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This cap steel, providing for the omnibus deal, not a cr, which we seem to do aud naseum. >> and we are hearing that the mueller team is likely to meet with steve bannon next week. bannon was expected to show up, he was subpoenaed to show up or his subpoena was agreed to to get him to show up before the senate intelligence committee. and that is still being negotiated with white house objections. should the focus now be on him going in front of -- bannon going in front of mueller and dealing wit...

Shooter. >> and the question is now, what is the majority party in congress going to do about it? i think in the case of the dreamers and the cr, they will ignore him. >> look, you learn to compartmentalize. >> but where are they going to rise. >> trump is a completely different type of politician. he will say things that may not be truthful. at the end he survives if he is able to deliver in his policies and make big changes. people are frustrated with washington. >> its all fair game there. ou...

Its not sblierly clear how theyll avoid one. the only vehicle at this point to prevent one is to pass another continuing resolution which on the house side is loaded up with these goodies in an effort to win republicans. the two year funding for community health centers to win over democrats. the democrats say they dont want it. so that cr is likely to pass the house with just republican votes, maybe a handful of democrats. then it comes over to the senate and its not clear whether senate democr...

The problem is were dealing with a very erratic persona in the oval office. one day hes in favor of it, heart bleeds for dreamers, and the other day he takes a hard-line stance and alines himself with the likes of tom cotton, wanting to restrict further immigration and protection for the dreamers. so which donald trump are we dealing with on which day is really a big question that overshadows these negotiations to try to get a deal. >> and influences as you point out there, your own decision. we...

Just last month. house speaker paul ryan late last week explained why another temporary funding measure is needed. >> the reason were having these crs in the first place is because the democrats have been holding the cap agreement hostage, the military funding hostage for an unrelated issue. i think were making progress. even if we get everything figured out by, say, tuesday, we still have to have a cr, if only for the fact that we have to give the appropriators time to write a bill. >> reporter...

Kelly: youre both right, the government is facing shutdown as of thursday february 8th, the white house say it is president is travel to go ohio today to actually tout his new federal tax overhaul but here in washington lawmakers, well, they have to find agreement once again in the short-term spending or face another government shutdown on february 8th, now, republicans want a spending bill through march 22nd, democrats want to resolve the immigration issue involving daca, the deferred action fo...

What theyre proposing but what i hear of it i think a viable alternative. >> im just curious about the vote. if they say to you its going on the a straight cr -- >> im going to have a problem with it. >> will you vote for a straight cr? >> we have to protect these kids. they have been coming in the tens of thousands to the capital everyday. god only knows how they afford, by bus, train, who knows how they get there. theyre sleeping ten deep on someones living room floor walking through the halls...

Legislation? >> there is three good groups -- bipartisan groups working on something. they are similar in some ways an different in other ways. the stock market -- weve been following the stock market and weve been reporting on it. down 1100 points and last week down 900 points and this is because of a lack of certainty and predictability here in washington and the fear of the budget deficit is now going to scream upward. and we have to pass a bill. c.r. is a terrible way to do a bill. it is dem...

It just doesnt work. >> we have a lot of time between now and the end of the week. congressman, great for your insights, sir, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> i want to bring in democratic strategist jake mcavy and sherm michael. if we hear from the congressman on what might happen in the senate that might include daca, would anything survive the house, you think? >> thats the hard part. we know that caucus members know they will not vote in favor of another continuing resolution cr. s...

Keep pounding on. this has nothing to do with working everyday people. the little bit of bump theyre seeing is going to go away. one more thing, joy, can we dispel this whole idea that the tea party was about the deficit when clearly that is not true. what it was about was a reactionary to the racism in america that we were seeing at the time. it had nothing to do with deficit. look what republicans are doing. look where we are right now. in december, they passed this tax plan for the wealthy, f...