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Lawmakers in the u.s. senate are reportedly near a deal on legislation thats aimed at protecting americans from abusive bank practices. its legislation that could effect everything from your mortgage to how you pay off your credit card bills. but were told this bipartisan proposal is far short of what the obama administration first had in mind for a consumer watchdog agency. the reported deal here from two senators on the banking committee, these two, chris dodd of connecticut and bob corker of ...

Another republican utah orrin hatch called the presidents letter a positive first step. >> i want to say its the right direction. of course its not enough. to have the federal government become all-seeing eye on this is not the right way to do it. >> reporter: democratic national committee chairman tim kaine told fox the recreation option is a live option because people want results not interested in inside baseball or senate procedure. kaine told fox also hes eager to have healthcare accomplish...

But i think, given that steny hoyer said today that he doesnt necessarily see the bill going through, that there is some possibility this will be a two-step bill where they have the session tomorrow. it doesnt succeed, and they back off. at least thats my hope. >> bill: okay. but i cant see that i think this is high noon. i think this is -- you know, did you ever see that movie tombstone when you have got the characters walking down the street and they got the guns and ready to go. i dont see an...

Hoyer said today that he doesnt necessarily see the bill going through, that there is some possibility this will be a two-step bill where they have the session tomorrow. it doesnt succeed, and they back off. at least thats my hope. >> bill: okay. but i cant see that i think this is high noon. i think this is -- you know, did you ever see that movie tombstone when you have got the characters walking down the street and they got the guns and ready to go. i dont see anybody red backing off tomorrow...

Pablo, all of us, just from the appearance of things -- granted, were not on that luge. but when you look at a luger fly into a metal pole thats not padded and thats almost from the top of the track? common sense would tell you that thing should have been padded. it might have changed the outcome. >> it should have been padded. the track alterations they made are equally important, if not more so. squaring off that final curve means bringing down the starting point to lower, toward the womens st...

Baseball. i think it will be the economy. and that is not unrelated but i think you will see a tremendous battle over who owns the economy, and republicans trying to say its obamas economy, and hes responsible and if we have an unemployment rate -- according to all the economic projections that came out with the budget yesterday, they are talking about an unemployment rate of 10%, or close to it, by the time of the election in november. if that happens that is politically toxic and the democrats...

Are going to say regardless of the accuracy of some of this stuff, a lot of this is palace intrigue and inside baseball. they will point to the presidents accomplishments and they will say he was engaged in historic tax reform, there is economic growth, there is deregulation, there are a long line of supreme court justices and appeals court justices, and a stronger military. they will say those are real things, real accomplishments and all of this other stuff is noise. >> bill: also woodward sai...

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Story, although it sounds a little inside baseball, because the presidents lawyers argue how could he ask comey to end an investigation into flynn when the white house believed at the time that there was no investigation. >> you highlight -- theres an annotated version of this memo and you highlight a memo from don mcgahn. the fbi told him they were closing it out. why is that so novel here? you highlight this as being pivotal. >> yeah, were in the weeds but its a central question of the mueller...

>> there are false accusations out there. it does happen. even the most liberal, most progressive advocates for women against violence could concede the point. as an accusation enough? >> yes, it is enough. i completely agree that in the time we are in right now this is going to be perhaps a bloodied period. the fact is that democrats and democratic party -- where you have a waiver, zero tolerance, but... >> tucker: thats the state of play. kevin smiley joins us tonight. >> is my pleasure, thank...