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a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt ga...

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At least one senator is, bernie sanders of vermont is the chair of the senate budget committee, and he joins me now. senator, you know, look, i have been covering politics in washington for 15 years, thereabouts, and its always been the case. theres money for domestic programs which is real money that has to be accounted for. where you have to get cbo scores, has to be paid for, and then theres money for defense, particularly for war funding. it just doesnt count. its in a different category. ho...

Clearly he had the details. he knew, looks like he is the guy. >> we dont know. this is one of those things. there are false confessions. numerous studies where people confess falsely when they are in custody. thats why miranda rights -- ski want to go t to the body. >> we dont know all the details and we dont know what led them there. what we are saying is he could have and i imagine that will be the defense theory, that it was a false confession. what theyre trying to do is trying to eliminate...

Campaign law because its a clear corporate contribution, no question about it. originally they had a plan that cohen was going to reimburse. but pecker said no, were not going to reimburse. so you have those two building blocks. if you add something of value, thats just more and more building brolocks. i want to say one thing about this constant john edwards defense thing. in the john edwards case, the poor prosecutors didnt have any witnesses. they had cohen-like. a guy who lie and told differe...

Are back at the capitol. that measure were told will punt on this defense thing until they with regroup in a couple weeks before christmas. what do you think? >> thats a continuing resolution. two more weeks to keep the government going. weve been operating in a defense department and across the government at large for 11 years, an absurdity. when you have a continuing resolution, theres no new starts. you can only executed what youre doing. you cant execute multiyear contracts. it hobbles the m...

Thing at the end of the show but the idea of being the free world has been our pride, were the worlds democracy, free elections, self-determination, the values of the west which weve been able to extend through africa and latin america. a lot of countries in the world look to us as a model, and security is at the heart of that. also, the russians never liked nato because it works, because it worked. it kept germany in our hands and eventually got germany entirely in our hands, brought the baltic...

U.s. commitment to natos article five which says an armed attack on one member of nato is an attack on all members. politico magazine is reporting that president trumps national security team was blind-sided by his speech because he appeared to delete the mention three of his advisers spent weeks on that speech to make sure it was included. it was not until he started delivering the speech that his national security team realized trump had failed to include the language reaffirming the so-called...

Repeating that article five, this mutual defense thing, has only ever once been called into action. >> 9/11. >> for 9/11. it was actually in our defense. but what happened -- >> we have a time problem here. im sorry. >> im just going to say this. general mattis has to run to australia and tell everybody, bear with us, bear with us, bear with us. the problem is people are going to tolerate this now but if it continues, if he continues to say these things about nato, a marriage dies about two year...

And well work with congress to figure out how its funded. >> neil: the defense thing is curious. in two phone calls, he was able to shave significant sums, hundreds of millions, maybe billions over the years between the air force one contract and a jet fighter contract. that was what he was able to do to trim excess on maybe unnecessary spending in defense just in a day. so why add $54 billion when maybe you can multiply that out and extract more savings? you dont have to increase the budget at ...