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By basically a marsh cloud that eric cantor is basically making federal disaster relief funds part of political gamesmanship. shouldnt emergencies be separate from politics? >> absolutely, melissa. this is outrageous on the part of cantor and the house republican leaders. the fact of the matter is, traditionally, ive been in congress for 24 years now, emergency supplemental appropriation bills were for that, emergencies. the reason they bypassed the budget process is because we wanted to get the...

Support that, they want to keep defense open for a year. they want to start their war on women in this budget. and they want to also begin to erode the environmental protection agency. so there are many issues outside that the republicans want to attach to a continuing resolution. the democrats have come more than halfway. >> im sorry. i interrupted you, congresswoman. but youre saying even that one-week extension, youre saying that planned parenthood and the epa and other riders were going to b...

To enforce and protect all citizens and rights. they are saying they dont want government to intervene. dr. king fought for full health care, full employment and he died working on a poor peoples campaign. they would call that handouts. it is almost insulting and suddenly historically inaccurate for the political and spiritual ads of barry goldwater to now interpret to those ads of dr. king and what dr. king was about. >> do you think glenn beck is trying to make up for his comment that he made ...

Mary land roe is saying we have to do more oil drilling. shes saying, lets attack the oil slick over there before we attack it over here. rush limbaugh has this fantasy about environmentalists s.w.a.t. teams that caused this problem. hes bought in by corporate interests. and nobody represents us. and obama agreed to the ridiculous republican plan to do more offshore oil drilling. so now hes on board. whos fighting for us? >> matt, your perspective? and again the issue as i see it -- does the gov...

There are tools in place in the immigration system that can be helpful in preventing terrorism and you could make a very good case that every domestic terrorist attack prefort hood could have been stopped if proper immigration enforcement was put in place. jon: you say universities but its really a government function, isnt it, to make sure that people are who they say they are when they come to this country to study? >> its a great point. its a shared responsibility and the government ultimatel...

Three senate democrats so far is that they will back him. joe manchin, donnelly, heidi heitkamp. they went has praised them but blasts the point less obstruction of the rest of the party. >> when it comes to director pompeo, its absolutely outrageous that he would not move through quickly. he is extremely qualified for the position. not only the white house but all of america should be calling on the senate to actually do their job, do what they are required and expected to do. that is to help g...

Mike? >> well, greta, everybody seems to think there will be the votes to pass this. the timing, senator harry reid wants an agreement to get a certain number of presidential nominees through before the senate leaves for christmas recess. lets take a look at the senate floor where theyre talking about whether or not theyre for or against the massive bill. to buy time the congress has passed the temporary extension to funds the government through tomorrow night. the house passed a second temporar...

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Grover norquist. you wrote this week in "the guardian," i think the tax battle is for the soul of america. and im wondering if you think framing the debate further deepens the divide in the parties. our government only functions through compromise, and if theres no room for that, how do you propose the government function when faith in congress is at an all-time low. >> what you have in washington, d.c. now are two political parties, two tendencies that are trying to move in very different direc...