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What is it? >> what we did today was we said the house of representatives is going to defend the constitutionality of the aca and we are putting is the house on the side of the people. this is something that should have been done before and were getting it done now. this lawsuit is coming out of texas and the resistance to it is also coming out of texas. im extremely proud to be helping to lead the fight on this. >> yeah. i also asked but this, which was controversial. speaker nancy pelosi wheth...

Why did you make that choice? >> well, i wanted to see what my options were and use whatever leverage i had to be my constituents. im not here so much to form friendships as i am to get things done for the people who elected me. i tried to use whatever leverage i have in any context to make sure i can deliver for my stuns. thats exactly what i did with the vote for speaker, as well. >> whats been biggest adjustment so far. youve gone from a candidate to a congress man. >> theres a lot of adjustm...

The challenge pelosi faces is how does she demonstrate shes going to stand up and fight while having to govern at the same time. having barely lived through the 2013 shutdown when i worked in the house of representatives, its a tough thing for the majority party in the house when you have a majority of the other party in the senate and in the white house. john boehner used to remind us we had one half of one third of government. thats not a point of leverage. >> and its hurting. because i have y...

He started to change his language. well, its border slats, border security, border control is what i am talking about. will that ultimately work? i dont want to say cave, but is he the person that is going to have to change his way of thinking? >> both sides are going to have to come up and give, and the democrats have leverage. he talked about a cron kraet wall during the campaign, and he talked about that kind of thing early in his term in 2017, and now he is, as you said, trying to get away f...

Out or if he starts to take questions. >> it was bad. yeah. >> nancy pelosi held a real press conference today. she took this question from manu raju. watch this. >> is there a situation in which you would accept even a dollar of wall funding for this president in order to reopen the government? >> a dollar? one dollar? yeah, one dollar. >> she was joking obviously. but shes, you know, willing to give the president exactly one dollar toward this wall. lets get real here. she said in so many word...

Theres no way around it. apple is symbolic of that, but every company that trades on the u.s. stock exchange has big operations and big plans for doing more business in china. so if china has an issue, weve got an issue, the whole world has an issue. this trade war has to beresolved and quickly. >> it sounds like both countries are feeling the pain of this trade war. who has the leverage? >> you know, self-inflicted wounds on both sides. no one has leverage here. its doing damage to both our hou...

Presidents mind that he and kim jong-un are getting along great, which makes it hard, i think, to, you know, be very strict and coercive with the north kor reereekoreans. if they denuclearize and give up the leverage they have, i think were kind of in a status quo mode which in some ways is better than where we were eight months ago. >> i want to get your take on something the president said a couple of days ago. we should pass over this week without drawing attention to it. he was talking about...

Pursuing. in terms of what the news agency put out earlier on today, that is uncorroborated by our own reporting, so we can only quote what theyre saying. theyre saying their security sources in russia suggest that he took possession of some kind of electronic memory device, a thumb drive or similar, shortly before he was arrested in a hotel close to the kremlin, poppy. this is all causing a degree of outrage across the world, not least because mr. whelan has multiple citizenship, american, cana...

Originals of all transcripts, and apparently hasnt even seen all transcripts. we know earlier he was given the michael cohen transcript. but he needs these for purposes of presenting the raw evidence to the grand jury and he also wants to look i would think at people who have been in front of that committee who may or may not have always been truthful. it will give him added leverage and could open up some other avenues for his investigation. >> not only do they have subpoena power, house democr...

Intelligence committee, adam schiff, says he is preparing for a vote to hand over committee transcripts to mueller. whats the significance of this? >> well, mueller needs the originals of all transcripts, and he apparently hasnt even seen all transcripts. we know earlier he was given the michael cohen transcript, but he needs these for purposes of presenting the raw evidence to the grand jury. and he also wants to look, i would think, at people who have been in front of that committee who may or...