wave is coming? >> one would hope. i saw a survey that said the...

Those things. the chip program, i mean for gods sake, how do you have 9 million children land right there at the mercy of republicans and you dont say we commit to come together for 9 million children in this country? >> i think donald trump drama does cover up a lot of internal strife going on within the democratic party right now. yes, they have an 18-point generic ballot polling advantage. but, man, are they really going to bet their races on running against republicans on tax cuts? are they ...

I want to let you listen to a woman named sara cameron, shes from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. her monthly income varies. she talks about the coverage her sons actually get through c.h.i.p., this is from station kdka in pittsburgh. >> this is who c.h.i.p. covers. this 8-year-old got his glasses a month ago and c.h.i.p. helped with that. my 5-year-old, austin is nearly asthmatic and he has some problems, sometimes breathing when he gets a cold and it goes straight to his lung. >> so, can you explain...

Communications and agency handling the clinton email investigation, this comes in a call for him to be fired over allegations of conflict of interest and anti-trump prejudice at the fbi. rob: government shutdown narrowly avoided overnight, lawmakers passing a stopgap bill to keep the government open until january 19th, kicking the can down the road including funding for childrens health insurance program, chip program and extends a government surveillance program. despite threats from democrats ...

I do expect him to take a few questions as he leaves the white house and walks on to marine one, poppy. >> that will happen during this show. thank you very much. to capitol hill where lawmakers averted a government shutdown again, and postponed important things for down the road, and manu raju is here to talk about this, and keeping the lights on and government functioning is very important, and we spoke about c.h.i.p., funding health care for kids whose parents cant afford it, and they did g...

Term stopgap measure. in the end, it ends up being a skinny measure for all the debate that went into this. it keeps the government funds through january 19th. the fisa program expires the end of the year and extends chip, the childrens health insurance program that expired this past october. now, leading up to this, there had been much debate, a lot of back and forth among house republicans squabbling on what could be included and what could get added to the short term cr. in the end, they didn...

Agenda. a lot of issues, thorny issues that have been kicked down the road for 2018, hes going to have to have some legislative support, including democrats, chris, next year for daca and other matters. >> i see the big issue that the president was brought here because big business wasnt done. people had this constant fighting, this constant uncertainty. i think a lot of people were turned against this president, moderates, independents who voted for him because of what happened with health care...

Nationwide. republican-controlled congress basically forgot to renew it when it expired in september. kept saying going to get around to it. but states are going to start cutting kids off, even in middle of cancer treatments and other medical interventions, cut off en masse. republicans decided to do the tax thing instead of re-upping the c.h.i.p. program which nobody admits to being against. putting it off 80 days now and less than two weeks away from thousands of kids in bunch of kids across t...

>> because thats the way congress works. it works by deadline. i wish we could have a forward reaching congress but thats not the nature of the entity. it just digested a very big bill in the form of the tax bill. now its dealing with the continuing resolution that i think i believe will get resolved this afternoon. >> lets talk about childrens health insurance program. would extend funding for that program through march i believe. nearly 9 million children across this country stand to lose heal...