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The republican party, we used to be the party of fiscal responsibility, so signs of fiscal issues and ballooning the national deficit used to be the heart. so its not surprising but this report now saying were talking another trillion dollars put a little bit of a damper into the plans here and theres another issue here too i think people criticized in the process, theyre actually right about that. when tax reform was passed in the 80s, there were 30 plus hearings. when you have something of thi...

News, the president needs a win. the stumbling block on taxes here, with bob corker towards the end, whats your read on that? >> well, im not surprised. bob corker and jeff flake have been deficit hawks their entire careers. the republican party, we used to be the party of fiscal responsibility, so ballooning the deficit and these kinds of fiscal issues used to be at the heart of republican policy. so, the fact that theyre sticking to their guns on this isnt surprising. but this report now sayin...

Suspend any policy changes toward russia until we get t the bottom of what happened during the electi. >> on that note, theres been a call from chuck schumer, the senate minority leader, for a suspension of the hearing process for neil gorsuch while the investigation is happening. do you agree with that? >> im going to respect what the senate is doing and i believe that we should suspend anything significant under this presidency right now with respect to foreign policy. i think senator schumer ...

He can go to a nato meet, the president may go as well. do you think there are signals being sent by this administration to this day of a kind of almost public, if tacit, quid pro quo? >> yes, chris. and what we tried to show yesterday was first russia is a foreign adversary. thats why having such deep ties to russia is concerning. and these deep ties not only may have extended to their interference campaign, we are now seeing a dramatic change in u.s. policy. that ranges from the change in the ...

I want to know what that looks like, hes a proponent of extreme vetting. this was not vetted when he looked at this candidate? >> no doubt, in many ways, look, as much as donald trump will say, he always thought he was going to win. if you talk to those who were close to him, they were surprised he actually won the election on election day as many of us were. having said that, because of that, they didnt necessarily have the apparatus in place as robust as it should be, where you would be vettin...

Of cowardice. >> just repealing it and saying they will replace it sometime down the road will cause huge calami calamity. >> there is a vow to delay trumps nominees, possibly for months. >> the idea is to figure out how from day one how to oppose every single one of these individuals completely sad. >> democrats claim eight of the nominees have not submitted materials that they need to review before the hearings. if republicans quickly think they can jam through a whole slate of nominees withou...

Of materials they need to review before the hearings. chuck schumer warning, if republicans quickly think they can jam through a whole slate of nominees without a fair hearing process, they are sorely mistaken. >> the reality is democrats dont have a lot of recourse to block the president-elects cabinet picks. most of them are very likely to be confirmed just because of the republican majority on capitol hill. it something that under scores the power republicans really have now in washington. ob...

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Loyalists, very concerned. they say, we think that this is important, but they dont want to put members of congress in a tough position debating between, should we help the veterans here or watch the bottom line and thats what theyre trying to resolve, and the less we hear publicly about this, neil, means theyre actually trying to get somewhere. usually when theyre not gettinger in, thats where you start to hear the public yelling and bricks thrown back and forth. im told the hearing could happe...