security clearance. and general kelly said tomorrow is the day they re not going to be able to see the information anymore. jill, these are public servants playing with house money in the people s house, all of it tax funded dealing with our secrets at the end of the day, that s a way of saying we haven t been told much about any of this. the white house has been very unwilling to share information about how many people don t have security clearance, they ve it basically said that those with really high security clearances that are interim security clearances aren t going to be able to see the top level classified information, so all eyes on jared kushner, the president s son-in-law, who is one of those people. they ve been having a tug of war over what happens with the security clearance. and general kelly said tomorrow is the day they re not going to be able to see the information anymore. jill, these are public servants playing with house money in the people s house, all of it
side need 60 votes to pass a spending bill through which means they really need the support of about 9 democrats depending on who republicans end up voting for. so they have some wiggle room here. as negotiations continue tonight, many want to see other things added to spending bill, not just daca. many say they want extension of the chip extension, children s health insurance program money thrown in there. will that be enough to woo the senate democrats? still outstanding question. but that s senate side. there are major problems house side among republicans to get the spending bill through. so a lot of issues and not a lot of time. thank you so much, sunlen. all right. the president s failure to get an immigration deal done. is it tax fault? that is it according to lindsey graham. i think someone on his staff gave him really bad advice
motorcade diverted today. that s because protests that s occurring as well as across the nation calling it tax s day demanding that he should release his tax returns. that s creating a little bit of a stir here in the city. what we are looking at is the vice president, mike pence and his journey to the asia pacific region. that s where we ll be meeting with key leader allies including japan and austria. his first stop is north korea and that s where he will be meeting with the acting president and spending time with korea troops and making his point that united states is remaining vigilant and national security interest is shared with the south koreans and they are
people that are month more ideological than he is, in many ways much more conservative. also talking about this 35% tax. hillary clinton talked about this exit tax during her campaign. and obviously republicans weren t going to be happy with that. so you re cool with this, democrats are cool with this? she talked about it. this was one of her campaign platform proposals. talking about trying to keep jobs here in the u.s. and this is this triangulation? no, serious, is this to get in line with donald trump? in this current environment, you know, i m not so sure. i d actually reserve my comment. in february, we re electing a new dnc chair. i imagine there s going to be more conversations about how to push forward. so owing to going back to the conversation about democrats and chuck schumer, there has to be a conversation about where we go from here. not being obstructists but talking about smart policy. i d hate to see those two senators go. we need them to sort of continue
improvement on social and cultural issues, improvement on civil rights with decreasing economic opportunity. those things are not simple. you can have economic growth and make advances in other areas. i think the future of the party is going to rely on our ability to communicate both. how are they going to find a way to reach out to rural parts of the america, white working man that went en masse to donald trump but appealing to the minority community? they struggled on both fronts during this election. i think bernie sanders and hillary clinton did talk a lot about these issues during the campaign. unfortunately it got tied up in conversations about e-mails. if you think about what hillary was talking about in terms of economic opportunity, seeing manufacturing jobs go, but doing what germany did which was improve apprenticeship programs, taxing corporations with an exit tax saying if you leave the country, we are going to impose this tax on you to keep jobs here. we ve been talki