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Politics and have a vote on this and this alone and pass it in the house and then count on democrats to deliver eight to ten votes in the senate. i dont think its a impossible task when you look at the number of democrats who voted to reoffer a section 702 of the fire set. 18, 19 democrats voted for that. >> bret: they are going to do a cr and were going to fight this in february? >> thats what has to be done. >> you have democrats in trump states worried about reelection so thats why republican...

Are willing to work with us and get on board. >> you also are rolling out infrastructure plan this month. if the daca, if the c.r. gets passed this week, is priority number one next week daca or trying to get support together for infrastructure? >> look, we very much want to get a deal done on daca. thats a big priority for us right now. but we can certainly manage more than one thing at a time as we are used to doing around here. and if infrastructure gets rolled out by the end of the month or ...

Following up on halle, would you encourage steve bannon to tell all like his camp is saying he will? >> look, as we have said regardless of who it is, were going to be fully cooperative with the special counsel and encourage everybody involved in the process to be fully cooperative. the first part of your question is are we prepared? i think we have been dealing with this hoax for the better part of a year. we have to endure the ridiculousness for another month, we can certainly handle it. do th...

Members of congress, both sides of the aisle, and it would seem to have the votes to continue funding the military, take care of the child health care issue. perhaps some other things. as i understand it, they have the votes and they are fairly confident. >> bret: not really what you wanted. >> no, the cr is getting in the way of an awful lot of things but thats the reality of life in washington. >> bret: your time on the hill today got some headlines. "washington post" has a story, says "kelly ...

Was relayed via phone and, again, was following standard procedure for an instance like this and something that will likely happen again on any other number of occasions not just within this administration but future administrations. jordan? >> thanks, sarah. the house republican leadership is proposing a funding bill that would provide the government funding through february 16th and reauthorized chip for six years. is that a proposal that the white house supports? >> we do support the short-te...

Spending is concerned. and that was his primary concern fresh out of the meeting at the pentagon. >> harris: all we have heard democrats talk about though are chip and daca. they got six years on chip in this, for all this millions of children. i think 9 million of them that depend on that health insurance. its a gap between medicaid and their parents and what they can afford. democrats are getting six years on a cr, on a continuing resolution. i dont know how they explain that to their base, if...

Vote for a c.r. republicans were trying to -- the president was trying to put the pressure on democrats and democrats are saying there is a little bit of division. but there are those red state democrats who are saying, we dont want to shut down the government over this. republicans are also facing the issue of they will certainly get the blame from the public. weve seen that before. >> when you control -- whoever controls of the leverage -- >> and also risking, too, getting some blame from the ...

Wed like to do all those things if democrats are willing to work with us and get on board. >> youre rolling out an infrastructure plan this it month. if the cr is passed this week, is priority number one next week daca or trying to get student together for infrastructure? >> we very much want to get a deal done on daca. that is a big priority for us right now. but we can certainly manage more than one thing at a time as were used to doing around here. and if infrastructure gets rolled out by the...

. sometimes they have a white house attorney present in the room. this time it was something that was relayed via phone. and was following standard procedure for an instabs like this. but future administrations. >> the house republican leadership is proposing a funding bill to provide funding through february 16th and reauthorship is that a proposal that the white house supports. >> we do support the short-term cr. thats not our first choice. wed still like to see clean funding bill, a two-year ...

Week in front congressional investigators. so perhaps this whole movie will play again either later on this week, the week after that, et cetera. so i think that is notable. there were a lot of questions from steve bannon including one from us. would weve been working on a story over the subpoena to steve bannon and when i asked sarah sanders if she was concerned, if the white house was concerned about what steve bannon might reveal to robert mueller, she said not that youre aware of. and the ot...