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Finally, changing spending as usual depends on changing politics as usual and ive proposed a bipartisan fiscal commission, a panel of democrats and republicans, who would hammer out concrete deficit reduction proposals over the medium and long term, but would come up with those answers by a certain deadline. i should point out by the way that is an idea that had strong bipartisan support, it was originally introduced by senators greg on the republican side and conrad on the democratic side, and ...

Called the for the people accurateo act, democrats want to bring to the floor the week of june 21st. there is a problem. manchin opposes that made that clear in the op-ed over the weekend. 49 democrats, the others in the caucus support that, vintd on as cosponsors. but manchin is opposed. even if you agree to change the rules they wouldnt have the votes to get it passed. how could they move forward? manchin proposed the idea of a narrow proposal, something to restore the aspect of the 1965 votin...

Sides is growing by the day but threats against apartment of homeland security and especially ice employees have gotten so bad that a departmentwide memo was sent out warning employees to get their doors and windows locked. one official found a burned and decapitated animal on his front porch in dc. >> stop kidnapping children! >> reporter: protesters camped outside ice headquarters for over a week, got their message amplified thanks to one of the states congressman. it is time to abolish ice, t...

Meanwhile, democrat leadership continue to push for a deal to protect dreamers. in the senate, majority leader mitch mcconnell urging lawmakers not to rush a d.r.e.a.m.er deal, despite the fact that he needs at least nine democratic votes to stave off a shutdown. >> it is clear that congress has at least, at least until march at a minimum, and possibly even longer, to reach a compromise that resolves the daca question. there is no reason congress should hold government funding hostage over the i...

Protect the integrity and independence of that investigation. thats point number one. second, we need to have all of the evidence subpoenaed and produced. not only to the special counsel but also to the judiciary committee including donald trump and jared kushner in their account of the june meetings that occurred. but most important, the president has to be sent the message that there will be a firestorm that republicans and democrats will join together in the kind of reaction that followed the...

With completeness and integrity. thats why we need the bipartisan legislation that i and others have introduced that will stop the president from firing robert mueller and protect the integrity and independence of that investigation. thats point number one. second, we need to have all of the evidence subpoenaed and produced. not only to the special counsel but also to the judiciary committee including donald trump and jared kushner in their account of the june meetings that occurred. but most im...

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Paul: right, exactly. i dont think you can say just on its face credibly say, look, i can investigate this body that i ran for 12 years. its very hard to do. >> right. the fbi is now an issue in this investigation. its not just did they use this. at one point they were trying to put christopher steele on the payroll. and the question is, why? how does, how do you go from being an opposition research person for one campaign to a paid fbi agent, fbi informant or something with information? so the ...

With president trump. >> dana: i think why not? >> kimberly: like the beer summit. >> dana: but with sincerity. i think president trump is in a great position. if the nfl came out and said we are for criminal justice form. and you have bipartisan support in the house and senate with cosponsors to say we are for criminal justice reform too. why wouldnt you want to drive it forward and be the leader? if it is there for the taking, make it happen. >> juan: i dont know. i dont know if jeff sessions ...

Comply with federal law but executive director chris cox stopped short of calling for a ban until the review is done. >> we didnt talk about banning anything. we talked about atf reviewing whether these were in compliance with federal law and if not lets look at working together, figuring out a way to address this moving forward. >> reporter: paul ryan wants to look at this issue but for some democrats like house minority leader nancy pelosi, simply banning the bump stocks doesnt go far enough. ...