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Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump Wh...

Beautiful lawn at white house. you did a great job with that distraction. lauren, lets talk about this make-or-break week for the president, a lot of moving parts, raising the debt ceiling, the whole biden economic agenda and key votes are hours away. whats happening today anawak us through the timeline. >> ana, the moment that really matters is whether or not the government will be shut down or not and congress will have its opportunity tonight when the senate brings to the floor a bill that wo...

Schumers plan suggests boosting the funding for homeland security officials to counter violent extremism, fbi domestic terrorism investigations and gun violence conducted by the cdc. the house judiciary committee is expected to return from recess early to propose new proposals against gun violence. theyre calling on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to take up house legislation on the issue of background checks. >> it takes no courage to put on the senate floor a bill that is supported by...

And i also come from a red district. my first house race was 2-1 republican, and i won it twice with a 24-point margin and then brought my whole state together and had the highest vote percentage just winning as a candidate against trump. you have to be able to lead on issues that need leadership, like womens rights, and then also bring the whole country together to get things done. >> i want to actually talk about that. you went from a red district to representing all of new york and bring it b...

On gun control, talking about a background check gun bill that will passed six months ago. >> it takes no currently to put on the senate floor a bill that is supported by 90 plus percent of americans. >> theyve got to act. weve got to start to do something. so our kids can start school and not look at me and say, "are we safe? ". >> the house has done its job to save these lives and now mitch mcconnell needs to do his. >> what takes courage is to look a special interest group in the eye and say ...

I dont know, frankly, that the democrats will get us there. i believe that mitch, and i can tell you from my standpoint i would like to see meaningful background checks. i think well have it. >> welcome back. that was president trump this afternoon once again signaling his support for background check legislation, adding he believes senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is on board. on capitol hill today house democratic leadership directed their fire at mcconnell, urging him to act on backgrou...

Their congressional leadership and also talking about the controversy at the governors mansion in virginia, suggesting that democrats have had a bad week because of that, and positive reviews for his state of the union address. i can also tell you, fred, that a source, a democratic aide, indicates that if negotiations continue to stall, they will bring to the house floor a bill that would fund dhs at least through september and keep other government agencies open. its still unclear if the republ...

Logistics and the walkthrough and the theatrics and the script for the state of the union. >> well, yes, and that may be paving the way for at least a temporary cease-fire in the shutdown. just before the show went on the air, the senate leaders, chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell, announced that they have a plan to put two bills on the floor. the first of which will be the presidents bill which democrats have already declared dead on arrival. the one that would fund his wall with only temporary ...

The floor a bill that would undo the affordable care act and just throwing millions of people off of health care. he had no problems bringing those bills, not to mention changing the rules so that it would take only a bare majority of senators to put supreme court justices on the court. so he has used his power time and again. why cant he use it to help 800,000 people who are working women, many of them, without paychecks. so the ripple effect of all of this harm from this train wreck was starte...

Politics ahead of the country. clearly you are -- are you surprised by his relative radio silence during the shutdown? >> mitch mcconnell is basically a person who will -- whose very fajile in getting what he wants. he has used his powers time and again to get votes such as the $5 trillion tax break for the richest in our country, screwing the middle class, bringing to the floor a bill that would undo the affordable care act and just throwing millions of people off of health care. he had no prob...