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To sort through the projects under military construction to see which ones would have the funds moved away in order to pay for the wall. thats going to be very difficult for republicans in the house and some districts to defend if their projects are being defunded. then youre looking at what we talked about before, imminent domain property along the border in states like texas and arizona that martha mcsally and john cornan are going to have to defend if they come under proposed sections of wall...

Threatens the countrys security. its not for a political whim of the president and no president has ever used it in the way this president has. so thats the reason it will be challenged because this is just going beyond anything that anybody ever thought about doing. >> now where do you get the confidence? i get the precedent rule. im old enough to remember when mitch mcconnell said to harry reid, you better not blow up this filibuster rule for these nominations. its going to come back to haunt ...

Trade 24/5, with td ameritrade. ♪ it is remarkable that this last presidential campaign both presidential candidates of the major political parties were under active fbi investigation. and that is i think unprecedented. >> welcome back. that was senate majority whip john cornan of texas. it was an interesting observation. it was his way of defleging. he didnt want to answer the question of is todays meeting appropriate. instead he took that long view. but its interesting to me. joining me, j...

Informant. right now, only two lawmakers, both republicans, are invited. congressman devin nunes, and trey dowdy. they are the heads of the house intelligence and house oversight committees respectively. they have both vigorously defended the president in the past. a lot of other lawmakers are demanding an invite, including the gachk eight, the intelligence heads. they say this meeting is quote completely improper in its proposed forum. they arent the only ones who want to answered. chuck grassl...

And ryan is far from the only house republican deciding to call it quits this year. in fact, for a party that controls the white house and congress an awful lot of its members arent interested in sticking around. ryans departure is perhaps the bige blow yet. john cornan of texas acknowledged to rotters today that ryans retirement creates another element of urn sent in the leadup to the 2019 election. while some republicans are walking aig away completely there are indications that those sticking...

Checks. these are reasonable common sense solutions we can have. last time you and i talked was after san bernardino, a tragedy in my home district. 14 people lost their lives to an ar-15-like weapon. this is personal for me and my community. >> presumably you liked what the president said during the meeting with republican and democratic lawmakers at the white house when he seemed to please dianne feinstein who was sitting next to him. not so much john cornan, the republican majority whip. >> t...

Of frustration here on the senate side. it is a diplomat frustration. rand paul has brought together republicans and democrats in being really frustrated with the fact that they are having this vote so late that the government shutdown is happening. they are pinning it on rand palm of as you noted there is a difference between this shutdown and the ones in the past. in 2013 that shutdown was because they were trying to add a priovision on to a piece of legislation. 21 days ago they were trying t...

To do something that were not going to be there. but we should be ensuring that others are also focused on the human rights abuseses abuses, oe focused on what iran is doing in the region to destabilize the region. the more we do that, the more the europeans will have to join with us. the key is the more collective the response will be, the more certain we can isolate the ie rain jane regime and raise the cost of what theyre doing. >> great to see you as always. thank you. >> my pleasure. flu ...

Loaded in the police vans. that was tonight in maine. senator collins faced pressure all over her state while this bill makes the final push through congress. in maine, her constituents never made it through the front door and held a rally in the ice in 20 degree weather because the senator staff locked the office. they said you left us in the cold and all signed their names. this was in texas today outside john cornans office. singing tax bill christmas car rolls -- caro rolls. republicans unve...

Actually get to the core of fixing that individual market, potentially or at least it relates directly to it. there have been a lot of conversations going on among offices, with the insurance industry, et cetera to make this change. so my sense from talking to ours is that this has more to do with the cbo score and those insurance market reforms. we still i think have a long way to go before you start to see them try to figure out how to get these moderates and conse e conservatives on board. th...