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I was cering it at the time. the house process was running the indicated. >> i think we need to be clear its not just simply donald trump trashing democratic norms. there are a lot of folks who are complicit. this is claire mcgas kill. shes not on the left, left, left. shes calling attention to the fact of basic norms that defy the senates normal way of behaving is tossed out the window. >> ben, heres what i find crazy about this moment. generally the way you try to get through big legislation, ...

Amendment. its all being done with an eye to try to get it by with 50 votes and the vice president. i am stunned that that is what leader mcconnell would call regular order, which he sanctity moanously said would you be the order of the day when the republicans took the senate over. give me an opportunity to work with you. thats what is so discouraging about this process. >> the chair of the center of african-american studies at prions ton joins us. it is remarkable that this process is happenin...

Among democrats, but now that this is public and nunes is still involved, the republican leadership will say this is not an okay thing. one of the big reasons why he stepped aside, nunes s because we learned of a house ethics investigation into his conduct here. so again, this is not just oh, i made a mistake. this is a real situation within the house process. >> it certainly is. shimon, youve done a lot of reporting. whats the reaction that we heard the possibility might have been yet another u...

And thinks its not credible. you have this circle problem here that comes to the chairman of the house intelligence committee and his own committee. thats why i think the real answers, if we can get accepted answers to this, its going to have to come from the senate because the house process has become so politicized. >> i want to continue this conversation. let me play more sound from the briefing with sean spicer. >> im wondering if the white house thinks its appropriate for national security ...

You cant do that. theres a huge problem in the white house itself and i think reince priebus has a responsible to find out who was this. >> nunes has done an excellent job of undermining his own investigation because the fact that the ranking member came out and said he should recuse himse himself, the intelligence committee is not usually a committee that bleeding over into the senate and theyre trying to keep this on the straight and narrow. however, because of how the house process has been i...

Theyre in compliance. its a separate but equal branch. the department of justice does not have the right not to comply with these kinds of investigations. >> barring a legitimate reason, whatever that may be, would the department of justice be in contempt if it does not turn over that evidence today? >> they could ask for a contempt -- to go through the house process. in order for them to be in contempt, theres two ways to do it. they would refer to the justice department, you can know where tha...

Smallest piece of all this is not even a sure thing to get through the senate at this particular time? >> no. also we have the house taking this position we will only take this up after the senate comes out because they dont want their members to have to take tough votes. so the soonest there could be a floor vote in the senate is april. they are gone two weeks. after that, the house process will start from square one. >> mike allen with a look inside the politico playbook, thanks so much. we wi...

Closed doors without them -- they are in the room equal number. this is hopefully going true bipartisan bill. >> explain that. the senate process got a lot of attention. theres a house process as well. >> same conversation. actually our process is actually older than theirs. we started quite some time ago. were all having conversations. >> there are members of both parties working together? >> equal number of republicans and democrats working in the house and senate to come up with a bill. bills...

welcome, everybody. right to breaking news. two western journalists including an american journalist has been killed in syria. the american is marie colvin who reported from syria for us just hours ago as he was talking to anderson cooper on this network. remi ochlik is a french photographer who was also killed. it happened in the city of homs. we have new videotape to show you. this is showing you the rubble from that videotape where the shelling rather, where the journalists were kil...

1,000 pages of his stuff. gingrich fired back. >> first of all, i want to thank speaker pelosi for what i regard as an early christmas gift. >> whats that? >> if she is suggesting she will use material she developed on te ethics committee, thats a fundamental violation of the rules of the house and i would hope that the members immediately file charges against her the second she does it. i think it tells you how capriciously political that committee was and she was on it, how tainted the outcome...