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On policies or how to proceed on issues. its also important to note this is the first batch of e-mails and it will contain libya and benghazi e-mails. and they will show that clinton and her inner circle closely followed the fallout from the attacks on the u.s. diplomatic mission in libya and benghazi and they were concerned about how that would impact the state department and clintons own image. the e-mails that are coming out today. only about 300 of the 30,000 shes turned over to the state de...

Senators defended it saying this is critical because of the potential deal, listen. >> we are demanding to see the details, absolutely. and you mentioned the talk it is it unprecedented and what is unprecedented is have the president and secretary of state saying they are going to negotiate a nuclear agreement interesting for republicans. the washington editorial page came out today and said it was a mistake to write the letter because it will underwrite the republican arguments. >> thank you. >...

Today. we just dont see an end game yet. this frustration within the house republicans is real. more time may not lessen that small group that does not want to see this go forward. democrats sort of came to the rescue late friday by voting for the one-week extension to take the heat off to not have the department close to not go through all of those steps needed to be taken if employee was told to stay home. those not deemed essential. so conference is supposed to be the way to work out differen...

Are still a lot of different grants that wouldnt be able to go forward, a lot of funding that would be included within the full appropriations bill that is not included in the cr. so their argument is that the clean bill that the senate passed is more of a full funding bill than the cr. not to mention the fact that -- their argument is if they pass this seven-day cr theyll be back in the same place seven days from now, three weeks from now. it will be the same fight. more of just kind of a stand...

Go to conference the legislation which we could pass which would be the september 30th funding, the balance of the year funding for the department of homeland security would no longer be in the possession of the house. so before they take the vote on a short-term cr they are going to -- resolution which keeps the homeland security funded theyre going to send back to the senate a bill which does exactly that which was supported 68-31 by the united states senate. what a sad state we are in when th...

Issues and allow a funding bill to go forward that keeps the department operating full strength at least until the end of the current fiscal year. but speaker boehner hasnt agreed to that. >> the senates only one part of the equation. when john boehner went into this fight had two priorities to make sure the government didnt shut down, to make sure the government was funded including dhs. the second was to make sure that republican priorities and by fiat priorities of the american people concern...

Security is down to the wire. joining me now is frank thorpe. frank, is this going to pass? >> its going to be a nail biter. democrats said they were going to hold out their votes. if democrats dont come to the rescue here this bill is going down which is an interesting situation since speaker boehner doesnt have a plan b. he can either bring up the senate bill that goes all the way until september. he can try another cr or he lets dhs shut down. were expecting this to pass go over to the senate...

The senate advanced to clean the dhs funding bill by a wide margin on wednesday. john boehner is going to bring to the floor a clean vote. with us now from capitol hill democratic whip congressman steny hoyer. steny, always great to talk to you. great to be with you. i was asking mark sanford if he would be willing to support a clean bill. he said no. i said what about a bill that will hold us over until the court determines a constitutionality of this issue. would you, would democrats support, ...

And he wants to tell his members that he is not part of that strategy. this is a senate strategy. theyre doing things on their own. when the senate acts theyll decide what to do. it seems to me boehner is essentially going to let himself get jammed by the senate and say by friday they have no other choice but to pass a senate clean dhs bill. indications are that the senate would eventually approve a clean bill in the next couple days as long as republicans get a separate vote targeting the presi...

President on a month by month basis, if they fund the department on a couple of months cr they can go back pressure the president again on immigration, particularly with the court battle separate court battle with the president if it doesnt go as expected. boehner will have pressure to do that. if boehner cant get votes for a clean bill in the house, they may ultimately fall back on a stop gap spending bill. thats certainly a fall back position. things are very fluid right now. they almost chang...