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welcome. its great to see you. if you are sticking with us, we are thankful for that. i am coming to you live from washington, d.c., today. in just a couple of hours, the president will travel from the white house to the white house correspondents dinner. and annual tradition in full swing tonight. just days after announcing his reelection bid, the president will take good-natured aim at those who cover him every single day. more on that ahead. also coming up this hour, a big political...

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Bills that you just talked about. the protecting our kids act with the goal of the house being able to come back next week, put that legislation in front of the rules committee on tuesday and then of course put it to the house floor, our sources are telling us wednesday or thursday. of course, what happens to that package of legislation is largely dependent on what goes on in the senate and that is why were watching those negotiations so closely. but really i think the thing that is important to...

Credits among a wide range of other issues. he wants some changes including the expansion of medicare as part of this house package. so those negotiations will continue in the senate. then if they do get manchin on board theyve got to get it through the arduous process of voting on amendments in the senate, get it through there, pass it back in the house, get the progressives on board here. so while this is going to be a significant step forward for the democratic agenda, it is certainly not the...

To get it done. they exactly theyll get that eventually when this happens. so when mccarthy wraps up, thats when nancy pelosi is expected to speak, and then after we will get into a series of votes that will lead to the final passage vote. but, don, that is just one step in that process of passing this big bill. even though weve gotten to this point, its been so difficult for democrats to even get to the point of final passage. it still has to go to the senate. joe manchin told me earlier today ...

Rather small problems when you think about the practical implications here. so the white house has started to ratchet up the pressure on congress. last week they had janet yellen call senator mcconnell, talk to him about what the consequences could be and what yellen has said is that the fed has been taking extraordinary measures in the treasury to keep the funds flowing. that can only go until october. so mid october, they are going to run out of tools and levers that they can pull. press secre...

Hour, chad pergram, following the details, all things related to capitol hill, particularly the senate and house. what can you tell us about this historic moment for the senate in g.o.p.? >> this is in fact a big win for president trump. they stumbled badly in the summer and spring to repeal and replace obamacare. they could never quite get there but dont forget there is a major provision in this bill that gets rid of the individual mandate, the requirement that you have to purchase health insur...

>> sean duffy from the great state of wisconsin on the house financial services and budget committee. he joins us. thanks for expwroing us, sir. >> thanks for having me on. >> pete sessions no rules committee tonight. there is no vote tonight. that is very grim news. do you have anything to add to that? >> i think you mentioned that we have pizzas coming into the capitol. we havent given up on the house. we are going to still do work trying to get a house package out to the senate. i think whats...

But to say we are all in favor of extending the payroll tax cuts and lets do something else to create jobs is not a crazy position. and for obama to make it -- >> i work on capitol hill. obama is engaging here. the problem for boehner right now is corralling all of his caucus today and pa passing the payroll tax cut. they want to make a broader argument about full-scale tax reform. but thats too big of an argument for a lot of republicans to make on a national scale. obama is in a good bargainin...

Aids package and house package. nancy pelosi is back from recess to prepare a bill to prevent thousands of teachers from being laid off. luke russert is in washington. luke, bring them back, get it done. >> bring them back, get it done indeed, tamron. last week speaker pelosi announcing from a tweet the house would be? a special session, the first since the summer of 2005, to pass this $26 billion jobs bill that was just passed in the senate last week. within the bill there are $10 billion speci...