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Thats what the white house will argue. the republicans would argue we won an election and have few points of leverage. especially with that narrow majority. very points of leverage. here is one of them. will they hold is the question. this is dusty johnson of south dakota. what in the world are we doing if were not having a serious conversation about spending. that means some tension with the senate own other party. he says im not concerned about that tension. you dont have to be concerned about...

They are killing 80,000 americans a year. the mexican government does little to thwart this. there should be a bipartisan effort in congress to deal with them. that gives our president more leverage trying to get the mexican government to do its job regarding immigration when the cartels control and thwarting fentanyl killing american citizens. these people are more like isis than the mafia. we saw a war after the mexican government arrested el-chapos son. this looks more like a war. these peopl...

Person who may have had access to whatever it is that leaked. from what we can see so far, while they may have talked to 200 people, they didnt talk to "x" clerks, they didnt talk to the very universe of people who may have done the leaking and left the court to go onto some great legal job. they didnt talk to those people. they didnt call the fbi because you know what would happen, a real case would have happened. they would have actually had the criminal process. someone stole government prope...

You noted, wolf, they dont believe there would be negotiation. this is responsibility for lawmakers. they understand where house republicans stand on things but after 10, 11, 12 years after these type of negotiations, this type of effort to use this issue as leverage, they plan to hold firm on where they stand and try to put a stop as one official said earlier today is negotiating with a gun to your head. >> maggie, what do you see as viable options here for the house speaker mccarthy? is there ...

>> many, many times, and again, were looking at history, weve been in debt a lot over our 200 and nearly 50 years in existence. ali vitali, so republicans have mate this an issue. when democrats have been president. not when republicans have been president. last time a republican was president was a few years ago, and the republicans in the house raised the debt three times, no questions asked, the debt ceiling. so why is it suddenly something that house republicans are willing to potentially sh...

Chancellor, is there anything more that the u.s. can do to give more leverage, more diplomatic leverage to help him with diplomacy, which is the only end game here. >> theres an enormous amount being done by 50 countries around the world. and i think that what you pointed out at the beginning of this that secretary austin is in germany, hes having a contact group meeting tomorrow to talk about where were going. theres been reporting about how we are working with ukrainians to think about the tim...

Its killing our citizens. we have to stay you will cooperate with us. we can give the president military authority. you better work with us. we dont want to do this without you, but we will. >> neil: what you have heard from colleagues? any reaction from the white house? >> none from the white house yet. i want to push this out to my democrat colleagues and say i know we wont agree on a lot of stuff. we dont agree on immigration reform and border security. we have to agree we have a common enemy...

Spending. that wouldnt touch defense money but it would touch other programs like entitlements and democrats talking about that, so all of these things kind of swirling in the pot on capitol hill as we move toshd the battle around the new rolls and a lot of people are really nervous about it. >> do republicans have any leverage? the senate, mitch mcconnell says this is not going to ultimately be an issue, the debt ceiling will get raised and we which r-never going to default on our debt, so mcca...

I understand. we have laws and they need to be followed. i helped 80 people that become united states citizens in my first term. im proud of that. they followed the rules. what is happening at our border is a disgrace. we need to stop it. were going to use our leverage in the house to push the administration and the senate to work with us. >> martha: you have a narrow majority. everybody will be watching the priorities and to see what gets acted upon in this environment. thank you for being here...

And time again, which is prudently do its job. >> what congress has done time and time again, i get it. were at the beginning so have a couple of months for this -- ill call it a dance. it is a dangerous dance as manu noted. do they really believe they can hold the no blank, no negotiate strategy? thats what we see them doing at the moment publicly they have been insisting they have no plans to negotiate. this white house thinks that it has a degree of leverage given the republicans very slim ma...