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Speech, actually just said something that i want to play about what she hopes the speaker will do, which is give some sort of assurances about a daca vote. lets listen to this. we dont have it. okay. but she basically said that there are priorities in the bill that she has an unease with it, wants a vote like mitch mcconnell has guaranteed. this is part of the reason why she was on the floor yesterday. if we can listen to part of that speech. im so sorry. this is -- i keep tossing to sound we do...

>> this is challenge of being in the house minority. the politics and backlash are stronger than the politics of being in power. democrats are genuinely caught in a position where about 45%, nearly half of all daca beneficiaries are in california or texas. there are a lot of democrats in the midwest and the south and the congressional black caucus and the northeast who dont have the same level of pressure from their constituents. leader pelosi send a colleague note to her members saying there ar...

Quite a few hard-hit places in america and the virgin islands and puerto rico among those places that should see benefits from this bill. we are, again, waiting for the senate to start that vote. we know rand paul is the one holding that up. garrett haake and is a heel capoor in the newsroom. thank you very much. up next, an nbc news exclusive revealing just how far russia went and how many states that hackers reached. jim hines of the intelligence committee joins me after a quick break. [ cli...

Keep in mind some of those creditors are adversaries, and they have a motivation to try to undermine the ability of the united states to participate in global affairs and one of the quickest ways they can do it is cut off that flow of money. thats bad. >> alabama congressman mo brooks, appreciate it. garrett haake on capitol hill and joining me here in our newsroom, bloomberg national political reporter is a heel capoor. walk us through what you expect to see over the course of today. were exp...

Midnight if he decided all by himself. >> thats right. one man or woman in the senate can have enormous power if not to get something done to prevent something from being done. in this case, the senate rules require certain amounts of time between votes and how things are being considered. those rules can almost always be waived, but it requires everybody to get on the same page and vote for it unanimously. so in this case rand paul doesnt have to actually get what he wants to get his point acro...

Democrats have gotten on the daca vote, make sure there is a vote on daca. which by the way, if you -- if not for the hastert rule, you will have a majority of the house who will vote for that. but this is how the house is supposed to work. there are things in the bill that democrats want and things in this bill that republicans want. not a majority of republicans will be for this but if you put it on the floor youll get a bipartisan piece of legislation by the majority of the house. the problem...

Of democrats and a lot of republicans seem to be on board with this. the democrats have extracted a promise from senator mcconnell to move forward with an open fair process on daca. they can tell their base they received that. in the house, things are more tenuous. leadership today actively whipped against this. they sent a notice to members urging a "no" vote because speaker ryan is refusing to make the same commitment at mitch mcconnell did to allow a bipartisan process. ryan said he wants to ...

Behalf of them because it was their story in their words by and large that i told, in addition to the bible and the catholic conference of bishops and pope francis and pope benedict, so many other religious groups that we have. but i thanlik all of you and ou basic request is honor the house of representatives. give us a chance to have a vote on the floor. the republican leader in the senate -- >> there you hear, that is the core message from nancy pelosi, finishing up here an 8 hour and so minu...

Waters, someone who knows her way around parliamentary procedure herself. >> shes l ees literally just from me here right now. >> it seems exceptional and it seems dramatic. and i ask you, how does this get you closer to the daca vote? and do you think that the senate democrats have wavered a little bit because they seem to be extending republican compromises and funding now, without getting -- im watching the same feeds as you are, i didnt see a daca vote and they want to do another funding cr ...

It would say that even if dems got about 50% of the vote, under a gop jerr jerrgerrymandered se of the seats. i ask you, how is that even legal? i have news for you, its not. >> the pennsylvania supreme court threw out the states congressional map. it ruled that districts had been so heavily jergerrymandered to p republicans that it violated the constitution. >> 13 of the states 18 congressional districts went to republicans in to 2016. thats 13 republican, five democratic, that is a district th...