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Very closely. they hear you guys say this is illegitimate, they hear you note that the president is under a co-conspirator crime with an investigation going on, this shouldnt proceed. yet the democrats on the committee are not taking the most aggressive steps, they are not stepping out of the hearing as joe illustrated and not releasing the documents that are supposedly committee confidential. what is the disconnect here? why are you guys not fighting this more aggressively if you think this is ...

Committee process or regular order, as mccain demanded in his speech. >> why dont we try to old way of legislating in the senate? >> a marathon debate is underway, as u.s. senators try to overhaul obamacare. >> senators are now focusing on whats being called a skinny repeal. >> mr. sullivan? >> three nights later, when the senate was taking the pivotal obamacare repeal vote, all eyes were on john mccain. >> i think he was conflicted, because, you know, he really does want to repeal and replace o...

>> shes sitting up there knowing he has this terminal diagnosis and then he stands there and seizes the moment again. >> were getting nothing done, my friends. were getting nothing done. >> friends say even before he got sick, mccain had grown more and more frustrated with senate dysfunction. >> we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the isle. >> his grim diagnosis was like a license to let it out. >> the senate is capable of that. we know that. weve seen it before. >> his ...

Career and i never would have thought that the u.s. president would be one of them. >> striking there, the last part, former cia operative, will hurd, in a tough race, politics are interesting this year. the level of critique and condemnation, we havent seen that, maybe a little bit post charlottesville would be the only comparison i would think of. will anything come of it? will they do anything about it? >> the one thing that may come of it, sanctions package being discussed in the senate righ...

We see so much abuse. we cannot afford to drive our debt any higher. we continue with deficit spending. right now every americans share of our debt is $64,000. we cant sustain that. we have to be responsible. we need to eliminate ear marks. >> the deficit spending isnt really being driven by ear marks per se. thats because we have entitledment programs that need to be funded and reformed. so much of the budget has to be taken up with those entities. no one is talking about reforming those. do yo...

The democrats thought they had a great idea, get rid of ice and then they figured out that that was a bad idea. look, the idea that this needed to go through a committee process, the governor of texas is somehow the same as three members of the democratic leadership coauthored this legislation, or 2020 democratic presidential candidates. its ridiculous. the democrats got caught offering a stupid idea for a bad reason. remember, they did this because of the administrations policy of separating mi...

On the judiciary committee. thank you for joining us tonight. what do you want to hear from the president tonight? >> he will appoint merrick garland. >> if he doesnt and pick some names like the ones rumored, what is your message to him and how do you build a coalition to stop a nominee not acceptable. >> we have to look a little bit beyond the nominee themself and tell the nomination process and special interests that want to be reassured they will win in court in cases which the judge needs t...

Things through the process. and in congress for some reason, people dont want to see bills die on the floor. they want to be protected. we dont allow the committee process to work. we dont put things on the floor that are difficult to pass. and i think thats not the way our founding fathers wanted congress to work. >> dana: so, what do you think about the upcoming leadership race for the republicans? representative kevin mccarty of california has certainly let it be known that he wants to be the...

Getting bills through the house. well worry about those things later. >> mr. speaker, has it been more difficult to convince the moderate members of your conference to stick behind you and not move forward? >> no, i dont think thats it at all. its this is a difficult issue. what weve been trying to do is do through the regular committee process, judiciary committee, homeland security to get 218 votes for a bill. we dont have 218 votes for that bill. so now were trying to figure out where that sw...

Branch. the house doesnt have any role in that. he has a full schedule. his message is im not going to take up and debate a bill and voted upon that is not going to have the presidents approval because otherwise it is wasted time. he is trying to husband, if you will, the time that he has got on things that actually can be done. >> sandra: this immigration fight is intensifying in the house. dividing a lot of members inside the g.o.p. >> right. i think yesterday seven additional members, five de...