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Pressure and keep his job. chris is the author of "the fix" on washington post.com he joins us from the nations capital. chris, good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> you bet. give us the comeback plan here. >> sure. >> what do you think michael steele has to do? >> let me give you a couple points. the first one, any time i can quote al davis the owner of the oakland raiders i try to. his famous credo, just win, baby. that is what michael steele needs to do. in some ways, ed, i think micha...

To pass healthcare on a 51-vote majority and that is what they are preparing to do. >> yes and no. im not as exorcised about this as you are. a couple points. there is rampant hypocrisy on both sides on this issue of the 50 plus 1. if you go back to the debate over judicial nominations you can find a lot of republicans who were talking about the minority running rough shot with the filibuster. now they embrace the filibuster. you can find plenty of democrats talking about well you cant pass some...

Getting off ground. >> you think the uh -- you think a lot of people pull the "i am kevin smith" card. >> i made" dogma" will not get you far. >> kevin seems like a nice guy who would not sue, but he could sue for humiliation, rights? >> there is a passenger bill of rights thats been discussy -- discussed, but i dont know if that has anything. but why did they let him on? why dont they have a scale at the entrance to the plane and you have to pass. >> you mean like the human one on the biggest l...

Importance of this meeting. mark mazzetti said how close he felt to the moves that the mother team was making. what does it tell you in terms of where they are in this investigation? >> a couple points. paul manafort tried to get rid of his investigation based on that it was beyond the original investigation. that failed. it gives them the broader scope as to anything arises from the russia investigation. it could be these could be tangentially related. i dont think that the team of

As soon as we figure out what he is for, then i would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels. >> ask the white house, what are you for? i cant read your mind. steve bannon could be returning to capitol hill today. >> at some point he has to come back because this broad declaration that i wont answer questions, not just about the transition but anything that happened after the campaign, including up to the present date, is unsustainable. >> did the white house tell him to invoke...

The rights of african-americans. he fought for people of all race, regardless of their country of origin. and if i were the president today i might quietly sign that proclamation without any press there, and get to florida. anything he does at this point adds fuel to the fire. >> thank you. i would like to make a couple points. one is, his economic package, his tax relief package is helping all americans no matter what race, color or crede. thats one thing. back to the issue of the sources at th...

Sure lots of questions about tax cuts and of course this afternoon the expected announcement of jerome powell to be the new fed chair. >> harris: did you say tore a strip off of chuck schumer? >> yes. >> harris: you did. john roberts, thank you very much. lets bring in in a fox news contributor, ari fleischer. i want to hit a couple points, lets start with the president and this idea that some are accusing him of getting into politics because of what he put on the death penalty with the bloodthi...

A trillion dollars from the poor and sick to the rich. >> that part of it, i think, it is really key to me that folks understand. there is a different independent thing that dont have to be together but are. there are the exchanges which they set up and all this attention paid to. and then theres medicaid and how it is funded and how big it is. those dont have to be connected. right? >> a couple points. they dont have to be connected. number two, you could fix the problems of exchanges. which ar...

That over and get control of the house, they need to net a total of 24 seats next year. neil, back to you. >> neil: thanks, connell. so closeness of these elections, particularly some of these special events and the recent ones by a couple points, is that a message to republicans? that they shouldnt get too ahead of themselves here? aaron mcpike with us here. what is the sense? relief on the part, i guess, of the people in the building behind you that they still have the seats, but it was close....

Strongly. >> youre the president of the united states. you said he was sick and bad. >> you can take it any way you want. >> but im asking you. you dont want it to be fake news. >> you dont have to ask me. >> why not? >> because i have my own opinions. you can have your own opinions. >> youre the president of the united states. >> thats enough. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> joining me now, nbcs kristen welker at the white house and nbcs kasie hunt on capitol hill. kristin, that was a mom...