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To take heat from his own party for cutting deals. >> compromise is not weakness. consensus building is a strength. >> reporter: he told me he in no regrets to do away with senate rules to do away with the filibuster, despite president donald trump benefiting with three supreme court justices. >> i have no doubt i did the right thing. >> reporter: in recent years he backed further changes to the filibuster, urging democrats to finish the job he started. reid reveled in playing the political bad ...

With a crowd. but he was a master of political hand-to-hand combat. there was two personalities going on there. >> yes. youre absolutely correct about that. the public harry reid wasnt that different from the private harry reid. the difference is, in the senate, it actually is an advantage to be low key, someone who doesnt take the spotlight, and doesnt overshadow other senators, and gets things done. harry reid was perfect for that. you know, we had for most of his tenure as majority leader, si...

She is really a consensus builder. she spent years traveling by car. building relationships with local officials at every level, running up and down the ballot, and she is a consensus building. i think she also has a very clear understanding of the massive challenges ahead. it is the districts about how to manage that. and from the biden rescue plan that is locked up in albany because of gridlock during this time, and i think she is eager to get things moving forward. >> already facing some ques...

Agenda The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress will hold a hearing titled “Enhancing Committee Productivity through Consensus Building,” on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. in 2360 Rayburn. Witnesses:  Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Representative Fred Upton (R-MI), both senior House members, worked together to pass the 21st Century Cures Act, which was later signed into law. The passage of this bill was widely considered a bipartisan victory due to its scope and ...

The Virginia High School League announced this week the continuation of the InsideOut Initiative program.

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Full disclosure, you are a co-chair for bernie sanders chain. are you concerned at all about the implications for 2020 if the senate trial is delayed? >> im not because this is such a grave matter, politics shouldnt come into the picture. what we ought to do is make sure were having a fair trial so that the american people hear evidence. and we havent heard yet from john bolton, who has had direct conversations with the president. we havent heard from mick mulvaney. i dont understand why we woul...

Consider the risk that a near-tomorrow deal with china would give away the tariff leverage needed for a broader agreement on the issues needed the most such as subsidies, domestic firms, forced tech transfers and blocking u.s. firms access to key sectors. >> 100%. and the fact that rubio is saying that reflects something important which is that theres a consensus building on both the right and the left. hes not so different from elizabeth warren in terms of what he would say about china. theres ...

Analysis, we have consensus building among analysts. thank you joel. >> my pleasure. >> up next, more on the meeting that much of the world is paying close attention to, we take you to white house correspondent on the ground with key details how it play out, coming up. ♪ ♪

Short-term, were likely to see some solution to this problem, but it will be a band-aid. the tensions between the united states and china are going to persist for decades. >> it seems we can forget that a little more than a week ago, this country was nearly at war with iran or at least minutes away from taking military action against iran. iran is on the agenda of every bilateral meeting here. they say theyre talking about it. do you see any consensus building between the u.s. and its allies her...