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the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but hes the man to do it. chad, whats happening? >> reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost...

Force in the world and theyre invading already in a surreptitious way, the united states in order to do that. >> china is mounting a massive economic merchantilism around the world, in africa and the middle east as well and we in the country are under seeing from chinese espionage and its multi-faceted. weve got the confucius institutes and opm and buying our agricultural land and especially the land near military bases. so, theres-- what we need from our administration from the biden administra...

>> deputy assistant secretary george kent and an individual from the office of -- individual in inintelligence community. >> as you know the intelligence community has 17 different agencies. what agency was this individual from? >> if i could interject here. we dont need to use these proceedings -- >> its my time. >> i know but we need to protect the whistleblower. >> using a tax- payer funded twitter account to attack the war veteran while he was testifying. and saying he had consrps about his ...

About this meeting. jared kushner and donald trump jr. this comes on the heels of numerous meetings undisclosed with the russians, not just with jared kushner and members of the trump family, but also individuals on his campaign. i think in and of itself not particularly overly problematic in a sort of series of events around this issue. i think its troublesome for the trump administration that they keep having more and more information come out. why was this meeting taking place? it was fairly ...

Im honored to appear before you today as the presidents nominee to lead the central intelligence agent. im grateful to president obama for sending my name forward. thank you for your service to our nation and strong support for those who defend it. this includes the extraordinary men and women of the cia, and inintelligence community so many of whom like me call virginia home and call you our senator. i would the not be here today without the love and support of my wife kathy, my life partner an...

Group with them. thats like saying create a nonproliferation committee with north korea. his number one job, i mean, its easy to laugh about this and make fun of this and i do that, too, all the time, but his number one job is to defend the united states from foreign enemies. hes not doing that. hes cozying up and saying he is honored to meet the man that the intelligence community said attacked -- >> an intellgence community that he was attacking before he was president. on the story thats in "...

The advice of the nintelligence community. >> right. now, i want to get you to comment on the "new york times" story but because tarant just mentioned the intelligence community and the fight that the president is in with the intelligent community. navi, as someone who is a former agent how do you feel about the commander in chief and the president of the united states constantly at war with the intelligence service that is supposed to be working for him in the protection of this country? >> you...