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hello and welcome to this special memorial day edition of "inside politics." im manu raju in for john king in washington. the president marking this memorial day at a stop at the tomb of the unknown soldier and thanking troops who gave their last measure of devotion to the country they serve. plus a debt deal. the stext of the deal is now ou. they must find a goldilocks rolled to get it to the presidents desk. and chris sununu says hell decide soon on a 2024 run but is the field al...

Capitol police what you knew donald trump had planned . You were in those meetings at the white house. Thats former congresswoman liz cheney calling out fellow republican jim jordan whos now a top candidate to replace Kevin Mccarthy as house speaker. Well have the latest on that race in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump could also be on capitol hill next week to endorse jordans bid for speaker. This would be trumps first visit to the capitol since the insurrection he inspired. And this come...

Again in this new speakers race . Youd have to ask them. I dont know. Im just going to focus on doing the work im supposed to do. I think this is a question to the institution itself. I know in the past the other leaders together all believed this should never be in play, but im not worried. Thats Kevin Mccarthy brushing off a question about the future of his speakership. It comes a farright member of the house triggered a vote that could remove him from his leadership post. Well have the latest...

Office through her term, despite being confined to a wheelchair as she recovers from a series of health issues. "the new york times" reporting since returning to washington, fine stein has missed six votes and not participated in any committee hearings or caucus lunches. this is from rosemary willman, shes just following orders as best she can. shes not herself. another said its extraordinary, her career, and i think thats getting minimized and that makes me angry. now, feinsteins issues have be...

Retirement. senator fine steins 88. speaker pelosi is 81. rewe going to start calling on people to retire after a certain age? it is incredibly partisan is. this is supposed to be an independent, nonpartisan process, but as we saw with president trumps appointees, the democrats have made this a partisan process. >> yeah. and breyers a brilliant jurist. coming up, sports teams honor those lost on 9/11. the messages of unity from the football field to the racetrack is next. ♪ hearts on fire, s...

Who dr. ford is, and shooez now contemplating testifying. im certain that senator fine stein placed heavy reliance on her repeated request for confidentiali confidentiality. >> thank you for coming in. appreciate your time. >> out front next, christine fords attorney says she doesnt want the hearing to become weaponized. is that even possible to avoid at this point? >> plus, fords decision to testify publicly, raising stark parallels to the harassment claims made by anita hill in 1991. and break...

Tom steyer. there is former san francisco mayor, will eie brown who backs feinstein and is a friend of the show. but we begin tonight with feinsteins new opponent in the party, california state senator, kevin de leon. he won 54%. that would be a majority of the votes at this state party convention. fine stein took 37%. senator, i suppose the question on a lot of democrats minds, and this is a democratic primary, is whether this is the right time for you to try to take out senator feinstein. >> w...

She has been consistently reelected, and it is because she produces results. she produces the results that come from working within the system, within this democracy, building a consensus over a series of things, including the assault weapon ban, and shes the only person whos ever been able to do that. there isnt any reason why dianne feinstein should be terminated. >> tom? >> i think that there is a conversation going on in california right now, and i think its coming out in this race between s...

Senator fine stein also pressed the president on whether it was possible to pass a clean fix for daca and that led to a house republican leader then trying to clean up donald trumps tendency to lean into whatever the latest question was. >> what about a clean daca bill now? >> i have no problem. i think that is basically what dick is saying. well come up with daca, and then we can start immediately on the phase two which would be comprehensive -- but i think we have to do daca first. >> mr. pres...

Minute. gun reform advocates seizing on this latest revelation about t las vegas attack. one tweeting im looking at ways to proceed with registration to ban bump fire stocks and close this loophole for good. doing nothing in the wake of this tragedy is not an option. fine stein tried that back in 2015 after the sandy hook tragedy. the president said we will be talking about gun laws as time goes by. we should see what happens. i tried to purchase one of these bump fire stocks here in the las veg...