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Dynamic because one of the questions at the 100 day marks is can republicans govern. republican speaker, majority lead, republican president. but you still have what we saw in the campaign. the trump voters, some of them new republicans, but the trump voters who sent donald trump here, they dislike is a polite word for how they feel about the republican congressional leadership. mitch mcconnell gets a higher grade because he got gorsuch through. that gives trump a foil that a lot of trump voters...

Of 2015 and whether to revive the import/export bank. >> what he just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every republican senator but what he told the press over an ovd over again was a simple lie. well, we now know that when the majority lead ar looer looks us eye and makes an explicit commitment that he is willing to say things false. >> he urged fellow republicans not to pull out the rule 19 against senator cruz fearing senator cruz would become a martyr and no...

Dead. >> who did "jackie blue"? >> ozark mountain blue devils. >> youre right! >> donald trump announced his announcement for supreme court pick is coming on thursday of next week. yesterday he convened bipartisan senate leadership to discuss the supreme court vacancy and in the wake of the stonewalling of president obamas nominee merrick garland. senate majority lead senate minority leader chuck schumer said the seat of justice scalia could be kept open indefinitely if his nominee is too far ou...

Has responsibility to tell it. >> that last gentlemen there, thats kevin mccarthy, the house majority lead, widely expected to succeed john boehner as speaker next week. last night, that same mccarthy was on fox news and perhaps he broke with the party line, finally seeming to concede what democrats have long suspected, that the benghazi committee is all about taking down hillary clinton. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee...

Airing of the e-mails, clinton has remained silent. meanwhile, several watchdogs are suing. judicial watch president told politico, and im quoting here, there are a bunch of judges theyre messing with in the federal courts right now. back to you. >> it seems its just beginning before they get to the bottom of this. senate majority lead earn mitch mcconnell canceling tuesdays vote on the iran nuclear agreement review act. it would give congress the power to review any deals reached with iran. d...

It will be interesting to hear them ask about are these enrollments numbers for real. >> and the question for the republicans is they made another promise in the last campaign to try to repeal obamacare. so whether you agree with that or disagree. we fully expect them to try to keep that promise. mitch mcconnell will be the majority lead anywhere the senate. i want to listen to an interview with cnn about his strategy, he believes he can find the votes, if not to repeal it, mitch mcconnell says ...

In the halls of congress in the wake of eric cantor announcing hes stepping down as majority leader. house republicans will vote on majority lead are one week from today, june 19th. let me bring in political analyst and ed rendell and msnbc political analyst and former rnc chairman, michael steele. >> good morning, chris. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> you heard the hyperbole. its a seismic shift. so let me get your take if there is a richter scale and we know there isnt one anymore...

You jump into the water you can get lost. so that can be good advice. one of the concerns is whether or not a secondary message got to passengers to say now it is time to get out of this ferry because it is sinking. so many questions, chris. lots of speculation and those questions will be answered in time, but for now as you say, the race against time is if there is anybody still out there surviving in air pockets to find out how many people have been victims of this tragedy. >> keir simmons fro...

Are on, you know, the website on their own having to pay for it on their own with no contribution from their employer. >> yeah. imagine what youre hearing right now with the complaints, you know, ten-fold, and how on earth are democrats going to be able to separate themselves from that? so many of them were vocal supporters of the health care law. its really tough to separate yourself from voting for the health care law and getting behind it vocally even after the health care law looked as thoug...

The frustration that obama had in getting the people through could come up again. the other issue that levin raises there, the hard won protections and benefits for health and welfare, being endangered, what hes talking about there is the idea of republicans getting the white house, president chris christie, january 2017, senate majority lead, i dont know, rand paul, whoever it is going to be, and they decide, you know what, were going to do away with the filibuster by simple majority vote on al...