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that they dont want to default. they want to avoid that, but they dont agree on how to do it. mccarthy wants to hold it at hostage in return for massive cuts on discretionary programs meaning basically everything but social security and medicare which along with defense, make up the clear bulk of the budget while president biden has been adamant that no cuts are on the table. none. so what are these guys going to talk about? and how will mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer and hakeem jeffer...

Ceiling bill. several of the people who voted in the republican congress said they had negotiated as far as theyll go and the bill thats voted on after next week between the white house and national leaders is going to look different and mccarthy can do it again and get their vote. ? so if you dont have enough republicans for whatever mccasualty proposes and mccarthy is being leveraged by then, what can the rest of the house do? its a very narrow margins the republicans control house by. theyre ...

Republicans are trying to do. how long is the government open now? >> the next deadline is mid to late february. this is actually a strategic thing here. theyre still funding the government at trump administration levels every time they do one of these crs, they kicked the can further down the road and hope it gets in the control house and you get a budget that looks a lot like what they want. what we saw yesterday was a small group of mostly senate republicans who had the power but cheered on b...

This definitely got his attention. the press conference of that mi mini availability he held earlier. he was here and angry about this. talk to me about the mood. what happens? >> i think he sees it himself. the idea that while they are claiming and they put the stress on claiming that impeachment is helping them with the polls, they think personally is the same on the presidency and on this president. you saw the president here, a republican control house have this idea that impeachment will be...

Foreign actors that may have anything you want? the lindsey graham that we see today does not recognize the lindsey graham of two or three years ago, period. >> when you start understanding what hes saying, this is not how we do it. this is how we have done impeachment. the way it carries out impeachment rules now was not by democratic control house. it was set by john boehner and approved by republican control house. everything up to this point thats happening in the u.s. congress has been actu...

Reached a court with the democrats in the senate. the democratic control house. expect that issue not to get resolved whark would the president do, fought dealing with asylum law issue, pending a packet instead, thats a question for the president to answer and still remains to be seen whether or not there will be a deal cut between the two sides on that funding package, jim, we expect to hear from nancy pelosi in a matter of minutes. out of that phone call from friday fight what she plans to do ...

Floor. again, there is this sort of hypocrisy of incumbency that comes with this. once you got here on the rules as they existed, you are not going to be the first people to the front line to change those rules. thats why it is so important that you did have this young new diverse class freshmen and the democratic control house in particular who ran on this reform and got this passed in the house. >> nbc garret haake and e. e.j.dionne. >> miss gupta. >> congressman, thank you for being here. wha...

Policies and trumps personnel issues that were never seriously looked at under the republican control house, theyre going to work their way back into it. you mentioned some of the big ticket items of the presidents tax returns, it is going come up today. thats part of an effort to make a case for that publicly before you get down to the subpoena and nitty and gritty fight stage of it. and there are all these other issues of the handling of hurricane maria and irma. there is a host of issues that...

Investigations from popping up on capitol hill, this had absolutely the opposite effect. democrats in congress, jog with a bone when it comes to this investigation. chuck schumers comment intro summed it up nicely. you have democrats now watching investigations and not just at the president as an individual. they are doing that. his tax returns, for example, and the newly revamped and russia probe coming out of the house. it will focus on the idea of does any foreign government have something on...

Have to wait and see what happens. rob: we appreciate it. jillian: of republicans get their proposal through the senate it would be up to the democratic control house. rob: chris star wars says despite nancy pelosi is public refusal to negotiate democrats are in a bind. >> no is the easiest answer in washington, no is easy. i wont do it, im not getting anything so im done. nancy pelosi is in a bind, the president made something that sounds like a counteroffer. the washington post editorial page,...