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The democrats in a letter i just received today that most of the pins pilli principles that would get the country growing again theyre not interested in addressing. >> finding agreement will be difficult especially over how to pay for it. common ground especially on such a complex topic anyway as tax reform. good luck with that. >> and you have to have those relationships to make this deal work. tax reform is not easy. ahead the secretary of state says hes open to diplomatic talks with north k...

Attacks and instability in lebanon, syria, iraq and beyond. >> if we are speaking honestly about conflict in the middle east, we need to start with the chief culprit, iran and its partner militia has below. iran and hezbollah conspired together to stabilize the middle east, and their actions are expanding. >> israel in the u.k. were among the predictable supporters of ambassador haleys mission, russia and china predictably hesitant to shift the focus. >> we would like to express our categorical ...

Statements toward the iran nuclear deal, he says essentially that the iran nuclear deal while iran is compliant with the nuclear agreement, it is still an agreement that will lead to iran getting a nuclear weapon, so that trump administration has put forward a review of the nuclear deal calling into question really whether the administration long-term plans to adhere to that agreement. iran has not responded to the secretary of states comments, the foreign minister of iran has just tweeted "iran...

Strong and prosperous once again. >> a lot of american steel could go into that planned border wall and border security is also on the administration agenda today, attorney general jeff sessions and the dhs secretary general john kelly are going to the border in el paso, texas, today to have a look, they will be in san diego tomorrow. there is a living funding fight in week, and one of the centerpieces of that fight is the border wall. it is a fight that could actually shut down the government i...

Our pledge to the country. id ask the majority leader to speak. >> good morning. i think the results of the past couple weeks have been progress, valuable progress. from every aspect and caucus and group is united around this amendment. every day we move closer and closer to finding agreement in the best way to repeal and replace obamacare. you can already see some of the result. thats why today the rules committee is going to meet to add an amendment to the american health care act. i want to b...

Progress. it will help us build momentum for delivering on our pledge to the country. i would like to ask the majority leader to speak if we could. >> thank you speaker. thank you all for being here and good morning. the results of the past couple weeks have been progress. valuable progress. i think that shows who is standing behind us. its a micro cause of conference. every aspect and every caucus and group is here today being united. each and every day we move closer and closer to finding agre...

Is one place where you and congressman orourke are finding agreement when it comes to, for example, health care. one thing. >> well, on health care we agree that that, you know, you shouldnt be prevented from getting insurance because of a preexisting condition. >> okay. all right. >> another topic like the wall. we both agree that building a wall from sea to sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security. and that we should be using more of those resources on collecting...

Super committee because it has no legal authority, but a way to kick start budget talks. more importantly, there is the "wall street journal" offense. they are making it known that they are interested in striking a deal with the president that includes entitlement reform. the question is whether ryan and boehner can sell the idea to their conference. in the op ed, he write this is. to break the deadlock, both should agree to common sense reforms and tax codes. we can ask them to pay higher premi...

Whip steve scalise who was gravely wounded by a would-be mass murderer says new restrictions are to the answer. >> in my case, you have people on site with guns to immediately counter the shooter and take him down. that happens every day in america where regular citizens that have their own guns because of the second amendment protection are able to defend themselves against criminals. >> where some republicans are finding agreement is on so-called bump stocks that the las vegas shooter used to ...