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And he was sitting down, and the whole reason this process dragged out for so long was precisely because there was this very long, extended set of negotiations with republican senators ultimately at the same time those negotiations were happening, you had charles grassley back in his home state going around talking about death panels. and eventually, i think democrats wisened up and realized the republicans had no intention of helping them pass any legislation. capitol hill is remembering cong...

Going after the antitrust exemption for insurance companies. i for the life of me cant figure out why theres price fixing. >> and why would you do the deal with the drug companies that you absolutely criticized before the whole thing started? you did the whole thing in secret. >> and then you can say, why did you do the deal with the big hospitals that you lied about publicly until the "new york times" caught you and put it on the front page of their sunday paper? listen, the republicans politic...

Had been there for so long. there was one part of the house they calmed murthas corner where you would go to talk to him. every time you would come teen election, even fit was going to be close, you would just assume murtha was going to carry his district in pennsylvania. he has long been just a stalwart on the house when it comes to defense issues. he linked himself to nancy pelosi very closely. he oversaw the house defense appropriations committee. he held the purse strings for a lot of big is...

>> what has gotten this guy to talk is that his father tried to warrant embassy about him, you know, was brought over hp his family was brought over. if you were in a military situation, that would not happen. >> exactly. >> dont we want our interrogators to have a lot of different tools to use? why would we want to create a system where they can only water board when -- under torture as we know from john mccain and others, when people will say anything to stop the abuse. from another senate m...

Meeting. hes starting the conversation, if you will, with a fight by calling out each leader individually for not paying enough, contributing enough of their gdp to defense issues. this isnt a new argument. other presidents have done this repeatedly. barack obama did. george w. bush did as well. but in a very different way. if it was only this, that would be one thing, john. but this is really a part of all of the fighting that this president is doing with our allies. hes simply wanting to poke ...

Wondering whether this is typical trump bluster or perhaps part of a larger strategy of some sort maybe. others are starting to actually wonder if the 70-year-old alliance can survive. nbcs geoff bennett is traveling with the president in brussels. kasie hunt is on capitol hill. jeff, as end stand it, another tweet from president trump. whats he saying now? >> reporter: thats right, craig. the president sent a tweet that captures the thrust of the argument hes been making all day. the president ...

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Conservative that pushed for the war in iraq. >> isnt it one of the reasons that people attack us we have troops in their counselry? >> first of all why 2000 americans got killed had little to do with saudi arabia and everything to do with osama bin laden and al-qaida. a guy running for president of the united states who is getting poll number oversimplifies the foreign policy in the time of war. of course we need adjustments. but stop helping israel and investments and cut the defense budget an...

Issues. and hopefully not nominate stop rocket attack against the outpost. >> shannon: wow! >> so they knew the rocket people frankly like christine attacks were coming from a odonnell that has no chance of actually winning. >> shannon: alexander, i want general vicinity, but the way to ask you. things are you have to know is this an opening for where theyre coming from to prosecute the target. democrats, this tea party and with the camera, they were establishment riff that able to pinpoint it a...

Theyre opposed to the policy and keep kicking people out. i dont know who promised, but if the white house keeps kicking people out, that will allow the policy to be repealed. that didnt happen today. if this was a political deal, a political compromise, that involves two parties negotiating in good faith. the other side in this case did not hold up their end of the bargain, if indeed that was the bargain. so if youre the white house, are you still going to hold up your end of this broken bargai...