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Caucus wants and needs. her focus is the caucus, not her own political viability and the other thing is this is really more important here why she should be the next speaker and why she won the week. we have a budget deal -- the governments about to run out of money and probably will continuing resolution into when she becomes a speaker. we have a debt ceiling crisis that theyll have to face in the coming weeks and then the third and most important thing is we dont know if/when robert mueller is...

Shutdowns, was a plan after the shutdown? if they were to agree to a short-term continuing resolution to move this to january, as you described, the hand gets so much weaker. so i think this is an opening to get as much as you can but i do not think beyond the 1.6 billion, the policy trade-off republicans want to make to get more money. i dont think theyre very good if there even possible. >> james as i read the democrats and say you want your 5 billion, we will give it to you but here is the ri...

This is a good bill for democrats. its good the military gets tons of funding and thats all great. military needs a raise, i understand that. but youre smiling, not just because youre hanging out with us on whatever the heck this is, a wednesday night, youre having fun. this is a good deal gor democrats, im sorry. >> how can you not smile when youre standing next to congressman meadows. look, i havent read the full bill, i havent made my final decision on this, but if its fully funding the milit...

Democrats. its good the military gets tons of funding and thats all great. military needs a raise, i understand that. but youre smiling, not just because youre hanging out with us on whatever the heck this is, a wednesday night, youre having fun. this is a good deal gor democrats, im sorry. >> how can you not smile when youre standing next to congressman meadows. look, i havent read the full bill, i havent made my final decision on this, but if its fully funding the military programs, right now ...

Spending bill to be filed in a matter of hours with just two days to go before the government runs out of money. a short-term continuing resolution will be necessary to get to the bigger bill. this will get if senate and house time to final lie the $1.3 trillion measure without the threat of another government shutdown. the illinois governors race shaping up to be the most expensive in u.s. history. democratic billionaire j.b. krits kerr and incumbent rouner, barely squeezed out a victory. pri...

I hope we can do it better in the future because its just designed -- its not very transparent. >> a former house budget blast of the senate for creating the mess. >> we passed the appropriation bills. it is the senate they cannot get their act together and really come to this fight where we do this huge spending bill that has not been negotiated between the house members and the senate members, but just a small group of people. >> top democrats signaled the relief that in the final hours, the i...

Spoke we pushed for a three-day continuing resolution, the democrats were to keep the government open and keep people negotiating intensely. i predicted then the negotiations wouldnt really get serious until the last couple of days of a continuing resolution. and thats exactly whats happened. here we are at the at last minute a big bill coming out a few hours ago, people trying to go through and understand whats in it. of course the last moment speech and protest by rand paul, to make a very imp...

Military and the president ran on some of this in terms of making america great again. yes does this conservative and democratic response to wow, we are spending a ton of money overall, whats your answer back to the critics? >> i am also concerned. if i wouldve voted against it it wouldve been because of the deficit. i think this is the best we could have done with the senate divided 51-49. we had a filibuster, we had to get nine democrats to come over. if we voted against it we wouldve had a sh...

United states in a very important manner for his job. why they would not have sent him aside while investigations were being looked at, rather. we will talk more about this with ari fleischer coming up, former white house press secretary. we are going to move on to talk about the budget deal. the budget deal to fund the government now has president trumps signature and is back open. congress voted to end a very brief shutdown early this morning, casting a bill to fund the government through marc...

On this? >> i dont know yet. >> what? >> i do not -- >> how do you -- what will make up your mind? >> you allow me to explain. well, number one. we got the bill in the middle of the night. so im still reading it. this will be one of the more difficult decisions ive had to make in terms of allocating scarce resources. and in some respects i feel like im between the hammer and the anvil. on the one hand a no vote would shut government down. yes vote would allow us to end this budgeting by continui...