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Productive congresses weve had in history. or is it possible that somehow, new year, new you, is it possible that the republicans might use this as an opportunity to try and figure out how to get things done in a bipartisan way? >> one of the republicans ever done this in the last five years, six years. >> i had to ask. >> you know the answer to this, okay, this is gonna be an absolute disaster, do nothing congress this year. first of, all in a major election year like this, presidential electio...

Treatment. so its likely he will be out of washington for a time. and that could mean there is a period after bill johnson steps down that republicans will literally only have 218 lawmakers in the house. they wont be able to lose not one vote on legislation. do you think that leads to a log jam in congress in terms of just zero productivity coming off one of the least productive congresses weve had in history? or is it possible somehow, you know, use a new year, new york, is it possible that the...

Trying to implicate lawrence tribe in all of this. >> i think tribe is a well-known legal scholar. the idea is if we can train this was a theory advocated by lawrence tribe, the liberals wont know what to do with themselves. but in fact, as professor tribe writes what chesboro was really a bastardization, number one, that its unconstitutional and the other, that congress can change the law at any time and is not beholden to the laws of prior congresses. thats true but they have to change the law...

The justice department if only they had gone along with donald trumps lies. senior white house attorneys. the people who defended him when he used his office, when he used his office to ignore congresses authorization of weapons to ukraine. he said, no, no to zelenskyy, you need to give me dirt on my political opponent or wont send you weapons. they defended him through that, but here every senior white house attorney told him he was wrong. that he could not overturn the election, and he needed ...

Impeachments from previous congresses, but, again, mccarthy is trying to buy himself some time. the challenge you have is a five-seat majority that the gop has in the house, and you have plenty of republicans in that majority who do not want to take a vote on expunging donald trump from his previous impeachments, especially as hes about to face a federal indictment for his role, it looks like, inciting the riot of january 6th. one of those two indictments is directly tied to his conduct leading ...

It is like a playoff game here for you got to get a good nights sleep, stay organized arrive early, and you have to expect drama. so when you sit there and you are getting delayed, if you dont have a book, if you dont have an iphone charger, thats your fault. >> jeanine: you know, harold the truth is that during covid taxpayers put over $54 billion into the airline industry, in addition to infrastructure. they got $54 billion. three years later, we have extreme staffing problems. one flight had ...

From which this passed out of committee and then, of course, the overwhelmingly bipartisan nature that these ndaa bills tend to pass in most congresses. thats one of the key questions that i was talking with speaker kevin mccarthy about when we were in a press conference with him just in the last few minutes, asking about what he sees as the difference between why democrats were not willing to vote for the ndaa this time around, and if he saw this as the right vehicle for things like abortion re...

Done. we have a gun violence prevention caucus and i am a member of it. there is legislation to do the bump site bill. we have over 100 cosponsors, it was that we have ever had this time. get rid of weapons of war on your streets, and tighten up background checks and just move forward. i cannot believe that the amara, its been disgraced, has a much power. nearly two dozen congressional democrats are urging the president not to transfer the cluster munitions to ukraine. these lawmakers saying in ...

Working with republican senator tim scott for almost three years now on a package of police reforms. still hasnt been passed. whats holding it up? >> youve got to find people on the other side of the aisle that are willing to take those steps with you. i have not found that whatsoever. but im continuing to do the work, and this is too important. and why is it too important? because you see things like are happening in minneapolis. you still see too many videotapes of people being treated unjustl...

President. now, very rarely are people held in contempt. it is quite rare. but what mccarthy is saying in that closed door meeting, if christopher wray doesnt hand over those documents as you laid out in the top there, he will support himself, mccarthy will support contempt. that will give james comer the ability to go ahead with it in committee. doesnt mean anything in actuality because it will stop in the house of representatives. not like the department of justice will take it up and do anyth...