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Pass their tax bill tomorrow. >> tonight, house republicans are just 24 hours away from a major legislative victory. passage of gop tax plan. >> we have more even today, more meetings with members working to get to yes. ultimately will vote for the bill, so were going to pass the bill. >> but its in the senate where a pitch battle has broken out between democrats and republicans over late night changes to the republican proposal. >> it addresses problems noted by members of both sides. and it wi...

Member whos are looking to get to yes. were going to pass the bill. >> reporter: but its in the senate where a pitched battle has broken out between democrats and republicans over late-night changes to the republican proposal. >> it addresses problems noted by members on both sides and it will give americans bigger paychecks, more opportunities and a moore prosperous economy. >> there a summary anywhere? i mean, we got 100-page document and a table, but surely somebody on the majority side has a...

The lead story given the pace of news earlier today. that is your committee on the republican side, the majority side, under new leadership. devin nunes is gone as chairman. tell our viewers your view of the new guy, the next ranking republican who moves up, and how you think this will materially affect the investigation before you and your colleagues in the senate. >> yeah, brian, i just need to correct you on that point. chairman nunes remains chairman. he has simply been -- he has taken himse...

>> she is a straight shooter. we were supposed to be and were a unified staff under john doer who was under some pains not to have the staff being partisan. i was hired by the republicans and hillary rodham was on the majority side hired by the democrats. but she and i worked together closely on the legal book as to what constitutes grounds for impeachment of a president. no politics involved. >> in the justice department you were once, in effect, in the chain of command for all of the federal p...

Joining us now, the 68th governor of massachusetts and the libertarian partys vice presidential candidate bill weld. thank you for being here. tell us about your days on the watergate committee with hillary clinton and what you observed about her then and what that tells you about her now. >> she is a straight shooter. we were supposed to be and were a unified staff under john doar who was under some pains not to have the staff being partisan. i was hired by the republicans and hillary rodham wa...

>> the majority side of the intelligence committee has spent the last four years and $40 million focused on a program that effectively ended over eight years ago while the world around us burns. >> the chair and vice chair of the select committee on intelligence released this report on enhanced interrogation techniques, the so-called torture reports. the cias use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of gaining intelligence from detainees. the interrogations of cia deta...

Particularly those who are on the committee -- remember, this generally is a very bipartisan committee. everyones used to partisanship up here on capitol hill. intelligence committee generally does work across party lines. but not in this case. listen to what the top republican on the committee said about this report. >> the majority side of the intelligence committee has spent the last five years and over $40 million focused on a program that effectively ended over eight years ago while the wor...

There are democrats and republicans on five side and on the four side. and its a very complicated fractured ruling but the one thing in it that i think is very heartening, theres at least one place in washington, d.c. where its not always a partisan division, even though there are tough issues. >> pretty unusual to see scalia and kagan on the same id of an issue. >> and thomas and sotomayor on the other side. >> thats right. a really aggressive disagreement in these documents that came out of th...

So were hoping the same here. >> we have one neighbor that their house was burned the last fire, and they said the fire was within 50 feet of their house. according to gallup, hispanics born in the united states favor democrats by roughly 2-1. hispanics born outside of the u.s. tend to be more independent, but still, a majority side with the political left. meanwhile house democrats are still waiting for speaker john boehner to bring the senates immigration bill to the floor. theres enough b...

Lbgt americans are our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones. they are full and equal citizens, deserve the rights of citizensh citizenship. that includes marriage. thats why i support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. i support it personally and as a matter of policy and law. >> what may be hillary clintons first policy announcement of the next presidential campaign came 11 days after bill clinton who signed the defense of marriage act into law wrote an op-ed piece saying he believes that d...