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Take control. >> well, on the first one, government funding, you cant really do that via reconciliation, thats typically done with -- you have to get around the filibuster which needs ten senate republicans. there is no greater motivator as you probably know in washington than the looming holiday season, so this will get done at some point, i think the question on government funding is whether democrats have another opportunity to sort of pass a whole bunch of priorities before they lose the hou...

Against crisis burisma allied with the searing democratic forces, the kurds going back on was a decade to 2014. they are also guarding the whole refugee camp with their tens of thousands of terrorists for this amply cant do it all at once. i expect to their ongoing back channel discussions with turkey. turkey has a lot of leverage because they controlled newton nato membership for finland and sweden. and i am sure were making the point that of a turkish attack on these kurds would impact turkey ...

Year after the u.s. withdrawal from there, the taliban has now resumed policies like publicly flogging people. it is remarkable, turning the clock back decades really centuries now. does this kind of punishment mean that this brief period where the taliban claimed at least in some parts of the country to not be the taliban of pre-9/11, that that is over and they are, as we know them to be, as extreme as they come? >> youre absolutely correct. the taliban, u.s. forces in afghanistan really were c...

Sword. yes, on the inflation front. no on the recession front. if amazon is forced to cut workers because of the slowdown that is taking place in europe. very tough to call at this juncture. europe is in a little more difficult economic shop and maybe more leverage here and less there. >> lets talk about black friday and shopping and you are at a mall and im going to say you pulled the short straw for the holiday shopping assignment day, im sorry, what is it like at the mall? is it like in years...

And graham here. i get they are trying to do what they can to help him win. but i mean is this, what is the plan here? >> the whole of republican internal politicking. weve seen this play out over the last couple of weeks with the nrcc. sometimes fighting with much mcconnell and what calls team has put a lot of money in on this. but everybody wants to be next to herschel to demonstrate that we are doing what we can to build this up. not majority, at least to get from getting to 51 where democrat...

Congress is sworn in? >> you know, first of all, you know, the speakership is harder than becoming the leader of the minority caucus obviously or even in the senate becoming the majority leader because you need a majority of the body. not just a majority of your caucus and with such a narrow edge for republicans, that gives enormous leverage to really any group that wants to, you know, exert the pressure that they have. i suspect in the end mccarthy will get the vote and goes to the poor challen...

January six. the interaction question now privilege claims can be thrown in complicated. the vice president is in a different position than his staffers but if pence candace costs this in an hardcover book for 22 bucks. he can telegram jury battered as well. a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant tierney general. laila is a civil rights attorney and former assistant u.s. attorney and they join me now. so, let me just start with you on how you think this goes with. the idea that the d...

Interview, he is currently on a press tour plugging his book where he himself writes about and has published rubbing about his interactions with trump with general sixth, the interactions in question. now, privilege claims can be thorny and complicated. its true the vice president at a different position than a staffers. but it is alarming to me that if pence can discuss trump and the insurrection in a hard cover book for $22, he can telegram jury about it as well. harry lynn is a former u.s. at...

Here, i think, is with the department, because pence does not want to look to resistant. but more importantly, the legal leverage is with them. i know mikes reporting says it could take months. but there is no reason that it should be harder to get pence to testify than it was to get his counsel and chief of staff. and remember, as you say, he may have waved it. and it may also be the case that biden has waved it. and at the end of the, day you really need his testimony singularly in the whole i...

Russia built a lot of it. >> if you go back to syria, they deliberately target hospitals there. when you see attacks on hospitals, thats not collateral damage. this is deliberate. a particular threat has been to the nuclear power plant at zaporizhzhia for some time. thats been deliberate as well. those attacks out there, is the plant still at risk of a nuclear accident and is that the russian plan torques have this effect over the ukrainian people? >> yes, i think it is definitely part of the pl...