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texas sized fall from grace, the states controversial attorney general, ken paxton, is impeached by fellow republicans in the state house. texas congresswoman, jasmine calk, joins me live to talk about that and more. and, as sunday show first. republican presidential candidate, asa hutchison, joins me live. how does he plan to stand out in a crowded field still dominated by donald trump? ill ask him. im jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. we begin with a deal of -- house speake...

is. welcome to you. im yasmin vossoughian in for christian sing live at msnbc headquarters. today authorities in a pair of texas towns are grappling with a ton of unanswered questions as they investigate the deaths of 16 people, half guild in a hail of gunfire in the city of allen, the other half killed when a vehicle drove into a crowd in brownsville. we got an update on the second incident near the border. well bring you that in just a moment. meanwhile, the attack at a mall in a...

Clyburn who i served with in congress and he talked about compassion and i am really glad that there has been a deal made although i have not seen the results of it i think speaker mccarthy has done an excellent job in shepherding this for the republican majority in congress. particularly, on the work requirement issue and we will see where that lands but to me is compassionate if you have a work requirement for able-bodied well fared recipients particularly if you can utilize worker training as...

The short termfunding bill expires in death. and 11 republicans were helping him pass this debt extension. meanwhile as jacqui mentioned, we still dont have a top line nor the social spending bills. moderates and progresses are battling this out. we dont know what is in the plan. we dont know how much its going to cost. nancy pelosi telling reporters, you know what? its the medias fault for americans not understanding the presidents multi-trillion dollar bill. listen. >> do you think you need to...

Was going to blow them up with everybody else. so they pulled the plug on the plan, mitch folded and we have time to do build back better. >> sheldon whitehouse, perhaps hoping to earn the gratitude of a grateful nation, mitch mcconnell, ever the statesman, said he will not block a debt extension until december. its tentative. new poll shows president bidens approval rating continues to drop as his agenda remains stalled. hes hit all-time new low, 38% of those questioned saying they approve of t...

Speaker nancy pelosi is speaking to reporters later this morning. congress can tinker with the numbers, but it should get it out. the problem is the process that this is roped up into. its likely to go on the government funding bill which has a september 30th deadline. we know congress loves to brush up against deadlines and get really close to it and there are contentious matters on that bill. the debt limit, my sources tell me many democrats expect to put a debt extension on the bill and that ...

About keeping the government running or increasing the debt ceiling, maintaining the debt extension, the ceiling. and when you look at all of that, then to throw into the mix, okay you will take on a hot button immigration issue, ryan is really telling him here, hey, you know, maybe we will do that, maybe we wont. but let congress start to take a crack at it and we can spread this out: there are other more pressing issues. >> let me get in one more to kelly, and the white house announced obs thu...

Discipline, but its a hard shot. >> steve, you know how mitch mcconnell thinks about these things. do you expect leader mcconnell to wrap all of the difficult issues up into one package so that its one vote essentially on the debt ceiling, on the budget, and on hurricane relief? >> you know, i think thats a real possibility. when you dont have enough time, the thing you have to do -- and this sounds like yogi berra, is create more time. >> thats fair. >> and they really do have the ability to do...

Vanlt in those positions because we cannot calculate when the next natural disaster will take place. so hopefully kelly being in there will enable to have some discipline, but its a hard shot. >> steve, you know how mitch mcconnell thinks about these things. do you expect leader mcconnell to wrap all of the difficult issues up into one package so that its one vote essentially on the debt ceiling, on the budget, and on hurricane relief? >> you know, i think thats a real possibility. when you dont...

Will vote for -- i know that id be interested in voting for just a debt extension. but if they couple it with policy changes, such as giving tax breaks to the wealthy or cutting programs that are critically important to middle income families, then theyre on their own. >> i guess the bottom line is -- government shut down, would you call for that? april 28th is the deadline to fund the government. should democrats rule out a shut down? >> no, democrats do not want to shut down. we want the gover...